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TICKETS FOR FRIDAY 9/4 SOLD OUT 
4-DAY PASS [9/2,9/3,9/4,9/5] SOLD OUT |
Friday September 4
2026
7:00PM doors -- music at 7:45PM ••• ALL AGES $30 $36.31 in advance [30 face value + 6.31 service fee] or $120 for a 4-day pass $135.31 in advance [120 face value + 15.31 service fee] Joyce Manor joyce-manor.com indie rock pop punk Slow Gherkin slowgherkin.com ska punk Grumpster grumpsterband.com punk Friendship Games instagram.com/friendshipgamesca emo Joyce Manor -from Torrance, CA -Joyce Manor are California pop-punk legends and I Used To Go To This Bar is this epochal band operating at the top of their game. They continue to deliver relentlessly satisfying rock music in a manner that makes it look simply effortless. The Torrance, California-hailing trio of Barry Johnson, Chase Knobbe, and Matt Ebert are at a point in their career where their position as one of the most beloved rock bands is a foregone conclusion. Their seventh album, produced by Brett Gurewitz (of Bad Religion and Epitaph Records CEO) finds the group continuing to find rich new veins to tap in their short-and-sweet songcraft without losing an ounce of bite that gained them such repute in the first place. A bustle of activity that followed the release of 2022’s excellent 40 Oz. to Fresno and included an instantly memorable appearance on John Mulaney’s Everybody’s in L.A. and a retrospective assessment of the group’s seminal 2011 self-titled debut as part of Pitchfork’s esteemed Sunday Review series. The band’s had a whirlwind touring schedule over the last few years, which has included an outing with Weezer and multiple sold-out shows at the legendary California venues Hollywood Palladium (including a guest performance by Mark Hoppus for the fan favorite “Heart Tattoo”) and Long Beach Arena. This new record retains the band’s penchant for punchy hooks while sounding fuller, more in-your-face, and all-around bigger than ever, with an all-star crew of collaborators along for this wild ride. Along with mixing pro Tony Hoffer (M83, Beck), behind-the-boards legend Tom Lord-Alge lent his Enema of the State engineer magic to several I Used To Go To This Bar cuts, including the first single “All My Friends Are So Depressed.” The album also features a rotating cast of drummers, including touring drummer Jared Shavelson, Social Distortion’s David Hildago, Jr., and Joey Waronker—the latter of whom is currently hitting the skins for Oasis’ reunion tour. I Used To Go To This Bar feels like a true culmination of everything Joyce Manor’s achieved thus far, further cementing their current legacy as California pop-punk royalty as well as a truly generational punk band at large. Slow Gherkin -Santa Cruz, CA -Someone once told us that Slow Gherkin couldn’t have happened just anywhere, any time. It took a small town and a handful of best friends to make it unfold in the way it did. Most of us did grow up on the west side of Santa Cruz, and AJ and James, the band’s dueling guitarists and vocalists, went to preschool together. We started our first garage band in seventh grade. (Standout track: “Waterin’ the Weedz.”) Then, at the beginning of the nineties, we stumbled upon ska music via a Skankin’ Pickle show at a downtown community center. In fact, we ran into the band late that night: They were lost in the suburbs, and they let us roll in their van in exchange for directions to the after-party. (Mike Park, who was sitting shotgun at the time, ended up signing us to his label, Asian Man Records, six years later.) Seeing Bad Manners and Fishbone sealed the deal, and over the summer of 1993 the band’s original members started playing as Slow Gherkin. According to the liner notes to our first release, the 1994 seven-inch Death of a Salesman, “we get to play clubs and parties and B-B-Q’s for all our friends.” That just about sums up our first three years. Our membership grew to 10, and we started touring the west in a cavalcade of sensible cars. In 1996 we released our first album, Double Happiness, and bought our first van, the Creamsicle. The next summer we toured the whole country for the first time—with a dauntingly tight band from Minneapolis called the Siren Six! We toured as much as work and school would allow. We traveled with some amazing bands and got put on some unbelievable bills—like an El Paso record shop with Norwegian “death punk” band Turbonegro and a strip mall in Oklahoma City with the Dismemberment Plan. We got to share stages with the genre’s forefathers and torchbearers—the Skatalites, Desmond Dekker, the Selecter, Dave Wakeling, the Toasters. Between our first and second albums, the bubble that was third-wave ska swelled to its peak size. It burst right around the time Asian Man released Shed Some Skin, in the fall of 1998. In 2000, we toured Europe for the first time. We did it again the next year, chasing the tour bus of a Fat Wreck Chords band and getting strip-searched by German policemen. (And we quote: “Are you cold? You vill be very soon.”) By the time we started talking about our third album, the onset of adulthood had become impossible to ignore. In the summer of 2002, Asian Man put out Run Screaming and James moved to New York. Still, we found ourselves unable to resist the urge to get back together for mini-tours (including a week in Japan) and Bay Area shows. In 2016 we released our first new music in 14 years—a two-song E.P. entitled LIVES. Now it’s 2018—Shed Some Skin’s 20th birthday, which we’re celebrating with a few shows with the Siren Six!—and we could comfortably be the fathers of the people we were when Slow Gherkin got started. We are music teachers, solar technicians, butchers, editors, water-safety executives, non-profit consultants... and we still think about printing up stickers at Kinko’s at 2:00 a.m., playing beneath the town clock on New Year’s Eve, and crashing around with our friends in someone’s backyard till the cops came. Zack Olsen: drums Rick Godnick: bass Peter Cowan: keys AJ Marquez: vocals, guitar James Rickman: vocals, guitar Phil Boutelle: tenor sax Ross Peard: alto sax Matt Porter: valve trombone Achilles Poloynis: slide trombone Nick Bianchini: trumpet Eric Johnson: trumpet Grumpster -from Oakland, CA -Grumpster is a garage punk band from Oakland, California. The group consists of Donnie Walsh, Lalo Gonzalez Deetz, Noel Agtane & Alex Hernandez. Friendship Games -from the East Bay, CA -510 my little pony emo music by asian man records |