Punk legends T.S.O.L. have announced the first ever Dance With Me Festival. The festival is named after the iconic debut album by the band, which celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2021.
The band already have their annual January slew of shows that they do in Southern California, and it looks like they will be adding another annual concert to their summers moving forward. To celebrate, they have assembled an all-star punk lineup of new and old on July 20th at the Riverside Auditorium.
Youth Brigade will be celebrating the 25th anniversary of their Punk Rock Bowling festival this Memorial Day weekend. The band started in 1980 by Stern Brothers, Shawn, Mark, and Adam.
Just last weekend Youth Brigade played a show in their hometown of Los Angeles, which marked the first time all three brothers had played together again in five years. They shared many a stage with T.S.O.L. in the earliest years of Southern California punk music, so to see two legends come together for this inaugural festival will be epic.
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Joining them will be underground punk rockers Narcoleptic Youth. The band will be supporting Cockney Rejects and D.I. this Friday at the Observatory.
Also playing the main room at Dance With Me Festival will be Southern California’s The Voids. Rounding out the lineup will be Knuckleheadz from Whittier, who went viral in January for playing a show inside of a McDonald’s.
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As if all of that was not enough, T.S.O.L. will also be taking over the Garden Room at the Riverside Auditorium. San Gabriel Valley’s Decry will be headlining the Garden Room, along with Boyle Heights heroes, Union 13.
Do not miss out on Spaghetti Cumbia, who I’ve had the fortune of seeing twice last year – a mind-bending combination of punk and cumbia. Also playing the Garden Room will be River Rats and The Gimps.
The first 200 tickets are currently on sale for only $10. Ten bucks! So do not sleep on these as they will sell out immediately.
UPDATE: The $ 10 tickets sold out immediately, so look out for the balance of tickets for this one!
