Created from the mind and liver of NOFX‘s frontman Fat Mike, the Punk In Drublic Craft Beer & Music Festival will debut in the Western U.S. this fall with five special events featuring the best in punk rock music and regional craft beer.

Named for NOFX’s classic Punk In Drublic album, which has sold over one million copies, Punk In Drublic Craft Beer & Music Festival launches September 16 in Tacoma, WA, with stops in Boise, ID, Concord, CA, Sacramento, CA, and Huntington Beach, CA. NOFX will co-headline each date of Punk In Drublic Craft Beer & Music Festival alongside Flogging Molly in some markets and Bad Religion in others​, and every show will also feature four other​ bands. Look for full details to be announced in August at www.PunkInDrublicFest.com.

Each Punk In Drublic festival date will feature up to four hours of craft beer tastings with over 100 craft beers, including some of the West Coast’s best and local favorites. Craft beer tastings are included with admission. Festival hours will be Noon – 9:00 PM.

Fat Mike has joined forces with premier music event producer/promoter Synergy Global Entertainment and respected craft beer event production powerhouse Brew Ha Ha Productions for the festival. In addition, to celebrate Punk In Drublic, Fat Mike teamed up with craft beer pioneers Stone Brewing to brew their very own Stone & NOFX Punk in Drublic Hoppy Lager, which will be available in cans only in the festival markets. This collaboration is a huge show of support by Stone, as it marks the first time ever that Stone has worked with a musician for a can release. They’ve even included the festival tour dates on the back of each can. This is a first-of-its-kind level of commitment from a brewery partner for a festival tour.

When asked how Stone & NOFX Punk in Drublic Hoppy Lager tastes, Fat Mike says, “It’s something to wash the noise away.” However, other slogans offered by Mike that were quickly turned down by Stone included, “It’s the beer of champagnes” and finally, “They say you can’t get beer from a stone…oh shit, we just did!”

“We know we’re crazy for letting Fat Mike in our brewery, but we’re doing it anyway,” says Greg Koch, Stone Brewing co-founder. “We have a lot in common in not only refusing to follow the status quo, but actively rejecting it. I have incredible respect for what he and Fat Wreck Chords have done for the independent music scene. Craft beer is currently in a similar open-your-eyes-to-the-man’s-corporate-obfuscation battle. Is independent craft beer punk rock? Very. And even more so now with this collab. See you in the pit!”

Cameron Collins, Co-Founder & Director of Events at Brew Ha Ha Productions explains, “Craft beer and punk rock are cut from the same cloth. Small, independent, and up against some big challenges: taking on BIG BEER, and local bands determined to do it their way, despite what might make them a quick buck. Punk In Drublic throws off the mantle of the ordinary to create an event unlike any other…a perfect pairing of craft beer and punk rock!”

Catch the Punk In Drublic Craft Beer & Music Festival “stumbling through a town near you”:

Saturday, September 16 – Tacoma, WA – America’s Car Museum (on sale Friday, July 28)
Sunday, September 17 – Boise, ID – Ford Idaho Center Amphitheater (on sale Friday, July 28)
Saturday, October 14 – Concord, CA – Concord Pavilion (on sale Friday, August 11)
Sunday, October 15 – Sacramento, CA – Bonney Field (on sale Friday, August 11)
Saturday, October 28 – Huntington Beach, CA – Bolsa Chica State Park (on sale Friday, September 1)

The Saturday, September 16 (Tacoma) and Sunday, September 17 (Boise) Punk In Drublic shows will feature performances from NOFX, Bad Religion, Goldfinger, Less Than Jake, Bad Cop / Bad Cop and more. Tickets for these two shows go on sale Friday, July 28 at 10:00 AM local time at www.PunkInDrublicFest.com.

General Admission and VIP tickets for the Tacoma and Boise shows are priced as follows. Ticket details for other dates will be announced in August. All tickets include craft beer tasting and access to view the music stage for attendees 21 years or older.

General Admission: starting at $39
Early Entry + VIP Lounge: $99
Early Entry + VIP Lounge + Meet & Greet: $199

VIP Tickets include access to a VIP Entry Lane and VIP Lounge, with:
– Exclusive craft beer tastings
– VIP viewing area of the stage
– Private restrooms
– VIP cash bar
– One hour early entry for craft beer tastings (for those 21+), starting at 12:00 PM

For your daily dose of awesome, we are happy to announce the compilation album ‘Punks for Pets’ which features 24 different Chicago based punk bands who have come together to give back. All the proceeds from the sales of this album will go directly to A.D.O.P.T. Pet Shelter in Naperville, IL.

On the lineup are Sleeping Under 47, Bad Bad Fan, our buddies in Welfare Beer League, Headspins, CHX Collective, The Brash Menagerie, and a ton of other slamming bands that are killing it not only on this album but with good deeds.

Stream “Punks for Pets” below, and buy a copy for $5 here.

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Last time we heard from Montreal based pop punkers, Manbridge it was late 2016 when they were featured on The Rebel Spell tribute album Rebels Sing. Now, just a few short months later, the quartet is back with new music! Their ten track, debut LP Juxtapose is out on August 18th via My Fingers! My Brain! Records and Maps & Continents Records but we know you don’t want to wait that long. Knowing that they would be bound by the strict International Hospitality Laws enforced by their oppressive, dictatorial government, we demanded…errr… politely asked the boys to send us a track to stream, exclusively for Dying Scene readers! And whaddayaknow, they obliged! Give the single “Cheese is Wasted on the Rich” a listen below, then in a few weeks, remember to reward their good (albeit, coerced) behavior by buying a copy of the album.

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If you dig your pop-punk with a good dose of folky vibes and dueling male/female vocals then I’ve got a new band for you to lend your earballs to. Oregon’s Dumb Luck just released a two song EP titled The Neighbors and you can stream both tracks below. What’s better, if you dig what you hear you can download the release for free.

The Neighbors was co-released via Secret Pennies Reocrds and Diet Pop Records on July 21st. You can purchase the 7-inch vinyl here.

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Baltimore hardcore band Trapped Under Ice are streaming their new album Heatwave in its entirety over at Noisey. Check it out here.

Heatwave was officially released on July 21st through Pop Wig Records.

The Movielife and The Early November have just announced their upcoming fall co-headlining tour. Taking in 20 evenings across the U.S. and Canada, the tour features The Movielife performing songs off its first album in 14 years, Cities In Search Of A Heart (out on Rise Records on Friday, September 22) as well as fan favorites, and The Early November performing its 2003 debut album, The Room’s Too Cold, in its entirety.

Kicking off on Monday, September 18 at The Paradise Rock Club in Boston, MA, the tour will visit cities including Philadelphia, PA on Tuesday, September 19, Brooklyn, NY on Friday, September 22, Chicago, IL on Tuesday, September 26, Austin, TX on Sunday, October 1, West Hollywood, CA on Wednesday, October 4, Berkeley, CA on Saturday, October 7, and Sneaky Dee’s in Toronto, ON on Saturday, October 14. Heart Attack Man (Triple Crown Records) will be opening dates on the first half of the tour and Racquet Club (Rise Records) will be opening on dates on the second half. A full listing of all the dates on this tour can be found below.

Cities In Search Of A Heart—The Movielife’s first offering since 2003’s seminal Forty Hour Train Back To Penn—marks the band’s triumphant return to form, and is an album that shows how much the group’s songwriters—vocalist Vinnie Caruana and guitarist Brandon Reilly—have grown, offering up their most inspired and energized songwriting to date. Whether you’ve loved The Movielife since they were a scrappy Long Island hardcore band in the early 2000s or you’re a recent initiate, it’s difficult not to get caught up in the kinetic energy and lyrical honesty that permeates every note of Cities In Search Of A Heart.

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UK angular riff merchants Fights and Fires are streaming their new album “Live Like a Tourist” in its entirety below.

The album was officially released July 14th on Lockjaw Records.

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The UK’s Petrol Girls have released a music video for their track “Fang” off their latest album, Talk Of Violence, and you can check it out below.

Talk Of Violence was released in November, 2017. [Read more…]

Mixtape Saints, the folk punk solo project turned full band based in Birmingham UK, have signed up to Disconnect, Disconnect Records to announce the release of upcoming album “Heartbreak, Radio, Cars and Rain”.  The album will be out on August 18th.

The band are also to release a split with Wolves & Wolves & Wolves & Wolves – as detailed by DS earlier this month.