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Descendents is currently touring across 11 countries and has 31 upcoming concerts.

Their next tour date is at The Masquerade - Heaven in Atlanta, after that they'll be at Brooklyn Bowl - Nashville in Nashville.

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The Masquerade - Heaven

Brooklyn Bowl - Nashville

The National

Maryland Live Casino / Rams Head Center Stage

Toad's Place of New Haven

Franklin Music Hall

Starland Ballroom

Brooklyn Paramount Theater

Punk In The Park - American Road Trip

Punk Rock Bowling

Rock im Park

Rock am Ring

O2 Academy Brixton

The Black Lab, Wasquehal

Artefact La Laiterie

Bellaria Igea Marina

Tsunami Xixón

Para-lel 62

Lisboa Ao Vivo (LaV)

Xtreme Fest

Faust, 60er-Jahre Halle

Open Air Gränichen

Schlachthof Wiesbaden

Punk Rock Holiday

Pioneer Courthouse Square

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House of Blues Orlando

Revolution Live Outdoors at the Backyard.

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The Descendents put on a phenomenal show- great setlist and a double encore. Dez Cadena came on stage to help with "Van" and even performed the Black Flag song "Jealous Again" with Bill Stevenson on guitar, Stephen Egerton on drums, and Karl Alvarez in bass.

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descendents were AMAZING !!!!! I last saw them in 99 new years eve and they were awesome thus time they were older ,greyer,and more experienced and they kicked major ass less than jake was good if ska Is your thing not my flavor of music but they were entertaining with crowd participation bringing random fans on stage for random stuff and talking shit to fans for being on there phones lol opening band was pretty good actually Def worth it to get there early I liked them way better than LTJ overall the descendents was a real treat because obviously there winding down there illustrious career and it's worth seeing them because of there punk icon status alone true living legends

This show was incredible!!! The Descendents are one of my favorite bands and this was my first time seeing them, in no way did they disappoint. They played a mixed of popular songs like Im not a loser and not as popular ones like clean sheets. Their set was about two hours and well worth the trip from Boston. I couldn't of asked for a better night.

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The Descendents Tour Dates 2024

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Once again in 2024, Descendents will be teaming up with Circle Jerks for a larger co-headlining tour across America. The 21-date trek takes place in March/April invading big cities like Houston, Dallas, Fort Lauderdale, Atlanta, Nashville, Philadelphia and Brooklyn. Joining the tour in support will be special guests The Adolescents . The tour originally launched in 2023 and only visited Saint Paul, Milwaukee, McKees Rocks, Stroudsburg, Toronto and Detroit.

Descendents will continue supporting their eighth studio album '9th & Walnut' released on July 23rd, 2021 via Epitaph Records. The new album follows up 2016's 'Hypercaffium Spazzinate' which reached a career-best #20 on the Billboard 200 and includes the track 'Feel This' which was branded as an IPA by the San Diego branch of Mikkeller Brewery. The SoCal-based group formed back in 1977 and currently consists of members Bill Stevenson, Milo Aukerman, Karl Alvarez and Stephen Egerton.

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• The Descendents Announce 2024 Tour with The Circle Jerks and The Adolescents

Music News | Oct 24th, 2023

Written By: B. ReadJunk

The Descendents are continuing their touring bond with The Circle Jerks and will tour some more in Spring 2024. They will also be joined by The Adolescents. In April, they will hit Baltimore, Philly, New Haven, Sayreville NJ and Brooklyn. The tour starts Marquee Theatre in Tempe, AZ on March 15th and ends at Brooklyn Paramount in Brooklyn on April 13th.

Tickets will be available starting 10/25 using the code BONUSCUP.

Tickets can be found at descendentsonline.com .

Tour Dates: 3.15 | Marquee Theatre – Tempe, AZ 3.16 | El Rey Theater – Albuquerque, NM 3.17 | Lowbrow Palace – El Paso, TX 3.19 | House of Blues – Houston, TX 3.22 | Stubb’s – Austin, TX 3.23 | House of Blues – Dallas, TX 3.24 | Cain’s Ballroom – Tulsa, OK 3.26 | JJ’s Live – Fayetteville, AR 3.27 | Civic Theatre – New Orleans, LA 3.29 | Jannus Live – St. Petersburg, FL 3.30 | Revolution Live – Ft. Lauderdale, FL 3.31 | House of Blues – Orlando, FL 4.02 | Masquerade Heaven – Atlanta, GA 4.03 | Brooklyn Bowl – Nashville, TN 4.05 |The Ritz – Raleigh, NC 4.06 | The National – Richmond, VA 4.07 | Rams Head Live – Baltimore, MD 4.09 | Toad’s Place – New Haven, CT 4.11 | Franklin Music Hall – Philadelphia, PA 4.12 | Starland Ballroom – Sayreville, NJ 4.13 | Brooklyn Paramount – Brooklyn, NY

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Descendents are certified pop punk royalty.

Emerging from Southern California in the 1980s with their groundbreaking debut album Milo Goes To College , they went on to shape the sound and attitude of skate punk in a way that continues to resonate with countless bands today.

Six years on from their last visit Down Under, the classic line-up – bespectacled, former biochemist frontman Milo Aukerman , drummer Bill Stevenson , guitarist Stephen Egerton and bassist Karl Alvarez – are returning for a headline run of the country.

Following a show in New Zealand, Descendents will play six Australian shows, taking in Brisbane, Sydney, Adelaide, Melbourne, Torquay, and the previously announced Yours & Owls – Wollongong's biggest and best music festival.

Still delivering lively, kick-ass performances nearly 50 years into their career , expect the group to roll out enduring hits – 'Hope', 'I'm The One', 'Bikeage', 'Everything Sux', 'Good Good Things' – as well as material from their latest album, 2021's 9th & Walnut.

Whether you're reconnecting with the influential punk titans or experiencing them for the first time, these shows are sure to be sweaty nights out to remember.

See The Descendents playing the following shows, with a string of support acts.

Tickets are on sale Tuesday 4 July but there's a pre-sale happening from 29 June ( more info here ).

Wed 13 October – Princes Theatre: Turrbal Jagera, Brisbane with special guests VOIDD and The Cutaways

Sat 14 October – Yours & Owls Festival Dharawal Land, Wollongong More info here

Sun 15 October – Metro Theatre: Gadigal Land, Sydney with special guests Nursery Crimes and Tantichrist

Tue 17 October – The Gov: Kaurna, Adelaide with special guests Chinese Burns Unit and LOLA

Wed 18 October – Forum: Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung, Melbourne with special guests Nursery Crimes and Something Something Explosion

Thu 19 October – Torquay Hotel: Wadawurring Country, Torquay with special guests Nursery Crimes and Something Something Explosion

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PUNK ROCK GIANTS DESCENDENTS  SET TO TOUR AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND OCTOBER 2023!

Brace yourselves punk rock enthusiasts! One of the most irreverent bands ever to come out of the Southern Californian punk scene, Descendents are returning to Australia and New Zealand this October playing six headlining shows plus a highly anticipated performance at Wollongong’s biggest music festival, Yours and Owls.

  Descendents have one of the most enduring legacies of any punk rock band in history. Known for their early, defining timeless classic albums such as ‘ Milo Goes to College ‘ and ‘I Don’t Want to Grow Up ’ as well as spawning hit songs, ‘ Hope ‘, ‘ Suburban Home ‘ and ‘ Good Good Things ’, all of which fans can expect to hear on the band’s upcoming tour.

Descendents set themselves apart by taking punk rock back to its roots, and their music continues to captivate generations.

The band – Milo Aukerman (vocals), Bill Stevenson (drums), Stephen Egerton (guitar), and Karl Alvarez (bass) will be joined by a swag of local supports listed below.

AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND TOUR DATES

Wed 11 Oct POWERSTATION, AUCKLAND +Flirting with Disaster and The Flash Harrys Fri 13 Oct PRINCESS THEATRE, BRISBANE +VOIID and The Cutaways [SOLD OUT] Sat 14 Oct YOURS AND OWLS FESTIVAL WOLLONGONG Sun 15 Oct METRO THEATRE, SYDNEY +Nursery Crimes and Tantichrist [SOLD OUT] Tue 17 Oct THE GOV, ADELAIDE +Chinese Burns Unit and LOLA Wed 18 Oct FORUM, MELBOURNE +Nursery Crimes and Something Something Explosion Thu 19 Oct TORQUAY HOTEL, TORQUAY +Nursery Crimes and Something Something Explosion

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Land Acknowledgements In Live Music Are Increasing - But Are They Enough?

While accepting the Amplify Award at the 2024 Billboard Power 100 event in Los Angeles in February, the members of boygenius began their speech the same way they had started most shows on their 2023 tour. Lucy Dacus, standing alongside Julien Baker and Phoebe Bridgers, dedicated the moment to the elders and descendants of native peoples and also asked for action from the crowd - which happened to include the music industry's most powerful executives.

"We believe in land back," Dacus said. "Which is also water back and air back. I encourage you to look into this if it's a new concept for you. It's not only a cause that centers Indigenous sovereignty, but the general well-­being of the earth and all of its inhabitants."

Welcome to Territory, also known as a land acknowledgment, is a formalized statement recognizing and respecting the relationship of Indigenous peoples and their traditional territories. Dacus noted that the band worked closely with the Pass the Mic (PTM) Foundation - which was founded by Portugal. The Man - on its tour to help organize such acknowledgments at each show. And while land acknowledgments have become standard practice for Portugal. The Man, with bands including NOFX also opting in, the foundation's ultimate goal is to prevent invisibility and erasure of Indigenous peoples. Live music has offered an ideal setting to do so, and this past year, more artists - and fans - were eager to participate.

"Concerts or festivals can be challenging to engage, but people attend them because they want to feel good," says Múkaro Borrero, kasike (chief) of the Guainía Taíno tribe and president of the United Confederation of Taíno People. Borrero met Portugal. The Man in 2018 after participating in a group land acknowledgment at the band's show, leading him to become a partner of the foundation. "Music can be a great equalizer, so attendees can be open to hearing some of these messages and learn more than they perhaps knew when they came to the venue."

The PTM Foundation soft-launched in 2019 with help from executive director Logan Lynn, an artist and advocate who met Portugal. The Man through the Portland, Ore., music scene. After Lynn interviewed the band for his mental health-focused concert series, the group invited him on its 2018 summer tour, which served as a crash course in Portugal. The Man's many philanthropic and community-focused efforts. "The only thing I can think of is a food court, where there were all these booths and it felt like a rock show," Lynn recalls, "but it also felt like a place where all different kinds of community members were finding their people and finding a way to get involved."

Land acknowledgments in particular are an easy, and affordable, foot in for artists and bands wanting to support community. And while Portugal. The Man was one of the first acts to make this its norm - where the group literally passes the microphone to local community members for a few minutes at the start of every set - Lynn noticed an increase in interest following the boygenius tour in particular. "It was so exciting because what [fans] were reposting was the video of the land acknowledgment and tagging the tribes and it felt like a wildfire," he says. "Every day I was like, ‘Oh, my God, this is exactly the thing we were trying to do.'"

"One of the things we heard far and wide when we were starting all this was this idea that Indigenous peoples are historic. Like it's an ancient thing. That Indigenous peoples aren't your friends and neighbors still," Lynn says. "It's this weird thing. Part of what we wanted to do was just make sure people knew that these communities exist where you live."

But, as he and the band stress, awareness alone isn't enough. Every partner that engages in the PTM process receives an unrestricted $500 grant from the PTM Fund. Lynn says Portugal. The Man frontman John Gourley has always been committed to moving with meaning - and following a moment with action. "Land acknowledgments have been a mechanism to get people's attention," says Laura John, tribal consultant for the Blackfeet and Seneca Nations and PTM partner. "Providing space for [this] should be understood as a gesture of commitment to doing more," such as providing resources to tribal communities.

As Borrero says, "The next step for someone who experiences a land acknowledgment is to be sure there is a next step … it is the fans that need to help sustain and expand the momentum [the PTM Foundation] has initiated."

It comes down on venues and promoters, too. Last year, PTM partnered with AEG on its Re:SET traveling concert series, for which boygenius was a headliner. "I was prepared for it to be clunky and hard and like, ‘Who do I talk to?' And it wasn't," Lynn says. "Everybody from the band to management is like, ‘This is important.' "

Borrero agrees, saying that despite some Indigenous peoples who "are not so impressed by land acknowledgments because they view them as performative," he sees them as a positive beginning. "To go from [the] mainstream not seeing us at all to now normalizing acknowledgment of the original caretakers is, to me, significant," he says. He also notes that the Taíno community in particular has been cited as extinct by some sources. "Being a partner helps us not only change that narrative but take our power back to tell our own story."

"The goal has always been to make it commonplace, and it feels like we are moving in the right direction," Gourley adds. "People show up and it's expected at our shows now - we want it to become expected everywhere."

This story originally appeared in the March 30, 2024, issue of Billboard.

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In ‘keanu reeves is not in love with you,’ becky holmes takes readers on a guided tour of the world of romance fraud.

In 2022 alone, according to some estimates , hopeful singles looking to find love online lost between $30 billion and $50 billion to scammers. Online romance scams come in a dizzying array of iterations — there are the now-familiar Nigerian princes and the lonely military personnel trying to get home, then there are the pig butchers , the Tinder swindlers , the Nigerian Yahoo Boys and their Ghanaian corollary, the Sakawa boys . But there are also scams that don’t have names yet, scams whose devastating effects are almost certainly already playing out in lives the world over. It’s enough to make a girl permanently delete her dating apps, or maybe just throw her phone straight into the ocean.

And if you’re anything like Becky Holmes, it might be enough to radicalize you.

Better known to her social media followers as @deathtospinach, Holmes’s journey into the dark underbelly of romance fraud began innocuously enough. Like many , she joined Twitter in 2020 during the early days of the covid pandemic. And like many, she was instantly bombarded with messages from “impossibly handsome men who were absolutely desperate to get to know me.”

At first, like most, Holmes simply blocked and reported her would-be lovers. But as she documents in her new book, “ Keanu Reeves Is Not In Love With You: The Murky World of Online Romance Fraud ,” out of a mixture of boredom and curiosity she soon began corresponding with these scammers, who were impersonating not only oil rig engineers and doctors but also, rather implausibly, celebrities. After Holmes started sharing her exchanges with a royal flush of faux-celebrities — from Reeves to Liam Neeson , from Prince William to Elon Musk — with her growing audience, victims of these scams began to reach out with stories of their own. It is these stories, many of which ended in heartbreak and financial ruin, that form the backbone of “Keanu Reeves Is Not in Love with You.”

One need only look at the online response to a recent essay by the Cut’s financial advice columnist Charlotte Cowles, in which she details how she lost $50,000 to an “Amazon” scam call, to understand that the average reaction to online fraud victims is derision. It’s fear of that reaction that keeps victims of these scams from speaking to the press or the police. Fortunately, Holmes, a self-described “technological dunce,” belongs to neither institution. Her expertise is delivered in homespun prose with pops of vulgar blue. At times, she veers off into the sort of asides that one might expect in a Twitter thread or a Tumblr post, describing in detail the war she waged — and lost — against a source’s Maine coon cat or frequently declaring her love for the Italian vermouth Cinzano.

There are benefits to this approach. Few professional writers could get away with describing a private detective and expert on the Sakawa Boys as “a well-dressed sexy bugger with eyelashes that any woman would pay thousands of pounds for.” And Holmes (who is British, if that wasn’t clear) is at her strongest when drawing on her relationships to the victims she’s befriended. Her prose radiates empathy, with none of the artificial distance that journalists or academics enforce between themselves and their subjects. The result is firsthand stories of women whose lives were ruined — or, at least, whose life savings were emptied — because they had the audacity to desire love. Women who were, almost without exception, left with little legal or financial recourse to recoup their losses due to both the international and digital nature of most of these crimes as well as the impotence of the government bureaus newly tasked with prosecuting them.

By the end of “Keanu Reeves Is Not In Love With You,” Holmes’s charming grasp of romance fraud, unpolished as it is, is undeniable. Still, her autodidactism has its limits. During the course of her research, Holmes accessed a message from a Yahoo Boy which she describes as the most “vitriolic” statement she’s ever read, “even in fiction.” Yahoo Boys are the spiritual descendants of the Nigerian prince — their name comes from the woebegone email service, and they’ve been linked to a surge of social media sextortion in the United States . In the message that Holmes publishes verbatim, the anonymous scammer writes, “When your British people was colonizing, enslaving, exploiting and impoverishing us, stealing our crude oil and other natural resources, creating artificial boundaries in Africa, making us hungry and the dying breeds, what were you thinking/ How do you want us to survive?” The scammer goes on to threaten the message’s recipient, promising to “use your picture for impersonation too.”

It’s a vile message, sure, and that is largely where Holmes’s analysis of it stops. But there’s a thread that a different writer might have pulled on: Could the Yahoo boys exist without the aftershocks of British imperialism? It’s a line of inquiry worth pursuing: The top three countries when it comes to running online scams (Nigeria, Ghana and Malaysia) are all former British colonies. To ignore the history of colonial extraction that gave rise to the Yahoo Boys and their ilk is to do a disservice — to them and their victims.

It’s one of Holmes’s few missteps. The compassion that makes this book so persuasive isn’t reserved just for the mostly Western victims of romance fraud. When Holmes learns of the thousands of people held captive in scam compounds in countries like Cambodia, her own bitterness at a state of affairs that allows this kind of human trafficking to go largely unpunished is clear. “When I learned of this, I had to keep checking to make sure I’d got it right,” Holmes writes of the compounds, where abductees are forced to perpetrate the very crimes she’d been rebuffing and mocking. “We are well into the twenty-first century — how the hell is this happening?” There are dozens of answers to her question, running the gamut from sociological to geopolitical to philosophical. But what Holmes makes clear is that those answers don’t really matter to the victims of these crimes, or to those who, sometimes unwillingly, commit them.

Rachelle Hampton is a culture writer for Slate and host of the internet culture podcast “In Case You Missed It.”

Keanu Reeves Is not in Love with You

The Murky World of Online Romance Fraud

By Becky Holmes

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