PEARS

After being postponed multiple times in 2020, Punk Rock Bowling plans to return in 2021, in the fall instead of the spring.

The LA punk band’s list includes some of their Fat Wreck Chords labelmates, plus Run The Jewels, Hayley Williams, IDLES, and more…

Jose’s list includes Phoebe Bridgers, Owen, The Lawrence Arms, I Am The Avalanche, Bad Cop/Bad Cop, and more, and he gave in-depth commentary on each pick…

Jarrett’s list includes The Beths, Ratboys, Soul Glo, Gladie, Bartees Strange, and more…

Bad Operation — the new ska band with members of Fatter Than Albert, PEARS, and more — tell the story of how this band came to be, the meaning behind their ”New Tone” ska label this band’s specific influences, and more…

The band — which also features members of Westbound Train, Bomb the Music Industry, Reel Big Fish, and more — have written an album and an accompanying comic book, and their expanding universe already includes an offshoot folk punk band too…

Bad Operation is a new ska band with some familiar faces from the New Orleans punk and ska scenes. Their debut album comes out in December via Bad Time/Community Records, and you can now watch the video for its first single…

PEARS perform ”Comfortably Dumb” against a backdrop that’s ”basically a tripped out computer world, connecting human art with glitchy binary nonsense.”

The Unseen, Guttermouth, The Bombpops, Ceremony, Dr Know, Andrew WK, Har Mar Superstar and more are also playing Punk Rock Bowling afterparties.

Listen to new songs from Best Coast, black midi, Warm Digits (ft. Emma Pollock of The Delgados), Daughter of Swords (prod. Jeff Tweedy), Antibalas, Sharon Van Etten, Jlin, and more.