Descendents
Iggy Pop, Descendents, Parquet Courts Lead Destination Chaos Festival
Iggy Pop, Descendents and Parquet Courts top the bill for the first Destination Chaos festival, which will take place Jan. 28-Feb. 4 at the Senator Resort on Puerto Plata in the Dominican Republic. Tickets for what’s described as “all-inclusive week of music, comedy, booze, culinary madness and tropical debauchery” go on sale Saturday (Aug. 20). “Join us for seven raging nights of live music and laughs across three stages,” organizers wrote on the event Web site. It’s time to leave your suburban home for a holiday in the sun!” Destination Chaos’ lineup further boasts Gogol Bordello, Peter Hook & the Light performing Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures in its entirety, Amyl & the Sniffers, Bouncing Souls, Shame and The Bronx, among others. Comedians Josh Adam Meyers, Eddie Pepitone, Jo...
Rewatch Our Live Twitch Interview With Descendents Ahead of the Release of 9th & Walnut
Almost exactly two months ago, Bill Stevenson and Milo Aukerman of the Descendents joined our Twitch stream for a very special episode of our weekly rock ‘n roll interview show/therapy session, Noise Pollution. Normally, our streams stay on Twitch for the limit of two weeks and then disappear into the ether, but today, we brought back the very special appearance by the punk rock legends ahead of the release of their new album, 9th & Walnut (out July 23 via Epitaph Records). The album, which was recorded in both 2002 and 2020, features 18 of the band’s earliest songs from the late 1970s and is the final recording from late guitarist Frank Navetta as well as a decades-in-the-making reunion with both Navetta and original bassist Tony Lombardo. In the hour-long Twitch stream, Stevenso...
Descendents Release ‘Baby Doncha Know’ From Upcoming Album, 9th & Walnut
It’s been almost 40 years since Milo Goes to College and 25 since Everything Sucks, but Descendents are coming back this summer with a (kind of) new album, 9th & Walnut. Named after their old practice space in Long Beach, California, the 18 tracks were recorded way back in 2002 by the band’s four original members, including the late guitarist Frank Navetta and bassist Tony Lombardo, along with the permanent fixtures of drummer Bill Stevenson and vocalist Milo Aukerman. Ahead of the July 23 release (on Epitaph Records), the band unveiled “Baby Doncha Know,” one of their early tunes that will be featured on 9th & Walnut. “’Baby Doncha Know’ was maybe the 5th song we learned,” Stevenson said in a statement. “We would go out to 9th & Walnut every weekend an...
