About Punk Rock Bowling

In the late ’90s, Youth Brigade’s Mark and Shawn Stern started a bowling league at Bay Shore Lanes in Santa Monica. Labels, bands, people from the scene. Nobody planned for it to become anything else. Over two and a half decades, it became one of the loudest weekends in punk rock: a four-day Memorial Day blowout in Las Vegas featuring 100+ bands across two outdoor stages, late-night club shows, pool parties, art exhibitions, book signings, lounge performances, and enough going on that you’ll miss half of it no matter what.

A festival, yes. But more accurately, a reunion. A community that shows up for each other year after year.

Twenty-five years of lineups that have included Iggy Pop, DEVO, The Specials, The Damned, Madness, Rancid, The Buzzcocks, Cock Sparrer, Circle Jerks, Descendents, Flag, Suicidal Tendencies, Refused, The Hives, L7, The Stranglers, Billy Bragg, The Interrupters, Against Me!, and Hepcat, and newer acts who haven’t let up since they got here: The Chats, Lambrini Girls, FIDLAR, SCOWL, Surfbort, Destroy Boys, The Chisel, End It, DIE SPITZ, Snõõper, and plenty more. 

Follow our socials for footage and memories spanning Punk Rock Bowling’s entire history while we get to work on what’s next. PRB is DIY. Always has been. Always will be.

See you in the pit!