I ran across this video and it does a great job of tieing a lot of our festival punk bands together. And many into this year’s Riot Fest. You’ll see Rancid, Descendents, Jawbreaker, Bob Mould (Husker Du). And cross referencing bands we’ve already seen…Riot Fest-Buzzcocks; Surf City Blitz – Social D, Offspring, Agent Orange (not technically SCB); Coachella – Replacements, Toy Dolls. It also shows how a few of my absolute favorites of all time (The Clash, Ramones, Elvis C) connect with all of this other music. Looking forward to part two. I’ll add it here when it drops.
Two weeks later I’ve posted Part Two. This really should be required viewing before Riot Fest. Part Two starts with our Surf City Blitz fave, Bad Religion and they bring along their SCB friends The Offspring, Rancid, and Pennywise (the last two at Riot Fest 2019) and gets us to the explosion of Dookie and Green Day. You’ll see a bunch of other Riot Fest 2019 bands like Blink, Jawbreaker, The Get Up Kids, The Ergs, Teenage Bottlerocket, and Frank Iero (from My Chemical Romance).
So these videos tie together a lot of the music we’ve seen over the last few years and serves up a nice intro into this year. From Buzzcocks (R.I.P. Pete) to today’s punk with Blink-182. Enjoy.