Fight to Unite<\/a> to the Belasco in downtown Los Angeles, with 32 bands performing across three stages.<\/p>\n\u201cWe have been talking all year about bringing the Punk Rock Bowling community together in L.A. since we didn\u2019t have the festival this year,\u201d Stern said. \u201cWith all of the chaos being perpetrated by this administration over the past 20 months, we felt a musical celebration in the face of adversity would be welcome.\u201d<\/p>\n
A portion of every ticket sold will benefit Siempre Unidos LA, a grassroots nonprofit assisting immigrant families affected by Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids and deportations through food, emergency assistance, legal referrals and community support.<\/p>\n
\u201cDonating to a grassroots organization helping immigrants cope with the madness of masked government agents terrorizing people is something we believe in,\u201d Stern said. \u201cThe founders of PRB and many of the people we work with are immigrants, and we believe no one is \u2018illegal,\u2019 and the vast majority of people living in this country are immigrants or descendants of immigrants.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis country has long been a refuge for people escaping persecution, and immigrants have had a huge impact on the success of whatever \u2018democracy\u2019 still exists in America.\u201d<\/p>\n
Friday\u2019s 16-band lineup is headed by Lambrini Girls, Spiritual Cramp and Surfbort, with Generaci\u00f3n Suicida, Pistol Grip and Toy Guitar among the other acts.<\/p>\n
Saturday celebrates the 35th anniversary of Fat Wreck Chords, with Dillinger Four, Teenage Bottlerocket, Dead to Me, Swingin\u2019 Utters, Codefendants, Cobra Skulls, Nerf Herder, Get Dead, and others. Whether Fight to Unite leads to more PRB events in Los Angeles remains to be seen.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt really depends on how this one is received,\u201d Stern said. \u201cIf it goes well and people would like us to do more, we are always open to that.\u201d<\/p>\n
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A crowd surfer at Punk Rock Bowling 2025<\/p>\n
What happens next?<\/p>\n
Fight to Unite might appear to be a substitute for the missing Las Vegas festival, but bringing Punk Rock Bowling to Los Angeles has been discussed for years.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have discussed having a festival in Los Angeles since before COVID,\u201d Stern said. \u201cPunk Rock Bowling is a DIY festival that was created by musicians for musicians who have been involved in this community since the late \u201970s.\u201d<\/p>\n
That history continues to shape the organizers\u2019 approach.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re musicians who\u2019ve been part of this scene for years, and we build every show the way we\u2019d want to experience it, as fans first.\u201d<\/p>\n
As for 2027 and whether Punk Rock Bowling will return to Las Vegas, Stern isn\u2019t ready to make an announcement. For now, there is Los Angeles. And while the future location of Punk Rock Bowling remains unsettled, Stern made clear that preserving the community that grew around it remains central to whatever comes next.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are working on it, and when we have news, we will announce it through our mailing list and social media.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Punk Rock Bowling announced last fall that there would be no Las Vegas festival in 2026, organizers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[5864,7363,11154,1404,47711,190249,48,52,51,47,50,49,63,21720,1562,592,22273,190248,10607,102348,72],"class_list":["post-486940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-community-support","tag-country","tag-fan","tag-festival","tag-immigrant-family","tag-international-band","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-musician","tag-organizer","tag-people","tag-problem","tag-punk-rock-bowling","tag-stern","tag-unite","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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