{"id":190933,"date":"2026-03-05T00:33:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T00:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/190933\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T00:33:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T00:33:05","slug":"legendary-punk-rock-band-descendents-performing-in-lubbock-march-11-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/190933\/","title":{"rendered":"Legendary punk rock band Descendents performing in Lubbock, March 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Descendents are a punk rock band that got their start in the late 1970s in the south bay region of California.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The group\u2019s drummer, Bill Stevenson, says they\u2019ve never fit into any conventional standards of a typical band.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWe haven\u2019t had massive radio hits or back when MTV was a thing we didn\u2019t have really anything there,\u201d Stevenson said. \u201cWe didn\u2019t have a big major label behind us, Descendents has been very much a DIY thing.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">When Descendents were first starting out, punk rock was just beginning to take form. Stevenson says a combination of the past generation of rock like The Stooges and the Descendents\u2019 contemporaries in the early Los Angeles punk scene were huge influences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIt was a crazy time,\u201d Stevenson said. \u201cI\u2019m not sure if every teenager experiences that sort of a thing. When you\u2019re a teenager everything is intense, but to me that stuff was life-changing because I felt like I kind of found sort of a place to be.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Descendents first major project, <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/6IU592n49Rn36fpEmg9LIq\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/6IU592n49Rn36fpEmg9LIq\">Milo Goes to College<\/a>, released in 1982 and since then, the band has gone on to release seven more studio albums.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Descendents are currently on tour, with a rare stop on the schedule that you won\u2019t want to miss. On March 11th, the band will be making their way to Jake\u2019s Backroom, where you can see them up close and personal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIf it\u2019s a place where we go there every single year. It\u2019s like \u2018oh yeah, I\u2019m going to go see the Descendents, I love them, but I\u2019ve seen them 20 times.\u2019 That\u2019s not the case for Lubbock,\u201d Stevenson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">And just because the band has been around the block once or twice doesn\u2019t mean they can\u2019t rock, they just need a little boost.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI\u2019ll probably drink like eight or 10 espressos maybe,\u201d Stevenson said. \u201cIt\u2019s an increasingly less surmountable challenge. I think that\u2019s part of what keeps me in the game. It\u2019s like, I can do this. Nobody\u2019s gonna tell me I can\u2019t do it. Some 20-year-old can\u2019t do that better than me, I can do it better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">And that attitude is why the band is still in the game, after nearly 50 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">It\u2019s almost time to hear Descendents take over the 806, for all to enjoy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. 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