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\"\"Legendary melodic punk band Descendents are joining forces with UK post-hardcore folk punk Frank Turner for a North American tour.
\n Credit: Wikimedia Commons \/ Mr. Rossi<\/p>\n

Good, good things are on the way, San Antonio.<\/p>\n

Legendary melodic punk band Descendents are returning to the Alamo City for a concert at the Aztec Theatre on Saturday, Feb. 28. They\u2019ll be joined by co-headlining British folk punk act Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls, according to details released Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Tickets go on sale to the general public this Friday at 10 a.m. via Ticketmaster<\/a>. A ticket presale starts Wednesday at 10 a.m. for Live Nation All Access members. Prices range from $58 to $76. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey have been one of my favorite bands since I was a kid,\u201d Turner gushed about Descendants in a Tuesday post announcing the tour. \u201cI adore their records, wrote them into songs, have seen them live countless times, and am lucky to call them friends. Now we\u2019re sharing stages. This is a dream come true for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cGet stoked. This is real,\u201d Turner added.<\/p>\n

The 18-date tour will take the bands to Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Orlando, New Orleans and beyond. However, Houston\u2019s House of Blues is the only other Texas stop besides San Antonio. The two co-headlining acts are joined on this jaunt across the continental U.S. by all-female garage punk opener NOBRO, hailing from Montreal.<\/p>\n

Descendents formed in 1977 inspired by \u201cspirit of \u201977\u201d pioneering punk bands such as the Ramones and the Buzzcocks. The California band hailing from a sleepy Los Angeles suburb built off their forebears\u2019 melodic punk style as well as the sounds of the Beach Boys and The Beatles. These combined influences led them to produce indelible contributions to the nascent days of melodic hardcore, surf punk and pop-punk in the process.<\/p>\n

Descendents\u2019 lyrics are often gushy and romantic, like a lovelorn high school boy carving someone\u2019s name into a tree. Indeed, frontman Milo Aukerman wrote many of their songs while still in high school, which is why their seminal debut album was called Milo Goes to College.<\/p>\n

Aukerman famously chose to continue prioritizing his education, putting the band on the backburner to obtain his PhD and become a molecular biologist. The cover of the group\u2019s debut album included a nerdy caricature of the bespectacled Milo, which ended up becoming the band\u2019s mascot.<\/p>\n

Perhaps an unlikely co-headliner for this tour, Frank Turner is a former member of UK post-hardcore band Million Dead, who now plays acoustic- and mandolin-driven folk punk with his backing band The Sleeping Souls. <\/p>\n

This one is for the sensitive punks. <\/p>\n

$58-$76, 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 28, Aztec Theatre, 104 N. St. Mary\u2019s St.,\u00a0theaztectheatre.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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