7-14 Warped Tour, The Adolescents, Alestorm, Anti-Flag, The Ataris, Big D and the Kids Table, Candiria, GWAR, Hatebreed, Knocked Loose, Municipal Waste, Sick of It All, Street Dogs, Valiant Thorr, poop bands, Burgettstown @Keybank Pavilion

I didn't think I'd ever go to another Warped Tour. But the lineup for this year had a good amount of bands that I really like, so that's kind of cool. I knew that because it was Warped Tour the song selection would be a bit off for my liking, but worthwhile none the less. It was like $50. We pregamed pretty well beforehand. Fuck the parking situation, we seriously were at the Keybank Pavilion driving through the parking low for 45 minutes. So fucking pissed off about that. We got pretty greased up once we were finally parked.

poop bands - Yep, there were tons of those. I'm going to try to put these chronologically, but I lost the lineup paper so I'm sure my memory of order is jacked.

Anti-Flag - I was borderline horrified by the lack of bashing Donald Trump. I was hoping for some serious trashing. They didn't play House Destruction Party or a ton of other essentials, but the set was still good. There was one funny time when they just started playing Fuck Police Brutality. The one security guy who was working in front of the barrier who was a black guy started cracking up. The look on his face was great, I'm sure he was thinking about how funny it is looking at like 300 white people singing fuck police brutality. Decent set. First time I've seen this band in a decade.

War on Women - Female fronted punk rock. A good set. I hadn't heard of them before but enjoyed the set and message thoroughly.

Valiant Thor - Had a real good set. I don't know many of their songs, but the whole set was very good. Head banging rock and roll. It was exactly what you wanted it to be.

Hatebreed - They were pretty poop. I'm pretty sure they didn't play anything off of Satisfaction is the Death of Desire, which was to be expected. I felt like they kind of mailed it in. There wasn't much of a pit or anything to speak of.

The Ataris - They were good. Exactly what you would expect. Average songs that are good enough to watch. They've been playing forever and they played pretty much spot on compared to the albums.

Alestorm - Played a ton of good songs. Killed it pretty much. I always want them to play more. One of the top bands of the day.

The Adolescents - They were good. The crowd was thoroughly uninspired, and that was unfortunate. Good energy from the old timers.

Candiria - I had assumed this band would play early somewhere but they didn't. It was a good set. Candiria doesn't have overly creative breakdowns and their songs are a bit choppy, so most of the Warped Tour crowd didn't give two shits. The singer is extremely good. I really like watching him and I really liked the set.

Big D and the Kids Table - Good easy going punk rock. I hadn't seen them before somehow, so this was enjoyable. Sick of It All - They played a good set. Instead of playing Clobbering Time and Potential for a Fall and America, they played District and Take the Night Off. Again, of course because of the audience. They always play good though and were solid.

Municipal Waste - Thrash metal goodness. They played a bunch of good songs and it was party time. Not especially energetic but very good nonetheless. This is how we turn your boring party into art!

GWAR - The best band of the day by far. They pretty much destroyed it even though Oderus Urungus is dead. I got sprayed with a ton of fake blood and they shredded for like 40 minutes. Every bit as amazing and outer space monstery as I had hoped it would be.

Best bands:
-Valiant Thor
-Alestorm
-GWAR

Bands I wanted to see but didn't:
Street Dogs
Knocked Loose

Not bad.

6-24 Bernie Sanders, Pittsburgh @Convention Center

This was the pregame party before Tobacco. Haha, kinda. So this was evidently a Move On.org event, and Bernie was the main speaker. I liked a few things and very much didn't like a few things. This one dude who spoke intermittently and was an organizer or something kept getting on stage and starting cheers and chants and shit. Mostly about Senator Toomey, who is a dickhead. Some of these cheers were god awful. Seriously reprehensible in their lack of flow. The other speakers were varying levels of interesting and captivating. Most of them were very short and spoke about how the repeal health care bill is bullshit and crippling. Bernie kinda killed it, kinda didn't. He was talking about a single topic, so there's really only so much to say. I liked his New York Jew accent. Love Bernie.

I'm thinking that we were one of the only groups that tailgated this. They should seriously serve beer at these events.

6-24 Tobacco's Al Dente Perfecto #2 Beach Party, High Tides, Zackey Force Funk, Demon Queen, Pittsburgh @Spirit

When we got there the party was already well underway. I think the act on when we walked in was Demon Queen. Not sure but we got some drinks and went out back to chill for a while.

High Tides - Not sure.

Demon Queen - My brother saw a lot more than we did and thought it was pretty good. Some DJ with rap style vocals I think. All I could hear was the beat.

Zackey Force Funk - At first when this dude took the stage Tobacco was DJing for him. Evidently they had released an album like a decade ago. They played all those songs. They said they'll likely never do that again, so that was cool. Zackey funk force then took over. Zackey has good beats and grooves and we were varying degrees of drunk so we enjoyed it. His vocals though. He sounds like a 20 some year old girl, in a way. It was good somehow.

I wouldn't say it had an overly beach party feel, but it was cool anyway. I'm hype that during Skull Fest Tobacco is playing a set at Spirit downstairs while the Doom show is going on upstairs. I'm sure this is going to be a great time.

Hi's - Good pizza, good tunes, good place and everything.

Low's - What's going on in that bus?!