Asian Man Records 15th Anniversary Show

AHEM.

"Next year, Asian Man Records will celebrate their 15th anniversary. In honour of this, label founder Mike Park is aiming to reunite every band that ever released on the label for a festival set to take place June 16th, 17th and 18th at the Parside and the Bottom of the Hill clubs in San Francisco, CA. While this is an ambitious goal and has not yet been confirmed, some of the possible bands would include: The Broadways, MU330, Chris Murray, Alkaline Trio, Slapstick, Tuesday, The Honor System, The Chinkees, Less Than Jake, Nicotine, Slow Gherkin, The Lawrence Arms, Ee, Dan Potthast, Colossal, Polysics, Just A Fire, Mike Park, Duvall, Toys That Kill, Bagheera, Link 80, Good For Cows, Short Round, Big D And The Kids Table, Screeching Weasel, Coquettish, Satori, Pama International, The Bruce Lee Band, Shinobu, Akiakane, The Queers, No Torso, Buck-O-Nine, Bomb the Music Industry!, Lemuria, Andrew Jackson Jihad, Kepi Ghoulie, Wardogs, O Pioneers!!!, For.the.Win., Classics of Love, Smoking Popes, Knowledge, Let's Go Bowling, Five Iron Frenzy and Sundowner.
Maybe we should start a pool?"

You couldn't take 10 bands out of this lineup and have it notably depreciate in awesomeness. It could probably appreciate with some exclusions (Let's Go Bowling, how about), but it'd be way hard to make it suck. Of course, this shit is happening way out in California - the opposite coast of which I reside. Like viewing "The Fest" roster every single year, I always drool over the lineup but ultimately dismiss it as being too damn far away to travel to alone (I'm in NY, the Fest is in FL if you weren't aware). This festival might meet the same fate (ie not be so utterly blessed by my attendance), but only if The Broadways aren't confirmed to play.
In the future, I will go on at great length how amazing Broken Star is, how much better they were than The Lawrence Arms have ever been, and how unfair it is that they didn't record another LP, but for right now I'll just say this: I've been listening regularly to these guys since a friend of mine introduced them to me mid-high school. I've also been wishing they'd reform for a show pretty much from that same point.

Basically, if these guys get confirmed for Asian Man Records' 15th Anniversary Show, my driving across the whole stupid country will also be confirmed.

http://www.punknews.org/article/40664