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The Hardcore Bands At The Emo Festival

11:21 AM EDT on October 17, 2024

Jim Larson / Stereogum

I had to see it. I didn't want to pay to see it, wasn't even sure that I wanted to be inside, but I had to at least look at it with my own eyes. Last year, NOFX frontman Fat Mike opened the Punk Rock Museum, an institution dedicated to the one form of music and culture that, at least theoretically, should resist the entire idea of museums in the first place. It's in Las Vegas, and its logo is rendered in bright pink, in the Black Flag font. The weekend that your Stereogum staff got together in Vegas, you could pay $100 for guided tours from the Jesus Lizard's David Yow or Operation Ivy's Jesse Michaels. The Michaels tours were all sold out, but you could still get the Yow package in the morning.