Tour guides:
November 1st: Jack Grisham (TSOL)
November 1st: Harald Oimoen (DRI)
November 6th – 8th: Jay Weinberg (Slipknot/Suicidal Tendencies/Against Me!)
November 6th, 13th, 20th: Fat Mike (NOFX)
November 13th: Comeback Kid
November 13th & 14th: Roger Miret (Agnostic Front)
November 13th – 15th: Tony Reflex (Adolescents)
November 20th – 21st: Kid Congo Powers (The Cramps/Nick Cave/Gun Club)
November 20th – 22nd: Greg Hetson (Circle Jerks)
November 27th – 29th: Jason Navarro (The Suicide Machines)
For more information on tour guides, click here!
November 13th: Bridge Nine Records exhibition opening!
Fenway Punk: The Bridge Nine Records Exhibition opens on Friday, October 13th!
For three decades, Bridge Nine Records has helped put Boston’s hardcore punk scene on the map, releasing music from influential bands including American Nightmare, Have Heart, Agnostic Front and New Found Glory. The label’s unlikely origin story began with bootleg “Yankees Suck!” stickers and T-shirts sold outside Fenway Park by founder Chris Wrenn and friends from the local music scene. Those sidewalk sales helped fund Bridge Nine’s earliest releases, eventually growing into one of hardcore punk’s defining independent labels. Fenway Punk, an exhibition inspired by Wrenn’s new book, opens at The Punk Rock Museum on Friday, November 13th, and runs through February.
Opening weekend features special events, including guided tours with Agnostic Front frontman Roger Miret on November 13th and 14th, plus the debut of a new Bridge Nine compilation playing in the Three Star Bar throughout the weekend.
On Saturday, November 14th, at 7:30 pm, there will be a screening of The Godfathers of Hardcore, filmmaker Ian McFarland’s documentary about Roger Miret and Vinnie Stigma, followed by a Q&A with Chris Wrenn and Roger Miret.
On Sunday, November 15th, Chris Wrenn will host a book event featuring his book Fenway Punk.
The Bridge Nine Records bedroom office in Boston's Mission Hill neighborhood (1999).
November 6th: Q&A session with drummer Jay Weinberg and Jason Rockman at the Punk Rock Museum!
The Punk Rock Museum welcomes legendary drummer Jay Weinberg for a special Q&A with Jason Rockman (Slaves On Dope, The Rockman Power Hour) on Friday, November 6th, at 3 PM. Included with general admission, the live interview lets you ask Jay all the questions you’ve been waiting to ask!
The event will be filmed and posted on November 9th on Jason Rockman’s YouTube channel HERE!
Jay will also lead museum tours November 6th–8th, and anyone who books a tour will receive an exclusive poster Jay can personalize.
On Friday night, starting at 10 PM, Jay will do a DJ set in the Three Star Punk Bar, where his signature cocktail, “The 908,” featuring apple cider, ginger beer, whiskey (or a non-alcoholic alternative) and lemon, will be the bar special.
Every purchase of the cocktail or mocktail enters you to win Jay’s signed, stage-used drumsticks and drumhead!
November 13th: Comeback Kid guided tour at The Punk Rock Museum
Comeback Kid is coming to The Punk Rock Museum on November 13th to host a guided tour. As a special treat, they will perform a couple of songs inside the museum’s Pennywise Garage during the guided tour. Then catch them live that night performing at American Legion Post 8 in Las Vegas!
November 20th - 21st: Kid Congo returns to the Punk Rock Museum!
Kid Congo Powers. Photo credit: Luz Gallardo
In celebration of The Cramps exhibition at The Punk Rock Museum, Kid Congo Powers returns to Las Vegas for two days of guided tours, a reading and signing of his book Some Kind of Kick, and DJ sets on November 20th and 21st.
Fat Mike is giving guided tours at the Punk Rock Museum throughout the month of November!
November Screenings of 40 Years of Fuckin' Up at The Punk Rock Museum!
40 Years of Fuckin' Up is Spinal Tap, but real. It's a film about the infamous, fairly un-famous, and beloved punk rock band NOFX. This is the unbelievable story about how a group of untalented drug-addled teenage punks somehow became the most successful independent band in history — and they did it haphazardly, entirely on their own.
Join us every Friday in November for screenings of 40 Years of Fuckin’ Up at the museum. Doors open at 7:00 pm, and the screening begins at 7:30 pm.
Anyone who purchases a ticket to the screening will receive 25% off general admission to the museum at the door.
Film tickets are available here!
Artifact of the month: Original highway marker sign that inspired the record label name Bridge Nine!
"I originally wanted to call my label Bridge Records, but found out another label had been using that name for years. On one of my many trips to Boston for shows, I noticed that every bridge along the highway had a numbered sign, kind of like a mile marker. When I spotted one with my favorite number, it clicked: the label was going to be called Bridge Nine.
After putting out a few records, I decided I wanted to get my hands on that sign and hang it in my bedroom office. It's been a few decades, so I guess I can finally tell this story. Late one night in 1997, after a show at the Middle East nightclub, I pulled over on the highway and tried to unbolt the sign from its post. Either the bolt was bent or rusted solid, because there was no way it was coming off. So I started pushing and pulling on it, trying to see if I could get it out of the ground.
After some serious wrestling with it, I somehow managed to yank the entire thing out, the sign and the eight-foot post it was attached to. At the time, I had an '89 Subaru station wagon, and the post took up pretty much the entire length of the car. I threw a bunch of Bridge Nine T-shirts over it, hoping they'd help cover it up, and made the drive home without a problem.
That sign has hung proudly in every office I've had ever since!"
- Chris Wrenn