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MidWest Friends Fest & Start Today Harm Reduction Present Dikembe, Kerosene Heights, Swiss Army Wife, LayLow, Abandoned Malls of America
The Southgate House Revival - Sanctuary
Sat July 19, 2025 8:00 pm (Doors: 7:00 pm)
All Ages
$15 presale / $20 day of Buy Tickets
Kerosene Heights make loud exciting emo punk that carries the torch of earlier emo bands. The energy of a sweaty basement show comes through even in their recordings with distorted twinkly riffs, yelled vocals, and raw production.
4 hearts, 3 guitars, some yelling.

Portland Emo/Punk

Live, laugh, love
Rock band from Newport, Kentucky, USA

Abandoned Malls of America is a midwestern rock band that combines the feel and emotion of classic Midwest Emo with a modern punk energy and grit.

Guitar driven, melodic, and with a cynical edge that most any disillusioned millennial can relate to, this band exists to fill an artistic void. People of this generation openly opine for the emotional and impactful music they grew up with, but mainly through winking nostalgia and meme culture. What if there were bands that picked up the original thread of emo music and carried the torch (in earnest) into corporate life, mortgages, and physical degradation?

Abandoned Malls of America intends to connect with this audience of those wallowing in the same 5 albums from the early aughts. They know those albums will most likely never be usurped, but the chance to find a place alongside these classics is all the band can ask for.