Complete event time schedule and map for Punk Rock Bowling 2012 Music Festival and Club shows

The 2012 edition of Punk Rock Bowling and Music Festival is just about upon us. The event will be non-stop action from the bowling to the music to the pool parties and the club shows and we want to help you stay on top of it all.

Covering this event is a monumental task for the Big Wheel staff every year. The only way that they can stay on top of it all and properly coordinate where the staff needs to be at any given time is 2 of the tools below that we create internally as we plan out our coverage. We figured that if these tools help us, they can equally help you stay on track and plan out each of the days and how to get there. Available in a downloadable PDF format is a 4 page moment to moment schedule of each days events with the time and place they go down at, as well as a map of where the venues are located at.

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Win tickets to some upcoming shows in June and July

Enter NOW to win some tickets to these kick ass shows!

	Win tickets to go see Ministry   at Club Nokia in Los Angeles on Thursday June 21, 2012    Enter the contest HERE
	Win tickets to go see Screeching Weasel   at The Fonda Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday July 15, 2012    Enter the contest HERE
	Win tickets to go The 2012 Hootenanny   at Oak Canyon Lake in Irvine, CA on Saturday July 7, 2012    Enter the contest HERE

Each of these shows will have 5 winners per show for a pair of tickets
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We Got Power: Hardcore Punk scenes from 1980s Southern California Book

Bazillion Points Books announces that Keith Morris of the CIRCLE JERKS, Louiche Mayorga of SUICIDAL TENDENCIES, Steve Human of THE VANDALS, and Tony Reflex of THE ADOLESCENTS have each contributed essays to the upcoming hardcover hardcore history bomb WE GOT POWER!: Hardcore Punk Scenes From 1980s Southern California, by David Markey and Jordan Schwartz. Presenting original essays, capturing nearly 400 photos from the dawn of hardcore punk in Southern California, and reprinting every issue of the influential We Got Power zine from 1981 through 1983, the WE GOT POWER! book measures 304 large format landscape pages and is slated for August 2012 release. Read more

Complete Line Up for Punk Rock Bowling 2012 Music Festival and Club shows

Line Up Punk Rock Bowling 2012 Music Festival and Club shows announced

Late night club shows will take place on Friday night and late night Saturday and Sunday AFTER the outdoor festival is over. Tickets are only available on the Punk Rock Bowling website for each individual show and are NOT part of the festival pass.

Tix On Sale Tues. April 17 at 1PM (pst) at http://www.punkrockbowling.com/#!music

Don't wait til it's too late! Take advantage of the Special PRB Hotel Rates while they last (rates expire on April 24 or when the rooms sell out).
Available only at http://www.punkrockbowling.com/#!hotels

These are the cheapest rates downtown and due to the holiday weekend they will sell out soon.

Las Vegas Club: 3 nights – $200 / 4 nights – $255 (includes tax and service fee)
Golden Nugget: 3 nights-$300  / 4 nights-$355 (includes tax and service fee)

Here is the entire show line up and times for the music festival and club shows below.
Make sure you get your tickets now because they will sell out fast.
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CicLAvia Bike Event – Los Angeles, CA – April 15, 2012

CicLAvia is the bi-annual event where 10 miles of streets around downtown Los Angeles are closed down and are open to bikes, skateboard, rickshaws, walkers or whatever. This event is full on Punk rock fun as you can get wild in the streets of downtown Los Angeles. This is not a ride that is for jocks, this is a ride for all the regular people to go out and enjoy our open spaces. Many of us only see downtown as we are cruising to a show Read more

Show Preview: Gnarmageddon Fest II Featuring Negative Approach – Stalag 13 – Gehenna – Magrudergrind – Coke Bust – Knife Fight – Media Blitz – and Many More – at The Observatory – Santa Ana, CA – June 23, 2012

Last year, Jason Schwartz of Media Blitz and Danny Lyerla of Blind Nuns and EarthAD Productions teamed up to produce an idea so innovative, immense, and DIY, that the name of the project could only embody the epic nature of the duo's idea. GNARMAGEDDON FEST, which evolved out of the duo's passion for Punk and hardcore, aims to bring together two distinct scenes that otherwise maintain a noticeable separation. Read more

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