Teenage Bottlerocket / Mest / Make War at the Waiting Room Lounge
Schedule
Tue, 01 Apr, 2025 at 07:30 pm
UTC-05:00Location
The Waiting Room Lounge | Omaha, NE
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Blackheart Booking Presents:Tuesday, April 1st, 2025
The Waiting Room
$20 ADV / $25 DOS
Doors 7 PM / Show 7:30 PM
Teenage Bottlerocket (skate punk / pop punk from WY)
https://teenagebottlerocket.bandcamp.com
https://open.spotify.com/artist/0mGyXXKzoR5KAAh4Mkef2W
Mest (pop punk / alternative rock from IL)
https://mest2.bandcamp.com/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/1ToMIJExb7R5Klsff81NsK
Make War (pop punk / emo / rock band from Brooklyn, NY)
https://makewarmusic.bandcamp.com/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/0dZUiHIO2BUomz0xwglFiW
They’ve toured the world countless times. They kept the leather jacket-and-Converse look alive through an increasingly neon landscape. They’ve written songs about KISS, Top Gun and Minecraft. Hell, they’ve even been on CNN a few times! Please welcome back to the spotlight Wyoming’s own...Teenage Bottlerocket!
With more than 100 original songs already in their catalog, how does the band stay motivated when they’re eight records deep? “We’re always in competition with ourselves,” Carlisle explains. “The real competition is between me and Kody. It’s like, ‘You wrote a song that destroys everything else on this record. Let me try to do that to you real quick. How’s that feel?” And then he comes back and one ups me.“It’s all about the songs,” he continues. “The songs carry this record all the way. That’s not to say there are bad songs on our other records—we have a hard time releasing a shitty song. But these songs are especially great. You know ALL’s best-of record where Allroy is dissecting a musical note? I felt we kind of tapped into that record in a great way, not in a ‘Oh no, they’re experimental now!’ way. This is a Teenage Bottlerocket record through and through, but there’s a lot of hidden elements.” Carlisle’s pride about their latest album, Sick Sesh!, is obvious, but he’s not the only one who loves the album. “Fat Mike called me and said, ‘Hey, this is your best record,” Carlisle recalls. “I said, ‘Cool,thanks for noticing.’”
Given that the band is already two decades old, however, is there any chance of the band slowing down? Carlisle shoots that idea down right away.“I want to have the best next 10 years,” the singer says. “We’ve grinded the grind. Now we get to actually enjoy being a band, and not think too much about different ways to try and ‘make it.’ We’re riding this wave we built ourselves. I wanna surf it for another 10 years.”Well there you have it: The three things in life you can always count on are death, taxes and Teenage Bottlerocket.
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Where is it happening?
The Waiting Room Lounge, 6212 Maple St, Omaha, NE 68104-4004, United States,Omaha, NebraskaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
