Beer & Music Fest Headed for Atlantic City in April
They called it “Celebration of the Suds” back in 2006 when this annual event started with 29 breweries hosting almost 3,000 adults with no music, just beer. In 2012, music was added. In 2024, 101 breweries with 400 flavors of beer will fill the Atlantic City Convention Center on April 12 and 13 for the estimated 18,000 21+ adults with no babies, animals or kids allowed. Your $75 ticket allows you to sample every beer. Designated drivers can get in for $30 at the door if accompanied by a ticketed beer drinker. The designee can dig the music, the food, the amusements and the vendors but cannot imbibe.
Day #1 (8:00 p.m. to midnight)
Michigan belly-button gazers Hot Mulligan have refined their post-emo cred to include pop-punk on their third album, Why Would I Watch? The synths will be spilling all over the stage as they will undoubtedly perform “No Shoes In The Coffee Shop” and “This Song Is Called It’s Called What’s It Called.” Tennessee quintet Free Throw has been honing its sound for 12 years. California’s Just Friends met in their high school marching band and went punk before settling into their current funk groove.
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Day #2 (noon to 4:00 p.m.)
There will be no shortage of material for alt-pop Princeton band Saves The Day as it has nine albums in 27 years. Personnel changes and van accidents have yet to slow them down. Hopefully, they’ll do their quasi-psychedelic “Kerouac & Cassidy.” Other songs sound like Weezer going glam. Then there’s Catch 22, a reggae-inspired punk hybrid sextet around for 28 years! Chicago’s Action Adventure and its in-your-face funk-punk might make you spill some of your beer.
Day #2 (6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.)
The ska-punk Goldfinger, from Los Angeles, started 29 years ago when guitarist John Feldmann left the Electric Love Hogs to start this band with his co-worker at a shoe store. Things went south when their lead guitarist opted to become a pro surfer in Costa Rica, but after opening for The Sex Pistols and learning everything not to do on tour, they wised up. And you best put your drink down when Oklahoma’s rock’n’rolling Cliffdiver brings it fast and hard. The final band on the fest is Keep Flying, a Jersey sextet of rampaging horns.
Tickets: https://www.ticketmaster.com/atlantic-city-beer-music-festival-tickets/artist/1784994