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What I’m Doing This Weekend: Porchfest [Duh]

April 24, 2026April 24, 2026 The Fresnan

Yes, what I am doing this weekend is what everyone else is doing on Saturday, it’s Porchfest – it’s one of my favorite Fresno things.

I have not locked in planning my day yet (because I am not that kind of person), but I do know some things, my loose schedule of the day I will try to have:

Jonathan Low-Fi – Canal Market at 11:00.
Brother Luke and the Comrades – South Tower Hitching Post at 11:30.
Sleepover Disaster – The Belmont at 12:00.
Werebear – Planet Punk at 1:30.
The Sunburns – The Big Red Porch at 1:45.
It’ll Grow Back – Planet Punk at 2:30.
123 Death – The Big Red Porch at 3:00.
Bootlegger Folk – Medium Weldon from 4-6.
Talking Ghost – The Big Red Porch at 4:15.
Bill Clifton & the Chicken & Whiskey Band – Tower Live! at 5:00.
From Flowers To Flies – The Belmont at 6:30.
Strange Vine – Goldstein’s at 10 PM.

Think I can pull it off?

Also looking to use the Fresno Trolley at some point:

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Great coverage of the event can be found at Bandgeeeek and Valley Echos.

A good page on the website to plan your day with is this one.

Shout out to the one stage in the NW region of Tower (Hamilton/Daily block), holding it down for the whole area.

Shout out to the Medium WelDON porch for the best dad-joke stage/porch name.

Starts at 10 in the morning. I am going to ‘Dad you’ here and tell you to drink some water and wear some sunblock. And also, nobody needs to know what is in your water bottle.

P.S. Don’t forget there is something cool to do on Sunday, too, you just have to take the short drive up to Madera, it’s Spring Fling! Classic VW car show.

-Mike

Fresno Oldhead Uneventfully Watches Bands and Drinks Beer In Tower

July 23, 2025July 27, 2025 The Fresnan

Editor’s note: I will be doing more personal log style posts here on The Fresnan with expansions of some of the Fresno!Fresno! content. Hope you enjoy and check my website more often as a result.

I was one of 3 old dudes at Goldstein’s last night. I don’t know to think if this is pathetic or something to be proud of.

Probably a bit of both.

Pathetic: Why are you out in The Tower alone as a 50 something dude? Go home and pull weeds or do dishes or some shit.

Proud: Nobody else in my age group out here checking out local bands and enjoying a beer, walking miles home.

I got that video just as the Goldstein’s crowd gave up trying to start a little pit. That band was not playing pit appropriate music but, dammit, folks wanted to pit.

For the younger Fresno crowd, this has been a staple of every Fresno generation; Fresnans love even the tiniest excuse to start a pit. Bless our little hearts. Do we need to grow up? Maybe. But it makes us kind of adorable too.

I decided to check in on Livingstone’s (It has been a while for me) and have a General Sherman IPA from our own Tioga.

The bar had just enough people to give me a sense of enough going on that I wanted to stay. But soon enough, a large amount of people came in and it was too much for this guy, so I headed back over to Gold’s and caught some more Fresno talent:

As I wandered the streets home, contemplating life, I am pretty sure I saw Fresno Jesus wink at me as I walked by:

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-Mikey

Keep Fresno Brutal

Punk Legends “X” In Fresno Saturday

December 12, 2024January 21, 2025 The Fresnan

It is not often Fresno gets a Saturday show from a genre-defining band. Legendary punk band, X, is playing Fulton 55 Saturday night.

There are (at the time of this posting) still tickets left, you can buy them on this website.

On the secondary market, there are tickets to other X shows in California, but I didn’t find much for Fresno.

There is a great write-up about it by Josh Tehee at the Fresno Bee, check it out.

I love this old Letterman appearance from X:

What you should expect:

Hail The Sun in Fresno tickets not exactly sold out (and neither are ones for Chicano Batman)

October 7, 2024November 26, 2024 The Fresnan

I noticed today that Chico’s own post-hardcore band, Hail The Sun, is coming to Strummer’s on Thursday, October 17th and the show is sold out. But not on the secondary market. Browse some tickets for the show here.

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Molly Tuttle is in town tomorrow, should you care?

October 2, 2024October 1, 2024 The Fresnan

The Fresno algorithm has been pushing this Molly Tuggle show at the Tower Theatre at me for like, two or three months now. It better be good.

Call me stupid and out of it but I had not heard of Molly Tuttle before this Fresno show.

If you’re into the Folk or Bluegrass genre, you might want to go, jamming may ensue:

Alright. Maybe we should go.

Tickets are still available at Ticket Network.

Arena Rock Has Left Out Fresno

September 30, 2024October 2, 2024 The Fresnan

There are a lot of recent rock-related tours happening that are NOT coming to Fresno.

Hey, I know this is nothing new. We seem to get about 25% of the bigger tours to come through.

Lately, it feels like more, at least in the rock genre.

Right now, coming to California (or just went through), there is:

Weezer
Metallica
Foo Fighters
Deftones
Korn
Green Day
Imagine Dragons

None of them stopped/or will be stopping by Save Mart Center or Selland Arena.

Dude. These are all bands that have played here too. All are passing us up now. Two of them are from the Central Valley for fucks sake.

I don’t know if the no-big-rock-shows is a national trend or if it’s just Fresno, but it’s been pretty weak this year. What, like, Blink 182 and … well that has been it recently.

Are we showing up less to rock shows? Is Save Mart Center/Selland Arena not seeking these shows? What gives?

I guess rock is dead, at least in Fresno arenas.