The Punk Rock Museum is the world’s most comprehensive attraction dedicated to the history of the music, culture, and absurdity of punk rock. Located in Las Vegas, it houses artifacts and memorabilia from across the world’s punk scene—such as handwritten lyrics, instruments, clothing, photos, flyers, and artwork.
Encompassing 12,000 square feet at 1422 Western Ave, between the Las Vegas Strip and Downtown, the museum celebrates the genre’s substantial cultural impact over the last half-century. This year’s September tour guides are Cheetah Chrome (Dead Boys), DENM, Karina Denike (Dance Hall Crashers/NOFX), Chris DeMakes (Less Than Jake), Smelly (NOFX), Kevin Lyman (Warped Tour), Jaret Reddick (Bowling For Soup), Nick Ghanbarian (Bayside), Jesse Wagner (The Aggrolites), John Ross Bowie (The Big Bang Theory), Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top), Chris Kontos (Forbidden/Machine Head/Attitude Adjustment).
When We Were Young Activations At The Museum:
The Punk Rock Museum is excited to announce extended hours, an action-packed tour guide schedule, and an outdoor market in our parking lot for When We Were Young Festival weekend. Including exclusive events, special guests, and a Yellowcard Takeover!
Guided Tours – Experience the museum through the eyes of those who have lived it!
Operating Hours for WWWY Weekend:
Friday, October 17th – Museum: Noon – Midnight | Three Star Punk Bar: Noon – Midnight
Saturday, Sunday & Monday (Oct. 18th–20th) – Museum: 10 AM – 8 PM | Three Star Punk Bar: 10 AM – 10 PM.
October 17th: Warped Tour round table discussion moderated by Kevin Lyman.
Warped Tour Roundtable Discussion – Friday, October 17th | 7 PM (included with a GA ticket).
Moderated by Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman, this panel brings together iconic voices reflecting on their experiences performing at Warped Tour over the years. This will also be an opportunity to raise awareness and donate to Kevin Lyman’s foundation – Unite The United Foundation. The foundation’s mission is to encourage and support fans, artists, and industry leaders from the music, touring, and action sports worlds to work toward positive change in their local community by supporting local charities, producing fundraising events, and participating in community volunteerism across the United States.
Yellowcard takeover!
In celebration of their legacy and recent album release, ‘Better Days’ Yellowcard will be doing a takeover at the museum all weekend long.
Including:
Exclusive Yellowcard exhibit pop-Up – On Friday, October 17th at 9 PM, join the band for a talk as they dive into the band’s extensive history with rare artifacts.
Specialty Yellowcard-Themed Cocktails – Available at the Three Star Punk Bar.
New Album ‘Better Days’ Drop + In-Store Exclusive – Available at Vinyl Impact, the museum’s record store, with a special bonus item only available on-site.
Yellowcard Tattoo Flash – Featured all weekend at the museum’s tattoo shop. Plus, more is happening all weekend!
October 17th and 18th: Jaret Reddick is doing a late-night tour on Friday and an acoustic free show at 8 PM at the Three Star Punk Bar on Saturday!
Jaret Reddick will be doing a late-night tour on Friday at 10 pm and on Saturday will perform an acoustic free show at 8 pm in the Three Star Punk Bar. Enjoy a rare opportunity to experience the Bowling for Soup frontman in an intimate setting.
Tprm Od’s Release Of The Month: October 31st: Cokie the Clown – Demos.
The Punk Rock Museum’s Original Demos (TPRM ODs) series continues with its next release, ‘Cokie the Clown – Demos’, a six-track 10” vinyl available exclusively online as well as in the museum’s record store, Vinyl Threat, on October 31st. Preorder available HERE.
This special edition offers fans rare, archival recordings that provide an intimate look into the early creative foundations of Fat Mike’s Cokie the Clown project.
“I had no idea what depression was. I’d always been happy. Even when I went through shitty times, I always made the best of it…… When I recorded the songs for the Cokie the Clown album, I didn’t know it at the time….. but I was in a state of depression. I was on oxy’s, I was doing coke every day, I was drinking a handle of vodka every day, I was going through a very painful divorce, I was…. I was lost….
The only thing I could concentrate on was recording this album. I started recording it at my studio with BAZ. Then I got Travis Barker to play drums on it at Feldy’s studio. Feldy got mad at me cuz I did coke in front of him…. He told me to leave. I thought it was standard to do drugs in a recording studio….Then I moved into Danny Lohner from NIN’s house. I lived in his guest room for the next two months.
I don’t remember a lot of it. I didn’t leave, I didn’t shave, I dressed in the same dresses and leather and recoiled from everyone. I do remember I sang every song on the floor curled up in a corner. Danny told me that my voice was broken. He tried his best to get me to stop doing drugs and sing like he knew I could…. I never did. Trying to sing about the worst tragedies of your life isn’t easy.
This album isn’t performance art. This album is me without protection. Without skin. Without conscience…. Without love. This album is my inside out. I sang about things that I should have never even talked about. I sang hurtful and awful things that I rationalized to myself as art. Like it was ok because I am an artist. It isn’t ok. I am sorry.
The Cokie the Clown album is one of the biggest regrets of my life, and I hate to say….it might be the best album I’ve ever made. This 6 song demo is me at my bottom….” – Fat Mike.
New Exhibition: Paper Cuts: A Modern Print Show debuts at The Punk Rock Museum on Friday, October 10th, followed by a party in November during DesignerCon in Las Vegas!
Paper Cuts, a new print show celebrating the cutting edge of contemporary screen printing and design, will debut at The Punk Rock Museum!
Curated to showcase the vibrant world of modern poster and print art, Paper Cuts features an all-star lineup of renowned artists and studios, including: Dave Kloc, Andy Schmitt – Starman Press, Stephanie Gobby – Sherbet Punch Studios, Stephanie Ellis – FieldSparrow Studio, Dan Black – Landland, Josh Davis – Dead Meat Design, Joe Triscari – Moonlightspeed, Dan MacAdam – Crosshair, Mike Schwindenhammer – Rudderless Design, Barry Blankenship, Lil Tuffy, Francisco Ramirez – Bureau of Print, Max Mahn – Twin Home Prints, Charlie Wagers, Hooter Hicks, Mathias Valdez – LastLeaf, Shepard Fairey, X Ray (Garageland), Jim Madson, Jeffrey Everett (Rockets are Red), and Brian Ewing.
The reception takes place on Saturday, November 14th, from 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM, inviting art lovers, designers, and collectors to experience the exhibit up close. Immediately following the reception, guests are invited to continue the celebration at a special after-party in the Three Star Bar, located within the museum. Enjoy a night of music with a live DJ set and signature cocktails crafted exclusively for the event.
Paper Cuts is a one-of-a-kind event blending punak ethos, design excellence, and print culture in a venue that celebrates creative rebellion. Whether you’re a seasoned collector or just discovering the world of modern poster art, this show promises a fresh look at the contemporary print scene.
Artifact Of The Month: 1980 Black Gibson SG Guitar owned by Al Barile from SS Decontrol
“When I initially started, my first guitar was a Fender, but it didn’t have the thick, heavy sound I was looking for, so I bought this 1980 Gibson SG, which I used for the first SS Decontrol record ‘The Kids Will Have Their Say’. This guitar had been through some real road wars until December of 1982, when SS Decontrol played with Bad Brains for one of their famous ‘retirement shows’ at CBGB’s. During our last song that night, I jumped high, and when my body hit the stage, the guitar broke in two right at the base of the neck. I remember going out to the van with Nancy after the show and feeling terrible that I failed to protect the neck when coming down from the jump. Eventually, guitar luthier Alec Geanoulis repaired and repainted it so you couldn’t even tell the neck had ever been broken. The guitar was originally a natural firebrand walnut finish. In 1985, I sold my Marshall amp and this Gibson SG to Bobby Frankenheim so that I could buy a Kawasaki 550 Jet Ski. Bobby had the guitar for more than thirty years, and then, in an awesome gesture, decided to bring it back to me. It was unbelievably cool to be reunited with it again.” – Al Barile.
Programming: October 11th: Donuts and Coffee with Vique & Justin!
Vique Martin (Simba) (Pirates Press/Revelation Records/Simba Zine) Justin Pearon (Swing Kids/The Locust/Three One G Records/Deaf Club).
Join Vique & Justin in The Punk Rock Museum’s Three Star Punk Bar for an early daytime screening of Don’t Fall In Love With Yourself, a documentary on Justin’s life and the San Diego Punk scene, followed by a Q&A with Justin & Vique discussing the film, touring in the ’90s, the Revelation days, and Vique’s new book: Boys In Bands.
First 20 guests receive one free copy of Boys In Bands or GG Alien and the Mystery Meat (with paid general admission).
October 24th: PÜNOKTOBERFEST With HEiNO! at the Punk Rock Museum
Heino! returns to The Punk Rock Museum’s Bar, The Three Star Punk Bar, for A Night Of Schlapp Und Pickle At Pünoktoberfest With Heino. Free Admission! Doors at 8 PM.
On Thursday, October 24th, at 8 pm, make sure to dust off your steins and sharpen your sense of humour as HEiNO! is back at The Punk Rock Museum for one night only of bizarre brilliance, bratwurst beats, and bizarre Germanic glee at Pünktoberfest with Heino!
Hosted in the Three Star Punk Bar, this unhinged celebration of offbeat punk tradition and uncomfortable laughter features a free performance that’s part cabaret, part cultural confusion, and punk as hell. The absurdity begins when the doors open at 8 PM, and it is a free admission event (21+).
Expect songs you didn’t know you knew, a few you wish you didn’t, and plenty of “schlapp und pickle” to go around. With HEiNO! looming like a blonde, Teutonic specter over the evening’s festivities, and Old Weird Eyes channeling the spirit of a thousand misunderstood karaoke nights, this is one Oktoberfest you’ll never forget—and possibly never fully understand.
Break out the lederhosen, bring your worst German accent, and prepare for a night of unsettling joy at Pünktoberfest—because nothing says punk like polka, parody, and postmodern performance art gone wonderfully wrong.
October 25th: Don’t Tell Comedy show!
On Saturday, October 25th, The Punk Rock Museum is teaming up with Don’t Tell Comedy to host an exclusive, comedy show in Las Vegas.
If you’ve never been to a Don’t Tell Comedy show, here’s the deal: You won’t know who’s performing until the night of the show and that’s part of the fun. Expect some of the best comedians in the game to hit the stage in a totally unexpected venue.
Doors at 8 PM, Show starts at 9 PM,21+ only – every ticket holder will be given a Punk Rock Museum poker chip, good for free general admission to the museum on a future visit ($39 value).
October 25th: John Ross Bowie is hosting a guided tour and will be DJing in the Three Star Punk Bar after the Don’t Tell Comedy show!
The party doesn’t stop when the Don’t Tell Comedy show wraps up—stick around for a DJ set with John Ross Bowie in the Three Star Punk Bar. (Earlier that day, he’ll also be leading a guided tour of the museum!)
You might recognize John from TV shows like The Big Bang Theory, Speechless, Reno 911!, and Curb Your Enthusiasm, or films such as Jumanji: The Next Level, He’s Just Not That Into You, and The Heat. What you may not know is that he also played in the pop-punk band Egghead, which released two albums: ‘Dumb Songs for Smart People’ and ‘Would Like A Few Words With You’.
Get a guided tour ticket with John HERE.