{"id":2504,"date":"2015-07-09T16:42:18","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T16:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/life\/music\/skate-and-music-festival-switchblades-and-urethane-to-take-over-alex-s\/"},"modified":"2015-07-09T16:42:18","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T16:42:18","slug":"skate-and-music-festival-switchblades-and-urethane-to-take-over-alex-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/music\/skate-and-music-festival-switchblades-and-urethane-to-take-over-alex-s","title":{"rendered":"SWITCHBLADES AND URETHANE Skate and Music Fest To Take Over Alex&#8217;s Bar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-41253\" style=\"float: left;\" src=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/77-elg.JPG\" alt=\"77-elg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/>Street Plant and Revolution Mother present <em>Switchblades &amp; Urethane<\/em>, a day of skate rock-themed music with live performances by Duane Peters Gunfight featuring Duane Peters, McRad featuring Chuck Treece, Revolution Mother featuring Mike Vallely, The Pushers featuring Riky Barnes, Powerflex 5 featuring Salba and Corey Miller and Skatanic Rednecks featuring Dave Reul.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The single-day festival will take place at Alex\u2019s Bar on Sunday, July 19 from 1:00PM to 8:00PM, with live music starting at 2:00PM.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;<em>Switchblades and Urethane<\/em> is a one day music fest celebrating the natural crossover between skateboarding and music. For me that crossover has always existed and it always will,&#8221;&nbsp;Vallely, event promoter and Revolution Mother singer, said.&nbsp;&#8220;I discovered skateboarding through punk rock music and I discovered my own path in life by pursuing both mediums. Having skate legends like Duane Peters, Salba and Chuck Treece and their bands on this bill really means a lot to me.&nbsp;<em>Switchblades and Urethane<\/em>&nbsp;represents everything I love and value about being a skateboarder and a musician.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Parking lot vendors will include <em>Confusion Magazine<\/em>, Dogtown Suicidal Skates, Pizzanista, <em>Pure Fun! Magazine<\/em>, Street Plant and The Hub. &nbsp;Plus, there will be delicious traditional and vegan eats to munch on by one of LBC\u2019s own finest local taco trucks. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Show is for those 21 and older (ID required). &nbsp;Tickets are $10 both in advance and at the door.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">For more information and to purchase tickets, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexsbar.com\/event\/868905-duane-peters-gunfight-long-beach\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo courtesy of Revolution Mother.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-41249\" src=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/revolutionmother.jpg\" alt=\"revolutionmother\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Street Plant and Revolution Mother present <em>Switchblades &amp; Urethane<\/em>, a single-day festival of rock-themed music with live performances that will take place at Alex&#8217;s Bar on Sunday, July 19 from 1:00PM to 8:00PM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":67835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[377],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-concerts","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2504"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=2504"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}