BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Find Local//findlocal.community//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:d85c4a3a-d3df-4a4f-a59c-fc274fedd451@findlocal.community DTSTAMP:20261015T135243Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261215T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261215T210000 SUMMARY:THE CASUALTIES: People Over Power Tour (18+) DESCRIPTION:THE CASUALTIES: People Over Power Tour Street Punk Punk Rock Hardcore Opener: Bullsh*t Detector 7:00 PM 8 PM *See venue bag policy* A ge Policy: 18+ Valid ID required for entry into venue (Accepted forms of ID: State-Issued ID or Driver's License\, Military ID\, Passport)./ The balcony is restricted to ages 21+. THE CASUALTIES: Politics. Hatred. En dless war. We doomscroll as our rights are stripped away. Bombings. Kidn appings. Mass shootings. The nightly news is a litany of brutality. Assa ssination. Subjugation. Deportation. We argue with each other while the rich get richer and cruelty is normalized. These are just a few of the r easons why the title of The Casualties’ new album is Detonate. “It stems from being overloaded\,” drummer Marc “Meggers” Eggers says. “You feel like your head is about to explode\, which I think is what everybody is feeling these days. You’re pounced on day by day with terrible news and social media\, and you just feel like you’re going to snap.” “Not too lo ng ago\, we were stuck in COVID\,” guitarist Jake Kolatis adds. “Now we' re trying to get back to normal life\, and the world has gone crazy. The re are continuous wars and internal political battles here. Everybody's tearing each other apart. Detonate is saying we’re tired of all this div ision. With this record\, we have a chance to say something and promote some type of unity.” Detonate is the second chapter in a new epoch for T he Casualties. As their second album with David Rodriguez at the mic\, i t solidifies the vocalist’s partnership with Meggers and Kolatis. “It’s like a new era for the band\,” Meggers says. “It solidifies that Dave is here to stay.” As the follow-up to 2018’s Written in Blood and their fi rst record for Hellcat Records—the Epitaph subsidiary curated by Tim Arm strong of Rancid—Detonate sees this new version of The Casualties lockin g into place. “We were in the studio for Written in Blood about eight mo nths after I joined\,” Rodriguez says. “With this new record\, we really grew together. For me\, it’s the proud moment where we clicked the thre e Legos together.” “We’re really proud of this new record\,” Meggers add s. “On the first record with a new singer\, you can get a little bit of leeway\, but on the second record they’re really going to judge you.” Wi th the unblinking eyes of the punk world on them\, The Casualties pulled the blinds and did what they do best. “There was a degree of pressure\, but not from outside sources\,” Rodriguez says. “We just wanted to do t he best record that we could that honors The Casualties name and history without playing the same song over and over. But it wasn’t that we even had to go out of our way. It felt natural to write this new music.” The title of Detonate’s first single\, “People Over Power\,” speaks for its elf. “We’re getting kind of smushed by the world\, by government\, by th e bad news\,” Rodriguez says. “We want systemic change\, total transform ation\, degradation to the state. ‘People over Power’: It’s as simple as it sounds. You keep pushing\, and something really bad is going to happ en that none of us want. We’ll burn it to the ground eventually.” “It’s a protest song through and through\,” Meggers says. “We want the vibe to be: You listen\, get angry\, get your gang together\, and get out on th e streets.” Speaking of the streets: “Brick by Brick” features a cameo f rom Agnostic Front guitarist and all-around NYC legend Vinnie Stigma doi ng some spoken word. “His voice is the embodiment of New York City\, the Lower East Side\, where the Casualties are originally from\,” Kolatis p oints out. “So\, it made all the sense in the world to have him do that. But just having him on there was fun because we're great friends with A gnostic Front.” “The song has a very New York hardcore kind of sound to it\, so I knew Vinnie would be perfect\,” Meggers says. “Agnostic Front just happened to be in LA two days after we came up with the idea\, so J ake and our engineer went down to the show and gave Vinnie the lines to record. It just fell into place.” Native American punk band 1876 contrib uted guest vocals and percussion on “Ashes of War.” “As long as I’ve bee n listening\, I’ve felt like The Casualties always spoke up for people i n society that didn't have as loud of a voice\,” Rodriguez says. “The Ca sualties have always had some Spanish in songs\, but it just seemed like such an important time to have loud Native voices. You don't hear it th at often. We were out on the road with 1876\, and the more we spoke toge ther\, the more we really found out.” 1876 flew down from their home bas e in Portland\, Oregon\, to perform on the track. “Their sacred drum had to be out in the sun—it was a whole ritual\,” Rodriguez explains. “It w as a very serious moment.” Meanwhile\, “Pigs on Fire” is a trilingual tr ack sung partly in Spanish\, partly in English\, and partly in Portugues e. “My dad was very involved in the Chicano movement\, and my wife is Br azilian\,” Rodriguez says. “When I would go down to Brazil\, I would see another side of what's going on. Just like the United States\, it was c olonized and had a large slave trade. And a lot of people don’t realize that it’s the only South American country that doesn’t speak Spanish. It was another piece of the puzzle to speak loud for voices that aren't as loud as the mainstream voices.” In fact\, Rodriguez visited Brazil righ t before The Casualties recorded the album. “When I was down there\, I k ept seeing this graffiti: ‘Set the fascists on fire\,’” he says. “I thou ght that was such a cool line. I took my notebook everywhere I would go\ , and I just put the pieces together. I would listen to some news that w as going on here and news that was going on in Brazil\, and it came toge ther with some really cool imagery.” “Because it’s in Spanish\, English\ , and Portuguese\, it’s in the languages that Chicanos and Latinos speak \,” he adds. “It’s about us coming together against the powers that be. But for the people that don't understand\, we're just telling them it's a barbecue song.” Ultimately\, Detonate amplifies the punk ethos that Th e Casualties have embodied since 1990: A raised fist in the face of oppr ession. “I want people to feel empowered when they hear this record\,” R odriguez says. “I want them to feel like they have a voice. I want them to feel like they’re with like-minded people when they come to a Casualt ies show. They can be themselves and not watch the show but be part of t he show—scream with us\, jump off the stage. We want them to feel like t hey’re part of something.”\n\nTickets: https://www.ticketmaster.com/the- casualties-people-over-power-tour-charlotte-north-carolina-12-15-2026/ev ent/2D006531C15195B2\n\nhttps://findlocal.community/event/d85c4a3a-d3df- 4a4f-a59c-fc274fedd451 LOCATION:Neighborhood Theatre\, Charlotte\, NC URL:https://findlocal.community/event/d85c4a3a-d3df-4a4f-a59c-fc274fedd45 1 STATUS:CONFIRMED SEQUENCE:0 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR