Punk Rock Bowling’s next event will be in downtown Los Angeles, not Las Vegas. Fight To Unite is scheduled for Friday and Saturday, October 9 and 10, at The Belasco, with 32 bands across three stages. The venue lists its address as 1050 South Hill Street in Los Angeles.
Doors open at 5 p.m. both nights, with the first band scheduled for 5:50 p.m. Single-day tickets are $85, including fees, and are sold through the official event page. Friday’s bill includes headliner Lambrini Girls, along with Spiritual Cramp, Surfbort, Generación Suicida, Pistol Grip and Toy Guitar. Saturday features Dillinger Four and Teenage Bottlerocket and doubles as a 35th-anniversary celebration for Fat Wreck Chords, with Dead to Me, Swingin’ Utters, Codefendants, Cobra Skulls, Nerf Herder and Get Dead also on the bill.
A local benefit, and a change of setting
A portion of each ticket sale will go to Siempre Unidos LA. The organization says donations fund groceries, housing assistance, legal support and childcare for families facing crisis. The Los Angeles event is a shift for a festival whose organizers say it grew out of a bowling league started by Youth Brigade’s Mark and Shawn Stern at Bay Shore Lanes in Santa Monica in the late 1990s. Its history traces the gathering’s growth into a four-day Memorial Day festival in Las Vegas.
There will be no Las Vegas festival in 2026, after Punk Rock Bowling’s 25th edition in 2025. Co-founder Shawn Stern told the Los Angeles Times that organizers did not renew their longtime contract at the downtown venue because it was closing. The venue’s future has a narrower confirmed detail: FOX5 reported that a portion of the Downtown Las Vegas Events Center is planned for conversion to a self-parking lot.
Touring pressures are context, not a complete explanation
Stern also told the Times that international travel had become a difficulty for the festival. He said bands from Mexico and Canada canceled their trips and that some acts judged a U.S. tour too difficult or expensive. Separately, the Associated Press has reported that visa fee increases and processing delays are making U.S. tours harder for international artists. That wider reporting gives context to touring challenges; it does not establish the reason for any individual cancellation beyond what organizers have said.
The Las Vegas festival’s next chapter is not settled. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported that organizers planned to return in 2027, while the Fight To Unite page says Vegas is still in their plans. Punk Rock Bowling has not announced a confirmed Las Vegas date for next year, and organizers have not established whether the Los Angeles event will become a recurring festival.
