THE STONE PONY SUMMER STAGE

TURNPIKE TROUBADOURS
Wild America Tour 2026
with special guest Lucero
on The Stone Pony Summer Stage

The Turnpike Troubadours have never followed any script. Breakthrough albums have been followed by breakups. Triumphant reunions have overcome insurmountable odds. And live shows have been thrilling, once-in-a-lifetime experiences. Now, just two years since their comeback album, A Cat in the Rain, the Tahlequah, Oklahoma, band delivers yet another helping of the unexpected: the surprise release of The Price of Admission, the group’s most vibrant, piercing album since 2010’s career-defining Diamonds & Gasoline.

Reteaming with Grammy-winning producer Shooter Jennings, who oversaw A Cat in the Rain, the Turnpike Troubadours crafted and recorded 11 new songs for The Price of Admission, reminding fans and peers alike just how it’s done. how it’s done. Songwriter and front man Evan Felker rises to the occasion, cementing his status as country-rock’s version of Bruce Springsteen. He writes and sings openly and poetically about his sobriety, about loss, and about lighting out in search of something, anything, to fill the void.

For Felker, it’s his band of brothers in Turnpike Troubadours: fiddler Kyle Nix, multi-instrumentalist Hank Early, guitarist Ryan Engleman, bassist RC Edwards, and drummer Gabe Pearson. All of them are at the top of their games on The Price of Admission, refusing to hold on too tightly and letting the music guide them.

N2S presents
Hot Mulligan
on The Stone Pony Summer Stage
with Joyce Manor
Saturdays At Your Place
Koyo

HOT MULLIGAN is a ride-or-die testament to staying true to yourself. When the emo band formed in 2014 and cut their teeth playing house shows and naming songs by closing their eyes and typing into auto-correct on their phones, no one expected they’d be selling out thousand-cap venues, one of their scene’s most respected bands a decade later. But as Hot Mully readies their phenomenal fourth LP THE SOUND A BODY MAKES WHEN IT’S STILL (Wax Bodega), that’s exactly where they’re at. Hot Mulligan is a resounding success story, the #1 Hot New Band (11 years running, just ask them), and ready to keep fighting the good fight.
“I don’t know anyone in their right mind who says, I want to be a musician, make money, not have a job, and also be comfortable,” jokes guitarist Chris Freeman, thinking back to the band’s formative years in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, and later, down in the mitten in the college town of Lansing. “The dream was to play a song in a shit basement, live in a van, be gross, sleep on French fries, and go to cities you’ve never been to before.”
Since 2018’s Pilot put Hot Mulligan on the map, they’ve been lauded in Paste and Alternative Press, streamed over 140 million times on Spotify, and toured with sonic forefathers like The Wonder Years and Jimmy Eat World. For Hot Mulligan—vocalist Tades Sanville, guitarists Freeman and Ryan Malicsi, bassist Jonah Kramer, and drummer Brandon Blakeley—the new LP is a white-knuckled affirmation of everything they stand for.
And make no mistake: it’s never been easy.
“The Sound a Body Makes When It’s Still is a lyric reference,” says Sanville. “That lyric is in a song about paranoia, which is fear. With the album title, you can go the meditation route, or, the horror that you are in your body, and you have to exist. You have no choice, really. Even if you plan on killing yourself, right now you exist. And that is a terrifying thing.”
This fear lives and breathes throughout the album, in blistering choruses alongside the most vulnerable moments Hot Mulligan has ever laid to tape. On “Moving to Bed Bug Island,” a cathartic opener straight out of Hot Mully’s wheelhouse, Sanville is screaming for sanity huddled in a basement; by the album’s final song, the very-literally-titled “My Dad Told Me to Write a Nice One for Nana So This Is It,” he’s monologuing his last respects over acoustic guitar to the mother figure who helped raise him. That being said, this is still a Hot Mulligan record, and that means it rocks. Lead single “And a Big Load” is a heroic pop-punk rager that spends its entire two minutes and 53 seconds outrunning the ghosts that chase it. “It Smells Like Fudge Axe in Here” reels you in with its emo-gone-Tokyo Police Club groove. “Carbon Monoxide Hotel” pairs some of the most emotional, raw-nerve lyrics Sanville has ever sung with a gutting breakdown and, somehow, one of the stickiest choruses in the Hot Mulligan catalog.
And even when life is beating you to the ground, Hot Mulligan resists the urge to take it all too seriously. The most challenging part of making the new album? According to the band, recording while crashing in places that smelled like chocolate Axe body spray and exhaust from a seafood kitchen. Second hardest, adds Freeman: “Getting our drummer to play the drums, because he just acquired mounts in World of Warcraft and wanted to play that instead.”
Through it all, Hot Mulligan and longtime producer Brett Romnes laid down a masterclass. The Sound a Body Makes When It’s Still grabs your attention with all its fight-or-flight hooks, but it’s the little nuances and connective tissue that make it Hot Mulligan’s most cohesive album yet. There are gripping high notes from Sanville and subtle guitar twinkle and synthesizer sparkle that unfurl with every listen.There’s a pair of poignant interludes—“This Makes Me Yummy” and “This Makes Me Yucky”—with Sanville reading a dreamlike, half-audible short story down in the mix of the latter (it’s up to listeners to figure it out). “Slumdog Scungillionaire,” the penultimate track, weaves lyrics from throughout the LP into a soft-to-loud, time signature-shifter unlike anything the band has ever written. While records like 2020’s you’ll be fine and 2023’s Why Would I Watch hold up as classics, Hot Mulligan has never crafted a start-to-finish statement like this. Their most accomplished LP in tow, Hot Mulligan is ready to venture on.
“When we started Hot Mulligan, the emo revival was going,” Freeman says, shouting out inspirations like You Blew It! and Modern Baseball. “We so desperately wanted to be a part of that, but by the time anyone would listen to songs called ‘11 Second Burp,’ most of those bands disappeared and we were out on our own. Even though we were born at the ass-end of that, we captured the sound a little.”
Now, bands who, like Hot Mulligan, never chased radio play or of-the-moment co-writers, are pushing sonic boundaries while playing sprawling festivals and raucous, packed club shows. “I’m proud that we didn’t go, Well, our music’s not here anymore, let’s write something else so we can ride the wave. We stuck to our guns.”

LUCY DACUS
Smidley
on The Stone Pony Summer Stage

Lucy Dacus is a musician from Virginia, regarded as “one of the best songwriters of her generation” (Rolling Stone). She has released four full-length albums under her name: 2016’s No Burden, 2018’s Historian, 2021’s Home Video, and 2025’s Forever Is A Feeling. In 2023, Dacus spent a career-defining year with boygenius, her band with Phoebe Bridgers and Julien Baker. boygenius’ album, the record, garnered widespread acclaim and saw the trio take home three Grammy Awards.

Her most recent record, Forever Is A Feeling, was lauded by Variety as “the most romantic record you might hear” and reached #1 spots on both the Billboard Rock Album Chart and the Billboard Folk/Americana Album Chart. Dacus also cemented her reputation as a powerful live
act following the release of Forever Is A Feeling, performing around the globe on her most expansive tour to date and selling out legendary venues like Radio City, Red Rocks and the O2 Academy Brixton in London.

Blues Traveler, Gin Blossoms, & Spin Doctors
on The Stone Pony Summer Stage

Nearly four decades ago ago, the four original members of Blues Traveler — John Popper, Chandler Kinchla, Brendan Hill, and the late Bobby Sheehan — gathered in their drummer’s parents’ basement in Princeton to jam. From these high school sessions emerged a band that would go on to release a total of 14 studio albums, four of which have gone gold, three platinum, and one six-times platinum – selling more than 10 million combined units worldwide. Over an illustrious career, Blues Traveler has played over 2,000 live shows in front of more than 30 million people, and, in “Run-Around,” had the longest-charting radio single in Billboard history, which earned them a Grammy for “Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals.” In 2021 Blues Traveler released the Grammy-nominated Traveler’s Blues on Round Hill Records, a collection of reimagined and recharged classics from the American blues songbook, and the group’s first official blues album. The second release in this series, 2023’s Traveler’s Soul, takes a similar approach, consisting of cover songs from a specific genre, this time classic R&B and soul.

Gin Blossoms is an American alternative rock band formed in 1987 in Tempe, Arizona. The band rose to prominence following the 1992 release of their first major label debut album, New Miserable Experience, and the first single released from that album, “Hey Jealousy” became a Top 25 hit and went gold. New Miserable Experience eventually went quadruple platinum and three other charting singles were released from the album including “Allison Road” and “Until I Fall Away”. The band’s follow-up album, Congratulations I’m Sorry (1996), went platinum including the Grammy nominated “As Long as It Matters” and the top 10 single “Follow You Down”. Gin Blossoms continue to tour every year and in recent years have shared the stage with Blues Traveler, Collective Soul, Barenaked Ladies and Hootie & The Blowfish.

Spin Doctors’ first album in 12 years is at once a bold leap for a legendary band and the sound of a group truly revitalized. Marking their debut on new label home and iconic major Capitol Records, Face Full of Cake finds the alt-rock veterans in top form with an abundance of hooks in their arsenal and the warm, funky sound that longtime fans have come to expect from them. The record truly marks a new era for Spin Doctors, and with a blockbuster summer tour on the horizon and new bassist Jack Daley in tow, it’s impossible not to catch the thrilling feeling that this 35 years strong-and-running crew is, despite their wealth of experience, just getting started.

DOGS IN A PILE
on The Stone Pony Summer Stage

Something organic has been blooming from Asbury Park, New Jersey, and is now making its way around the world. Dogs In A Pile, a band of five twenty somethings with old souls and limitless chops, is waking people up to the timeless and ineffable joys of psychedelic-tinged jazz-funk rock n’ roll.

This is one of the busiest touring bands of today, averaging 130 live shows per year since 2022. The road has become their creative engine, generating a rapidly growing catalog of original tunes. Distroid, the band’s newest album, is a 10-song collection featuring long-awaited studio versions of some of the Dogs’ most beloved repertoire.

Dogs In A Pile is guitarist Jimmy Law, guitarist Brian Murray, keyboardist Jeremy Kaplan, bassist Sam Lucid, and drummer Joe Babick. In addition, the Dogs In A Pile community includes the Dog Pound, the group’s extended family of fans across the country.

Besides being a lyric from the Grateful Dead song, “He’s Gone,” the name “Dogs In A Pile” is an apt description of the five-piece band’s stylistic breadth. The sonic image it conjures is a heap of storyteller Americana, bluegrass, jazz improvisation, eccentric instrumental excursions, pop-rock sophistication, and deep-pocket grooves, ranging from funk to Latin to reggae and beyond.

Distroid features material that has already become staples of the band’s live show. These studio renditions have afforded the group a chance to present the compositions just how they envision them. Distroid offers a cross-section of the Dogs In A Pile essence, tight and tuneful four-minute funk and jazz informed psych-rock songs, and then sprawling 15-minute compositions with intricate unison lines, agile genre-jumping, and dazzling improvisation.

DYLAN SCOTT
on The Stone Pony Summer Stage

Despite a multi-Platinum story and six No. 1 singles, including two fresh smashes in 2025 alone, Curb Records hitmaker Dylan Scott has always kept an underdog mindset. A rowdy roughneck with a romantic side – one whose modern edge was sharpened by timeless, emotional twang – the consummate family man broke out with the epic triple-Platinum devotion of “My Girl” in 2016 and followed up with scrappy, under-the-radar consistency. Chart-topping heart-forward anthems like “Hooked,” “Nobody” and “New Truck” all reached RIAA-certified status, but last year launched the crooner into the stratosphere. Posting back-to-back No. 1s with Gold-certified “Boys Back Home” (with Dylan Marlowe) and Platinum-certified “This Town’s Been Too Good to Us,” Scott wrapped 2025 as the third most-played country artist of 2025 and continues his hot streak with his current single, Platinum-certified “What He’ll Never Have,” which nears the Top 10 at Country radio and was honored by ASCAP as one of the most-performed country songs of 2025. With nearly 5 billion career streams, legions of fans and countless sold-out shows to his credit, his stardom has somehow grown in relative stealth. But with his third full album, Easy Does It, he’s not sweating. Sure of himself, his talent and his fans, Scott heads toward a new creative chapter with total confidence. Featuring 11 tracks, his signature vocal and vivid intensity take center stage on a set defined by personal truth – whether through heartbreak, romantic devotion or small-town dedication. The in-demand live act spent last year on his Country Till I Die Tour, headlining his biggest venues yet including his first-ever arenas and record-breaking attendance, and his Easy Does It Tour. He will continue headlining across the country on his Till I Can’t I Will Tour, launching this spring.

CHARLEY CROCKETT
Age of the Ram Tour
Durand Jones & the Indications
on The Stone Pony Summer Stage

Charley Crockett, in partnership with PLUS1, will contribute $1.00 from every ticket sold to Last Prisoner Project, a 501(c)(3) organization, to support efforts to free individuals incarcerated for cannabis-related offenses and repair the harms of the war on cannabis. Founded in 2019, Last Prisoner Project works nationwide to advance cannabis justice and advocate for policies that repair the harms of cannabis prohibition. Charley Crockett is proud to support this work and help raise awareness in communities across the country. For more information, visit LastPrisonerProject.org. No portion of the ticket purchase is tax deductible.

RISE AGAINST
Ricochet 2026
with ALKALINE TRIO
on The Stone Pony Summer Stage

Few bands have ever been as accurately named as the Chicago punk quartet Rise Against. While fleeting styles and fashionable imitations have entered and exited vogue, Rise Against have remained a north star of artful resistance. While continuously updating their formula, they’ve sustained their original spirit of rebellion over a quarter century – amassing a body of work that doubles as a chronicle of our collective unraveling. Melodic hardcore detonations co-exist in perfect tension with dire warnings about looming dystopia. And on their latest release, Ricochet, they’ve made what might be their most visceral, urgent, and high-stakes song cycle.
“We rely on each other, whether we like it or not,” Rise Against lead singer, rhythm guitarist, and lyricist, Tim McIlrath says. “Everything that you do will affect somebody.”
“We are not as isolated as we think,” the musician said. “What we do, good or bad, creates one big ricochet effect.”
Ricochet is a success at simplest level: a collection of indelible rock and roll songs with infectious hooks that sound best played at eardrum-shattering volume. But it also functions as something more profound: a document of artists capturing the chaos of the moment, articulating complex truths with seismic power, and an awareness of the consequences that may befall us. This is an album built to be a part of the solution.

In more than 25 years together, Alkaline Trio has created their own little universe in their songs, one that is a bit dark, a bit brooding, and always just a few short steps away from Armageddon. Their music has been a reliable black mirror of reality. And now, as the band releases their 10th album, the real world looks more like an Alkaline Trio song than ever before.
“A lot of the stuff that was inspiring me on this record was this apocalypse culture that we live in,” says guitarist Matt Skiba. “Without sounding trite, it’s the way that we get our information now through social media. There’s always been good and there’s always been horror, but it feels like the horror hits our doorsteps much quicker these days.”
“It’s tough all around right now,” adds bassist Dan Andriano. “We can’t do drugs anymore because they’ll kill you. We can’t go anywhere safely because people are shooting places up. It’s dark and it’s a bummer.”

Gates: 5:30PM
Show: 6:30PM