4 Days! 40 Bands!! It’s The Decliners’ 20th Anniversary Bender!!!
For Immediate Release: Free 4-day Music Festival Celebrates 20 years of The Decliners
“I love my brothers. I don’t think people know how close we are. We’ve had deaths and marriages, and everything you can imagine, and it’s not a typical band. I think people will pick up on that. Because of the way that we kind of stick together. You know, it’s like you can’t really get between us.” Tommy Shivers, drummer, The Decliners
Twenty years is a long time for anything. Most businesses, not to mention, marriages, don’t make it five years. For a punk rock band, twenty years is an absolute, unheard-of eternity. Thus, it was much to their surprise, when The Decliners found themselves about to turn twenty, in 2025.
Though the four original members were now three (bassist Joey Steelhead passed away suddenly, in 2010), lead singer/frontman Nolan Void, drummer Tommy “Shivers” Morgan, and guitarist Dee Dee Hickson, together with their new (as of 2021) bassist, Brandon “Moonbeam” Peterson, The Decliners determined they should have an anniversary party, a fitting occasion to celebrate the milestone.
However, as soon as word got out about The Decliners’ twentieth anniversary, what was initially planned as a simple one night/three bands rock show, quickly metastasized into a full-blown, four-day festival!
Packing over forty bands, plus four deejays, into a four day weekend at SE Foster’s dive bar jewelbox, the Starday Tavern, is no easy feat. But, after twenty years of being lynchpins in the PNW circuit, “your favorite band’s favorite band” have drawn a stellar roster from their deep bench of talented friends and admirers, in the Pacific Northwest punk rock cohort.
The line-up reads as a Who’s Who of Pacific Northwest punk rock society, all of whom just happen to be ‘close, personal friends’ of The Decliners!
Confirmed performers include The Weaklings, Dry County Crooks, Kalichrome (members of Pond), Muddy River Nightmare Band, Grand Head (members of The Jimmies), The Sinks (members of Poison Idea), Dartgun and the Vignettes, Girl Drink Drunks, Complaint Department (members of 8-foot Tender), Cheap Life (members of Poison Idea, The Viles), the iconic Portland Elvis, and many more (full list, below).
Oh, and it’s a BENEFIT!
The Decliners have always been defined by their proudly leftist activism - songs like “Nightmare of the American Dream” and “Burn It All Down,“ pepper their albums with acidic riffs on national politics.
The Decliners walk their talk, too - never saying no to a worthy cause, playing dozens of concerts for organizations like Food Not Bombs, and The Portland Woman’s Crisis Line, as well as countless DIY benefits for friends (and pets!) in need of assistance.
Reflecting their deep commitment to social justice and anti-capitalism activism, The Decliners determined to make their anniversary weekend free to attend, while collecting suggested donations supporting four unique independent non-profits, a different one, each day of the four-day fest.
Donations will be made to:
The Dana Thompson Memorial Fund of Awesome - Teaches Portland’s Black youth to experiment and develop their artistic confidence through rock and roll.
http://www.dtmfa.org
Janeen's Catahoula Leopard Dog Rescue - Rescues, rehabilitates, and places in forever homes, adoption-challenged dogs, primarily of the Catahoula breed, but of other mixed breeds, as well.
https://jcldr.com/
Common Fire - Portland-based mutual aid group that brings food, clothing, and supplies, directly to the unhoused community.
https://www.instagram.com/commonfirepdx`
Pueblo Unido - Connects people of vulnerable immigration status with legal representation, social services, and Indigenous language interpreters.
https://www.pueblounidopdx.org
Jack Endino Remasters The Decliners’ First Three Albums
To mark their twentieth anniversary, The Decliners are reissuing their first three albums, newly remixed by the legendary Jack Endino (Nirvana, Sub Pop Records), and presented for the first time, on vinyl.
The first two remastered LPs were released earlier this year, and the third will be pressed in 2026.
Here are links to The Decliners’ newly remastered albums:
Thanks, But No Thanks (originally released 2006 - remastered 2025 by Jack Endino)
https://thedecliners.bandcamp.com/album/thanks-but-no-thanks-2025-jack-endino-remaster
Chehalis (originally released 2009 - remastered 2025 by Jack Endino)
https://thedecliners.bandcamp.com/album/chehalis-2025-jack-endino-remaster
Burning Bridges (originally released 2011 - remastered 2025 by Jack Endino)
https://thedecliners.bandcamp.com/album/burning-bridges-2025-jack-endino-remaster
Specific daily schedule information will be posted at www.thedecliners.com.
Quick Info:
Event: The Decliners’ 20th Anniversary Bender
Location: Starday Tavern 6517 SE Foster Road, Portland OR 97206
https://stardaytavern.com
URL for general info:
https://www.thedecliners.com
Dates: Thursday - Sunday, November 6th - 9th, 2025,
Times:
Thursday, November 6th, 5pm - 11pm
Friday, November 7th, 5pm - 1am
Saturday, November 8th, 2pm - 1am
Sunday, November 9th, 2pm - 11pm
Cover: Free! Donations encouraged, benefiting four local non-profits.
Restrictions: 21 and over, with valid ID, only.
The following is subject to change. Look for final schedules to be posted, here.
Thursday, November 6th, 5pm-11pm: Elvis, Barry and Brandi, Somerset Meadows, Kalichrome, Fear of Dissolving, Latinum, Pink Tornado, Mountain Meadows Massacre
Friday, November 7th, 5pm-1am: The Night Team, The Plane Crash, Sharp Kicks, Dead Magic, The Decliners, Perfect Buzz, Howie and The Hotknives, Complaint Department, Girl Drink Drunks, Dinner for Wolves
Saturday, November 8th, 2pm-1am: Grand Head, Red Panda Death March, Trouble Cuts, Atomic Rust, Dead Hollows, Desert Shame, Cheap Life, The Troglodytes, The Decliners, Advisory, Wobblies, Muddy River Nightmare Band, King Ghidora
Sunday, November 9th, 2pm-11pm: Colt Lightnin’, The Hickmans, Four Claws Deep, Squandary, Dartgun and The Vignettes, TINA, Dry County Crooks, The Sinks, Hawthorne, The Decliners, The Fuckin’ Fucks, The Weaklings.
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