Blink-182 Will Headline This Year’s Four Chord Music Fest
The show will return to the newly renamed EQT Park in Washington for its 11th edition.
The annual Four Chord Music Festival is returning to the home park of the Washington Wild Things — with one of the biggest names in punk rock.
Blink-182, the platinum-selling band known for hits such as “What’s My Age Again” and “Dammit,” will headline the first night of the two-night event. The show is scheduled for Sept. 13 and 14 at EQT Park in Washington, PA, the recently renamed stadium that hosts the Wild Things.
Last year’s Four Chord Music Fest was held at the Carrie Furnaces site after spending the previous three years in Washington. This year’s will be the 11th edition of the annual show, which was founded in 2014 by Rishi Bahl of Pittsburgh-based band Eternal Boy.
Blink-182 was scheduled to headline the 2020 edition of the festival before the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the concert industry.
The second night of the festival will feature gothic-punk veterans AFI as well as trailblazers Jawbreaker, an influential three-piece from California who received nationwide exposure touring with Nirvana in the early ’90s. The band broke up in 1996 and reformed in 2017; this will be their first Pittsburgh appearance.
Other bands on the lineup include Jimmy Eat World, Alkaline Trio, Hot Mulligan, Bowling for Soup, Say Anything, State Champs, The Wonder Years and Face to Face. A number of locally based bands, including Eternal Boy and Punchline, appear on the lineup as well.
Tickets for Four Chord Music Festival go on sale at 11 a.m. Friday.