{"id":973697,"date":"2019-11-23T12:26:25","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T19:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=917395"},"modified":"2019-11-23T12:26:25","modified_gmt":"2019-11-23T19:26:25","slug":"circle-jerks-tease-2020-reunion-tour-to-celebrate-40th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/circle-jerks-tease-2020-reunion-tour-to-celebrate-40th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Circle Jerks Tease 2020 Reunion Tour to Celebrate 40th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/GettyImages-1182790548.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Punk legends the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/circle-jerks\/\" id=\"auto-tag_circle-jerks\" data-tag=\"circle-jerks\">Circle Jerks<\/a> have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.circlejerks.net\/news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">teased<\/a> a 2020 reunion tour to celebrate the 40th anniversary of their 1980 hardcore punk classic <em>Group Sex<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Circle Jerks will perform their first show together since 2011 at Las Vegas\u2019 Punk Rock Bowling music festival on the weekend of May 21st, 2020, with more gigs expected to be announced.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynvegan.com\/circle-jerks-reforming-for-40th-anniversary-of-group-sex-playing-punk-rock-bowling\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">According to Brooklyn Vegan<\/a>, the lineup for the reunion currently includes singer Keith Morris and guitarist Greg Hetson \u2014 both founding members who appeared on <em>Group Sex<\/em> \u2014 as well as bassist Zander Schloss, who joined Circle Jerks after appearing \u2014 along with the band \u2014 in the 1984 film <em>Repo Man<\/em>. The reunion lineup\u2019s drummer has not yet been revealed.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NBCJd5JeywQ?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">During Circle Jerks\u2019 hiatus in 2011, Morris formed the acclaimed punk supergroup Off! Earlier this year, that band <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/off-kickstarter-new-album-mockumentary-watermelon-816123\/\">launched a Kickstarter<\/a> to fund their upcoming new album\/documentary&nbsp;<i>Watermelon.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In 2016, Morris released his autobiography <em>My Damage: The Story of a Punk Rock Survivor<\/em>, a look back at his career as the frontman of Black Flag, Circle Jerks and Off! As Morris <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/keith-morris-on-black-flag-drama-seeing-sex-pistols-last-show-113191\/\">told <em>Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a> at the time, previous attempts to reunite Circle Jerks were hamstrung by Hetson\u2019s duties with Bad Religion, as well as creative differences between the guitarist and the singer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201c[With Circle Jerks] we got offer after offer but we would let opportunities like that pass us by,\u201d Morris said in 2016. \u201cFor a band that\u2019s 33 years old, there\u2019s something wrong with that. So I reached the point where I said enough is enough.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/circle-jerks-2020-reunion-tour-group-sex-917395\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punk legends the Circle Jerks have teased a 2020 reunion tour to celebrate the 40th anniversary of their 1980 hardcore punk classic Group Sex. Circle Jerks will perform their first show together since 2011 at Las Vegas\u2019 Punk Rock Bowling music festival on the weekend of May 21st, 2020, with more gigs expected to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-973697","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 23:55:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}