Events

Venue

The Rose & Crown Pub

628 E. Adams St.

Phoenix, AZ

602-256-0223

http://www.theroseandcrownpub.org

Be Social

1...2...3...4!!! feat. DJ LaRue, & Jason Plinko

Date/Time:Every week Monday, 8:30pm

Punk You Up

By Benjamin Leatherman

Mark LaRue is a double-duty DJ. When the 32-year-old isn't spinning rump-shaking Nickelback or Wyclef jams for the exotic dancers of Bourbon Street Circus, he's dropping punk rock, hardcore, and ska songs on Monday nights at the Rose & Crown Pub during the 1... 2... 3... 4!!!. “The view at Bourbon is awesome, but the music is much better at the Rose & Crown; I don't think anybody's gonna deny that,” he says. Probably not, since the the night features LaRue and Jason Urias (a.k.a. Jason Plinko, frontman for old-school Valley pop-punk band of the same name) unleashing a serious setlist of ska-punk every week, including tons of East Bay stuff like Jawbreaker and Screeching Weasel, 2 Tone tracks from groups like The Specials and Madness, and anything else in their music collection. “We also get some local stuff into the mix: Parkway Wretch, The Revenge, even way old-school local bands like Ernie's Rubber Duckie,” LaRue says. “It's something interesting to do on a Monday night, since there's nothing else cool going on in downtown Phoenix then.”

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