Goldfinger, Mustard Plug and The Planet Smashers open a ska-punk run at the Roxian on Nov. 19

John Feldmann's band kicks off a three-city stretch in McKees Rocks with two ska lifers and sullvn on a Thursday bill that starts early.

Bring the checkered Vans. Goldfinger plays the Roxian Theatre in McKees Rocks on Thursday, Nov. 19, with Mustard Plug, The Planet Smashers and sullvn, and the show starts at 6 p.m. — an early start for a four-band bill, so plan on leaving work on time.

Tickets run $49.90–$152.80 through Ticketmaster. The Roxian holds 1,470.

Pittsburgh gets the first night of this stretch. From the Roxian the bill heads to Baltimore on Nov. 20 and New Jersey on Nov. 21, and it is the first Goldfinger show in the Pittsburgh area in our records.

Goldfinger is John Feldmann's band, and Feldmann has spent the decades since the band's '90s breakthrough becoming one of the busiest producers in punk and pop-punk, with credits that include Blink-182's *California*. The band has not just been coasting on the old songs, either. *Nine Lives*, their ninth studio album, came out in January, following 2020's *Never Look Back* — which itself came a few years after *The Knife*, the 2017 record billed as their first new album in nine years. That is a band that keeps making records, and a set that can draw from all of it.

Three bands that have been doing this since the '90s, on one early Thursday bill.

The support is not filler. Mustard Plug and The Planet Smashers have been sharing bills all fall — they played Gainesville together in October and have more co-headline dates booked into January — and The Planet Smashers and sullvn have also been out with Goldfinger elsewhere this year, including a Toronto show on the band's own schedule. For anyone who came up on third-wave ska, getting all three on one Thursday is the draw.

The room deserves a mention of its own. The Roxian opened in 1929 as a vaudeville house on Chartiers Avenue, later spent years as the Emerald Room, and then sat quiet for more than a decade before a roughly $9 million renovation brought it back as a concert hall on May 10, 2019. The restoration kept the decorative plasterwork and put a replica marquee on the façade, and it was fitted with an L-Acoustics sound system. Few rooms in the region pair that kind of history with modern sound, and a horn-section ska band is a good test of it.

What to know before going: the doors-to-headliner gap on a four-band bill can be long, and with a 6 p.m. start the openers will be on early. Eat first, and get in early enough to catch Mustard Plug.

The Roxian has been waiting nearly a century for a skank pit like this. Don't make it wait on you.

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