It’s summer in the pines again, which means great weather, great parties and outdoor adventures. It also means fantastic music festivals.
Pepsi Amphitheater, in collaboration with Dallas-based event organizer Mike Ziemer, has combined all of these wonderful summertime charms into a brand new, one-day music festival that harkens back to the early 2000s, a time when punk rock collided with the mainstream and changed the face of pop.
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