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Hot Mulligan to headline first night of Atlantic City Beer and Music Fest

originally published: 12/11/2023

(ATLANTIC CITY, NJ) -- The Atlantic City Beer and Music Fest presents Hot Mulligan on Friday, April 12, 2024 with special guests Free Throw and Just Friends. The festival takes place April 12-13 at the Atlantic City Convention Center.

2023 was a massive year for Hot Mulligan - the #1 Hot New Band and inventors of post-emo. They released their new album Why Would I Watch to fan and critical acclaim. They performed an insane amount of live shows, with their headline tours selling out completely and venues needing to be upgraded to allow more fans in. They will support Fall Out Boy on the So Much For (2our) Dust tour, with Jimmy Eat World and Games We Play performing at iconic arenas like Madison Square Garden.

Since forming in Lansing, Michigan, in 2014, the college friends – vocalist Tades Sanville, guitarists Chris Freeman and Ryan Malicsi and drummer Brandon Blakeley – have ascended from basements to buzz band on the back of two beloved albums, 2018’s Pilot and 2020’s you’ll be fine. Now bolstered by 140 million Spotify streams, a sold-out nationwide headlining tour, support slots for the likes of The Wonder Years and New Found Glory and headlines in Alternative Press and Rock Sound, the band’s third cements their evolution as one the most versatile and profoundly moving bands in the underground.

Free Throw was formed in April 2012 after the members had graduated high school and had met each other through the Nashville music scene while playing in previous bands. Vocalist Cory Castro described it as "a couple of beers and a couple of ideas The band has since released four full-length albums, titled Those Days Are Gone Bear Your Mind, What's Past is Prologue, and Piecing It Together. They have also released three EPs, titled Free Throw, Lavender Town, and Missing Pieces.

Just Friends formed in early 2013 by Sam Kless in his parents' garage in Dublin, California. Enlisting help from his former high school marching band and jazz band classmates Just Friends began as a punk rock band, but largely abandoned the genre in favor of funk rock and pop rap.




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Tickets for the Atlantic City Beer and Music Fest are available for purchase online. Whether you're a Designated Driver, a first-timer, a standard beer & music lover, or you have a penchant for the full package and want to be a VIP, they have a ticket package for you.

Starting in 2006 with 3,000 people and less than 30 breweries, the original Atlantic City Beer Festival or "Celebration of The Suds" was born. Over the past 17 years, the Atlantic City Beer and Music Fest has undergone countless changes, added innumerable breweries to the roster, and to date has seen nearly half a million people!




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