Phoenix’s Rebel Lounge Honors 10-Year Anniversary With Celebration Series

Phoenix’s Rebel Lounge is announcing their “10 Year Anniversary Series” this May with 16 shows curated to honor the Arizona music club, including a close-out set on June with The Maine for a 10-year celebration of their album American Candy.

The anniversary run will begin May 1 with two nights from the band Authority Zero. For the first night, Authority Zero will dive into “Rhythm & Booze,” with an acoustic set that will be recorded for their next live acoustic release. Authority Zero will crank up the wattage for their set on May 2 for a high-energy set.

The Rebel Lounge opened on May 20, 2015, under the ownership of Stephen Chilton of Psyko Steve Presents and musician Chuckie Duff from the band Dear and the Headlights. In the last decade, the venue has won Best Punk Club, Best Rock Club, Best Marquee, Best Mural and Best Rebooted Venue by the Phoenix New Times and in 2024, Billboard selected The Rebel Lounge as the Best Venue Under 500-Capacity in their list of 2024 Top Music Venues.

“When we started talking about how to celebrate The Rebel Lounge turning 10 years old, and we were discussing which bands we would want to feature, we realized it was hard to do one celebration because we work with so many different types of artists,” said Chilton in a statement. “We immediately knew we wanted to do something that all the valley music fans that support The Rebel could appreciate.“

Chilton added that the goal of the series is to highlight the diversity of artists and local acts that have performed at the Rebel Lounge over the last decade.

Roger Clyne & PH Naffah (of Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers) return to the Rebel Lounge to celebrate Cinco de Mayo on May 5. Thrash metal favorites Sacred Reich take to Rebel’s stage on May 16, followed The Summer Set on May 17 promoting their new track “I Don’t Wanna Party.” Rap metal heavyweights Dropout Kings will perform May 28 before hitting the road for Motocultor Festival and Odyssea.

The anniversary series will also feature artists who launched their career at the Rebel Lounge including Phoenix Afrobeat Orchestra on May 22, homegrown emo night event EmoNightPhx on May 3rd and Phoenix’s long running hip hop and dance showcase Blunt Club set for May 23.

A calendar of shows for May is available below. Tickets for the series go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. local time. Tickets and information for all shows can be found at TheRebelLounge.com/10years.