Karl Alvarez

Live Photography Archive & Associated Acts

Photo by Rob Wallace: Descendents performing live on stage at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles, CA in 2016.

Descendents

Hollywood Palladium • CA • 2016

Milo Aukerman, Stephen Egerton, Karl Alvarez, and Bill Stevenson tore through a thirty-plus song set at the Hollywood Palladium on October 1, 2016, in front of a backdrop with the entire setlist chalked out by hand, song titles like COFFEE and BIKEAGE and WHEN I GET OLD scrawled across the wall behind them.

Years later, when Bill signed this print, he asked how I'd gotten a handwritten setlist, since the band's own are usually typed; I'd picked this one up at the It's Not Dead festival earlier that year. I've owned my copy of “I Don't Want to Grow Up” on vinyl since I was thirteen, so nights like this one still feel like a big deal.