What Brings Strung Out and Riverboat Gamblers Back Into the Same Room
refining a hybrid of punk, metal, and melodic urgency that resists flattening into nostalgia
Twin Productions brings another jolt to the 2026 calendar on Friday, February 27, when Paper Tiger hosts a meeting between two eras of punk evolution. What makes this pairing compelling is that both bands arrive in San Antonio at a moment of renewed momentum, each carrying fresh chapters that shape the expectations for this night.
Strung Out enters the year with a tighter creative focus, sparked in part by the band’s recent single “Glass Houses,” released in 2024 as a preview of their continued work toward new material . The track reinforced what longtime listeners already knew: the group has spent decades refining a hybrid of punk, metal, and melodic urgency that resists flattening into nostalgia. Their durability is not the story—how they continue evolving is. And San Antonio gets that version of the band.
Tim Stegall
For Riverboat Gamblers, Paper Tiger is another chance to stretch into a legacy they’ve been reassessing. Twenty years after Something to Crow About—a record whose spirit the Austin Chronicle later linked to the band’s formative chaos and early fearlessness—they remain firmly tied to their origins even as they continue exploring new spaces for their sound . Few bands maintain that mix of looseness and intention over decades. Even fewer can still make a room feel like a basement show ready to tip over. That tension is what keeps their performances unpredictable.
Damage rounds out sharpens the night a grounding force. Their presence reinforces the connective thread across the lineup—bands shaped across different eras of punk, all converging not out of similarity but out of shared conviction. In a venue like Paper Tiger, which favors immediacy over spectacle, that becomes the point: no distance between artist and audience, no staging to soften the edges.
The drawing of artists whose histories stretch wide across punk and adjacent scenes remain active storytellers. February 27 isn’t framed as an anniversary or a comeback. It’s a retelling of that story, where three bands—each for different reasons—arrive with something still to say.
LINEUP
Strung Out
Riverboat Gamblers
Damage
VENUE
Paper Tiger – San Antonio, TX
Doors: 7:00 PM
Friday, February 27, 2026