Idobi Radio Summer School Tour
July 11, 2026
House of Blues, Cleveland OH
Bands (in order of appearance): Truss, Chase Petra, Games We Play, Winona Fighter, South Arcade, Honey Revenge

By Robert McCune
All of the usual school cliques seemed to be there. The nerds, dweebs, theater kids, jocks, populars.
Except, rather than being segregated at their own lunchroom tables, they were united in their angst and general sick-of-it-ness. More like the end of “The Breakfast Club” than the beginning.
Idobi Radio for the third year assembled a stellar lineup of punk pop heavyweights for its “Summer School Tour,” which hit 24 cities in the U.S., from San Diego to Cleveland and then back to Long Beach to end with Vans Warped. All in about five weeks.
The touring lineup featured five bands, with a “local” band joining the billing for many of the stops.


At Cleveland’s House of Blues, CLE hard rockers Truss kicked things off with a forceful punch that left the crowd reeling momentarily.
But there was much time to be stunned as, after a quick stage changeover, everyone was seeing red. Chase Petra’s Hunter Leigh Allen, button-up shirt, denim board shorts, kicks by Adidas, mesmerized with flowing red locks, hot guitar licks and moody vocals, backed only by a drummer.


In rapid-fire secession, Games We Play, primarily the project of singer/songwriter Emmyn Joel Calleiro, burst onto the stage for a revival by fire.


Between toying with the crowd (including inducting a fan from the barricade to play keys on a song, with some simple instruction) and doling out party hats to commemorate the drummer’s birthday, Calleiro opened up about his year-long hiatus from touring and his falling-out-of-love and disassociation with his music. But, he professed, it wasn’t so much a lost year, as a rebirth. In that time, he became a dad and wrote “hundreds” of songs—“his” songs.
The crowd got a crash course through “I Wish I Never Quit,” a new album and title track yet unreleased. (It drops this September.) And these songs are undeniably personal and performed with enthusiasm.
Then, Winona Fighter, a rage rock punk quartet out of Nashville, kicked the show in the teeth. Fronted by multi-instrumentalist and singer Coco Kinnon, this band pulls off one of the cooler wink-and-nod naming conventions with a play on Winona Ryder, the queen-of-quirky actress who was at the peak of her fame and influence in the 1980s and ’90s. And their sound is a little like 1989’s “Heathers” translated in song: vengeful but beautiful, murderous yet melodic.


Kinnon thrashes, kicks, fist-pumps and finger-bangs in command of every inch of the stage and beyond, leaning over the barricade into the rabid base of crowd-surfing, moshing fans. Lead guitarist Dan Fuson went farther for one song, breaking the barrier between crowd and stage to wail on his guitar in the middle of a mosh.


A highlight of this, and many other Winona Fighter shows, is their cover of the Beastie Boys’ “Sabotage,” which Kinnon calls an “initiation” for the newbies. With three studio albums since their debut 2022 EP, including the latest “Bombs Away,” Winona Fighter is taking its own bite out of reality, and it’s leaving a mark.
The next set brought a new English pop-punk revolution with the viral Oxford chaps of South Arcade, led by vocalist Harmony Cavelle in a bikini top and a bottom of all buckles, studs and denim. In wraparound shades, blond hair meticulously astray, she played the crowd like a The-Clash-themed pinball machine.


Tracks off the band’s two EPs like “How 2 Get Away With Murder” and “Stone Cold Summer” set off a frenzy, as Cavelle entreated the crowd to do “the most crowd-surfing” – challenge made, accepted and achieved. News of an England World Cup win over Norway made it to the band about midway through their set, and they celebrated rowdy-style.
Rounding out the show was the purple reign of L.A. alt-pop-rockers Honey Revenge, with the five-piece all decked in the Prince-ly hue, led by purpled-haired lead vocalist Devin Popadol in a purple dress. A cross between Paramore and Demi Lovato, Honey Revenge has a style all their own and command the stage with it.


Fans couldn’t be blamed for being “Distracted,” but the answer to the question posed by one of the band’s hits, “Are You Impressed?,” was a resounding yes.
School’s out for this summer, but hopefully not forever.
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