The Expendables Live at Launchpad

The Expendables are a Santa Cruz reggae-rock band with twenty-plus years of catalog and a fanbase that treats their shows like a reunion. Launchpad is a small room, which means the floor gets loud fast and the sightlines are genuinely good from anywhere, but get there before the openers finish if you want a comfortable spot. Chad Tepper and Matt & Zack open, so the night skews toward a younger social-media-native crowd mixed in with the longtime Expendables faithful.