CODEFENDANTS

CO-DEFENDANTS                   
Support: Jakobs Castle
10/27/26 | 9:00 PM | Hall

Codefendants are a genre-bending punk collective that blends alternative, hip-hop, and rock to create a sound they call “Crimewave.” Founded by Fat Mike (NOFX), Julio “Ceschi” Ramos, and Sam King (Get Dead), the band blends raw punk aggression with pointed lyrics, dark humor, and the honesty of the streets. The Codefendants—three dangerous guys with criminal records and musical ambitions—smashed through the window of an industry built on lip-syncers and safe bets like a Molotov cocktail.
 
Meet your suspects: Sam King, a punk rock veteran with tattooed fists and scars from a thousand wrong turns, and Julio “Ceschi” Ramos, a poet, ex-convict and underground hip-hop spirit who once sold weed to pay the rent in a world that charged interest on dreams. Both hailing from the chaos of the Bay Area, they met within the sacred, graffiti-covered walls of 924 Gilman St.—a punk rock church without pews and full of sinners.
 
Both had extensive criminal records—crimes, court appearances, and enough bad decisions to fill a Netflix documentary series. Fat Mike, on the other hand, once spent 24 hours in the Disneyland jail for causing a disturbance—hardly a hardened criminal, but criminal enough for punk rock credentials. It was a bond forged in legal hell, yet the chemistry between the two was undeniable.