Scharpling & Wurster Concert History

On a fateful night back in early 1997, WFMU disc jockey Tom Scharpling and his comedy partner Jon Wurster orchestrated what they thought would be a one-off goof. Wurster called Scharpling’s radio program posing as Ronald Thomas Clontle, the author of Rock, Rot & Rule, a highly-dubious and aggressively idiotic tome that promised to be the “ultimate argument settler” by filing every musical artist into one of three vague categories – “rock”, “rot”, or “rule.”...

Date Concert Venue Location
Oct 11, 2025
Scharpling & Wurster The Bell House New York, New York, United States
Oct 21, 2017
Scharpling & Wurster / Josh Kantor

Scharpling & Wurster’s ‘Rock, Rot & Rule’ 20th Anniversary Extravaganza

Murmrr Theatre New York, New York, United States
May 29, 2016
Scharpling & Wurster

Sasquatch! Music Festival

The Gorge Amphitheatre George, Washington, United States
Feb 27, 2016
Scharpling & Wurster Motorco Music Hall Durham, North Carolina, United States
Dec 13, 2015
Scharpling & Wurster Union Transfer Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Nov 29, 2015
Scharpling & Wurster The Sinclair Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Comedy
Spoken Word
Satire
Radio
2025 1 concert
2017 1 concert
2016 2 concerts
2015 11 concerts

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