Click here to check out AOL Sessions from Boys Like Girls.
OK Go “WTF” Music Video
Below is the new video for “WTF” from OK Go.
Rufio Reunion Show
Four Year Strong Tour
Four Year Strong will be hitting the road with The Bled, Strike Anywhere, This Time Next Year and Title Fight.
w/ The Bled, This Time Next Year, Title Fight
Jan 14 @ First Unitarian Church – Philadelphia, PA
Jan 15 @ The Rock and Roll Hotel – Washington, D.C.
Jan 16 @ Canal Club Downstairs – Richmond, VA
Jan 18 @ Culture Room – Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Jan 19 @ The Social – Orlando, FL
Jan 20 @ The Masquerade – Atlanta, GA
Jan 21 @ Sluggo’s – Pensacola, FL
Jan 22 @ Meridian – Houston, TX
Jan 23 @ The Door – Dallas, TX
Jan 24 @ White Rabbit – San Antonio, TX
Jan 26 @ The Clubhouse – Tempe, AZ
With Strike Anywhere, Title Fight and This Time Next Year
Jan 27 @ The Farm – Las Vegas, NV
Jan 28 @ The Troubadour – West Hollywood, CA
Jan 29 @ Soma Sidestage – San Diego, CA
Jan 30 @ Chain Reaction – Anaheim, CA
Jan 31 @ Bottom of the Hill – San Francisco, CA
Feb 02 @ Kilby Court – Salt Lake City, UT
Feb 03 @ Marquis Theatre – Denver, CO
Feb 05 @ House of Bricks – Des Moines, IA
Feb 06 @ Triple Rock – Minneapolis, MN
Feb 07 @ Reggie’s Rock Club – Chicago, IL
Feb 08 @ Magic Stick – Detroit, MI
Feb 09 @ The Madhatter – Covington, KY
Feb 10 @ Grog Shop – Cleveland Heights, OH
The Starting Line To Play Holiday Show
The Starting Line will be playing a special holiday show in Philadelphia on December 29th. Tickets can be purchased here.
Transit and Man Overboard 7″ Split
Transit and Man Overboard will be releasing a 7″ split. The split can be purchased via Pure Noise. It will be available in limited collector colors including red, white, and blue. All three colors can be purchased as a package as well. In addition, the split comes with digital downloads of the songs or a digital copy can be purchased at all digital outlets.
The Almost Interview – November 3, 2009
Can you please introduce yourself and your role in The Almost?
My name is Jay Vilardi and I play guitar and sing back up vocals.
How did The Almost come together? What is the band history?
Aaron called me years ago telling me about this new project that he was trying to get off the ground. Since I was touring at the time, I joined a few weeks later. I think by then “Southern Weather” was essentially completely recorded. But from then on (once I joined the band) Aaron told me that it was my job to hire other guys and teach them the material as if it was my own. The funny thing is that I only really hired our bassist Alex. Everyone else came from mutual friendships or were dudes Aaron knew. I also had to teach Aaron the songs before our first tour since he was out with UO and hadn’t touched a guitar in months.
Can you tell me a little bit about your new album Monster Monster? and the Monster EP?
Monster Monster is our accidental concept piece about the “darker” side of people and human emotion. It’s about real life. How people are and what we hope to become. I feel like the lyrics could be best explained by Aaron, but musically – we wanted a no gimmicks rock and roll record. Hindsight being what it is – I think that the “no gimmicks” thing has inadvertently become a gimmick. At least thats what I hear… The monster ep is cool because it give people the chance to get some extra bonus material from the recording session. The ep is limited to under 10,000 and has 5 unique covers. It also comes with a second disk that is blank (until Nov 3rd) when the full length record is available to be burned on it.
How is the album different from Southern Weather?
This record was written with straight up rock and roll in mind. Other than having an overflow of material for this record, I think the songs are a bit more intricate and sonically pleasing. The recording/production is better. Overall tones (guitar, bass, drums) are super legit. My favorite part of the record sonically has to be the mix. Randy Staub did a great job. Other than that, these songs are a result of the most insane teamwork experience I have every been a part of. Everyone worked really hard on the material. Southern Weather was recorded by Aaron.
In what ways is The Almost different from Underoath? What do you like about The Almost in comparison to Underoath?
Underoath are a great heavy band with real intense artistic undertones. With The Almost, we shoot for a more straight up rock and roll sound that pays tribute to everything we all grew up listening to. It’s easier for us to experiment with slow or country sounding songs in this band. Underoath push the envelope for sure, but might feel limited because they’re confined to the Screamo genre. Maybe I’m nuts, but I feel like The Almost could go in virtually any musical direction if we really wanted to… Im not saying it would sound good LOL but we could try.
What are your touring plans for the rest of this year and 2010?
Im stoked to see opportunities for us to play everywhere and anywhere we can. We have such a great time, we have a hard time passing those situations up. That being said – we’re still working on our itinerary for 2010 but there is talk of heading down to Australia and maybe South Africa (if you can believe it)!! I would love to do warped tour, but we’ll see if we cant make that happen!
What goals do you have for The Almost?
This music means so much to me personally. The Almost represents so much in y life. For me, it would be great to have the chance to play anywhere we’re welcome. More touring! We just finished the record, but I look forward to getting started on another.
Any last words?
Monster, Monster Novemeber 3rd!!!! Monster Limited edition EP on sale NOW!!!!!! Get it before its gone!
There For Tomorrow Interview- October 24, 2009
To start, can you please introduce your self and your role in There For Tomorrow?
I’m Micah and I sing and play guitar.
How did the band all come together? What is the history behind the band?
The history is more historic than everybody thinks it is. Chris and Jay have been playing since I was 13. You know, just messing around doing local shows. We grew up in Orlando and we are about to play Back Booth again..It’s a small 400-450 capacity venue.
Did you guys put out any demos or EPs when first starting out?
Yeah, we actually have a full length out that we put out on this little record label when we were young. Everybody is really confused by it because it’s still on iTunes and it’s when I was 14 so I was prepubescent so I sound like Michael Jackson when he was in the Jackson 5. But it was still edgy, metal inspired rock.
So, you guys put out a record in June called A Little Faster. Even though it’s been out for a few months, how do you guys feel about the album overall?
It started at the top of the mountain and its a little ball just rolling getting progressively bigger and bigger. You know, like the snowball effect. It is definitely a great representation of what we are. It’s a great foundation for where we want to go in the future. It’s really opening up our eyes a lot to see how people react to it. It’s all about an identity thing. Like, what 18-19-20 year old guys know who they are? You know? It’s hard. So, I think these next couple years are going to be me just writing and us writing and finding ourselves. I write personal real things for me. Real experiences. It’s all just going to be my journey.
How have fans responded to the album?
It’s really odd. Everything we’ve been getting from critics are really really great. I think it’s been cool because people now see our potential and we can be taken seriously. I think a lot of people that are now following what we do respect that we are just genuine and have big dreams.
How would you say A Little Faster is different from the two EP’s you guys have put out Pages and the Self-Titled EP?
It’s been just a few years of progress. It’s another step toward what we want to be in the future. It’s hard to say that we “chose” what we wanted to do. We do what we know. We have certain intentions. We pick A or B and that’s what we are going to do and stick to it.
We are currently sitting at Chain Reaction in Anaheim, Ca for a stop on the Manatour. How has the tour been so far?
It’s been great. Coming off of Warped Tour, we are stoked to play in clubs again. We grew up playing in clubs. Warped Tour was cool and it was hard but it’s awesome to play in front of small rooms and packed room with kids just really dedicated to music. We’re coming up on halfway of the tour right now.
What would you say some of your major musical influences are and why?
Umm well I started playing guitar because of my father. He was an entertainer. He played guitar and sang. I started playing guitar when I was 6. My first record I bought was Metallica. I learned every Metallica song off the Black Album by the time I was like 10. So, I started listening to metal and every genre since I was young. All of us see eye to eye on a lot of the same things and are influenced by Foo Fighters, Jimmy Eat World, Third Eye Blind. Just real genuine good bands..rock inspired.
What are your plans for the rest of 2009 and the beginning of 2010?
We got another tour we just locked down with Mayday Parade in December. We are doing direct support. That’s gonna be great. They are great friends of ours. We are taking January off but we are also releasing an acoustic session that we filmed. We are going to set out on another nationwide tour but details will be coming out soon. That will be early spring. And then we just deal with things as they come.
What are some of your goals as a band?
Especially coming off of Warped Tour and diving into that realm, we saw some stuff we hated and stuff that we loved. We are just going to keep our eyes open and our ears open and learn from everything and do it our own way. That’s all we are really going to do. Lyrically, I just want to speak for people that are unspoken for. Sometimes there are people that can’t really find anything to grasp onto and we want our band to be that band that sticks around and not just a temporary thing.
Any last words ?
Buy A Little Faster. It’s in stores, on iTunes. Plenty of things are coming. We just got a featured song on a Cartoon Network movie called “Ben 10”. We are the featured song on that album. We released the single on iTunes as well as the acoustic version and the video version. We are gonna keep going, so that’s all.
Atreyu Interview – October 27, 2009
Can you please introduce yourself and your role in Atreyu?
My name’s Travis Miguel and I play guitar
You have a new record coming out Congregation Of The Damned coming out on October 27th. Overall, how do you feel about this album? How is it different from your older material?
We’re really excited for C.O.D. to finally be released. We worked extremely hard on it. As far as differences from our older material, oddly enough C.O.D. has a lot of our older sound in it.
Is there any particular significance behind the album title?
What are some of the different things listeners can expect to hear from Congregation Of The Damned? The album title loosely refers to the state the world is in. World leaders, politicians, celebrities, the human race in general. Things could be going a lot better. Listeners can expect old, new, and everything in between.
Besides the new record, what else has Atreyu been up to since we last heard Lead Sails Paper Anchor in 2007?
We toured for over a year and a half on Lead Sails Paper Anchor. After the cycle was done, we went straight into our practice space and started writing for Congregation of the Damned. We played a few one-off shows here and there, but most of the time was spent working on the album.
You guys signed over to Hollywood Records in 2007 from Victory Records. How has that transition been for the band? Any particular reason for the switch?
We ran our course with Victory. We fulfilled our contract and it was time to make the next logical step. We’re the only aggressive band on Hollywood so we don’t have to compete with anyone for attention and they’ve given the band the right push.
Atreyu just started a tour with Escape The Fate and Hollywood Undead. How is that tour going so far? Do you have any touring plans for 2010?
The tour with Hollywood Undead has been great thus far. We share some of the same fans and at the same time, there are a lot of Hollywood Undead fans who may not have heard of Atreyu and vice versa. Hollywood Undead are good drinkin’ buddies too.
How did you get started playing music? What are some of your musical influences?
I basically picked up a guitar around 12 or 13 and didn’t stop playing. As far as musical influences I love everything from Mogwai, Slayer, Sepultura, the Smiths, Outkast, Def Leppard, Alkaline Trio, Deftones, Hatebreed, Elvis Costello, The Police…..i could go on forever.
Since the your first record release of Suicide Notes and Butterfly Kisses in 2002, how do you think Atreyu has grown as a band in general-relationships, music, etc?
We’re definitely not the same 5 guys that we were in 2002. We’re more grown up in general. 4 of us have mortgages and 2 of us are married. Don’t get me wrong, we act like a bunch of prepubescent teens from time to time, but just in a more “grown up” way.
What are some of the goals you have for Atreyu in the future?
We never really expected to get as far as we have so far, so everything positive thing that has happened to us has been a blessing. We’re just gonna keep on keepin’ on and hope for the best.
Any additional comments?
Thanks for listenin’. Check out Congregation of the Damned and come on out to the shows…good times will be had.
Stella Can’t Cook Featuring Chris of Saosin
Click here to check out Chris Sorenson of Saosin help Stella cook a vegan protobello pomodoro sandwhich!
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