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Rise Against Headlining Tour With Rancid

February 21, 2009 By Bryce Jacobson Leave a Comment

Rise Against will be heading out on tour this summer with special guest Rancid. Tickets are set to go on sale February 28th. The tour kicks off June 4th in Vancouver and continues through July 31st.  See below for a list of U.S. & Canadian tour dates. More dates to be announced soon.

Also on the bill this summer will be Riverboat Gamblers (June dates) and Billy Talent (July dates) opening the shows. Below is a list of summer tour dates for Rise Against with special guest Rancid:

Tour Dates

June 4th                                Vancouver, BC                          Pacific Coliseum
June 6th                                Edmonton, AB                           Rexall Place
June 7th                                Calgary, AB                               Calgary Corral
June 8th                                Saskatoon, SK                          Prarieland
June 11th                              Denver, CO                               Red Rocks Ampitheatre
June 12th                              Kansas City, MO                       Beaumont Club
June 13th                              St. Louis, MO                            Pops (Outdoors)
June 15th                              Cleveland, OH                           Time Warner Cable Amp
June 17th                              Montreal, QC                            Parc Jean Drapeau
June 18th                              Quebec City, QC                       Agora
June 19th                              Ottawa, ON                              Civic Centre
June 22nd                              Cincinnati, OH                           PNC Pavilion
June 24th                              Detroit, MI                                Fillmore
June 26th                              Minneapolis, MN                       Myth
July 6th                                 Seattle, WA                               WaMu Theatre
July 8th                                 Reno, NV                                  Reno Events Center
July 10th                               San Diego, CA                          Cricket Wireless Amp
July 11th                               Los Angeles, CA                       The Forum
July 13th                               Las Vegas, NV                          The Joint
July 14th                               Phoenix, AZ                               Mesa Arts Center
July 16th                               Dallas, TX                                 Palladium Ballroom
July 17th                               Austin, TX                                 Stubb’s
July 18th                               Houston, TX                              Verizon Wireless
July 20th                               Orlando, FL                               House of Blues
July 21st                               Orlando, FL                               House of Blues
July 23rd                               Myrtle Beach, SC                      House of Blues
July 24th                               Baltimore, MD                           Ram’s Head
July 25th                               Philadelphia, PA                         Festival Pier at Penn’s Landing
July 28th                               Boston, MA                               House of Blues
July 29th                               Boston, MA                               House of Blues
July 30th                               Buffalo, NY                               Agri Center
July 31st                               Toronto, ON                             Molson Ampitheatre

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Billy-Talent, Rancid, Rise Against, Riverboat Gamblers

Victory Signs Chase Long Beach

February 20, 2009 By Bryce Jacobson Leave a Comment

Victory Records has signed Chase Long Beach out of Long Beach, California.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Chase Long Beach, Victory Records

An Interview With Mark Hoppus

February 19, 2009 By Bryce Jacobson Leave a Comment

A new interview with Mark Hoppus talking about the continuation of Blink-182 can be read over at AltPress.com.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Blink 182

New Found Glory – Not Without A Fight

February 19, 2009 By Ben Minsky 4 Comments

New Found Glory

Artist: New Found Glory
Album: Not Without A Fight
Label:Epitaph
Purchase: Smartpunk
Release Date: March 10, 2009

Overall: 8
Music: 7.5
Lyrics: 7.5
Production: 8.0

After a band is around for a while, it becomes hard to live up to their fans expectations. The band may want to take their music in a different direction or change this or change that, which can lead to many fans being disappointed. I don’t speak for everyone when I say this, but I fall into this category of disappointment after New Found Glory’s previous release of Coming Home. So, when I heard NFG was releasing a new album, I was skeptical but excited. I could only hope that NFG would bring back that pop-punk and hardcore style that I have enjoyed over so many years and luckily, they have done just that with their latest release Not Without A Fight.

With this new album, New Found Glory really brings back their sound that defined records like Sticks and Stones and Catalyst. The first few songs pretty much sum up what this album is about. “Right Where We Left Off” features an on-going catchy rhythm/lead guitar and chorus, “Don’t Let Her Pull You Down” displays a high pitched guitar riff and the chanting of “DONT! LET! HER! (pull you down)”, and lastly “Listen To Your Friends” is the type of song most people expect from New Found Glory: fast paced instrumentals, an extremely catchy pre-chorus and overall style as well as a good message of “listen to your friends!”

As the album continues, I think some of the songs can be easily over looked. For example, after my first listen of “47,” I thought the song was extremely cheesy saying “I called you 46 times..and you answered on the 47th.” After a few more listens, this song has easily become my favorites on the record. This same thinking can be applied to the song “Reasons” which starts off with a quick, acoustic guitar rhythm and one can only handle so much of Jordan Pudnik’s voice.

“Not Without A Fight” has a little something here and there for the “hardcore” kids–somewhat similar to songs off of their “Tip Of The Iceberg” EP. Songs like “Such A Mess” and “47” display some palm muted guitar riffs in the verse and in the breakdown that is sure to get kids going at shows. There is also a lot more group chanting than previous New Found Glory albums seen in songs “Don’t Let Her Pull You Down”, “47”, “Don’t Let This Be The End.”

If fans are expecting New Found Glory to progress and change their sound a bit considering they’ve been around for a while, this album has none of that. It is straight up pop-punk and that is what New Found Glory does best. The songs off of this album could easily be a continuation off of previous New Found Glory records, so don’t expect anything really “new” from New Found Glory. Overall, “Not Without A Fight” is a fairly strong record that I believe most fans will enjoy.

Track Listing

1. Right Where We Left Off
2. Don’t Let Her Pull You Down
3. Listen To Your Friends
4. 47
5. Truck Stop Blues
6. Tangled Up
7. I’ll Never Love Again
8. Reasons
9. Such A Mess
10. Heartless At Best
11. This Isn’t You
12. Don’t Let This Be The End

Filed Under: Album, Reviews Tagged With: New Found Glory, not without a fight

The Sleeping Album Stream

February 19, 2009 By Ben Minsky Leave a Comment

Head over to The Sleeping’s MySpace page to stream their new album, What It Takes.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: myspace stream, The-Sleeping

Good Old War Acoustic Sessions

February 19, 2009 By Ben Minsky Leave a Comment

Good Old War’s acoustic sessions over at purevolume.com can now be purchased on Amazon.com for $1.99

Filed Under: News Tagged With: acoustics, good old war

Warped Tour Pit Report

February 19, 2009 By Ben Minsky Leave a Comment

Warped Tour is currently looking to hire a new pit reporter.

Sounds fun to anyone?

Filed Under: News Tagged With: pit reporter, Warped Tour

Ivoryline Post “Days End” Video

February 18, 2009 By Bryce Jacobson Leave a Comment

Ivoryline‘s new video for “Days End” can be seen below.

Via: [ap.net]

Filed Under: News, Videos Tagged With: Ivoryline

Patent Pending Post Cover Song; Ready New Album

February 18, 2009 By Bryce Jacobson Leave a Comment

Patent Pending are streaming their cover of “Everytime We Touch” on their MySpace page. The band be playing Bamboozle and Bamboozle Left later this year as well as doing a nation-wide tour and releasing a new album this summer.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Patent-Pending

Saosin Announced as 2009 Warped Tour Headliner

February 18, 2009 By Bryce Jacobson Leave a Comment

Saosin will headlining the Hurley stage at this years Warped Tour. The band has also been  confirmed To Play Bamboozle Left On April 5th In Irvine, CA. Saosin’s new album will be out in June.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Saosin, Warped Tour

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