After contemplating of hoping on to Bart and heading to San Francisco to catch the Economy Sucks Tour, I decided that very morning that I’ll make a spontaneous trip on my own to catch Anti-Flag and Broadway Calls. Once out on the Bart I turned on my ipod to listen to Anti-Flag, only to be disappointed and sadly finding out that I didn’t have any of their songs on my mp3 player. However, I did have the Bouncing Souls album which they covered 3 songs of Anti-Flag songs. Finally arriving in beautiful, rainy San Francisco, I hoped on the bus headed towards Slim’s arriving about 2 hours before the show started. Standing with my red umbrella and trying to keep warm I witness a tour bus parking right in front of me. Turns out, Anti-Flag we’re running a few hours late and had just arrived in San Francisco. Right at 5:30 pm my friend from Berkeley arrived and we called Neltie, Anti-Flag’s tour manager, to let us in. Once settling onto a bench inside Slim’s, Anti-Flag and their crew started to set up their equipment and performed sound check. That was my first time seeing Anti-Flag live, and in a room of only a handful of people, it was great. They sound check to 3 songs and were off stage. As 7pm hit the clock, the rest of the folks outside Slim’s were let in and greeted with the opening act band Oregon called Broadway Calls. Broadway Calls have an amazing energy live and are a bit more on the poppy-punk sound. There were a few folks in the crowd who sang and fist pumped along,while the rest stood waiting for Aiden or Anti-Flag. While watching Broadway Calls perform, a overheard a young girl tell her friend “They are so generic sounding.” Although they may be, they got the crowd clapping and me tapping along to their songs. Later through out the show, I figured out the young girl was there for this band from Canada called Cancer Bats. Let me just say that Cancer Bats or Aiden aren’t my cup of tea and noticed that all the folks, mostly older, that were there for Anti-Flag stood in the back of the venue or near the bar. There at Slim’s I wondered if I was too old for the kind of music Cancer Bats and Aiden played, I’m only twenty. It was almost 1opm and Aiden were just a few songs into their set when I decided to leave and head back to San Jose. Although I missed Anti-Flag, I was still able to hear them perform 3 songs during their sound check without a huge crowd.
Anti-Flag Tour Starts Next Week
Broadway Calls Signs To Side One Dummy
Pop Punker’s Broadway Calls have signed to Side One Dummy. A message from the band can be read below.
Hello everyone! Happy new year. We are STOKED to announce our signing to Side One Dummy Records!!!!
Since we got home from our last tour, we’ve been writing songs that will eventually become our 2nd LP. We are very excited that Side One believes in us and we couldn’t be happier.
To share a home with bands like 7Seconds, Flogging Molly, Gaslight Anthem, Bedouin Soundclash, The Briggs, Fake Problems, and of course Chuck Ragan is pretty incredible. The roster they’ve had over the years has always been consistent, and always influential to us.
So yeah, it’s gonna be another fun year for us, and we’ll see you at the shows.
Record details to come soon!!!
Full 2008 Warped Tour Lineup Announced
The full lineup for the 2008 Warped Tour has been announced. Check out the bands and the dates they will be playing below.
3OH!3 whole tour
A Day to Remember jun 20 – jul 20
Against Me! whole tour
Aggrolites whole tour
Alesana whole tour
All That Remains jul 22 – aug 17
All Time Low jul 22 – aug 17
Anberlin jun 21 – aug 17
Angels and Airwaves whole tour
As I Lay Dying jun 20 – jul 18
August Burns Red jun 20 – july 6
Automatic Love Letter jul 17 – july 27
Beat Union whole tour
Bedouin Soundclash jul 3 – jul 17
Between the Trees jun 20 – jul 8, aug 4 – 12
Bouncing Souls jul 16 – jul 25
Bring Me the Horizon jul 22 – aug 17
Broadway Calls whole tour
Charlotte Sometimes whole tour
Cinematic Sunrise jul 10 – jul 16
Classic Crime jul 27 – aug 17
Cobra Starship whole tour
Confide jul 22 – aug 17
Danger Radio jul 19 – aug 8 / aug 9 – aug 18
Dr. Manhattan jul 22 – aug 17
Evergreen Terrace whole tour
Every Avenue jul 9 – jul 26
Everytime I Die whole tour
Family Force 5 whole tour except 6/19, 6/20, 6/26, 7/2, 7/12, 8/8
Forever the Sickest Kids jun 20 – jul 6 / jul 7 – aug 17
Four Year Strong jul 19 – aug 17
From First to Last whole tour
GBH aug 6 – aug 17
Greeley Estates whole tour
Gym Class Heroes whole tour
Horrorpops whole tour
Jack’s Mannequin jul 1 – jul 20
Just Surrender jul 9 – jul 26
Katy Perry whole tour
Ludo jul 22 – aug 17
Madina Lake jul 9 – jul 25
Mayday Parade whole tour
Maylene and the Sons of Disaster jun 20 – jul 18
MC Chris whole tour
MURS whole tour
Norma Jean whole tour
Oreska whole tour
Paramore jul 1 – jul 6
Pennywise jul 15 – aug 3, jul 15, jul 17- jul 20, jul 24, jul 27, jul 29- aug 3
Pierce the Veil whole tour
Pinkertones whole tour
Protest the Hero whole tour
Reel Big Fish whole tour
Relient K whole tour
Rise Against aug 6 – aug 17
Say Anything whole tour
Set Your Goals whole tour
Shwayze whole tour
Sick City jul 19 – jul 20, aug 6
Sky Eats Airplane jul 27 – aug 17
Stick to Your Guns jun 20 – jul 6
Story of the Year whole tour
Street Dogs whole tour
The Academy Is… whole tour
The All-American Rejects jun 20 – jun 29
The Audition jun 20 – jun 29 / jun 30 – aug 17
The Briggs whole tour
The Bronx whole tour
The Color Fred whole tour
The Devil Wears Prada whole tour
The Dillinger Escape Plan jul 9 – jul 15
The Fabulous Rudies whole tour
The Higher jun 20 – jul 20
The Human Abstract jul 22 – aug 17
The Lordz whole tour
The Maine jun 20 – jul 18 / aug 9 – aug 17
The Morning Light jul 28 – aug 6
The Pink Spiders jun 20 – jul 20
The Saint Alvia Cartel jul 9 – aug 3, aug 13 on
The Secret Handshake jun 30 – jul 9
The Vandals aug 6 – aug 17
We the Kings whole tour
Broadway Calls Named “Band Of The Day”
Broadway Calls have been named SPIN.com’s “Band of the Day” – scroll down the page and download their single “Back to Oregon.” If you haven’t checked them out or picked up their self-titled record, there is no time like the present!
Staff Recommendations August 12, 2007
Bryce Jacobson
Be sure to give Mae‘s new album a listen on their MySpace page. Also check out Every Avenue who’s new EP, AH!, will be in stores this Tuesday.
Adam Weidman
Check out Broadway Calls, they’re a great up and coming gritty pop-punk band. As well as Envy on the Coast, whose new record Lucy Gray hit stores last week.
Sam Anacker
Both Simian and You Say Party! We Say Die! have been hogging my play time. YSP! WSD! has their new release, Lose All Time dropping in the U.S. on August 18. And, if you’d like to see the charred remains of Simian, check out .
Broadway Calls Post New Songs
Oregons’ Broadway Calls have recently posted two new songs from their upcoming “Self Titled” full length on their MySpace page. The album will hit streets this March. Broadway Calls will be touring all next year in support of their new record, in Feb they will be heading out with Living With Lions and then in March/April they’ll be doing a full USA tour with parts of that tour going into Canada. Below are the tour dates with Living With Lions.
Jan 20 @ Hawthorne Theatre, Portland, Oregon AVAIL, THE DRAFT,
Feb 2 Longview, Washington
Feb 3 Eugene, Oregon
Feb 4 Redding/Sacramento, California
Feb 5 UKIAH, California
Feb 6 San Francisco/Oakland
Feb 7 REDWOOD CITY/SAN JOSE, California
Feb 8 FRESNO, California
Feb 9 BAKERSFIELD, California
Feb 10 Santa Ana, California
Feb 11 LA area, California
Feb 12 San Diego, California
Feb 13 Yuma, Arizona
Feb 14 Phoenix, Arizona
Feb 15 Las Vegas, Nevada
Feb 16 Provo, Utah
Feb 17 Boise, Idaho
Feb 18 Bend, Oregon