Got Some Tours For You

The next couple of months are bringing with them a lot of excitement for the concert-goer. There are new tour and show announcements left and right as previously announced tours are about to kick off. From big tours starting in the spring, to small acoustic tours to the ever-updating Warped Tour, we’ve got the three w’s that matter. The who of the tour is listed below, while all the wheres and whens can be found here.

The Rock Yourself to Sleep tour kicked off today in Pontiac Michigan. Headliners, We Came as Romans, take to the stage with: For Today, The Word Alive, Woe is Me and Texas in July.

My Darkest Days joins Hinder to tour the US starting January 21at in Jackson, MS. My Darkest Days is also jamming on the Canadian Jagermeister Music Tour with Papa Roach in March.

Missing some Hawthorne Heights? They announced that they’re going to be doing some acoustic shows in the month of February! They’ll be joined on the Stripped to the bone Acoustic Tour by Mike Loomis (Loomis and the Lust), All My Friends and Foes and Robots & Racecars.

New Found Glory is also doing a show in February. NFG will be playing an All Request set on February 17^th at the Chain Reaction in Anaheim, California. Tickets go on sale the 7^th.

GK Tour Goes Again with headliner The Ready Set. All Star Weekend, The Downtown Fiction and We Are The In Crowd join Jordan starting in Indianapolis Indiana, February 23^rd.

3OH!3 joins Nelly for a week in March.

A Day To Remember is touring North America this spring with Bring Me The Horizon, Pierce the Veil and We Came As Romans on The Game Changers Tour.

A Rocket To The Moon headlines their first national tour! Whether you’ve loved these Massachusetts boys from the beginning, saw them for the first time with All Time Low on the MSP tour, or only know “Like We Used To,” the band’s excited to headline the On Your Side tour with Anarbor, Valencia, Runner, Runner and Go Radio. Check ‘em out!

Dirty Work album gets a tour! All Time Low will be back from the UK for a grand total of ten days before launching their Dirty Work tour on March 23^rd with Yellowcard(!) and Mayday Parade.

Bamboozle runs again, of course. Bamboozle Festival will go again in New Jersey this year the last week end of April with some 60 artists and nine stages already announced. Get your tickets ASAP if you plan on going, prices will continue to go up as the date draws nearer. No updates on the Bamboozle Road Show yet though, sorry kids.

Warped Tour Updates, please. Warped Tour has already released dates and is slowly but surely dropping names too. So far, they’ve listed a total of 16 bands. Here’s to waiting for more and the current bands are: Big D And The Kids Table, Dance Gavin Dance, The Dangerous Summer, Enter Shikari, Every Avenue, Family Force Five, Go Radio, Grieves with Budo, Lucero, Miss May I, Of Mice And Men, We Came As Romans, Winds of Plague, Woe, Is Me, The Wonder Years and The Word Alive.

Warped Tour and Bamboozle festival are still adding dates and we’re holding our breaths for an announcement on the Bamboozle Road Show. Unfortunately, looks like we wont be having a Bamboozle left this year. With all the tours that have been announced though, we’re sure all the concert-goers have a lot to look forward to in 2011. We’ll keep you posted on updates on current and new tours as they happen.

-NSS 1/6/2011 9:00 pm

JUST IN:

Asking Alexandria releases details on their spring “Reckless and Relentless” tour. Ben Bruce released a statement online: “Hey everyone, so ‘The Reckless and Relentless Tour’ is our first headlining tour of 2011. It’s gonna be bigger, better and crazier than any other tour this year. It’s just gonna be flat out fucking insane. We can’t wait to share our new songs with everyone. I hope you are all ready to rock and fucking roll. Get ready, because we are fucking back!”

-NSS 1/6/2011 10:00 pm

Newsweek Jan 3-9 2011

Monday, Jan 3, 2011

Greenday To Release Live CD/DVD in March

The first live album since Bullet in a Bible, the two disc album called Awesome as Fuck is set to drop March 15^th. It’s already listed on Amazon, so head over and get it early!  AWESOME!

-NSS 1/3/2011 4:30 pm

Tyler Minsberg leaves The Dangerous Summer

Indie/Post-rock band The Dangerous Summer is set to tour Warped Tour this coming summer, but they’ll have to find a new drummer. Tyler Minsberg confirmed that he left the band more than a month ago. He left on seemingly applicable terms, asking for fans to continue to support the band and to support him when he continues with individual projects in the industry.

-NSS 1/3/2011 4:00 pm

You Me At Six Posts Full-length “Rescue Me”

Scheduled to be released on February 13^th, “Rescue Me” is the next single by You Me At Six featuring Chiddy. Yesterday YMAS posted a short, teaser clip of it; today they posted the full length clip. The song has already been played on the radio and gained popularity with the fans. It’s also already raised some controversy because of the new sound: frontman Josh Franceshi thanks the fans that do appreciate it, insisting it’s a “sweet song and was a bit of fun” while promising a great third album. What do you think?

You Me At Six announced early in December hopes for releasing their next album in September of this year. The album is described as one with tracks that sound like Coldplay and, oppositely, tracks that “could be on a Parkway Drive record.” Fans will remember that You Me At Six teetered on the edge of a break up late in 2009. Fans don’t have to worry anymore, after a rocky tour and some time to mature and work on their third album, YMAS is back and stronger than ever.

-NSS 1/3/2011 2:00 pm

 

2010 In Review

The first Monday of the New Year begins tomorrow. Before we look to the next 12 months of music, we should look at this past year. Before we can celebrate the new greats, the return of the classics and look to growth of the alternative genre and the artist therein we wanted to take a look of who made splashes on the scene, songs that became anthems, bands that clawed their way back from the edge and those we sadly had to say goodbye to.

2010 was the end of a decade and a year that moshed to the rebel anthems “Break” (Three Days Grace) “I Will Not Bow” (Breaking Benjamin) and “Uprising” (Muse) while it partied to “I Want You To” (Weezer). In 2010, we heard the first song after losing the Rev and “Nightmare” shot up the charts. “Catalyst” redefined Linkin Park in a controversial dance through genres while “In One Ear” thanked fans and proved that Cage the Elephant was no one-trick-pony. While songs like “The Good Life” made it into the Top 40, the majority of the alternative scene fell short of that A-list. It didn’t matter, we might have been children of a lesser God in 2010, but powerful songs like “Kings and Queens” (30 Seconds to Mars) rocked our year. What else can we do but look forward to the singles of 2011?

2010 proved to be a big year for some bands and their albums. Following their dabbles in new genres on Minutes to Midnight, Linkin Park returned to the scene with a new sound, one not at first accepted, with A Thousand Suns, an album that gained popularity. Motion City Soundtrack delivered with their highly anticipated My Dinosaur Life. Though it was released in 2009, fans rocked to Kings of Leon’s  Only By the Night all year. Remember Good Morning Revival? Good Charlotte bounced between producers before dropping Cardiology, an upbeat Pop album that moved away from the gritty roots: who can blame them, Joel’s not nearly as angry as he used to be. Perhaps the most important album dropped on the scene in 2010 though, may just be the latest one to drop. Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys, dropped in November and it and the single “Na Na Na” gained near instant popularity as fans surged to the return of My Chemical Romance.

Danger Days proved to fans what Gerard Way said of “Na Na Na”: “[The MCR] spirit is back” and the energy that continued through the album saved a band that fans were afraid may have burned bright, fast, and out. My Chemical Romance takes the cake when it comes to comebacks this year. Blink 182 promised an album, but we all know how that went; we’ll still take their word for it this time and they did manage to tour Europe in 2010.

2010 proved to be a big year for touring. Warped Tour went off for the fifteenth year in a row. Though Bamboozle Left may have ran for its last year in 2010- at least for a while- the road show enjoyed success, uniting core pop-punk bands All Time Low, Boys Like Girls and Forever The Sickest Kids and marking the return of Simple Plan to the active music scene. Honda Civic Tour returned to the stage and All Time Low toured America for the last time before releasing their first big label album. Avenged Seven Fold took to the stage and mourned the Rev with fans during their Nightmare tour, perhaps one of the biggest headlined tours of the year.

Unfortunately, not any or all music news is good news. 2010 marked the 40^th anniversary of the Beatles’ break up. It also became the year when Panic! At The Disco drama hit the fan, fans were forced to say good bye to Matt Rubano as he left Taking Back Sunday in March to be replaced by the original members. The Killers announced an indefinite hiatus in 2010. The bassist of rising band The Word Alive left on friendly terms while, naturally, fans of the alternative genre are wrapped around the rocky departure of the Farro brothers from Paramore. No doubt, we’ll continue to hear about this particular divorce into 2011.

On a brighter note, there were many bands that picked up quite a bit of steam in 2010.  Neon Trees enjoyed a high spot on the charts with the single “Animal” off their first full length album. Asking Alexandria and We Came As Romans are growing in popularity, right along D.R.U.G.S. all making it into Alternative Press’ “Most Anticipated” issue. Canadian band My Darkest Days toured with Papa Roach and Before You Exit opened a full tour, with Rocket to the Moon, for All Time Low. The Wonder Years and Every Avenue gained popularity in the pop-punk genre and The Ready Set signed with Pete Wentz’ label.

When the ball dropped in NYC this past Friday, it marked the end of a year and the end of a decade. It closed a year of musical development, loss and growth. Here’s to the alternative scene, this great past year and to the opportunities of the next.

-NSS 1/3/2011: 3:26 a.m.