Pennsylvania indie-alt rock band Balance and Composure has premiered a new song called “Keepsake” (featuring guest vocals from Anthony Green) from their upcoming album, The Things We Think We’re Missing, today at MTV’s The Hive. The new track comes with less than a week to go until the record’s release date, September 10th. Fans can pre-order the record now at iTunes and at nslp.co/bacpreorder.
Anthony Green will be playing a secret show in Albuquerque, NM tonight. Details are below
DANKO JONES has announced his brand new ROCKSTAR ENERGY UPROAR FESTIVAL contest! This is your chance to win a trip to see DANKO JONES play at the ROCKSTAR ENERGY UPROAR FESTIVAL 2013 (together with Alice In Chains, Jane’s Addiction, Coheed And Cambria, Circa Survive and more), meet the band, hang out backstage and much more. All you have to do is take a photo of yourself (or of someone else, feel free to be creative) in the classic DANKO JONES “tongue pose” and upload it to Instagram or Twitter (see the guidelines below). All submitted photos will be posted on this page. Winners will be chosen by the band and announced here on August 5th. Enter at http://www.dankojones.com/uproar
Anthony Green is currently in the studio recording a follow up to 2011’s Beautiful Things. A tweet and Vine video from producer Will Yip can be seen below.
Damn… @anthonygreen can really sing his ass off. This records gonna be something special
— Will Yip (@willyipmusic) May 22, 2013
The lineup for Rockstar’s “Uproar Tour” has been announced.Dates are below:
Fri 9-Aug Scranton, PA Toyota Pavilion at Montage Mountain
Sat 10-Aug Hartford, CT The Comcast Theatre
Sun 11-Aug Darien Center, NY Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
Tue 13-Aug Saratoga, NY Saratoga Performing Arts Center
Wed 14-Aug Mansfield, MA Comcast Center
Fri 16-Aug Bristow, VA Jiffy Lube Live
Sat 17-Aug Holmdel, NJ PNC Bank Arts Center
Sun 18-Aug Wantagh, NY Nikon at Jones Beach Theater
Tue 20-Aug Toronto, ON Molson Canadian Amphitheatre
Thu 22-Aug Tinley Park, IL First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre
Fri 23-Aug Noblesville, IN Klipsch Music Center
Sat 24-Aug Clarkston, MI DTE Energy Music Theater
Tue 27-Aug Oklahoma City, OK Zoo Amphitheater
Wed 28-Aug Dallas, TX Gexa Energy Pavilion
Thu 29-Aug The Woodlands, TX Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
Sun 1-Sept Denver, CO Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre
Mon 2-Sept Salt Lake City, UT USANA Amphitheatre
Sat 7-Sept George, WA The Gorge Amphitheatre
Sun 8-Sept Ridgefield, WA Sleep Country Amphitheater
Wed 11-Sept San Francisco, CA Shoreline Amphitheatre
Fri 13-Sept Phoenix, AZ Desert Sky Pavilion
Sat 14-Sept Chula Vista, CA Sleep Train Amphitheatre
Sun 15-Sept Irvine, CA Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
Circa Survive, Minus The Bear, and Now Now will be heading out this Spring on tour together. Dates can be seen below
03/06 – Columbus, OH – Newport Music Hall
03/07 – Bloomington, IL – Castle Theatre
03/08 – Covington, KY – Madison Theatre
03/11 – Louisville, KY – Headliners Music Hall
03/12 – Royal Oak, MI – Royal Oak Music Theatre
03/14 – Burlington, VT – Higher Ground
03/15 – Providence, RI – Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel
03/16 – Portland, ME – State Theatre
03/17 – Poughkeepsie, NY – The Chance
03/19 – Huntington, NY – The Paramount
03/20 – Stroudsburg, PA – Sherman Theatre
03/22 – Charlotte, NC – The Fillmore
03/23 – Raleigh, NC – Lincoln Theatre
03/24 – Charleston, SC – Music Farm
03/25 – Jacksonville Beach, FL – Freebird Live
03/26 – Tallahassee, FL – Side Bar
03/27 – Tampa, FL – The Ritz Ybor
03/28 – Athens, GA – Georgia Theatre
03/29 – Memphis, TN – New Daisy Theatre
03/30 – Oklahoma City, OK – Diamond Ballroom
Influential Champaign-Urbana-based indie-rock quartet Braid have teamed up with rising alternative rock act Balance and Composure to release a split EP via No Sleep Records on February 26, 2013. Beginning today, fans can pre-order the EP on limited edition vinyl 7” and digitally at https://www.nosleepstore.com/product/1115. Braid will be selling an exclusive dark maroon color via their merch store here http://www.indiemerch.com/braid.
Fresh off a U.S. tour with Circa Survive, Touche Amore and O’Brother, Balance and Composure will hit the road at the end of January for a headlining U.S. tour with The Jealous Sound and Daylight.
Braid/Balance and Composure Split EP track listing:
Braid
01. Lux
02. Many Enemies
Balance and Composure
03. You Can’t Fix Me
04. Say
Braid Tour Dates:
Dec 14 - Milwaukee, WI - Turner Hall (w/Into It. Over It.)
Dec 15 - Detroit, MI - Saint Andrews Hall (w/Into It. Over It.)
Dec 16 - Chicago, IL - The Metro (w/Into It. Over It.)
Balance and Composure Tour Dates:
Jan 31 - Cleveland, OH - Grog Shop
Feb 01 - Detroit, MI - Magic Stick
Feb 02 - Chicago, IL - SubTerranean
Feb 04 - Denver, CO - Marquis Theatre
Feb 06 - San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill
Feb 07 - Los Angeles, CA - Echo
Feb 08 - Anaheim, CA - Chain Reaction
Feb 09 - Phoenix, AZ - The Nile
Feb 11 - Austin, TX - Red 7
Feb 12 - Dallas, TX - Cambridge Room
Feb 14 - Orlando, FL - Backbooth
Feb 15 - Pembroke Pines, FL - The Talent Farm
Feb 16 - Jacksonville, FL - Phoenix Taproom
Feb 18 - Nashville, TN - The End
Feb 19 - Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506
Feb 20 - Washington, DC - DC9
Feb 21 - Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer
Feb 22 - Boston, MA - The Sinclair
Feb 23 - Hamden, CT - The Space
Feb 24 - New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
01. Birth Of The Economic Hitman
"The lyrics for this song came out of a poem I wrote when I was going broke right after James was born. Ten years ago the idea of putting a song in a commercial was the lamest thing to do, and now it’s one of the few ways bands make money from songs. When the dudes came to me with the music I just started singing the melody right away. At the time i was listening to the Deftones a ton and I think you can hear that in the chorus."
02. Sharp Practice
"The lyrics for this song also came out of musings on how hard it was to survive financially in the music industry now that everyone just downloads records for free. I was trying to write about how songs are still valuable even if the price tag says free and how we were working with this big label who had a job sell this music and feeling like we were too weird for them to be able to do that. We were still on Atlantic at the time this was written and all of us had a feeling like we were going to get dropped or something."
03. Suitcase
"This was one of the first songs we wrote for the record, and it’s also the first time we were able to capture this type of vibe, heavy yet atmospheric, powerful yet patenting. It’s about meeting someone who doesn’t give two shits about you until they find out you are in a band they like or you are someone they know then start treating you differently."
04. The Lottery
"When someone in my family was diagnosed with cancer I had the music to this song and was working on vocals. It’s all I could think about. I had just gotten off the phone with them as they poured their heart out to me about what it’s like to be facing mortality and failing health. Most of the themes of that song, including the comparison of the lottery to getting cancer, came out of that call."
05. My Only Friend
"This song was written after a fight I had with a friend and is me venting about them not being there. When you have kids you enter another world were you don’t have time to do the things you used to do anymore, and a lot of my friends ended up bailing on me and never coming over my house or calling me anymore because I was so busy with my family. That’s what inspired most of the energy of this song."
06. Phantasmagoria
"I’ve always had trouble trusting people and it has fucked up every relationship I have ever had, weather it be with a women or a man or god. This song and the lyrics came to me as it was being written. The music and lyrics came together which is rare and it wasn’t until after I had recorded the song that I realized what I had said."
07. Think Of Me When They Sound
"Can’t talk about this song."
08. Brother Song
"Can’t talk about this either."
09. Bird Song
"Wrote this for Colin [Frangicetto, guitar] when we were writing our second album, I was trying to let him know that he was taking shit way too seriously and that I loved him. The song also has a lot of themes about being deprived of sleep and restlessness, which we were both suffering from at the time."
10. Blood From A Stone
"Colin wrote the music for this song after being inspired by that Crosses band (Chino from Deftones’ side project). No one else in the band seemed to be into it besides me and I started to work on it right away. The demo had a real electronic feel and it was so different. The lyrics came from a place where I was trying to revive passion in a creative partner who seemed to lose their focus."
11. I’ll Find A Way
"This song was written in a jam with Colin and Nick [Beard, bassist]. it’s a musing on feeling responsible for things that happen to the band and wanting to tell everyone that I woulld always do my best to make this shit as good as it can be."
Circa Survive’s fourth album ‘Violent Waves’ is available to buy direct from the band at circasurvive.com.
SOURCE: http://www.rocksound.tv/features/article/circa-survive
Triple Crown Records is pleased to announce the release of Basement Window the new EP from O’Brother. The EP is a bit of a sonic departure for the band, stripping down and re-arranging a few of their favorites from their debut full length Garden Window. Vocalist Tanner Merritt explains “It’s a lot of fun to strip a song down to its very core and see how it holds its own based upon sheer songwriting. With so much volume and layering it’s very easy to lose those things. It’s fun and challenging to take a song and mold it in to something completely different. Give it a new tone and demeanor. That’s what our intention was with this EP, to (hopefully) allow ourselves and others to see these songs in a different light.”
Basement Window will be released digitally September 18th and include a bonus track not on the vinyl release. Vinyl will be released October 30th. The limited vinyl release is a special pressing, 1 side audio and 1 side etched artwork.
Basement Window track list:
Lo
Machines Pt. 1
Lay Down
Malum
Poison!
O’Brother will join Circa Survive, Touché Amore and Balance & Composure on tour starting September 13th in New Haven, CT continuing across the country through October 26th. They will be taking a few shows off from the tour to make a big splash in their hometown of Atlanta with an appearance at Music Midtown performing alongside Pearl Jam, Florence And The Machine, Neon Tress and more at Atlanta’s Piedmont Park.
Confirmed U.S. Tour Dates:
9/13 New Haven, CT @ Toad’s Place
9/14 New York, NY @ Terminal 5
9/15 Boston, MA @ House of Blues
9/16 Baltimore, MD @ Rams Head Live
9/18 Norfolk, VA @ The Norva
9/19 Charlotte, NC @ Amos’ Southend Music Hall
9/22 Atlanta, GA @ Music Midtown Festival
9/23 Fort Lauderdale, FL @ Revolution
9/26 Nashville, TN @ The Cannery
9/28 New Orleans, LA @ House of Blues
9/29 Houston, TX @ House of Blues
9/30 Dallas, TX @ House of Blues
10/2 Austin, TX @ Emo’s East
10/3 San Antonio, TX @ Sunset Station
10/5 Tempe, AZ @ The Marquee
10/7 Pomona, CA @ Fox Theater
10/10 Los Angeles, CA @ Club Noka La Live
10/11 San Francisco, CA @ The Regency
10/12 Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom
10/13 Seattle, WA @ The Showbox SoDo
10/15 Salt Lake City, UT @ In The Venue
10/16 Denver, CO @ The Summit Music Hall
10/18 Lawrence, KS @ Granada
10/19 Minneapolis, MN @ Cabooze On The West Bank
10/20 Chicago, IL @ Vic Theatre
10/21 Pontiac, MI @ The Crofoot
10/24 Cleveland, OH @ House of blues
10/25 Buffalo, NY @ Town Ballroom
10/26 Syracuse, NY @ Westcott Theater
On the second episode of the podcast, we chat with Anthony Green from Circa Survive. Download it here.
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