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Jimmy Eat World and Paramore have announced the routing of a U.S. co-headline tour scheduled to kick off April 1st. Said Jimmy Eat World singer Jim Adkins, “We’re very excited for the upcoming tour with Paramore. We got to know them last December while playing festivals together. They put on a great show and we think it’s going to be an awesome bill.” Adds Hayley Williams (Paramore), “If it all ends tomorrow, we will be happy knowing that we got a tour with the band that gave us a reason to play music.”

APRIL

1st ­ San Antonio, TX ­ Freeman Coliseum
2nd ­ Lubbock, TX ­ Lonestar Amphitheater
3rd ­ El Paso, TX ­ El Paso County Coliseum
5th ­ Irvine, CA ­ Verizon Wireless Amphitheater (Bamboozle West)
6th ­ Bakersfield, CA ­ Rabobank Theater
8th ­ San Jose, CA ­ Event Center at San Jose State
9th ­ Sacramento, CA ­ Sacramento Memorial Auditorium
10th ­ Salem, OR ­ Salem Armory
12th ­ Pocatello, ID ­ Holt Arena
14th ­ Orem, UT ­ McKay Events Center
16th ­ Council Bluffs, IA ­ Mid America Center
17th ­ Springfield, MO ­ The Shrine Mosque
18th ­ Des Moines, IA ­ Val Air Ballroom
19th ­ DeKalb, IL ­ Convocation Center
21st Grand Rapids, MI Deltaplex
22nd ­ Dayton, OH ­ Hara Arena
25th ­ Rochester, NY ­ Gordon Field House
26th ­ Washington, DC ­ Bender Arena
28th ­ Albany, NY ­ Washington Avenue Armory
30th ­ Lowell, MA ­ Paul E. Tsongas Arena

MAY
2nd ­ Atlantic City, NJ ­ Taj Mahal Mark G. Etess Arena

DID YOU KNOW: That Video Matt loves Paramore? And That Paramore Loves Being Crazy??! Watch and Learn

When we found Video Matt aka Matt Wilson at the local troubled teen shelter [actually it was Butte College, but close enough] he had been on the grind for a minute, setting up interviews with bands and filming live footage totally guerrilla style, working with bands like Paramore and Dance Gavin Dance and repping Gridley, CA like a motherfucker. Since no one else at Synthesis even knew how to turn on a video camera, let alone had the balls to stand in front of it, we immediately hired Matt to be our guru of all things video, allowing him to slay 234 times more tang on YouTube and in the process, giving him a chance to work with most of his all time favorite bands, including New Found Glory, Cartel, Jacks Mannequin and Danger Radio to name a few; get super hammered at SXSW before even turning 21, and learn all about industry rule #4080. Check out our YouTube page for all sorts of Video Matt madness and be sure to hit your boy up on the comments, maybe he’ll holla next time he’s kicking it at The Boardwalk, nahmean?

I remember being like 12 and watching The Lawnmower Man and seriously getting a BONER thinking about Virtual Reality. Now it looks like shit is starting to get a little bit closer to becoming a reality, with homeboy Johnny Lee’s little invention above and the 3DV Systems camera being unveiled at this year’s CES. Pretty soon teenaged shut-ins will be able to pop a disc in their Wii virtually mow Hayley from Paramore’s box in total 3D. THAT SHIT WILL MOVE UNITS!

Check out Video Matt’s interview with New York post-spocks The Honorary Title at the San Francisco stop of their current tour with Cartel. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll hurl. When you’re done, I’m gonna need you to go ahead and watch the 234239 other videos currently featured on our fucking fantabulous YOUTUBE CHANNEL including interviews with the aforementioned Cartel, Paramore, The Fall of Troy, and basically anyone else you would see at The Warped Tour. YA HEARD?

Hi. Most of the country has already had their taste of the summer-long advertising/music festival beloved to the unwashed mashes and known as The Vans Warped Tour. Well, it’s finally making its way back around to our parts, and it looks like I will be attending. This will be my first year attending Warped. I mean, I’ve written fascinating and well researched articles about it, but never made it down to the show. Besides, look at me:

Yeah, I’m rad, but it looks like I’d be more comfortable inside a dimly lit bar, swilling delicious canned beer, spitting ridiculous game. Well on Thursday, I’ll be hissing at the sun and watching mall rock galore, and I’ll probably have to interview a few bands with whom I’m not well acquainted. So I need your help, faithful and semi-literate Synthesis community.

These are some of the bands I might interview:

Sum 41
The Almost
The Matches
Killswitch Engage
Paramore
A Static Lullaby
Bad Religion
Bleed The Dream
Circa Survive
Coheed and Cambria
Cute is What We Aim For
Pennywise

While I’m down with Pennywise, Killswitch and Bad Religion (and think Circa Survive are the saviors of anything remotely emo), I don’t know jack shit about Cute is What We Aim For, or Paramore, or Bleed The Dream or whatever. Here’s where you come in:

WHAT SHOULD I ASK THEM? Please help me look like less of a douche and let me know the questions you would ask if you were in my shoes. Comment on this blog or send your questions to letters@synthesis.net.

I don’t want to look like my boy Dallas Von Killbot interviewing Three Inches of Blood.

The remaining handful of Warped Tour dates are listed after the jump.
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