Heavy fucking show last night! Don’t miss the Melvins (in tandem with Big Business) on this tour—you will regret it.

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I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but our resident video savant, the aptly named Video Matt has a boner the size of Rhode Island for Paramore. In fact, he has a personal archive of fap videos that he hoards like gold nuggets, locked away in a safe deep inside his family compound in the hills above Gridley. However, we are slowly convincing him to release some of this footage for the greater good of humanity. Check out these two clips of Paramore back before they were the biggest thing since sliced wrists, playing at the legendary Boardwalk in Orangevale, CA.

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?

The unstoppable force that is Video Matt spent the weekend kicking it with….you’ll never guess: a bunch of rad bands. Here is the first of three videos from this weekend’s two sold out dates of the Chiodos / The Devil Wears Prada / Pierce the Veil tour at the Boardwalk in Orangevale, CA. It features San Diego up-and-comers Pierce The Veil, whose debut album is in stores now on Equal Vision records.

So the thing about Eisley is that not only do the make heavenly magestic joytime music, but they basically transcend the boundaries of human kindness and attractiveness. Video Matt was lucky enough to spend some time with them last night at the good ol’ Boardwalk in Orangevale since I was too shy to possibly go within 50 feet of Stacy Dupree. The resulting footage is here for your enjoyment. So, enjoy.

Synthesis blogger and Video Dood Numero Dos Dallas VonKillbot recently cruised down to Orangevale to hang out with Emanuel, Envy on the Coast and The Receiving End Of Sirens at the good old Boardwalk. In the first of three videos, here’s him kicking back with Emanuel and trying to look hard in a bandana.