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Further Attempts to Populate The Synthesis Blog with All Things Iron Maiden

Author: spencer

20 Feb

James’ post somehow reminded me of my first exposure to possibly the most epic metal band of all time, Iron Maiden:

What can be more rock than this? If only Rick Allen had seen this first.

Sadly, I’ve long abandoned buckling my safety belt and I will one day look like Eddie. le sigh.

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Dates Announced for Paramore / Jimmy Eat World Tour

Author: Daniel Taylor

15 Feb

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZOMG

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

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The Sword Announce West Coast Dates

Author: James

12 Feb

Holding true to their WORD, the Sword will make their way to the West Coast starting in April. Here are the dates:

Apr 14 : Lubbock, TX - Jake’s Sports Center w/ Slough Feg & Children
Apr 15 : Albuquerque, NM - Launchpad w/ Slough Feg & Children
Apr 16 : Phoenix, AZ - The Brick House w/ Slough Feg & Children
Apr 17 : San Diego, CA - The Casbah w/ Slough Feg & Children
Apr 19 : San Fransisco, CA - Slim’s w/ Slough Feg & Children
Apr 22 : Seattle, WA - Neumo’s w/ Slough Feg & Children
Apr 24 : Boise, ID - Neurolux w/ Slough Feg & Children
Apr 25 : Salt Lake City, UT - Club Vegas w/ Slough Feg & Children
Apr 26 : Denver, CO - Bluebird Theater w/ Slough Feg & Children
Apr 28 : Wichita, KS - BarleyCorns w/ Slough Feg & Children
Apr 29 : Oklahoma City, OK - The Conservatory w/ Slough Feg & Children

Dates for Portland, OR, and Los Angeles are on the way. I saw The Sword at 12 Galaxies in San Francisco two years ago, and it looked something like this:

If you look close, you can see a few of us up in the balcony. I’m the one with the melting FACE.

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Radiohead Announce US Tour

Author: spencer

12 Feb

Meeting People is Sleazy

From Radiohead’s publicists:

RADIOHEAD CONFIRMS MAY 2008 U.S. DATES & VENUES
RADIOHEAD has confirmed the dates and venues to be visited on the first segment of its upcoming North American tour. They are:

May 5 - Cruzan Amphitheatre - West Palm Beach, Florida
May 6 - Ford Amphitheatre - Tampa, Florida
May 8 - Lakewood Amphitheatre - Atlanta, Georgia
May 9 - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre - Charlotte, North Carolina
May 11 - Nissan Pavilion at Stone Ridge - Bristow, Virginia
May 14 - Verizon Wireless Amphitheater - St Louis, Missouri
May 17 - Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion - Houston, Texas
May 18 - Superpages.com Center - Dallas, Texas

Pre-sale for the above dates will begin February 14 via W.A.S.T.E. with general on-sales following on February 16.
The second half of the North American tour will follow the band’s summer tour of the UK and Europe.

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The Sound of A Million Panties Splashing: Circa Survive Announce Summer Tour

Author: spencer

11 Feb

Circa Survive photo by Chris Chrisman

Add to the sound of panties splashing the sound of a million boners popping up against denim: Circa Survive will be touring with Thrice and PELICAN. Until then you can read Ryan Prado’s Pulitzer-worthy piece with Anthony Green when you download your free issue of Synthesis Digital HERE. Or watch my interview with pelican’s Brian Herweg HERE.

Tour Dates after the jump. (more…)

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The Coldest Week EVER.

Author: Trevor Sellers

11 Feb

This has been one of the busiest weeks of my life, and being in the snow day in and day out doesn’t help all that much. I have made some real life realizations, such as; Cleveland is a dump, the Super Bowl is a lot more entertaining when it’s spent with friends, is catered and a keg of Coors light is brought into the situation, kids from Canada have funny accents, I never want to live in a snowy city, kids in Omaha are insane and they love to throw boxer briefs on stage, Lawrence, Kansas is one my most favorite places ever, days off are a very nice thing to have every once in a while. I’ll elaborate on a few of the days.

Cleveland, Ohio is not a nice town; I was constantly in fear of being robbed, beat up, raped or mocked for being white the entire time I was not inside the bus or the venue. But the show was crazy, and it marked the first sell out crowd of the tour. Our buddy, and Marilyn Manson drum tech, cabbed over to our show after the MM show was over, that’s a crazy job to have.

Madison, Wisconsin is a beautiful city, especially in the winter. I guess I take back my earlier comment about not wanting to live in a snowy city, because I would live in Madison in a second, but nowhere else with snow. This show marked the smallest crowd I’ve ever seen a band, any size, play to in years, but the kids that were there were great, they made the night very enjoyable.

St. Paul, Minnesota is town full of offices, and then if you’re lucky enough to work in one of these offices you can conveniently live a block away in your own condo, seems great to me, why wouldn’t you want to spend all your time in a three block radius of St. Paul? I got yelled at by the bartender for smoking inside, I don’t know all the laws they pass there, and who really cares? Around three in the morning we get a knock on the bus door, someone opens it up and lets this girl in, who, by the way, had the biggest fake boobs I’ve ever seen in person. She was crying some story to us about how her friends left her behind and she needed to use a phone to call a cab, all while she’s kicking off her shoes and jacket and making herself comfortable. We called her a cab which she decided wasn’t good enough for her once it arrived. She eventually left after getting ridiculed by half of the bus occupants for a good 45 minutes.

Omaha, Nebraska should have more than two venues considering it has so many bands. Tonight’s show was another sell out and was painfully hot inside. Matt purchased an air horn the night before which was used this night to startle kids outside our bus. I’ve never seen so many pissed off emo kids. One thing I don’t get is why the hell would you drive out of town to see a band and not purchase tickets beforehand? The venue had to turn away a ton of kids, but instead of leaving they decided to bug me all night and offer to “help” me with any task I wanted as long as they could get in. It may not sound that bad, but it is.

Lawrence, Kansas is a wonderful town, full of normal people. I’ve never been to the venue we played at and at first it looked a little sketchy beings that they show movies upstairs on certain days, but it was great. I got to see some friends I haven’t seen in a while and take in some great conversations at the local bars. I thought to myself I could live in Lawrence, and then I realized Chico is just the same, so I think that plan is nixed.

Salt Lake City, Utah is always a fun time. The show was sold out, the crowd was amazing, I was proposed to by a 17 year old during line check; I had to turn her down because her boyfriend didn’t like the idea. After our record breaking load out we threw a party for all the bands after the show, the promoter’s gave us a bunch of free liquor and beer and everyone got to know each other beyond the daily “hi, how’s it going” kind of thing. We have a day off tomorrow and then we’re headed to the west coast for what will most likely be the longest ten days ever.