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15 Feb

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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 ArenaMAY
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
6 Feb

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?
7 Nov
This awesome clip of Video Matt eating a maggot ridden Snickers bar!!! OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG. Really though, it was kind of on some disgusting ass shit, when right after he took it out of his mouth to go puke for awhile, like two gigantic sandworm looking maggots crawled out of their little Snickers tunnels to see what the fuck was crackin. AHHH YOUTH!! But maggots aren’t all bad. In fact, Maggot Therapy is one of the new cures being used to treat the dreaded Superbug that Spencer was rapping about last week. Now that’s REAL TALK
4 Oct
As promised, here’s the always lovable Video Matt’s interview with the equally lovable Matt Goddard from Chiodos. The band’s new record, Bone Palace Ballet is in stores now, and more importantly, starting October 19th, they will be doing a cross country tour with my good friends Emery, the dates of which are as follows:
10/19 Lawrence, KS
10/20 Sauget, IL
10/21 Chicago, IL
10/22 Minneapolis, MN
10/24 Englewood, CO
10/25 Magna, UT
10/26 Boise, ID
10/27 Seattle, WA
10/28 Portland, OR
10/30 San Francisco, CA
10/31 San Francisco, CA
11/01 Hollywood, CA
11/02 Las Vegas, NV
11/03 San Diego, CA
11/04 Tempe, AZ
11/06 San Antonio, TX
11/07 Dallas, TX
11/08 Houston, TX
11/09 Little Rock, AR
11/10 Atlanta, GA
11/11 St. Petersburg, FL
11/12 Lake Buena Vista, FL
11/13 Ft. Lauderdale, FL
11/15 North Myrtle Beach, SC
11/16 Charlotte, NC
11/17 Norfolk, VA
11/18 Baltimore, MD
11/19 Cincinnati, OH
11/20 Cleveland, OH
11/25 Philadelphia, PA
11/26 New York, NY
11/27 Boston, MA
11/28 Montreal, QC
11/29 Toronto, ON
11/30 Pontiac, MI B
1 Oct
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.
25 Sep

I would say we need some of these nude suits here at the Synthesis, but I don’t want to get fired for sexual harassment. Again. Plus, I dont think I want to see Dallas or Video Matt’s cock and nuts. Again. I mean…wait, what?
