PropertyOfZack Gallery : : Slam Dunk Festival 2012
Features: Every Time I Die, Set Your Goals
Location: United Kingdom
Photos By: Maryam Hassan
Rise Against, The Gaslight Anthem, and Hot Water Music will be touring together this fall. Check out a trailer for the tour below by clicking “Read More.”
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From Rick Jimenez:
One of the few things weirder than mainland Europe is the eastern part of mainland Europe… Even the Westwrn part of Eastern Europe. With that said it was nice to get to Austria. We needed to get some supplies and allergy medicine and such before the show so we drove into the city of Vienna and searched for an hour until our UK friend Jamie that’s been filming for a new music video this tour remembered it was some Euro holiday and that’s why everything was closed. How helpful.
Headed to “the arena” to load in, eat Euro rider stuff and get in a sufficient but not preferred workout. Preshow playlist was awesome. The set started off slow and wound up being insane. Best of the 4 times we’ve been to the arena. I think we did 3 encores because they wouldn’t let us off stage. Fuck it I’ll play for as long as people wanna hear shit any goddamn day, I’m not afraid to overdue it. Towards the end each of the rhino guys as well as Jamie the videographer and Dave the driver got caught in a mosh. Wrote some cool shit on the wall next to my bunk for the night and finally got a fucking shower.
Made a stop at Rattlesnake (a local merch store in Vienna) and got a sick Venom patch for €0. Fuck yes. The drive to Vincenza, Italy was way longer than we thought and there were 138 stairs to load in. The sound on stage had made as much sense as a George Bush in the White House. The power for the entire stage was run by a surge protector located logically right by the edge of the mosh, so twice during the set the power went off mid thrash. There were some us troops stationed in the area that came out and they pitted and had a good time. One of the best parts of playing music is the opportunity to bring some leisure ad enjoyment into soldiers lives, especially ones stationed abroad. That’s a rough life and any comfort/enjoyment we can give to them is unbelievably rewarding. Whether you’re pro or anti war, many troops join the service not because they wanna “Get I’m!” but because it’s their way of getting by and making their way for their family. Politics aside, I will always be honored to support a troop because they are a HUMAN in a difficult situation. We ended our set regular time even though the crowd wanted more because someone at the venue started crying about something besides my guitar… Which he cried about before we started playing. Wah Rick is too loud. Get with it, I’m almost always too loud.
A new Motion City Soundtrack song called “Bad Idea” can be streamed below by clicking “Read More.”
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On their bandcamp webpage, Pacific Ridge Records writes, “Over-produced, hackneyed impersonations of quality artists is what nearly destroyed Pop Punk. Bright and Early is what’s going to save it.” Bias aside, the record label hits on some strong points in this description. Bright and Early’s EP Getting Through It is an elegant, intimate release that grabs the listener from the start and holds on until the end.
“Stick by Me” is a slow, acoustic track oozing with emotion. The band’s raw talent shines in this song. It sounds as if they sat down and played in front of a microphone, recording the whole thing in one simple take. “Stick by Me” is softer than the rest of the EP, but it does set the tone well. The personal, DIY feel carries on throughout the album.
After this opening track, Getting Through It swings into an upbeat set of pop-punk tracks. A stark change from “Stick by Me,” “Rule of Three” features electric guitars and drumming. With a catchy chorus and an upbeat rhythm, this is easily the highlight of Getting Through It. Even with the addition of heavier instrumentals, the songwriting stays emotional and honest.
The Dangerous Summer have released their full summer headline tour routing. Check out the dates below by clicking “Read More.”
Storm The Beaches just signed to Apparition Records, and PropertyOfZack did an interview with the band to discuss the signing. In the interview, the band and I discuss how long they’ve been in talks with Apparition for, the response to their first released material, the writing for their full-length record, touring, and the future. Check it all out below!
For the record, could you state your name and role in Storm The Beaches?
Mark Mikina: I sing, play guitar, and I am the main song writer.
David Favazza: I play drums and do all things percussion.
Jon Adams: I play bass.
Wills Mayo: I play anything with strings and sing backup vocals.
It was just announced that the band has signed to Apparition Records. The label, like the band, is a young one. How long had talks been going between you two?
We had been in talks with Apparition Records for at least 5 months, maybe more, but they had been watching us for the past two years. So in one form or another we have been with with Apparition Records for a long, long time. All of us in Storm The Beaches think that it is great that the label is a young label. For us it means that both parties have just as much to gain from this exciting adventure.
Why did you decide Apparition was the way to go?
We had been in talks with many labels over the time we have existed. Especially after our first single “Rooftops” came out. A friend of ours, Jack Barakat from All Time Low, sent the song to a bunch of people and it just became way bigger than we ever thought it would be when we first wrote it. Before “Rooftops” and our first EP Gifts From Sea came out, we were just another local band who had a dream of being signed and making music our career. The thing about that was that when we started talking to these other labels, it no longer seemed possible because we knew that they were setting us up to be in debt for a long, long time. When we first spoke to Apparition Records they said that they spent their lives watching labels screw over their artists and they wanted to be the label that changes all that and makes a difference. Immediately we started listening to what they had to say. We had been hit up by smaller labels in the past but they never had their stuff together. In fact, Apparition Records is more organized then most of the bigger labels that we have talked to. Another HUGE deciding factor was that the bigger labels loved our music, but insisted that we send demos to them. That never made sense to us, considering that we just spend thousands upon thousands of dollars making and recording these songs to put out to the public - which the label loved - but they wanted us to make a cheap unmixed crappy demo in our living room and send it to them… that is what they were basing a deal off of? I may be wrong here, but doesn’t that sound a bit backwards? Apparition was great about giving us complete artistic control when we were writing our new full length. They said if we wanted a ten minute sax solo that we were totally allowed to do that. They understood our sound for what it was. They knew that it was different then your average alternative pop/rock and they really left it up to us on how to define our sound on this upcoming record.
The band released two EPs in 2009 and 2011. Have you been happy with the reception to them?
It is amazing to think that out of just two EP’s - only 9 songs - that we created such a large following and created enough noise to open for some national touring acts and even some of our personal heroes (Saosin, All Time Low, The Dear Hunter, A Rocket To The Moon, The Dangerous Summer, The Annuals, The Bigger Lights, Paradise Fears). It’s amazing to think of what will happen when we more than double the amount of songs we have with our brand new 15 song full-length album. It is interesting to watch the music business. A band can have just put out their first 5 song EP and immediately be a huge success. On the other hand, you have another band who has just released their 5th full-length and are finally getting a fanbase. This just goes to show that people appreciate QUALITY over QUANTITY. People will promote or share with friends a band that is great no matter who they are, or how popular they are, as long as they are a producing great music output.
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PropertyOfZack Gallery : : The Bamboozle Festival 2012 (Day II)
Features: A Great Big Pile Of Leaves
Location: Asbury Park, NJ
Photos By: Hilary J. Corts
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