Moving Mountains have been quiet since their fall tour with Thrice finished up, but it looks like the band is filming a new music video today. Check out a tweet and a picture from the band below by clicking “Read More.”
From Mitchell Lee:
Our tour with O’Brother, La Dispute, Thrice, and the dudes from Invisible Children is over. Without getting overly sappy or cheesy, I’ll just say that this tour has been one of the greatest experiences we’ve ever had as a band. We’ve had a ton of fun just hanging out and playing music but we also got pretty deep at times talking about music, touring, life, families, relationships, happiness, careers, and faith. Traveling the country with these guys has been an inspiration.
Here are some tour highlights:
-Dojo Gelato in Cincinnati makes some scrumptious Sriracha/peanut butter gelato. This flavor was custom made for O’Brother and given to the whole tour.
-We finally got to see Wrigley Stadium in Chicago and play the Metro.
-Sauget, IL must be the strip club capital of the world. There were 3 clubs and an OTB within walking distance of the venue.
-Everybody on the tour dressed up in costume for Halloween in Denver.
-The Invisible Children dudes were a Juggalo and some sort of weird Fu Manchu coconut bra wearing thing.
-Greg, Josh, and I were demons while Nick was a Werewolf.
-O’Brother were Prisoners.
-La Dispute were Cops (Vass wore a woman’s adult “naughty officer” costume complete with miniskirt while Jordan wore a little boy’s police costume that was skin tight and much too short).
-La Dispute’s tour and merch managers, Dave and Lazur, were Gumby and Pokey, respectively.
-Thrice were Party Animals. Think Beastie Boys’ “Fight for Your Right” music video with everybody wearing various animal masks (lion, zebra, chicken, sheep, etc.).
New Music Video: ”The Cascade” // Moving Mountains // Waves
Moving Mountains are currently wrapping up a tour with Thrice, but the band has announced three extra dates on their way home from the tour. Moving Mountains will be headlining two of the dates and will be supporting Conditions on the third. Check out when and where the band will be playing below by clicking “Read More”.
THE MONTHLY SUMMARY:
Week I
INTERVIEWS:
Forever The Sickest Kids
Thrice
REVIEWS:
A Loss For Words // No Sanctuary
The Greater The Risk // Say What You Never Said
SINGLE REVIEWS:
Paramore // “Renegade”
LIVES:
All Time Low
You, Me & Everyone We Know
CONTESTS:
A Lot Like Birds [Ends on December 15th]
PLAYLISTS:
Time Travel Tour [A Rocket To The Moon|Fake Problems|Mike Meeze}
The Noise Tour [Mayday Parade|We Are The In Crowd|There For Tomorrow]
Senses Fail Fall Tour [Senses Fail|Make Do And Mend|The Story So Far]
Major/Minor Tour [Thrice|La Dispute|Moving Mountains]
ROAD BLOGS:
This Love
La Dispute
Moving Mountains
Thrice
The Swellers
Last Call
Man Overboard
GALLERY:
Yellowcard|Every Avenue|Go Radio
MISCELLANEOUS:
Keyes Signing Details
MASON Signing Details
From Mitchell Lee:
As a band on tour, we’ve probably had to enter and exit Canada about 5 times. After all those times, we’re still not 100% sure what we have to do in order to not get sodomized by Canadian and U.S. customs agents with a baseball bat wrapped in nails and barbed wire. If you ever manage, tour manage, or play in a band and you’re trying to get into Canada without post traumatic stress disorder or dismemberment, here’s what I can tell you:
1) Everybody on the tour needs a U.S. passport or enhanced driver’s license. New York State offers enhanced driver’s licenses for getting into Canada but I’m not sure about any other states.
2) If anybody on the tour has had any previous convictions, i.e. DWI, shoplifting, etc., you’re probably best off leaving that person behind in the states. If you try to cross, Canadian customs agents will hold up your whole party to do a background check on anybody that has had any previous run-ins with the law. I’ve heard of a band having to wait for 5 hours at the border while customs agents did a background check on a crew member. Apparently he got arrested for getting into a drunken fight years ago. Even after agents do a background check on a dude, they may refuse him entry into their country anyway.
3) Dump all the drugs. This isn’t a problem for our band but it’s still a pretty interesting topic since there are plenty of other bands and people in this industry that dabble in the Devil’s lettuce or that frosty white snow. I once heard a story where customs agents found a very tiny amount of weed on a band’s bus at a border crossing. Every person on that bus was stripped searched including a female member of the crew. Apparently customs agents conduct cavity searches since drug smugglers (both male and female) are known to stash goods in various “private part” orifices.
From Mitchell Lee:
It’s always great to be back on the East Coast. Compared to the rest of the country, every major city on the East Coast is within just a couple of hours of each other. Drives are a lot easier and there’s plenty of time for bands to catch up on sleep.
NY to Philly: ~3 hours
NY to Boston: ~4 hours
NY to DC: ~4 & 1/2 hours
San Francisco to Portland: ~11 hours (woof!)The other great thing about being on the east coast is the pizza. If Mov Mou was a children’s television cartoon, we’d definitely be The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for our love of pizza (and traveling through time and parallel dimensions to fight a giant brain). Pizza’s on our band’s rider but it’s usually never worth getting when we’re outside of the NY, CT, NJ tri-state area. Chicago deep dish is alright but it’s always such a long wait. Their pizza is pretty thick and takes a while to bake.
The only thing that we don’t absolutely love about playing the East Coast is playing NYC. Despite being from NY and loving the city, playing NYC is one of the most stressful shows of any tour. Loading and parking in the streets and traffic is a nightmare (Greg and I once drove around alphabet city for 45 minutes looking for 2 parking spots next to each other for our van and trailer. We had to literally sprint back to the venue and start our set 10 minutes late). On this tour, we found parking spots 2 blocks away from Irving Plaza in under 30 minutes.
PropertyOfZack Gallery : : Major/Minor Tour In New York City
Features: Thrice, La Dispute, Moving Mountains, O’Brother
*Photos by Hilary J. Corts
From Mitchell Lee:
Texas and Florida are done.
Firstly, let me state that the picture from the BBQ restaurant in Dallas is a bird’s eye view of a field. In the field is a couple getting “romantic” in the grass next to a parked car. They must’ve thought no one was looking, but apparently they were wrong. Moving on…
Texas has always been great to us. The crowds are always good and getting to hang with our southern friends is a treat. Texas also seems to be big on Vinyl. It’s always cool to see people who prefer to own tangible forms of music and artwork, although I must admit, digital is the future. Love vinyl but hate its lack of mobility? Vinyl with downloads cards are the way to go, you get the best of both worlds. We always try to get download cards included in our records and encourage other bands to do the same.
In Austin, we played the brand new Emo’s East. We were told we were the 7th or 8th show to happen there since it opened. It’s a pretty huge venue that’s been updated and modernized but it’s on a road surrounded by strip malls (gross). The old Emo’s was located in downtown Austin. We also got to hang with some old tour mates in Pompeii and Benji from Bad Rabbits (Bad Rabbits had played Emo’s the night before on the Taking Back Sunday tour). Apologies to anybody that wanted to see us and missed our set. There was a big mixup with the show start time and we were pretty bummed to hear that a bunch of people showed up to the show after our set.
This tour is the first time we’ve ever played club shows in Florida. Florida is such a lush and green state but it seemed like the entire time we were there, it was either raining like hell or it was just blistering hot and humid. There’s nothing worse than unloading gear in a tropical storm and playing in soaked socks and shoes. We also had a chance to hang with our Warped bus buddies and Florida natives, There For Tomorrow.
Moving Mountains just kicked off their largest tour yet with Thrice, La Dispute, and O’Brother. The band is being kind enough to document the tour on PropertyOfZack with a brand new Road Blog, and we’re very happy to have them. Check out the first update and come back for more soon!
From Mitchell Lee:
Tonight is our 3rd show with O’Brother, La Dispute, and Thrice at The Door. All the bands (and dudes) on the tour are first-rate, grade AAA.
We arrived in Dallas early enough that Nick and I were able to get some authentic Texas Style BBQ. These places always smell fantastic, have great tasting food, and have a rustic wood appearance with retro signs, pictures, and random knickknacks hanging on walls. Unlike your local chain Applebee’s or TGI Fridays, the junk on the walls is real and was probably put up by the owners over the decades they’ve had their BBQ pits.
The most interesting thing we found was an old black and white, bird’s eye photograph hanging on the wall of the dining room. See if you can see what’s going on here.
It’s always fun when you hear your favorite artists and bands talking about what music they’re currently digging, and we thought it’d be a great idea to hand deliver you those songs in a neat little package. That being said, we could not be more excited to be debuting our brand new feature, PropertyOfZack Playlist, where bands, touring packages, labels, and staff members will be bringing you playlists that you can listen to directly on Spotify while reading a description about the songs or mix on a whole.
We’re more than proud to be debuting the feature with the Major/Minor Tour that includes O’Brother, Moving Mountains, La Dispute, and Thrice. We’ll be bringing you many more jam-packed Playlists as well in the future, so always check back!
(Click on image to listen in Spotify)
This is a list of 10 songs that I’ve been listening to on repeat for the last few weeks. If you’re not familiar with any of these bands, and you like what you hear I highly suggest you check these bands out. Definitely worth your time. Turn it up and enjoy! - Anton Dang
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I created this playlist as a joke to play while driving in the middle night. I just thought of all the random and ridiculous songs I had heard throughout my life and tried to put them all on one totally awesome collection like in those late night infomercials. My intention was to get a “what the hell are you playing!?” reaction from the other guys in the van. Some of the songs are pretty rad while others are pretty terrible but all of them are absolutely hilarious to hear driving through the middle of nowhere at 4am. - Mitchell Lee
(Click on image to listen in Spotify)
A.A. Bondy - How Will You Meet Your End
This is a pretty haunting track by one of my favorite singer/songwriters. An often appropriate listen during these all night drives. Such a beautiful voice, more people should be listening to Mr. Bondy.
MODULAR - Everest *Song is currently not on Spotify
I came across this project about a month ago and was blown away. Not only by the musicianship (I mean, we are talking about Matt Chamberlain, Viktor Krauss, and Dan Phelps) but also by the concept of the record. The group took actual sonic readings and data from the earth and reconstructed that information into 6 pieces of music. Look it up, it’s pretty incredible.
Laura Veirs - I Can See Your Tracks
Opening track from Ms. Veirs “July Flame.” This record is one I find myself returning to often.Tucker Martine’s organic production adds so much to these beautiful folk tunes. I hear something new with every listen.
The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take Five
These gentleman not only popularized jazz music in the late 50’s, but did so with a record filled with unusual time signatures. Listen closely to Joe Morello, the man was brilliant.
Gin Blossoms - Hey Jealousy
One of my favorite songs from the early 90’s. Vass and I got on a Gin Blossoms kick around the same time so there’s been a lot of sing-alongs in the van. Now I almost wish I’d done a 90’s playlist. - Brad Vander Lugt
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Augustana - Steal your Heart
Hadn’t ever heard any music from these guys till I saw them play this song on a late show. It’s great. Very, very Springsteen-esque in the best way. - Dustin Kensrue
We Are Augustines - Headlong Into the Abyss
Was a free download on iTunes. Indie vibe with sort 90’s rock/punk feel to the vocals that I dig; raw in a way that doesn’t feel calculated (makes me think of early Jawbreaker.) Good energy. I’m a sucker for this rhythm. - Dustin Kensrue
The Low Anthem - Charlie Darwin
I believe I also got this as a free iTunes download. Apparently Apple controls my exposure to new music. I wish all of their stuff was like this because it’s fantastic. Very dreamy, beautiful melody, haunting vocals. - Dustin Kensrue
Moving Mountains are set to head out on their biggest tour yet with Thrice, La Dispute, and O’Brother, but the band has now announced that guitarist Frank Graniero has left the band in order to finish school and work on his project Caravela. It is not clear whether or not Graniero will return to the band after school or not. Check out a full statement from Moving Mountains below by clicking “Read More”.
La Dispute and Moving Mountains are going out on tour with Thrice and O’Brother in late-September, but the two bands have now announced a string of warm-up dates before the official tour kicks off. Check out the dates below by clicking “Read More”!
PropertyOfZack Galley : : 2011 Vans Warped Tour
Features: Paramore, Moving Mountains, The Wonder Years, The Ready Set, The Word Alive, Enter Shikari, and Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows
* Photos by Jedd Lopez
PropertyOfZack has joined forces with Irving Plaza and Live Nation to give away two tickets to Thrice’s upcoming fall headlining tour with La Dispute and Moving Mountains in New York City on October 16th. The contest will end on August 24th, so find out how to enter below!
To win two tickets in NYC for Thrice’s headlining tour you must do each of the following things:
