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November 13, 2011 ⋅ 12 notes ⋅ Comments

THE MONTHLY SUMMARY:
Week I
Week II

INTERVIEWS:
Circa Survive
Sharks
Now, Now

REVIEWS:
Chuck Ragan // Covering Ground
The Ready Set // Feel Good Now

SESSIONS:
Kevin Devine
We Are The In Crowd

STREAMS:
Handguns|Forever Came Calling // Split

DOWNLOADS:
Burning House Records Sampler

ROAD BLOGS:
La Dispute
The Swellers
Last Call
Man Overboard

CONTRIBUTOR BLOGS:
JR Wasilewski
Ben Homola

TRACK-BY-TRACKS:
Handguns|Forever Came Calling // Split
K Será // The Cantos: ii

PropertyOfZack Road Blog : : Man Overboard (Update IV)

November 13, 2011 ⋅ Comments

From Alex Henery:

Ok, so America is really big. Last night we did a 10 hour drive and it sucked. I woke up and looked out the window to see nothing but the road and the occasional house here and there. I’m kinda confused why anyone would want to live so far away from civilisation but I guess some people like solitude. This is the first time I have ever experienced the true midwest and it’s exactly how I imagined it to be and more. There are big trucks everywhere, every gas station has country music playing on the speakers, people are really polite and well mannered, the accents are funny and there really is nothing to do in between the big cities. during one night drive we stopped in the middle of the nowhere in Illinois and I went to get some food from the rest stop shop. I asked the lady what people do for fun, she replied “go to the bar” I asked her “what if you don’t drink?” she laughed, “Then your screwed!”. As I was about to leave a man walked in, the lady shouted “Hey John, this boy here is from England, he wants to know what there is to do for fun around here!”. He looked at me straight faced and said “Cook meth or farm”.

So yeah we really are seeing some crazy places and are slowly getting closer to the west coast :)

Getting weird in the van

PropertyOfZack Playlist : : PPND Tour

November 11, 2011 ⋅ 61 notes ⋅ Comments

When creating our new Playlist feature, New Found Glory’s Pop Punk’s Not Dead Tour was at the top of our list. PropertyOfZack is now very proud to be releasing our PPND Tour Playlist featuring New Found Glory, Set Your Goals, The Wonder Years, Man Overboard, and This Time Next Year. Check out the Playlists and listen to the songs while reading everyone’s thoughts!

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Hatebreed - Last Breath
Saves The Day – You Vandal - Pete Dowdalls
AFI – Keeping Out of Direct Sunlight
The Nerve Agents – Carpe Diem - Brad Wiseman
blink-182 - What’s My Age Again
Rancid – Maxwell Murder - Denis Cohen
Lifetime - Young, Loud, And Scotty
Sick Of It All - Good Lookin’ Out - Travis Pacheco
New Found Glory – Hit Or Miss
AFI – The Boy Who Destroyed The World - James Jalili

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The Avett Brothers – If It’s The Beaches
Absolutely love this band..just drove to North Jersey to see them with my fiancé and had an amazing time yet again.
blink-182 – Wishing Well
I’ve been bumping the new blink record hard. I think it’s an awesome record and they did a great job on it.
Person L – Storms
I will always hold a little place for this band. Kenny writes great songs and its something that will always remind me of living in 210B.
Crumb – Tonight *Song is currently not on Spotify
This is a band from the 90’s who I heard about from Zac who heard about it from Steve Klein. The record’s unbelievable.
Saves The Day – Daybreak
I’ve been in love with the first track of this record. I think Chris Conley can do no wrong.
Balance & Composure – Void
Some of my best friends and Separation is one of the best records I’ve heard in a while.
Fireworks – Arrows
This record puts me in an amazing mood.
Merauder – Gangsta
Wayne got me into this record. “Gangsta” might be one of the hardest songs on that record.
True Things - Flight Patterns *Song is currently not on Spotify
Helped record these new songs they are gonna put out. The shit is awesome.
Young Statues - Pretty Girls Make Graves
I love Steve P, and I’m happy for him with this band. *Song is currently not on Spotify
Osker – Patience
I’ve been listening to this record since I was a kid and I still haven’t put it down. - Nik Bruzzese

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The playlist that I chose consists of all of the bands that got me into punk and pop/punk. These bands are my biggest inspirations in the music that I help write for The Wonder Years. Their music has helped me through middle school and high school up until this very day. Without these bands I doubt that I would be playing music. I’m eternally grateful for all of the people that were involve with making these songs and playing in these bands. - Matt Brasch

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New Found Glory - Ready, Aim, Fire
Favorite song from the new NFG cd. It’s got an old punk rock sound and Jordan’s vocal & the lead guitar are just super catchy.
The Wonder Years - Woke Up Older
Great lyrics, great song, and one of my fav cd’s of the year. It will get stuck in your head, dare me to say it won’t.
Man Overboard - Punishment
I love this band and I love these guys. This is gonna be like top 3 releases of the year for me. If you haven’t seen em play, you’re missing out harrrrd.

November 10, 2011 ⋅ Comments

New Acoustic Performance: “Radiosurgery” // New Found Glory

November 9, 2011 ⋅ 37 notes ⋅ Comments

New Tour Update: Pop Punk’s Not Dead Tour // Man Overboard

PropertyOfZack Road Blog : : Man Overboard (Update III)

November 6, 2011 ⋅ 25 notes ⋅ Comments

From Alex Henery

So I’ve been on the tour for nearly two weeks now and it’s flown by. Right now we are in Chicago at a local radio station and the guys are doing a live interview for the show. The past few weeks have been hectic, there was a random snow storm during the Jersey show, we played in Times Square NYC and had one of the most stressful few hours finding somewhere to park the van and trailer. Halloween was amazing as all the bands dressed up and kids came out and had a good time, my favourite costume was Zak’s as he dressed up as Hulk Hogan, and I finally got to be a Juggalo which was fun….woop woop! I have eaten at a tonne of awesome places, one place in Pittsburgh put fries in my sandwich so that was cool. I skated downtown Cleveland and didn’t get arrested and got to go to the Rock and Roll hall of fame for free.

I’ve been shooting loads of footage for the music video and tour update which should be online soon.

Hanging backstage in one of the house of blues dressing rooms with Corbi

New Found Glory kill it every night. Boston was particularly awesome.

November 4, 2011 ⋅ Comments

New Tour Update: New Found Glory on the Pop Punk’s Not Dead Tour

Punk Spring 2012 Details Announced

November 2, 2011 ⋅ Comments

Japan’s annual Punk Spring festival has been announced. Sum 41, New Found Glory, and All Time Low, among others have all been confirmed. Check out who else is playing and the dates below by clicking “Read More”.

PropertyOfZack Road Blog : : Man Overboard (Update II)

October 29, 2011 ⋅ 32 notes ⋅ Comments

Man Overboard have been out on the Pop Punk’s Not Dead Tour for nearly a month now, but Alex Henery from Basement just flew over to America from the UK to join the band out on the road. Alex will not only be filming video updates for Man O, but he will also be keeping tabs on the band for a PropertyOfZack Road Blog. You can also keep up with Alex here and here. Make sure to check back every week for more updates!

From Alex Henery:

Hey, so I am doing video for Man Overboard on the Pop Punk’s Not Dead Tour and already this tour has been incredible. The venues are some of the biggest I have been to and every night every band is killing it. This tour has such a strong line up and it’s great to see it get the response it deserves from a mixed crowd of younger and older kids. New Found Glory are not only a great band but great people. Everyday they will be hanging out with all the bands and chill, unlike some larger bands who just hide away in the bus and only come out to play. It’s cool to see such an influential band recognise and support the modern community of bands from No Sleep/Rise/Run For Cover and take band like MOB on tour and expose them to such a huge group of kids every night.

Riding in the Man Overboard van is super fun, when Zak gets a hold off the ipod we all have to listen to crazy hip hop and he usually starts free-styling which is always funny. You can guarantee Justin is emailing someone somewhere about something important helping the tour run smoothly. Nik is always teasing Corbi and wrestling in the van. Mike is usually driving and is a relief to have a driver who doesn’t scare me on the road. Wayne is a boss and is always hanging out. All in all this tour rules and everyone is having the time of their life. So excited to get to the west coast and eat In and Out Burger!

The catering is crazy, the show in Baltimore gave us root beer chicken wings!!!

Our home show in Philly was incredible, was so great to see all our friends and family and all our local fans who have supported us since day one.

Nik chilling in the van

Pop Punk’s Not Dead Tour Discuss Community

October 26, 2011 ⋅ 32 notes ⋅ Comments

The Wonder Years, Set Your Goals, Man Overboard, and This Time Next Year are currently out on the Pop Punk’s Not Dead Tour with New Found Glory. In a new interview, members of The Wonder Years, Man Overboard, and This Time Next Year discuss how the pop-punk community is different from many others in the broader scene. Read the full interview here and a snippet of it below by clicking “Read More”.

PropertyOfZack Interview : : Set Your Goals

October 25, 2011 ⋅ 22 notes ⋅ Comments

PropertyOfZack had a chance to interview Jordan from Set Your Goals just this past weekend on the Pop Punk’s Not Dead Tour. Jordan and I discussed how touring has ben in the last few months for Set Your Goals, reception to Burning At Both Ends, holiday shows, and more. Read up and enjoy!

For the record, could you state your name and role in Set Your Goals?
My name is Jordan, and I’m a co-vocalist for Set Your Goals.

The Pop Punk’s Not Dead Tour is three or so weeks in at this point. How have the dates been as direct support?
They’ve been really good. We did all the south and a few west coast shows. We’re starting the east coast as of today.

Since the day it was rumored, this tour just kind of grew and grew in anticipation from fans. Have the crowds definitely been anything but a letdown?
It’s been awesome. They’ve been some of my favorite shows in each of the cities we’ve played. Dallas was insane. We played in a venue called Trees and they had two trees in the middle of the venue. It held the venue up and kids were scaling the trees and jumping off of them. It was really neat. It kept leaking every so often, but it was cool.

It’s been a busy half a year or so though for you guys with Warped Tour and Counter Revolution. How were each of those individual tour festivals?
Soundwave was under the radar, even though it was the Counter Revolution. It was fun to meet up with friends bands and stuff like The Damned Things and All Time Low. Make Do And Mend were really good too. There were some bands that were really cool to see. We got to do South East Asia before that too, which was good.

This tour has been such a dream for so many kids, but has it just been a blast with these other bands as well?
We’ve grown up with the guys in This Time Next Year. Brad and I have known each other for like 14 years now. Probably as long as we’ve been listening to New Found Glory. It’s cool to be on tour with them. Man Overboard and The Wonder Years are just killing it too.

All of this has of course been in support of Burning At Both Ends. How have the new songs been going over live the past few months?
We’ve been playing this song “Certain,” which is like the main single we put out, and it’s been awesome. It’s getting a faster response than any of the songs off of our last album did. Kids have seem stoked on it.
POZ: What about the reception to the album as a whole?
Jordan: It’s good. People who are into it seem to really like the songs. I think a lot of people were expecting polished, sonically pleasing songs. Kids who like it just say that they enjoy the songs though.

PropertyOfZack Live : : Man Overboard

October 24, 2011 ⋅ 25 notes ⋅ Comments

Man Overboard stopped by the WKDU radio station just a few weeks ago with The Wonder Years to promote the release of their sophomore self-titled album, and PropertyOfZack was there to capture two great Lives. The band played “Spunn” off of their new album and their fan favorite, “Love Your Friends, Die Laughing.” Check out both Lives below!