The Swellers have released a new song called “Vehicle City Blues” that will be releasing via SideOneDummy Records on May 29th along with another song called “Red Lights.” Stream the song below by clicking “Read More.”
The Wonder Years have added The Swellers as support for their show at The Peel in Kingston on April 23rd. The change comes after I Am The Avalanche were forced to cancel their upcoming UK tour.
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The Swellers will be releasing a new music video for “Inside My Head” on Monday. Check out details behind the story of the video below by clicking “Read More.”
The Swellers wil be releasing a new music video for “Inside My Head” on Monday. Check out stills from the video below by clicking “Read More.”
The Swellers will be releasing a new music video on Monday for “Inside My Head.” Check out a tweet from the band below by clicking “Read More.”
Fest 11 has released the initial lineup for its annual weekend festival in Gainesville, FL, which includes The Swellers, Stay Ahead Of The Weather, Streetlight Manifesto, and many more. Check out the lineup below by clicking “Read More!”
The Early November, The Wonder Years, The Swellers, and Young Statues will be touring together this spring. Check out the routing below by clicking “Read More!”
The Swellers are writing and now recording new demos for their next release. Check out a tweet from drummer Jono Diener below by clicking “Read More.”
Jono Diener from The Swellers has written some of the best blogs for our Contributor series on PropertyOfZack, and we’re glad to have him back. In his new blog, Jono dives into the Kony debate that was recently launched by Invisible Children earlier in the week. The topic is a touchy one, and Jono did his best job to give his thoughts on the situation in a well-thought out manner. Read up on Jono’s full blog below!
Three days ago I saw people on Twitter and Tumblr urging me to repost a video about some fella named Joseph Kony. Kony is a terrible person who abducts children, forces the boys (literally young boys) to go into war as his soldiers and forces the girls into sexual slavery. There are parts about the children being forced to kill their parents, and it just gets worse and worse. It really is a terrible thing. A Non-Profit Organization called Invisible Children who I’ve known about for years due to some really great bands supporting them were the ones responsible for putting together the video and creating the Kony 2012 Campaign. The idea is to make Kony the most famous person in the world to raise awareness of his wrongdoings and eventually get governments from around the world to step in and stop the problem at its source. It was an emotional video utilizing our digital-aged generation to unite and post everywhere we could to get this to pretty much take over the internet. I admit I was teary-eyed watching the video, especially seeing the founder’s young son so passionate about stopping the bad guys.
So I did as I always do. I reblogged and retweeted the video (before watching it, so I could get to it later) and later that night went through the 30 minute emotional roller-coaster. It was all gravy until the next morning out of nowhere there was a post called Kony Criticisms posted all over Tumblr. I thought it was criticizing Kony the person, but no, it was criticizing the tactics and overall idea of how Invisible Children was operated. It went through some specific details about how much money IC currently had, and how much they spend and claiming that they were in fact a FOR PROFIT company. I also read something along the lines of the government already being aware of Kony and the LRA and how it was misleading to everyone that they weren’t… This was a red flag for me and I kept reading. It continued to detail individual “wrongdoings” of organization and how they supported military action, etc. etc. So before I started dialogue with my friends and public I sat back to develop my own opinion on the matter, as everyone should before donating time, money and a mentality to something. I decided the overall idea of getting Kony out of power and stopping LRA would be great. Stopping the slavery of children and forcing them to be soldiers would be a great thing. I was still weary of openly choosing a side on the issue as far as Invisible Children or not so I took it public.
The Wonder Years, The Swellers, Bright And Early, I Was A hero, and Of Fortune And Fame have announced what looks to be a one-off date at The Lost Horizon in Syracuse, NY on May 22nd. Check out a poster for the show below by clicking “Read More.”
The Swellers have a little down time following a co-headlining tour with You Me At Six, and drummer Jono Diener wrote up an update to clue fans in on what’s been going on with the band. Diener confirmed that the band has been working on a handful of new songs. You can check out Diener’s full update below by clicking “Read More.”
The Swellers have released an unofficial music video for “Better Things.” You can watch it below by clicking “Read More.”
