We The Kings have posted their third update from their recent Brazilian tour. Check it out below by clicking “Read More.”
We The Kings recently toured Brazil. You can check out a video first update from the tour below by clicking “Read More.”
We The Kings will be releasing a previously unheard song when frontman Travis Clark reaches 200,000 Twitter followers. Check out a tweet from Clark below by clicking “Read More.”
We The Kings and We Are The In Crowd have announced a show in Malaysia on May 30th. Check out the details below by clicking “Read More.”
We The Kings recently covered Jimmy Eat World’s “The Middle” in Paris, France. Check out a video of the performance below by clicking “Read More.”
Warped Tour has announced that Four Year Strong, Yellowcard, Pierce The Veil, Of Mice & Men, Falling In Reverse, We The Kings, Streetlight Manifesto, and Anti-Flag, will be playing the 2012 Festival. Check out the other bands already announced below by clicking “Read More!”
Simple Plan and We The Kings will be touring Australia together with The Never Ever this June. Check out the dates below by clicking “Read More.”
THE MONTHLY SUMMARY:
Week I
Week II
Week III
A VERY GK! DOCUMENTARY:
Trailer
Episode I
Episode II
Episode III
INTERVIEWS:
Anthony Green
We The Kings
Veara
The Company We Keep
D.R.U.G.S.
REVIEWS:
Hit The Lights // Invicta
Punchline // So Nice To Meet You
The Gaslight Anthem // iTunes EP
SESSIONS:
Sparks The Rescue
Twin Atlantic
LIVES:
Hit The Lights
PLAYLISTS:
The Cab|He Is We
Mayday Parade|Anarbor|The Downtown Fiction
ROAD BLOGS:
Mayday Parade
Twin Atlantic
Marianas Trench
We Are The Ocean
Sparks The Rescue
DOWNLOADS:
A Great Big Pile Of Leaves|Mansions|Young Statues Tour Sampler
BEHIND THE BOOTH:
Misser
GALLERY:
Every Time I Die
MISCELLANEOUS:
As Cities Burn Bled Fest Announcement
- Yellowcard began pre-production for their new record.
- Hot Water Music completed the recording process for their new album.
- Bon Iver won two Grammy awards for Best New Artist and Best Alternative Album.
- Panic! At The Disco have begun working on their new album.
- We The Kings will be playing the 2012 Warped Tour.
- Jonny Craig is not quitting music, contrary to earlier reports.
- Angels & Airwaves are working on three new movies.
- fun. streamed their new album, Some Nights.
- Against Me! began tracking their new album.
- The Pop Punk’s Not Dead Tour will be hitting the UK in 2012.
- The 2012 Bonnaroo Festival lineup was released.
- Green Day began recording their new record.
- Enter Shikari announced a US headliner with letlive.
- blink-182 announced a North American tour in May.
- Transit and five other bands were added to the 2012 Vans Warped Tour.
- Coheed And Cambria announced a tour with Iron Maiden.
- The Maine released a new music video for “Misery.”
- Pete Wentz is nearly finished with his Rainy Day Kids book.
- Max Bemis started a label called Rory Records.
- William Beckett is getting ready to release his first solo music.
- As Cities Burn are playing Bled Fest.
- All Time Low have written half of their new record.
- Yellowcard welcomed in a new bassist.
- New Found Glory are putting an end to International Superheroes Of Hardcore.
PropertyOfZack was able to catch up with Travis Clark from We The Kings just a week or two ago for a great interview. Travis and I discussed the band’s crazy cycle of touring, their new album, future touring plans, and a new side-project with a female singing partner. Read up and check out all the information below!
For the record, could you state your name and role in We The Kings?
This is Travis Clark, and I sing and play guitar in We The Kings.
The band has had a really busy six or so months with a headlining tour in support of the new album, international touring, US touring with Demi Lovato, and a recent South American tour. Can you just discuss the hectic cycle?
The past six months have been absolutely insane. Every since we released our new record, Sunshine State Of Mind, which was in July, we’ve kind of been non-stop. We did the tour with Demi too right after we got back from Australia for another US tour, and then we did a lot of radio shows in December to support our new single. In January, we went to South America with Taking Back Sunday and literally flew home, had two days off, and then started our US tour with Mayday Parade. We can’t finish the last two dates of this tour to fly to Europe where we’re touring for a month with Simple Plan. Following that we fly back to Brazil to film something and then we’re going back to Europe for the second half of the tour for another month with Simple Plan. Then we go into the UK for a week and a half by ourselves before we come home for a few days and go to Australia for two weeks. After that, we come back and start Warped Tour for two months. Who knows what’s after that.
POZ: That’s a lot [Laughs].
Travis: It’s crazy. I was trying to tell my mom and dad when I’d be home, and I couldn’t give them a straight answer. I have no idea.
All of the touring has been pretty consistent to your normal types of packages, not counting the Taking Back Sunday tour. How was it playing to a crowd like that?
It was really good. It was the first time that both of our bands had ever been to South America. Neither of us had any idea what to expect, but the kids there were crazy. We would land at airports in all the different cities, and in every country and every city, there would be kids at the airport, hotel, venue, or anything else. They would wait outside to get pictures and autographs, and I felt like a member of *NSYNC or something. It was the craziest thing that I had ever witnessed. They knew how rare it was for kids to come down there, so they wanted to get a glimpse of the band at every single moment of every single day, which was flattering and amazing, but neither of us knew what to do. It was good to go down there with a band that I grew up listening to and a band that was in our shoes in terms of not knowing what to expect. That was a fun thing to do and experience with them for the first time.
Would you be open to touring with bands outside of your sound’s comfort zone in the future now?
Absolutely. We’ve done a few tours like that. We did a two month college tour with J. Cole, who is kind of king of hip hop right now. That was one of my favorite tours. They were two completely different crowds with hip hop and pop rock fans. All of J. Cole’s fans would be like, “Oh look at these crazy white boys, but it’s fun to listen to.” All of our fans were all fans of the hip hop world, so we’d watch him and all of our fans would be really into it as well. It was a really, really cool tour. We’ve talked about doing a tour with someone like A Day To Remember who are also from Florida and are our friends or with someone like The Devil Wears Prada. Those are obviously totally different styles of music, but we want to see how it works. It gives it a festival atmosphere because you’re not there to see the four bands playing the exact same music - that almost gets old. I think it’s very cool being able to play a show like that.
Travis Clark of We The Kings confirmed on The Gunz Show that the band would be playing the 2012 Warped Tour. Check out a tweet from The Gunz Show below by clicking “Read More.”
Mayday Parade are currently out on The End Of The World Tour with We The Kings, Anarbor, and The Downtown Fiction. The band will be sending over a Road Blog to PropertyOfZack once a week to keep fans updated on the tour, so check out the first one and make sure to come back for more!
From Jake Bundrick:
Day one of The End Of The World Tour was a success. It was a sell out show in Louisville, Kentucky but the show itself wasn’t a breeze like you would think. Every fan should know that the first show of any tour is always the roughest. It’s the one where you work out all the kinks and expect the worst to happen onstage while you’re performing. A lot of technical stuff happened to us last night but nothing terrible, like the power surging/shutting us down. In the end, the show was a blast and it only portrays what’s to come for the next month on this tour. Tour life is crazy! There’s always a lot of time to sit around. I try my best to fill that time with something productive whether it be working out or running, talking with my partner about our company 5683 Collective, or playing videos games :)
You’ve gotta past the time somehow. I made this goal to be in the best shape of my life by the time Warped Tour comes around so I can be that dude that’s not afraid to take my shirt off. haha. I’ve been working out, running, and dieting for a long time now so meeting that goal would be unbelievable for me - mostly because I’ve been doing it for so long now. I’m going on year 5. At the beginning of the band, I got up to 235 pounds. For me, that’s too big for my liking. I haven’t weighed myself for a while now, but I’m pretty confident I’m below 185. I’ve grown to love working out. Sometimes you don’t want to do it but it’s the feeling you get after you’ve completely that daily routine. I’ve learned that you can do anything but it’s your mind that tries to tell you otherwise. You’d be surprised what you can do if you convince yourself to go a little bit further when your mind and body are telling you to stop.
The clothing company I started this past December is slowly but surely growing. We started with a necklace and now we have a bracelet. I know that doesn’t sound like much, but we’re slowly adding more and more stuff to our catalogue. We have hopes of adding a few pieces of clothing very soon. We’re just trying to figure out all the logistics. You can browse and find everything we have on our website. Check it out: www.5683collective.com
It looks like Travis Clark of We The Kings self-confirmed that the band would be playing Warped Tour this summer. Check out a tweet from Clark below by clicking “Read More.”
We The Kings kicked off a co-headlining tour with Mayday Parade, The Downtown Fiction and Anarbor tonight. You can check out the band’s set list below by clicking “Read More.”
We The Kings are heading to the UK with Simple Plan on May and have added a few headlining dates to the tour. Check out their full UK routing below by clicking “Read More.”
