It’s time for The Weekly Tour Round-Up! There are a ton of great tours going on this summer and more are getting announced each week! Below you’ll find all the tours going on over the next few months, with newly announced tours listed above previously announced tours. So check out all the tours if you’ve missed any of them and make sure to mark them down on your calendars!

New Tours:

North America  
Code Orange Kids [06/10-06/19] 
Adventures [06/10-07/06] 
Code Orange Kids, Madball [07/09-07/13]  
The Plain White T’s [07/16-08/12] 
Owl City [08/09-09/01] 
Yellowcard ‘Ocean Avenue Acoustic’ [08/31-10/06] 

United Kingdom|Mainland Europe
The Front Bottoms [09/15-10/05] 
The Story So Far, Seahaven [09/24-10/19] 
The Dangerous Summer [09/25-10/03] 
You Me At Six, 30 Seconds To Mars [11/03-11/08] 
Yellowcard ‘Ocean Avenue Acoustic’ [11/07-11/22] 

Australia 
Alesana [08/07-08/15] 
Anberlin, The Maine, William Beckett [09/04-09/11] Tour
Yellowcard ‘Ocean Avenue Acoustic’ [10/25-10/31]

Previously Announced Tours:

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Code Orange Kids will be playing several US and Canadian shows in June. Check out the dates below after the jump. 

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Code Orange Kids are hopping on a week of shows with Madball and Expire this July. Check out the dates below after the jump. 

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Adventures (ft. members of Code Orange Kids) have released a new song called “Clear My Head With You.” Stream it below after the jump. 

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*This review was composed by Zac Lomas and edited by Erik van Rheenen

An uncharacteristically muggy day and an ever-approaching storm welcomed Hostage Calm and Code Orange Kids to Rochester, NY on May 22, as both bands trekked inland from the East Coast into the heart of New York State. Located in the basement of a local bar, Dubland Underground combines the DIY atmosphere of a local basement show with the technological accoutrements of a larger venue, creating the perfect hybrid to showcase touring punk bands.

The night began with support from local bands Amends and Night Terrors, who both brought their own brands of hardcore to the stage, warming up the small yet intimate crowd for the melee that lay ahead.

As the temperature outside reached upwards of ninety degrees, the poorly ventilated basement room began to feel like an oven and a battery of fans attempted to cool down the patrons, but instead just circulated waves of warm and even warmer air.  With the heat affecting both the band and audience alike Hostage Calm made their way to the stage, with vocalist Chris Martin sporting a half-filled gallon jug of water, which would be empty before their set was finished.

After a quick sound check, the band contemplated leaving the stage before starting their set, but an eager Martin asked the audio technician if they could just start now and with that their whirlwind set began.

With a fan perilously hanging above his head Martin launched into “Brokenheartland,” bouncing around the stage and accenting every bass drum kick with a ferocious punch through the heavy and stagnant air.  After “Brokenheartland” the band, having just played with Anti-Flag in celebration of their 20^th anniversary, delivered a rousing rendition of “Olly Olly Oxen Free” off of their recent split with the Pittsburgh natives.

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Our PropertyOfZack the Decade feature has been incredibly fun for us to launch over the past few months to celebrate ten year anniversaries of some of our favorite albums. Today’s feature is going to be a little different though. Anti-Flag are not celebrating a ten year album anniversary this year, but they are celebrating a 20 year anniversary as a band. We’re helping them do that today.

We have commentary from Anti-Flag themselves, Man Overboard, Code Orange Kids, Pentimento, Skinny Lister, The Braces, The Architects, Blacklist Royals, and Modern Baseball on multiple aspects of AF’s career over the past 20 years, and we think it’s pretty special.

SideOneDummy Records is also being incredibly rad and offering POZ viewers 20% off on their entire webstore until Thursday, May 16th with the code “POZ.” So check out the webstore here, AF’s 20 year anniversary tour dates here, and the whole Decade feature below!

Skinny Lister on Anti-Flag’s influence
Anti-Flag has a way of inspiring not just their fans, but their friends as well. I fell in love with Anti-Flag in high school and for years they were the anthem of my youth. Later while playing in The A.K.A.s, I got to meet them and tour with them and was happy to learn that the quality of people in the band ran just as deep as the quality of their music. Anti-Flag will always be a band for the people, and I am honored to call them friends. - Michael Camino (@skinnylister)
 
Code Orange Kids on A New Kind of Army
The first punk CD I ever owned was Anti-Flag’s A New Kind of Army. One of the first shows I went to was getting to see Anti-Flag in Pittsburgh. Both of these experiences shaped my musical palette as a lil’ guy. I read up on social issues and got in the push pit. It was tight. – Jami Morgan (@codeorangekids)

If there is one thing you wanted people to know about AF that they do not already know, what would it be?
Chris #2: We have fun. A lot of fun! We believe that being in a band should be fun. Not everything is about the politics of the band. That’s why we chose music. Because we are humans, we enjoy life, we want others to as well. In conjunction with that we believe that having a social conscience is important and making a statement is necessary to create change in the world. The truth is that people can have great lives and reach success without fucking over each other and the planet. 
 
Modern Baseball on Chris #2’s bass riffs
My first exposure to Anti-Flag was when I was about 12 or 13 and I first discovered Fat Wreck’s Rock Against Bush comps with the band’s “School For Assassins” on it. After hearing that track, they quickly became one of my favorite bands because they were playing cool punk rock and singing about stuff they were super passionate about, which is a trait that was somewhat lacking in punk bands at the time. It’s crazy to think that I’ve been listening to Die For Your Government and The Terror State for about eight years now and even crazier to think they had been a band for twelve years before that. Not too many bands have it in them to put out records with such energy for so long. When I first started playing bass, Chris #2 was one of my favorite bassists and hell - he still is. Dude rips awesome bass lines left and right in a way that no one else can, which totally sets Anti-Flag from other punk bands like them. I mean, just listen to “Turncoat.” That last chorus is like insane bass riffage. I wish I was that good. Anyway, my point is I love that band and I’m super stoked that they’ve been around this long and I’m even more stoked to see them again at Bled Fest this year. – Ian Farmer (@modernbaseball)

If you could change one thing about your career what would you alter?
Chris #2: That’s interesting. I don’t like to really entertain scenarios like this because no matter what you’ve done, unless its harm someone physically, most of what happens in a music career is based on creative instinct and what is right for you at the time. So, it’s easy to have hindsight, but the butterfly effect of that change could alter everything else. One thing that nags us is that we should have trimmed the fat on some early songs. Some are way too long! 

What do you feel is your biggest accomplishment over the last 20 years?

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Adventures (ft. members of Code Orange Kids) will be releasing a new EP called Clear My Head With You on June 18th via No Sleep Records. Pre-order the album here and stream a new song called “Promise” via BrooklyVegan or below after the jump. 

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Code Orange Kids have released a new song from their 4-way split called “VI (Worms Fear God // God Fears Youth).” Stream it via BrooklynVegan or below by clicking “Read More.”

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Tigers Jaw, The World Is A Beautiful Place, Self Defense Family, and Code Orange Kids are releasing a 4-way split via Run For Cover Records and Topshelf Records on April 23rd. Pre-order it here (TSR) or here (RFC) and check out the artwork and track listing below by clicking “Read More.”

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Bled Fest have added Code Orange Kids to their 2013 lineup. Check out the rest of the lineup below by clicking “Read More.” 

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The Monthly Summary
Week I 

Albums Out This Month
Week I   

The Weekly Tour Round-Up
Fall-Winter

10Of’12s 
Tiny Engines, Beartrap PR Family
Anarbor, Ocean Is Theory  
Razor & Tie Records Family
Equal Vision Records Family 
Zack Zarrillo, Erik Van Rheenen 

Interviews
POZ Interview: Chris Holmes 

Reviews
River City Extension - Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Your Anger

Discussions
Most Anticipated Albums For The First Half Of 2013 

Sessions
Luther 

Playlists
While She Sleeps 
William Beckett, Makeshift Prodigy, PJ Bond   
Modern Baseball, Shotgun No Blitz

Road Blogs
You Blew It!
Real Friends 

Behind The Booths
Nightmares For A Week

Streams
Barrow - “You Can Probably Find It in Norfolk”

Video Premieres
The Wonder Years - “Local Man Ruins Everything (Nervous Energies)” 

Showcase
River City Sound  
The Traditional 
The Radio Reds 

Gallery
Code Orange Kids, Gaza

POZ Sponsored Tours  
The Acoustic Basement Tour [02/01-02/23]   

Adventures (Ft. members of Code Orange Kids) are working on a new 7” and split instead of a full-length. Check out an update from the band below by clicking “Read More.”

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It’s time for The Weekly Tour Round-Up! There are a ton of great tours going on this fall and winter and more are getting announced each week. Below you’ll find all the tours going on over the next few months, with newly announced tours listed above previously announced tours. So check out all the tours if you’ve missed any of them and make sure to mark them down on your calendars!

New Tours:

POZ Sponsored Shows 
TeamPagano New Years Eve Show 
POZ Tour: The Acoustic Basement Tour [02/01-02/23]  

North America  
Code Orange Kids, H2O [02/01-03/03] 
Mod Sun, Pat Brown [02/02-03/10]
The Devil Wears Prada, As I Lay Dying [02/22-04/04] 
Anberlin [02/27-03/03]
Deftones [03/04-03/30] 
Man Overboard, The Story So Far [03/08-04/13
A Day To Remember [03/20-04/04]

United Kingdom|Mainland Europe 
City And Colour, Biffy Clyro [03/20-04/03]
Never Shout Never, We Are The In Crowd [04/20-05/10]

Previously Announced Tours:

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• A Day To Remember Announce Tour; Release New Song
• Lostprophets Release Statement On Ian Watkins Child Sex Crimes 
• Attack Attack! Have 14 Songs Written
• Code Orange Kids Announce US Tour
• Fearless Records Release Statement On Lostprophets 
• Instagram Release Terms Of Service Update  
• Cassadee Pope Almost Passed On ‘The Voice’ 
• Sparks The Rescue Lose Three Members