Silverstein will be releasing something new and exciting on Monday. Check out a teaser below after the jump.
Silverstein will be touring Mainland Europe this November and December. Check out the routing below!
Silverstein will be going out on a headlining Mainland European tour this November and December. Check out the confirmed countries below after the jump.
The Monthly Summary
Week I
Albums Out This Month
Week I
The Weekly Tour Round-Up
Spring-Summer
Interviews
Candy Hearts
Lemuria
Reviews
New Found Glory - Mania (Ramones Cover EP)
Koji - Crooked In My Mind
LIGHTS - Siberia Acoustic
Sharks - Selfhood
Banquets - Banquets
Silverstein, August Burns Red - Four Minutes Being Cool
Show Reviews
Matt Pryor And James Dewees - 04/25/13
Perspectives
Musformation And The DIY Guide To Get More Fans
My Ticket Home’s Mutant Terror Homicide
Discussions
The Don’t Miss Tours This Summer
Punk Goes…We’d Actually Like
Decade
Fall Out Boy - Take This To Your Grave
Playlists
Team Recommendations
Contests
Skate And Surf Festival - VIP Tickets [Ended on May 3rd]
Make Do And Mend, CG, DMND YTH - Tickets [Ended on May 3rd]
Make Do And Mend, CG, DND YTH - Tickets [Ended on May 8th]
Skate And Surf Festival - GA Tickets [Ended on May 8th]
Streams
Duck. Little Brother, Duck! - “Ant Eater”
Video Premieres
For Today - ‘Prevailer’ Preview
The Upset Victory - “Fake This”
Podcasts
100 Words Or Less: Alissa White-Gluz (The Agonist)
Showcase
The Woodman’s Babe
Microwave
Gallery
Koji Record Release Show
Ratfest ‘13
Full Of Hell, Raindance
Sponsored Tours
It’s A Spring Fling [05/24]
BoySetsFire, No Trigger, Pentimento, Light Years, Maker [05/24-05/26]
Songs Of The South Fest [07/20-07/21]
*This review was composed by Brandon Allin and edited by Erik van Rheenen
Ask around for opinions on a heavy act, and the feedback you receive will more than likely be split right down the middle. Many will criticize outfits for being little more than generic, paint-by-numbers carbon copies of their peers, while others will glorify those very same bands for technical wizardry or sheer brutality. Whatever the consensus, it’s no secret that in heavy music, you simply can’t please everyone.
Silverstein and August Burns Red, two of the more beloved outfits in their respective genres, have finally joined forces to release Four Minutes Being Cool, a two-song split 7” in celebration of Record Store Day 2013. Opting to perform cover songs instead of original material, the veteran quintets pay tribute to a pair of revered emo outfits in The Get Up Kids and Saves The Day. An unlikely release of sorts, but a breath of fresh air all the same.
Fans of the originals will immediately be taken aback, as both cuts have been retooled and reimagined, falling more in line the bulk of each band’s back catalogue than their source material. Silverstein’s take on “Coming Clean,” a track pulled from The Get Up Kids’ debut full-length, Four Minute Mile, is admirable, as well as devoid of any screaming. Lead vocalist Shane Told sounds as crisp as ever, while guitarists Paul Marc Rousseau and Josh Bradford do a wonderful job of infusing Matt Pryor and company’s riffs with a welcome jolt of energy.
Record Store Day is tomorrow, April 20th, and we’re excited to say goodbye to the money in our wallets. There are over 400 releases that can be seen here, but we’re highlighting just a few more special releases that are coming out tomorrow. Check out our RSD Preview here and some more albums coming out below!
The Used, Silverstein, and Crossfaith are touring Japan this May. Check out the dates below by clicking “Read More.”
Silverstein are hitting the road hard again in April in support of their new album. Watch a tour video below by clicking “Read More.”
Silverstein and August Burns Red are releasing a limited Record Store Day 7” where both bands will each be covering an influence emo band from the late-90s/early-00’s. Check out the track listing below by clicking “Read More.”
It’s time for The Weekly Tour Round-Up! There are a ton of great tours going on this 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
Prawn, Gates [Now-03/24]
Forever Came Calling, Heart To Heart, Last Call [03/20-04/21]
BoySetsFire, No Trigger, Pentimento, Light Years, Maker [05/24-05/26]North America
Modern Baseball [03/22-03/28]
Jimmie Deeghan (EA), Carter Hulsey [04/18-04/28]
The Word Alive [04/20-04/27]
Relient K, Hellogoodbye, William Beckett [04/24-05/19]
Frameworks, Rescuer [04/25-05/04]
Attack Attack!, The Plot in You, Get Scared [05/02-05/29]
Crown The Empire [05/07-05/26]
Anti-Flag [05/18-05/31]
Silverstein, The Wonder Years [06/04-06/14]Australia
Heroes For Hire [05/10-05/18]
The Gaslight Anthem, Dave Hause [05/10-05/19]
La Dispute, Pianos Become The Teeth [06/28-07/13]
Previously Announced Tours:
Silverstein and The Wonder Years will be touring Canada together this June. Check out the dates below by clicking “Read More.”
Story Of The Year Have Reunited; ‘Page Avenue’ 10 World Tour + Acoustic Album Confirmed
Story Of The Year will be reuniting after a three-year hiatus. We’ll be getting a Page Avenue ten year world tour and an acoustic rendition of the album as well. Who’s stoked?
Woe, Is Me Part Ways With Drummer Austin Thornton
Woe, Is Me parted ways with original member Austin Thornton. As many fans have noted, this leaves the band will only one original member left.
City And Colour In The Studio; New Album Coming Soon
Dallas Green seems to either be hard at work in the studio, or completely done with a new City And Colour record. Either way, a new album is coming.
Hayley Williams, MAC Cosmetics Line Details
Hayley Williams is stepping into the cosmetics world the same day as Paramore release their fourth album. It will be interesting to see just how much more Paramore and Williams can expand into a mainstream world with their new album.
Silverstein, The Wonder Years Confirm Canadian Tour
Not yet announced, but an interesting Hopeless Records pairing nonetheless.
Warped Tour Announces Next Eight Bands
The lineup is almost completely announced at this point. How do you feel about this year’s lineup compared to last year’s?
Silverstein and The Wonder Years will be touring Canada together this May. Check out a poster below by clicking “Read More.”
The Monthly Summary
Week I
Week II
Albums Out This Month
Week I
Week II
Week III
The Weekly Tour Round-Up
Winter - Spring
Reviews
Silverstein – This Is How The Wind Shifts
The Used - Vulnerable II
Laura Stevenson And The Cans - Runner EP
Hopeless Records - Love Is Hopeless
Squid The Whale - Four More
Perspectives
Heated Column About Heat Thing
Discussions
The Don’t Miss Tours This Spring
Albums That Deserve “Classic” Status In 2020
Decade
Finch - What It Is To Burn
Playlists
Team Recommendations - Anti-VDay
Contests
Idobi Meltdown Festival Tickets [Ended on February 13th]
Heavy And Light Tour - NYC Tickets [Ended on February 13th]
Road Blogs
Light Years
Contributor Blogs
Thomas Gutches
Streams
Death In The Park - The Human Centipede
Behind The Booths
Stickup Kid
Podcasts
100 Words Or Less: Mike Minnick (Curl Up And Die)
Gallery
Desaparecidos, Joyce Manor
Sponsored Tours
The Acoustic Basement Tour [Now-02/23]
Forever Came Calling, Heart To Heart, Last Call [03/20-04/21]
*This review was composed by Dylan Powell and edited by Erik van Rheenen
Silverstein is a band that nearly everyone interested in the alternative scene has at least heard of before. When they broke out on to the scene with such albums as When Broken Is Easily Fixed and Discovering The Waterfront, they made it clear that they were a band that had the potential to breathe a ton of life into the post-hardcore genre. Though that quiescent talent laid there just waiting to break through the band’s creative walls, Silverstein failed to really capitalize and released a slew of consistently average albums leading up to their 2013 release This Is How The Wind Shifts. Without much hype built around this release, expectations were not particularly high for anyone who is not a super fan of the band, but the end result is a sneakily brilliant post-hardcore album that may have been released a few years too late.
This Is How The Wind Shifts is a compilation of Silverstein’s best work to date as they veer slightly out of the territory that they have stuck to for years. With much more steadily exciting guitar-work sprinkled throughout this record and a magnificent yet unforeseen vocal performance by Shane Told, Silverstein may have just released the classic post-hardcore record that people expected them to hone in on the mid-2000s.
Tracks like “On Brave Mountains We Conquer” and “A Better Place” show a natural progression from Waterfront rather than a plateau of quality as they feature those classic elements of the band that fans have grown to love, but with some much needed improvements. “In A Place of Solace” could be the best example of this progression. The track’s atmospheric vibe, rich with Told’s perfected screams and dark power chords lend a revitalized sound to a waning band. It is tracks like this that people needed to hear from Silverstein.
