Patrick Stump Destroys Shane Morris On Twitter | Who Is Shane Morris?

Patrick Stump took to Twitter yesterday to absolutely tear apart a manager by the name of Shane Morris. It wasn’t clear who Shane was at first, but it appears that he is the manager of Ryan Ross (ex-P!ATD) and several others.

It should be noted that Morris sent an email to POZ with his panties in a bunch once we posted who he was…with information that came directly from his website.

As I Lay Dying Release Statement On Tim Lambasts

This statement is not sitting well with fans or people interested in the story. The band apparently has no knowledge of the situation besides what the media has reported. 

TWY Stream ‘TGG’ Early | Post Message On Support

The Greatest Generation is now streaming a few days early of its May 14th release date, so make sure to check it out. The Wonder Years have also posted a message urging fans to support their new music if it is at all possible.

Touché Amoré Begin Recording New Album W/Brad Wood

Touché have officially hit the studio with Brad Wood (Say Anything, Sunny Day Real Estate, mewithoutYou). The band will be releasing their third album in the fall via Deathwish.

WATIC Cover Brand New’s “Sic Transit Gloria”

Ballsy move by any band to cover Brand New, especially the band’s most well-known song. What are your thoughts?

SManifesto Update Fans On Struggles Due To Victory

Things aren’t too looking good in terms of the pre-order/solo record situation. The good news is that Victory Records just launched a new merch store, so if you want to give them more money, you know where to go!

Thursday Tell The Story Of “Understanding In A..”

Geoff Rickly recently took part in a major feature to dissect and tell the full story of Thursday’s “Understanding In A Car Crash.” This is highly recommended for any Thursday fan.

Geoff Rickly of Thursday recently spoke at length about the band’s most popular song “Understanding In A Car Crash.” The interview, which can be read in full here, tells the story of the song in every sense possible. Check out part of the feature below after the jump.

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Man Overboard have released a new song called “Open Season” that features Geoff Rickly (Thursday). Stream it below by clicking “Read More.”

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Man Overboard are releasing a new song this week that features Thursday frontman Geoff Rickly. Check out a message from Rise below by clicking “Read More.”

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Thursday’s Full Collapse is being reissued on vinyl via Victory Records. Order it here and check out the color variants below by clicking “Read More.”

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Former members of Glassjaw, Thursday, Judge, and Death In The Park have started a new band called Get Involved! The band has started a Kickstarter to release a new EP this summer or fall. Check out a Kickstarter video from the band below by clicking “Read More.”

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We launched March Sadness on Monday and it’s been incredible to see how well the POZ alternative to March Madness has been going so far. Voting for the vote-in round will end on Sunday night before the Sad 16 begins, which is why we thought it’d be a great idea to release a “stat sheet” on all 20 bands selected with information on their careers and why they were picked for March Sadness. Vote here until Sunday night and make sure to check out stats on each band while reblogging with your comments below!

Braid
Lifespan: 1993-1999, 2004, 2011-present
Members: Bob Nanna, Todd Bell, Chris Broach, Damon Atkinson 
Albums: Frankie Welfare Boy Age Five, The Age Of Octeen, Frame And Canvas, Movie Music, Vol. 1 + 2, Lucky To Be Alive
Labels: Divot Records, Mud Records Polyvinyl Records, Glue Factory Records
Why They’re In March Sadness:
Braid may have not reached levels of success like The Get Up Kids or Jimmy Eat World, but the band left its mark on emo and indie-rock with its early releases, and most certainly Frame And Canvas. (ZZ)

See: Killing A Camera off Frame And Canvas

The Get Up Kids
Lifespan: 1995-2005, 2008-present
Members: Matt Pryor, Jim Suptic, Rob Pope, Ryan Pope, James Dewees 
Albums: Four Minute Miles, Something To Write Home About, On A Wire, Guilt Show, There Are Rules
Labels: Doghouse Records, Vagrant Records, Quality Hill Records
Why They’re In March Sadness:
Major players in the mid-1990s emo-takeover, these blue collar Kansas City natives took the punk approach to their association with the genre. Not only did they publically denounce the idea, they also detested it. Hell, Jim Suptic even went on the record to apologize for an contribution the band might have had in influencing the bands that would follow in their foot steps. However, there is no denying the thumbprint that the band left on the emo world. They helped put Vagrant Record on the map and fueled a sound that spread the nation like wildfire. They may not have intended to light the torch, but they certainly threw gasoline on the flame. (JH)  

See: Holiday from Something to Write Home About

Jimmy Eat World
Lifespan: 1993-present
Members: Jim Adkins, Tom Linton, Zach Lind (guitars), Rick Burch
Albums: Static Prevails, Clarity, Bleed American, Futures, Chase This Light, Invented 
Labels: Capitol Records, Dreamworks, Interscope Records
Why They’re In March Sadness:
With a sound embedded in raw and vunerable lyrics and hook as infectious as they come, Jimmy Eat World strikes hard as the most approachable and embraced band on this list. With Bleed American (i.e. self-titled) snagging airplay in ever major market (and many smaller markets) the band took over the world and broken the hearts of everyone in their way. With well over 2 million album sales, they without question took emo to the bigger stage and larger scale. (JH)

See: Hear You Me from Bleed American

The Promise Ring
Lifespan: 1995-2002, 2005, 2011-2012
Members: Davey von Bohlen, Jason Gnewikow , cott Beschta, Dan Didler
Albums: 30˚ Everywhere, Nothing Feels Good, Very Emergency, wood/water
Labels: Jade Tree Records, ANTI- Records
Why They’re In March Sadness:
Nothing Feels Good proved to be one of those records that helped define many of the bands around The Promise Ring, and helped put Jade Tree Records on the map for the label itself and the emo and hardcore bands that filled its roster. (ZZ)

See: Is This Thing On? from Nothing Feels Good

Sunny Day Real Estate
Lifespan: 1992-1995, 1997-2001, 2009
Members: Jeremy Enigk, Nate Mendel, William Goldsmith, Dan Hoerner
Albums: Diary, Sunny Day Real Estate, How It Feels To Be Something On, The Rising Tide
Labels: Sub Pop Records
Why They’re In March Sadness:
Diary to many is as important as Jimmy Eat World’s Clarity. Though there are so many emo bands not featured on March Sadness, Sunny Day Real Estate is one that could not be skipped over.  (ZZ)

See: Seven from Diary

Brand New
Lifespan: 2000-present
Members: Jesse Lacey, Vinnie Accardi, Garret Tierney, Brian Lane
Albums: Your Favorite Weapon, Deja Entendu, The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me, Daisy
Labels: Triple Crown Records, Razor & Tie Records, Interscope Records
Why They’re In March Sadness:
Deja Entendu translates as “already heard,” which is a little ironic (don’tcha think?) since most of us got totally floored by the maturity and originality behind the powerhouse record. Sure, Your Favorite Weapon, John-Nolan beef song and all, might be more snotty and angst-driven, but Deja Entendu quantum leaped Brand New up the emo scale. Poised, poetic, and brilliantly subtle, Deja Entendu set the gold standard for emo-injected alternative rock for much of the 2000s, at least until Brand New topped themselves in sadness and quality on The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me. (EV)

See: Me vs. Maradona. vs. Elvis from Deja Entendu 

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We’ve talked about doing a fun POZ response to March Madness for well over a year now, and today is the day that we are launching March Sadness - an emo-lover’s substitute for NCAA bracket season (it’s cool if you dig the basketball too, this is just sadder).  

March Sadness consists of a vote-in round (that’s today!) followed by 16-bracket spots broken down into 90’s, Early 2000’s, MId 2000’s, and Modern Day Emo. We are limiting ourselves to 20 bands that will be voted down to 16 by Monday’s Sad 16 launch.

We realize “emo” is both a subjective word and genre, but March Sadness is all about us having fun and interacting as a community. So please click “Read More” below and join us in voting for four out of five of your favorite bands in each emo category through Sunday evening, and the Sad 16 will launch on Monday! 

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Geoff Rickly of Thursday recently covered “Atlantic City” by Bruce Springsteen. Check it out below by clicking “Read More.”

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The Acoustic Basement was one of PropertyOfZack’s favorite stages this past year at Warped Tour, so it is an honor to be sponsoring a satellite run of the tour this February alongside Warped Tour and Full Sail University. Geoff Rickly (Thursday), Vinnie Caruana (I Am The Avalanche), A Loss For Words, Koji, and Brian Marquis will all be playing the tour. Check out the banner above and the dates below by clicking “Read More!”

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Mondays mean BandsOnBands, and we’re excited to be posting the PropertyOfZack feature today with Geoff Rickly (Thursday). Geoff is gearing up to go out on a solo tour with Anthony Green to support his new mixtape, so download the release for free here and check out the tour dates as well.

In this week’s feature, Geoff dives into one of his favorite artists, DJ Shadow. Geoff discusses finding Shadow after already hearing other music he loved in other scenes, but being truly inspired by the kind of music Shadow was making regardless as well as what he thought a DJ was supposed to represent to the hip-hop culture, among many other things. Listen to songs by DJ Shadow here and check out what Geoff had to say about one of his biggest influences below!

From Geoff Rickly:

I was a kid in high school when I first heard DJ Shadow. I already had my bands that I loved, from the goth, industrial, noise, punk, hardcore world I was involved in, to all the mid-nineties hip-hop that I loved to sing in the car as I was learning to drive. For me, so much of being a kid was about defining myself in terms of the cool stuff that I liked. You were your taste. Not your accomplishments, not your friends… The shit you liked. THAT’S who you were.

When I first heard DJ Shadow, it was as high school make-out music. And it’s perfect for that: dark, sexy, rhythmic, new sounding, a little dangerous but deep and full of feeling. The only problem with DJ Shadow as make-out music was that it was too incredible. I couldn’t concentrate on being there, in the moment, for those young, awkward kisses when there was such an undeniable new sound coming out of the speakers.

In my mind, a DJ was supposed to represent hip-hop culture and bring to mind the grittiness of the NYC streets that I was learning to drive on, at the time. DJ shadow had the grittiness but it was submersed in a wash of emotions: sadness, romanticism, nostalgia, bliss. This challenged my world views, my cultural references and my attitude towards how we define ourselves. I stopped trying to push everything into boxes. “Punk should be aggressive, goth gloomy and dark, hip hop real—from the street, folk sentimental, etc, etc.” These notions started to melt away when I realized that music could be a true representation of human feeling, in all its multicolored depths and heights.

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PropertyOfZack spoke with Geoff Rickly a few weeks ago for a great and extensive interview. Geoff and I dived deep into his new solo music, what kind of shift it has been from playing in Thursday, a lose idea of release and touring plans in the future, and much more. Check out the full interview below! 

You made your solo debut this past summer on Warped Tour as a surprise entry. Was that planned all along, or did it come up?
They asked me about a week before the first show to do it. It just so happened to coincide with me losing my apartment at the time, so it was perfect. I didn’t have to find an apartment right away, so it was good.

We knew that you wanted to do solo stuff, but you had yet to release any new music or make a formal announcement. Did it just make you get your business in order early?
Thursday was an intense band situation. We were always on tour, always making records, and always busy. I made a conscious choice not to make another career situation like that. I wanted to do music for it to be fun and to not have it be a career. That was a pretty intense thing for me. The Warped Tour thing just seemed like fun. I’d done it so many times before and it seemed like a good thing to do because I’m not the most confident solo player yet. It was a test. By the end of the summer, I knew I could play. 

You just mentioned not wanting this new chapter not wanting to seem like a career. What in your mind is different from having fun, but also trying to be successful from a career?
I guess the big difference is that I want to do things as they come up. I can say I want to do this tour, and don’t have to think about whether or not I have a record coming out or if I can or cannot get t-shirts printed by then. It’s just to have fun. I don’t have any released, but I’m going out there to test it out and to play some covers or to try a different verse every day in a song. Now I’m recording them and giving away. None of this makes any sense from a business point of view, but it’s just more fun and is what I want to do right now.

We’re a few months removed from Warped Tour now. When did you start recording your mixtape?
I had one song written before Warped Tour started. Going into it, I started writing songs and had a pretty good idea by the end of summer of how I wanted to record them. I was home and moving into a new apartment as well and had a United Nations 7” and another band to finish up. 

On Warped you played some Thursday songs and covers, but what was that like for you? You spent over ten years playing and creating with six people, and suddenly it’s so different.
It’s exciting. I don’t have those guys to rely on. They were such big players that I always knew they’d come to me with a dozen amazing songs with interesting parts all around. Now it’s just me with a guitar trying to do the best I can with almost nothing. It’s a completely different thing. For playing live, I never had to worry about them because they’re so solid. Now I have to carry everything myself. There’s nothing to cover up if I hit a wrong chord. It’s also just my voice in a room. You can hear my intentions more clearly opposed to when you cover it up with all of those instruments. It’s powerful, heavy, and loud, but doesn’t have the same emotional connection. When I hit the loud parts in songs I play now I can see people cringe because it’s a little bit like getting yelled at. It’s very direct. It’s just a really different experience. One’s a lot more like having a conversation with somebody and one’s a lot more like having all kinds of overwhelming forces around you.

Did the writing for this come naturally? We’re used to a very loud and heavy or ambient music from you.
The easiest comparison is to a song I played on Warped Tour called “Time’s Arrow.” It’s a Thursday song, but a song I originally wrote as my first solo song. The band thought it was good and wanted to use it. It turned into a Thursday song, but you could tell it was a solo song. There’s a little bit of Leonard Cohen and Cat Power and PJ Harvey. Those are my main touchdowns for things that I like in my solo stuff more. 

How many tracks are on the mixtape?
It should be five to seven tracks. I’ll do another one in two months. I have stuff for a second tape already, but they don’t fit together. 

So you’re recording these in Brooklyn and will be releasing them for free?
It’s just going to be for free for now. I’m figuring out the best ways to do that because I don’t have infrastructure or anything. So I’m figuring out how much I can pay to host things that may get a lot of traffic or if I want to partner with somebody. I don’t really want to get into a business of building a website, but I don’t want to do it myself. 

That must be new and interesting too. With Thursday, there was a ton of infrastructure throughout your whole career. 
We always had somebody to talk to and help. The scale of it made it that it was an easy choice. If we had to build something, we had a team. Now I’m not sure I want to pay someone to build me a new website. If I want to do it, I’ll do it. If I don’t, I don’t. I hope people enjoy it. I’m not trying to do another Thursday record or to get people to buy a record. It’s not what I’m interested in right now. This is for me. Not for changing the music industry or something like that. I think artists should get paid for their work and supported, but I’m not looking for support right now. It seems more fun to me to do it this way right now. I just want to be a musician for a while.

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PropertyOfZack is beyond thrilled to be sponsoring Geoff Rickly (Thursday), Zena Rd. (Garrett Klahn of Texas Is The Reason), and Terrible Things’ fall/winter house show tour that will be taking place from November 29th in Buffalo, NY through December 4th in Lancaster, PA. To say it’s an honor to be working with these three artists would be an understatement, and we hope you’re all as excited about the tour as we are. Tickets will be limited to 50 per show, so make sure to order yours here!

PropertyOfZack will be bringing you great content before, during, and following the tour, so make sure to keep up to date with us, and don’t forget to head out to a show if you can.

Anthony Green (Circa Survive) and Geoff Rickly (Thursday) will be doing a short solo tour in December. Check out the dates below by clicking “Read More.”

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Geoff Rickly (Thursday), Terrible Things, and Zena Rd. (Texas Is The Reason frontman) are booking a house show tour this winter. Check out all of the details if you have interest in booking a show below by clicking “Read More.”

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