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New Found Glory Pittsburgh Show Review

Published

3 years ago

November 8, 2021

Let’s be honest, after the pandemic everyone needs a little reminder of the past fun that was before we were isolated for a whole year. What better way to remind everyone other than the message that Pop Punk’s Not Dead? Well, what if the phrase was turned into a whole tour? That’s right, The Pop Punk’s STILL Not Dead Tour, featuring New Found Glory and Less Than Jake, with special guests, Hot Mulligan and LOLO.

It’s always awesome to give newer bands a chance to shine, especially when they have an opportunity to open for such major artists like Less Than Jake and New Found Glory. First we start off with LOLO, an artist based out of Ontario Canada. Gaining her popularity from TikTok, LOLO is best known for her own takes on influential music, although now has released her own tracks as well. A highlight out of her set was her cover of Teenage Dirtbag, her spin of a pop punk classic originally performed by Wheatus, along with some of her own originals, surely kicking off the night on a high note.

Following LOLO we have Hot Mulligan. An american emo punk band hailing from Lansing, Michigan, this group of guys start their set and waste no time at all. A decent chunk of thie set came from their album, You’ll Be Fine, which released in 2020, including fan favorites such as “BCKYRD” and “*Equip Sunglasses*” in which the band members did indeed, equip sunglasses. Another fan favorite, “I Fell In Love With Princess Peach” off of the title album released in 2017, was also played and was appreciated by all. What’s in store for Hot Mulligan for the rest of the 2021 year you ask? With the release of their latest album, I Won’t Reach Out To You, the band will be heading out on the road on their own headlining tour with Prince Daddy and the Hyena, Sincere Engineer, and Super American, so be sure to check and see if they are coming to a town near you, it sure won’t be a show you want to miss.

We’ve come to the main events, Less Than Jake and New Found Glory. Less Than Jake kicks things off with the Co-Headlining act with a song off of one of their first albums, Losing Streak (1996) with “Automatic”. They then continue onto their very well balanced setlist full of newer songs such as “Lie To Me”, and “The High Cost of Low Living” off of their 2020 album Silver Linings, all to songs such as fan favorites such as “Johnny Quest Thinks We’re Sellouts”, “The Science of Selling Yourself Short”, “Look What Happened” and so many more. Closing their set was an all time favorite, “All My Best Friends Are Metalheads” off of Hello Rockview (1998), which they left the very high bar to their fellow headliner, New Found Glory.

After so much hype, New Found Glory takes the stage. Playing a plethora of variety from their discography, from their most fan favorite album, Sticks and Stones (2002) to their newest album Forever + Ever x Infinity (2021). Some of my favorite highlights included NFG performing “Vicious Love” which originally features Hayley Williams of Paramore, but in this case, featured our erstwhile opener, LOLO. Some other highlights that made the night were the handful of covers that the band performed throughout the night, including “Kiss Me” originally performed by Sixpence None the Richer, “King of Wishful Thinking” by Go West, and “Let It Go” by Kristen Anderson- Lopez and Robert Lopez, to which the lead singer and frontman Jordan Pundik comes out fully dressed as the well known character and original singer of the song, Elsa from Frozen. Finally, they close out the night with an all time favorite,”My Friends Over You”, and the audience did not disappoint. It was truly proven that night in Pittsburgh Pa, the Pop Punk is most certainly, Still Not Dead.

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W.A.S.P. Album One Alive 2024 US Tour

Published

4 months ago

August 21, 2024

Josh Drespling

Hollywood, CA (August 20, 2024) — It is 2024, and W.A.S.P. is celebrating 1984! 40 years ago, the landmark debut album from W.A.S.P. was released on August 17, 1984, and the metal world was knocked on their ass!

The W.A.S.P. “Album ONE Alive” Tour celebrates the debut album by playing the album in its entirety, from start to finish.

To give the fans something every week to celebrate W.A.S.P. is giving away…

• 10 pairs of tickets a week for the length of the US tour.

• Silver Award – Blackie is also giving away each week of the tour two personal meet and greets in his dressing room. In HIS dressing room!

• Gold Award – One lucky fan will win Blackie’s personal certified RIAA award for the debut album.

• Platinum Award – And the Grand Prize, one fan and a guest will be provided airfare and a luxury Hollywood hotel to the final show in Los Angeles, meet the band and stay for the after show, end of tour party.

W.A.S.P. can only celebrate 1984 once and they want to do it big!

To enter all you have to do is visit and enter your email address:
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It was recently announced that Armored Saint will be replacing Death Angel on the tour. W.A.S.P. issued the following statement: “W.A.S.P. is pleased to announce that Armored Saint will now be joining the “Album One Alive” Fall 2024 U.S. Tour. Due to unforeseen circumstances, Death Angel will no longer be able to be a part of this tour. We all wish them the best going forward.”

Tickets and VIP packages available at WASPnati on.com/tour

THE ALBUM ONE ALIVE WORLD TOUR 2024 DATES:

10/26/24 San Luis Obispo, CA @ Fremont Theater*

10/28/24 Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater

10/29/24 Seattle, WA @ Moore Theatre

10/30/24 Vancouver, BC @ Vogue Theatre

11/01/24 Calgary, AB The Palace Theatre

11/02/24 Spokane, WA @ Knitting Factory

11/03/24 Boise, ID @ Knitting Factory

11/04/24 Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot

11/05/24 Denver, CO @ Paramount Theatre

11/07/24 Minneapolis, MN @ The Fillmore

11/08/24 St Charles, IL @ The Arcada Theatre

11/09/24 St Charles, IL @ The Arcada Theatre

11/10/24 Detroit, MI @ Royal Oak Music Theatre

11/11/24 Toronto, ON @ History

11/13/24 Montreal, QC @ MTELUS

11/14/24 Quebec City, QC @ Theatre Capitole

11/15/24 Boston, MA @ Orpheum Theatre

11/16/24 New York, NY @ Hammerstein Ballroom At Manhattan Center

11/17/24 Philadelphia, PA @ Franklin Music Hall

11/19/24 Cleveland, OH @ The Agora Theater

11/20/24 Pittsburgh, PA @ Stage AE

11/21/24 Stroudsburg, PA @ The Sherman Theater

11/22/24 Silver Spring, MD @ The Fillmore

11/23/24 Charlotte, NC @ The Fillmore

11/24/24 Orlando, FL @ The Plaza Live

11/26/24 Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium

11/27/24 Atlanta, GA @ The Eastern

11/29/24 Houston, TX @ House Of Blues

11/30/24 San Antonio, TX @ Aztec Theatre

12/01/24 Dallas, TX @ The Factory in Deep Ellum

12/03/24 Little Rock, AR @ The Hall

12/04/24 Wichita, KS @ The Cotillion

12/06/24 Albuquerque, NM @ REVEL

12/07/24 Tempe, AZ @ The Marquee Theatre

12/09/24 Tucson, AZ @ The Rialto Theatre

12/10/24 San Diego, CA @ House Of Blues

12/11/24 Reno, NV @ Grand Sierra Resort and Casino

12/12/24 Las Vegas, NV @ Brooklyn Bowl

12/13/24 San Francisco, CA @ The Warfield

12/14/24 Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Palladium

* No support acts.

About W.A.S.P.

Few bands in the history of rock n roll have ever incited the love, the hate, and the raw emotional effect this band has had on the world. From the very beginning, in the small venues of Los Angeles, California, and later to the numerous countries worldwide that banned these Winged Assassins from performing live, the band’s unique style of shock and rock caused religious organizations, local city councils, parliaments, and the Washington D.C. Senate to hold hearings in an effort to bar this group from selling records and trashing stages everywhere they played.

The band’s founding member, frontman Blackie Lawless, has led the group as its lead vocalist and primary songwriter since its beginning. His unique brand of visual, social, and political comment took the group to worldwide heights and sold millions of records alongside a legacy of sold-out shows across the globe for 4 decades.

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CD Reviews

Them Damn Kings “Shown With A Fist”

Published

7 months ago

May 20, 2024

Ron

Them Damn Kings from NJ just released a new single “Shown With a Fist”.
If you like your music in your face with a touch of old school rock and roll this is the band for you. It’s got gritty vocals and pounding drums adding in some killer guitar shreds.
It’s a song that you listen to when you want to get into a bar fight or want to drive your car really fast down the highway.
It’s worth a listen, check out the lyric video below with a little bonus guitar mortal kombat shred off.

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Ron

Ron has keen eye for new talent, a love for the underground, and a tremendous passion for music of any genera. You’ll probably bump into him at a horror convention or some seedy club checking out the next need-to-know band.

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CD Reviews

Ashes to Omens “Feed Me More”

Published

8 months ago

May 8, 2024

Ron

Ashes To Omens are a band from Georgia who’s latest single “Feed Me More” has a great sound to it. It reminds me of bands around the mid to late 2000s. They have a good mixture of sound. The song is a perfect blend of hard rock and metal with the vocals very crisp and delivered with passion.

The song “Feed Me More” has a great melody and works well with the bands style and genre of music. It also is a great title to a song because after listening to it I wanted more of the band.

Some will say that it’s very radio rock/metal and sometimes I do have issues with that but I felt that this song even though it does have that feel to it, isn’t just a radio rock song for the sake of being a radio rock song. I think this single is worth a listen to and could possibly be a track that might make your playlist.

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