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Black Squirrel Radio got to chat with Jordan and Michael of Set Your Goals about how life has been on the Vans Warped Tour. We got to hear about the band’s future plans, which include recording new music in the fall. Check out their latest release from Epitaph Records, This Will Be The Death Of Us, as well as their newly released video for the song “Gaia Bleeds.” For more information on the band, check out myspace.com/setyourgoals.
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Andrew W.K. is currently bringing the party to the main stage on the Vans Warped Tour all summer long. We got a chance to chat with him about his “party hard philosophy,” and how the tour has been. He also told us about how this tour is helping to build up momentum that will be leading to a new album in 2011 as well as more touring and even more surprises. Check out his latest release, Close Calls With Brick Walls, and for more information check out www.andrewwk.com
Check out after the jump to hear all the details from our conversation, and to check out some photos of his performance.
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Black Squirrel Radio caught up with Mike Kitlas, Slade Echeverria and Adam Juwig from Phoenix-based pop-rock band Anarbor during their run on Vans Warped Tour.The band is playing the entire tour on the Alternative Press/Advent Clothing Stage. Anarbor dropped their debut full length, The Words You Don’t Swallow, this past April on Hopeless Records. This is Anarbor’s first Warped Tour run, and they say it has been “a dream come true.” They said they have enjoyed checking out bands like Motion City Soundtrack, All-American Rejects, Alkaline Trio and Sum 41 each day on the tour.The band recommends checking out the Keep-a-Breast and Invisible Children while you're perusing the charity tents on Warped. More information on the band is available at www.anarbor.net.
Continue to hear more about Anarbor’s experience on Warped Tour and to check out BSR’s photos from their set!
“We are Closure in Moscow, and we are from the planet earth,” Closure in Moscow’s lead singer Chris De Cinque said as he introduced their set Thursday on the Ernie Ball Stage of Warped Tour 2010. Closure in Moscow, a progressive rock band from Australia signed to Equal Vision Records, is currently on their first Warped Tour run.Black Squirrel Radio caught up with the band’s guitarist and singer Mansur Zennelli to get the details on the band’s sound and upcoming plans. Zennelli likens Closure in Moscow to “satanic death metal meets Teletubbies,” while his bandmate, drummer Beau McKee, mentions comparisons made to The Mars Volta. The band released their debut album, First Temple, May of last year, and Zennelli said it “encompasses who we are and what we are.”The band also has an EP, The Penance and the Patience, under their belt. The band’s immediate touring plans include an extensive trip to Japan, but it is possible we will see them back in the states sometime in the near future.
Continue for audio from our conversation with Mansur Zennelli and pictures from their Warped set, and check out www.closureinmoscow.com for more information about the band.
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Flint, Michigan natives The Swellers have been tearing up the Ernie Ball stage on the Vans Warped Tour this summer. It's all come full circle for the pop punk band, after having played the stage in 2003 in Detroit after winning a battle of the bands, to today as one of the headliners on the stage. We got a chance to chat with vocalist Nick Diener about the tour and the future plans of the band. If you miss your chance to see them on the Warped Tour, you can check them out on tour with Fireworks, Man Overboard and Transit this fall. For more information on the band and their latest release, Ups and Downsizing released by Fueled By Ramen, go to www.theswellers.com.
Click after the jump to hear our conversation with Nick, and to check out some photos of the show.
VersaEmerge is a Florida-based band on its second Warped Tour run.After spending summer 2009 on the Ernie Ball stage, lead vocalist Sierra Kusterbeck said they’ve been seeing much bigger crowds this year on the Glamour Kills stage.VersaEmerge fans, nicknamed “vultures,” have been snagging the band’s new merch item, feathers to be worn in the hair, so fast the band can’t keep the booth stocked.The band says they will have more soon, though! Kusterbeck says VersaEmerge’s sound is “alternative rock, but cinematic at the same time.” The band recently released its first full-length, Fixed at Zero, on Fueled by Ramen.More information is available on the band’s interactive site for the record, fixedatzero.com, or through their social networking sites.Future touring plans for the band are in the works.
Listen below for some of Black Squirrel Radio’s conversation with Sierra and to check out some photos of the band's set.
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Black Squirrel Radio had a team of writers and photographers out at the Vans Warped Tour this year in Cleveland, Ohio. Check out after the jump for two reviews of how the day went and some photos from the festival. Be sure to stay tuned for more BSR exclusive content from the show, including some really rad interviews and photos from the show.
Black Squirrel Radio chatted with some of the members of You, Me, and Everyone We Know at their tour stop in Akron, Ohio. We’ve got all sorts of details about the new album, their signing with Doghouse and a whole lot more. Check it all out after the jump. For more information on You, Me, and Everyone We Know, check out myspace.com/youmeandeveryoneweknow and be sure to check out the band's new single, “Some Things Don't Wash Out” available now on itunes.
We got a chance to talk to Kevin Devine while on his current tour with Thrice. Kevin chatted with us about the tour, his collaboration with Manchester Orchestra, plans for his next album and what music he’s currently digging. Listen to the audio and check out some pictures from the show all after the jump. For more information on Kevin Devine go to myspace.com/kevindevine and be sure to check out his latest release “Brother's Blood,” available now.
Gold Motel’s aptly titled “Summer House” (self-released) is a great pop record from start to finish, featuring retro-laced jams filled to the brim with rich vocals and bouncing melodies.Perfect for a night drive with the windows down or a refreshing afternoon at the beach, “Summer House” has a solid chance of becoming the go-to summertime record for pop-lovers and indie elitists alike.
