Instead of making fifty posts about all the bands that just announced tour dates, we here at LNWF have decided to give you one, comprehensive post summing it all up. To see dates from Matt Pond PA, Crime in Stereo, The Carrier and more, click after the jump!
For a band that supposedly was on the verge of breaking up at this time last year, Crime In Stereo is doing pretty darn well. In fact, they seem to have undergone a complete 180. The band’s latest …Is Dead has been well received by new and old fans alike, new tours are in the works, and they’ve finally found a label to call home with Bridge Nine. It wasn’t surprising to find Alex Dunne (guitars) and Kristian Halbert (vocals) in very good spirits when Late Night Wallflower got a chance to talk to them after their set at Philly’s First Unitarian Church. No, really. It was at times difficult to transcribe the interview because of all the giggling.
I’m really into the new CD, I’ve been listening to it nonstop since I got it. I noticed it’s pretty different from your older stuff, and I just wanted to go through how that new sound came about, and what made you guys decide to follow that route.
Dunne: Well, there’s really no way to word this properly so I don’t sound like a complete douchebag. But, we love our fans. We love everybody that loves our band, even if they only like the first record or whatever. But anybody that has supported our band in any way, we love you. So let me put that out there.
Halbert: Hallelujah.
Dunne: Aside from that, we all kind of have this opinion like, “Fuck everybody.” And not literally like “Fuck the people who like our band,” you know, we’re very grateful. But as musicians, musically, we have a “fuck you” attitude. We don’t wanna do what people want us to do. We don’t wanna do what people think we’re going to do. Everytime we go to write songs or make a record, it’s really about personal growth. Unfortunately, we can’t take into account the opinions and judgements of every single person that likes our band. It was like “What kind of record can we make?” We thought we really stepped it up on The Troubled Stateside (Nitro), we thought that was some next-level shit. And thats where we were at, and it was time to do some more next-level shit.
Keep reading for more of Leah’s interview with Crime In Stereo after the jump.
Photo by Meghan McInnis
Long Island’s Crime In Stereo will be on the road with screamo vets Poison the Well for the next couple of weeks as they support their latest album, …Is Dead out now on Bridge 9. Dance Gavin Dance and The Chariot will be opening up the dates as they tear up the East Coast. Check them out after the jump!
Philly’s finest hardcore revivalists Paint It Black have divulged some details on their upcoming record release shows. The shows will take place on January 5 and 6th at the First Unitarian Church in Philadelphia. Both shows are jam packed with awesome bands, including The Hope Conspiracy, World/Inferno Friendship Society, Dustheads, and Crime In Stereo, among others.
Why is the band throwing the party a good month before The New Lexicon ( Jade Tree) hits the streets? The boys provided some insight into that.
Read on after the jump for the explanation and a full show lineup.
Long Island melodic punks Crime In Stereo have put up a new track off their upcoming album, Crime In Stereo Is Dead . The track, “But You Are Vast”, can be found at their myspace page here. The group’s new album comes out on October 23rd and is their first with Bridge 9 Records, after their previous label, Nitro Records, turned into a hot sauce manufacturing company. Record release shows for the new album will be announced shortly.
