Set Your Goals, Four Year Strong and more to tour
If you like a dash of hardcore with your pop-punk, then prepare to get stoked: recent Epitaph signees Set Your Goals are currently prepping to tear up the road alongside Four Year Strong, Fireworks, The Swellers and Grave Maker.
Here’s the dates:
7/13 Sauget, IL @ Pop’s
7/15 Iowa City, IA...
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07/03 – Tulsa, OK – The Marquee w/ Meese
07/05 – Albuquerque, NM – Launchpad w/ Meese
07/07 – Tempe, AZ – The Clubhouse w/ Meese
07/08 – San Diego, CA – House of...
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May 31, 2009 Malibu, CA Bufest
July 3, 2009 Royal...
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The Stiletto Formal
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Closure in Moscow to Tour with Emery
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6/19 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr. Small’s Theatre
6/20 – Hanover, MD @ Arundel Mills...
Therefore I Am post "I Am Only An Island"
Hardcore unit Therefore I Am posted a new song, "I Am Only An Island," from their upcoming album, The Sound of Human Lives, on their MySpace page. You can check out the new track and its lyrics HERE.
The new album is set to drop June 23. The band will be on the...
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L.A. punk old-timers Punk Rock Karaoke are exactly what their name sounds like: A live punk backline supporting anyone who has the balls to get up onstage and play frontman to guitarists Eric Melvin (NOFX) and Greg Hetson (Bad Religion), bassist Steve Soto (Adolescents) and drummer Derek O’Brien...