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The music scene in New Brunswick, New Jersey has launched careers of bands like Thursday, Screaming Females, and more. Here, we take a deep dive into its storied basement shows.

To properly dissect the best emo albums from 2011, one must not be afraid to use the term “emo” broadly, as this style of music can take shape across multiple genres. In 2011, emo was arguably at its lowest point commercially, as the mid-to-late 2000s boom had slowly faded away at the turn of the decade, followed by the genre’s dip into happier and more neon territory. However, due to ... Read Mor

The 1990s started out with DS-1 distortion pedal grunge bands viciously stomping on the global spandex-wearing hair-metal movement from the decade before and ceremoniously ended with the rise of the baggy-pant rockers of nü metal and bleached-blond boy bands with chiseled faces, courtesy of TRL. How...

Garrett Klahn & The Surrounding Areas have finalized the details of their U.S. fall tour with scattered support from a who's who of emo—Last Days Of April, members of Jets To Brazil, Dashboard Confessional, Christie Front Drive, Mineral, the Promise Ring and of course, Texas Is The Reason. The former f ...

Next week, Garrett Klahn will release his debut solo album and, without question, it’s his best work since coming to prominence with beloved post-hardcore pioneers Texas Is The Reason in the mid-’90s. Filled with heartbreaking acoustic ballads and warm, Sunday morning comedowns, it’s the sound of a grizzled punk vet who can easily recite the track listings of, say, All Things Must Pass, Harvest, D

Texas Is The Reason frontman and current Rise Records solo artist Garrett Klahn is streaming a new single titled "Are We Alright?" His self-titled debut album arrives on January 15, 2016. The New York native will perform in Brooklyn on December 29 in support of the Loved Ones. Pre-ord ...

Photo: Federico Álvarez Garrett Klahn, former frontman of Texas Is The Reason and current Rise Records solo artist, has announced his summer vacation plans. He'll be joined by Florida's Have Gun, Will Travel on the tour, which kicks off July 24 in Tampa, Florida and finishes on September 4 in Washington, DC. Here's the single "I D ...

Garrett Klahn, best known as Texas Is The Reason's frontman, but also a member of Copper, Solea, New Rising Sons, Atlantic/Pacific and Felled Trees (whew, did we forget anything?) has officially joined Rise Records. His first release is a one-song seven-inch for “I Don’t Care At All," which will be the precursor to his debut solo album, Motion For Action. Limited to 500 copi ...

There are blatant ways a band can wear its influences (think cover songs and copycat designs), but there's a subtler method that gets the point across to those in the know. We're talking about songs where an old familiar lyric (or title, in a few cases) is snuck in there. Think ...

Garrett Klahn, best known as the frontman of Texas Is The Reason (but also Solea and Atlantic/Pacific) has announced a European solo tour this summer. "I'll be spending most of June floating around Europe playing some of my favorite cities/venues plus a few that I have yet to visit. I' ...

Texas Is The Reason have decided to perform one more time in the states, tomorrow, Monday, July 22 at Maxwell's in Hoboken, NJ. Here's the band's announcement from Facebook: "A few weeks ago, we found out that MAXWELL'S was closing its doors for good at the end of this month. We were deeply ...

"Is there anything you want to know before we ride off into the sunset?," Texas Is The Reason asked in their latest Facebook post, which you can view below.  The band are giving fans one last chance to fill int he mystery gaps in their career with a video "Exit Interview," before they play their final show in August and close the curtains on TITR.  Fans have ...

They're the shows you begged your parents to buy you tickets for, the ones you camped out and traveled for, the ones that allowed you to see something totally new, or totally awesome. 2013's early winter and spring tours weren't half shabby. Here are o ...

Texas Is The Reason will be performing their final shows as a band in Europe and the UK during July and August. Tour dates are below. Their 16-track retrospective release Do You Know Who You Are?: The Complete Collection is out now on Revelation Records ...

Texas Is The Reason and Into It. Over It. have announced an acoustic show at Criminal Records in Atlanta, GA, on March 9 prior to their scheduled show at Masquerade in the evening. Details for the event are below. TITR frontman Garrett Klahn will also play another acoustic show with IIOI in Buffalo, NY on March 7, details are here. ...

Texas Is The Reason's Do You Know Who You Are? The Complete Collection anthology release is streaming in its entirety over at Billboard. Note that this is the first time tracks ten and eleven, the final two songs written by the band, have been released. Both we ...

When digital and print worlds collide... Listen along via the Rdio playlist below as you read the March, 2013 issue of AP: #296, featuring cover artists Pierce The Veil, features about Motionless In White, The Bronx, Texas Is The Reason, Black Veil Brides and our "Lovers Rock ...

Texas Is The Reason have announced that they will release a 16-song anthology, Do You Know Who You Are? The Complete Collection on February 12, 2013. The release will contain the band's entire discography, along with two songs recorded in 2012. ...

Revelation Records has announced that it will conclude it's 25th Anniversary celebrations with a three-day event at Chicago's House Of Blues January 4-6. Check out the lineups below.  January 4  Gorilla Biscuits Shelter Down To Nothing By A Thread TBA January 5 Gorilla Biscuits Youth Of Today 32 Frames TBA January 6 Texas Is The Reason Into Another Sense Field Popeye (from Farsid

Texas Is The Reason have announced that, for the first time since their 1997 disbandment, they will tour. The band recently played Revelation Records' 25th Anniversary Festival in New York and say that is only the beginning of a proper end for the band. ...