7 Sisters Entertainment Presents:
Destroy The World

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OTEP, Bury Your Dead, Through the Eyes of the Dead, Destrophy, Legion X, Alternator

"Our music is formed from the marrow of creative intercourse. Art for art's sake. Indeed. And just as Artaud taught: our music is a protest against the senseless constraints that reduce "culture" into an inconceivable Pantheon of humdrum, ineffectual lesser gods and puppets of sterility & puritanism. In antiquity, the Theatre was created as an outlet for all of life's repressions and to proclaim to one and all that life's intensity is still intact. Just as light is born from the burning flame, we must fight for the glow. But we warn you, this music, our message, and these lessons are not for every soul. Some will be devoured. Others reborn. Remember, do not slide into bed with the Devil unless you intend to ***k." - Otep Shamaya

Envy on the Coast & Fall of Troy w/ Special Guests Twin Atlantic Dawn Is Broken

Three years ago, two discouraged friends sat down and imagined what it would be like to play in band without gimmicks, without egos, and without facades. They wondered what itd be like to play with people who shared in their desire to meet every kid, at every show, in every state they played. Without even making a conscious attempt to pursue this concept, they were fortunate enough to find three other friends who shared this desire. Over the course of 3 years, Envy on the Coast was born. The Fall of Troy is everything you wish your band could be - younger, faster, louder, and well... better looking. These are the facts, but don't let it get you down. You're a snowflake, unique in your own way. The heavy songs are bone-crushing, the melodic passages are instantly memorable and, most importantly, the avant-garde experimentation doesn't overshadow the music's inherent accessibility.

Deathloch (CD Release), Reverse Negative Throat Punch TheocracyPainbody Cataleptic Burial

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The Chariot, Greeley Estates, Inhale/Exhale, Memphis May Fire, The Color Morale

Based in Atlanta and coming with Norma Jean's former frontman, the buzz about The Chariot can't be denied. The Chariot is distinctively different lyrically and musically in comparison to Scogin's previous band. Everything is alive, everything is breathing, nothing is dead and nothing is bleeding is without a doubt a top-notch debut album, lengthy song titles and all. It's so hardcore, to the point that even I was taken aback by its intensity. It is indeed what they intended it to be, authentic. It'll be joy to your hearts.

Household & Masquerade present
Infected Mushroom NAPT

Psy-Trance innovators Infected Mushroom have become one of the biggest electronic bands on the planet. Twice ranked among the world’s 10 best DJs by the bible of the scene, the U.K.’s DJ Magazine, the Israel-bred, L.A. based duo bring a frenetic rock energy to the form. Their explosive show, featuring guitars, live drums, intensely passionate vocals and an ambitious multimedia backdrop, ranks among the genre’s most unpredictably joyous events. And their recordings continually venture where other electronic acts fear to tread.

Full Metal Prophet 22 to 7 Dri Whater Armchair VictimCatch 33

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Babylon System Chris Grass Captain Crunk

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Left Lane Cruiser Dead Rabbits Rabbit The Hot & Cold

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Red Jumpsuit Apparatus Fit For Rivals Have You Seen My Ghost That New Retro

What's in a name? Well, it depends who came up with it. In the case of Middleburg, Florida quintet The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, it might mean anything. Jumpsuits can be sleek and fashionable, tight and revealing. Or they can be loose and homogeneous, suggesting redundancy and confinement befitting a jailbird. Red is often flashy and easily noticeable, but it's also the color of blood. And an apparatus allows a jumpsuit to be used for a specific purpose, such as leaping from an airplane - or it could be something sexual. After all, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus are ballsy and emotional, pulsing with vibrancy and tenacity. They're strong, yet vulnerable, and they shift between musical styles with the confidence of superstars.

Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers Suckers

Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson, based on name alone, may sound like a president on first offing, but give his eponymous, debut album a spin and you'll soon realise a more relevant career has presented itself for this 25-year-old Brooklyn bard. This is modern music made the old-fashioned way: take ragged, soulful and completely compelling hymns for tough times, throw into the mix an impressive array of backing musicians, and just record what happens. His sophomore album is Summer of Fear, out October 20th on Saddle Creek Records. New York has been sadly lacking a proper troubadour looking at the stars while mired in the gutter--but in Miles, we have our man.

Goatwhore Enfold Darkness Low Down Carosis

Goatwhore ventures into darker, less conventional territory. Probing the pitch-black recesses of mind and soul in a disturbing, introspective examination of dark forces at work, and unleashing it all with a feral hookiness and atmospheric flare, the band steps beyond the bounds of mere black metal into a realm all its own.

The Atticus Metal Tour Featuring:
Unearth, Stick To Your Guns, The Ghost Inside, Carnifex Veil of Maya

Hailing from Massachusetts, the virtual metal and hardcore capital of North America, Unearth bring a new sense of talent with charismatic riffs, thought provoking lyrics and pummeling breakdowns. Unearth masterfully combine an intoxicating mix of American and European metal with hardcore ethic and punch. This unique approach makes Unearth one of the most abrasive, commanding and emotionally charged groups in the underground scene today.

Alkaline Trio, Cursive The Dear & Departed

Follow me here: Punk rock is like Joan Rivers. In an ongoing quest for eternal youth, it continually tears at the flesh of its own face, pushing and prodding and tightening and twisting until what emerges is a boring old monster that, somehow, everyone is OK with looking at. And this far down the line, punk rock has been reshaped so many times it sometimes looks like a busload of 70-something sun-bunnies in coastal Florida, face lifted into an army of look-a-likes. Somewhere along the ride, its mean spirit left the tuneful bands for hardcore and metal, and punk rock filled with melody became nice. And funny. And safe. And dull as shit. Let's do this.

Wavepool (CD Release Show), Lakehurst is Burning, Karbomb, Campaign

So though thoughts of the water park brings to mind fond memories pf laughing with friends, googling at the girls, frying in the sun, and riding the waves...that's not what Wave Pool is in reference too. The name Wave Pool is meant to represent sound waves pooled together in a way that captures emotion and expresses pieces of life. ;)

FUZE

Free Monthy Drum and Bass Party! Always a crowd pleaser! This event is 18+

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Holiday Parade, Seven Story Fall, Freshman 15 The Media Says

Covering the indie music scene with several other bands, Holiday Parade from Atlanta, Georgia, offers some of the clear, melodic vocals so prominent in the late 1990s and first few years of the new century. Come celebrate with Holiday Parade as they perform their final show ever.

Little Dragon, The Mind Creatures DJ Patrick Scott

From the city of Gothenburg grew the birth of tiny creature. Its breath full of fire passion death and dreams. It lived in a fantasy called the electric forest. This forest was thick with russtling secrets and infintite amounts of pinetrees. On occasional full moons the pine trees would light up in neon auras of lime and turquoise and the ground would shake with a steady rumble. The tiny creature grew into a little dragon. It wrestled with the large wind sometimes. The heat of its breath would weave in with the cool air and make patterns in the sky. Although the creature was a powerful little beast it was light as a feather and would often sleep on the leaf flowing in the breeze. And there it would dream in a dream. These dreams were without visuals and haunted by sounds. electric sounds and beats would pump its little heart and make her sleep walk around the forest like a ghost dancing in the night. And the aching of this lonely creatures heart would be reflected in bittersweet melodies both haunting and happy.

The Masquerade and Mishka Entertainment Present:
Timati

The hottest rapper out of Russia is coming to put it down in the ATL!

RxBandits, The Builders and the Butchers

There are bands that merely "grow," and then there are bands that truly evolve. There are bands that find a sound that works and stick to it like it's their religion, and then there are bands that only use that sound as a foundation, a launching pad into greater things. "We go from reggae to punk to hardcore. We're not lost or confused. We're doing it on purpose," trombone player Rich Balling says. "At first, people might hear the album and say that we're not focused because there are so many styles on it. But that's the opposite of what we're doing. Our focus is all the styles."

Miike Snow, Delorean

From the very first note, you know Miike Snow are Scandinavian. There’s something about the stuttering synthesizer pounding out a graciously major-key melody, with a hint of horns coming in, that is unmistakably Nordic. There’s a long line of this winning, celebratory pop with a melancholic undercurrent, running at least from Abba all the way through A-ha, Bel Canto, and the Sugarcubes; to the Cardigans, Annie, and Röyksopp. And that’s by no means an inclusive list. You can definitely add Miike Snow to the canon, though. Their self-titled debut is one of the most interesting, fun, and hummable pop albums of the past year. Don't miss this show.

The Aggrolites The Bastard Suns I-Tegrity

Out of the Los Angeles school of hard knocks, The Aggrolites have earned a Ph.D in "feel good music." On the road they educate with the thunder and punch of the reggae drums and bass, the ripping, soulful melodies of the organ and guitars, and Jesse Wagner’s voice - a gift from the heavens, a perfectly intact gift from Otis, Sam, Ray and Wilson. The Aggrolites have a specific way of making music. They don't over think it, they don't obsess over pop culture demands, they walk onto a stage or into a recording studio and let "it" happen - a culmination of inspiration - from the road, from playing alongside legends, and from the energy and motivation of their die hard fans. So, when you are in the mood to drop your troubles and kick your baggage to the curb, call on The Aggrolites.

Dillinger Escape Plan, Darkest Hour, I Wrestled A Bear Once, Animals as Leaders

With a planet-beating touring campaign that includes basement shows, a stint on the main stage at this summer’s Vans Warped Tour, a performance at the legendary Cochella festival, and various points in between you can’t miss an Atlanta stop. You’ll wonder right after you pick yourself up off the floor why more bands don’t achieve similar force-of-nature status. What is the mission of the Dillinger Escape Plan? It’s a question Weinman addresses with equal parts melancholy, unwavering determination and humor. "I’ve been trying for a while to have someone explain that to me," he says, laughing. "Seriously, Option Paralysis represents why we’re here and why we’re still making music. We started at a time when there wasn’t all this access to the larger world. Our only goal was to make a small dent in the scene that we were in. The fact we’ve made it this far and that we’re still relevant is really special to me. I feel that it is extremely important for bands like us to continue to represent the ethic and attitude that was present during a time that doesn't exist anymore." "That," he says, pausing to smile. "And I have to pay my mortgage somehow"

Foxy Shazam Young Veins Bad Rabbits 80's Prom Date

Shazam has spent their career writing, recording and carving their groove into the regional music scene with their loud attachable musical nonsense backed up by their tideflunkty and marzegatie stage show. Foxy Shazam has strived to become a band that can take a non-directional sound and make it directional; utilizing blasphermizized piano and sloppy oof bass and guitar licks to create very organized noise which collides doosledly with a tastefully skewed pop sensibility. Foxy’s unkuating sound is compiled from a wide thing that is very big of influences from 50’s & 60’s-style surf guitar to commercial jingles all balanced flangouriusly underneath vocals that range from bashedmert to almost “fairytale”.

Trance Atlanta Featuring: DJ Syntronik DJ Damian Cipriani DJ Brian Tedder DJ Dividend$

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Killola The Julia Dream Sick of Sarah

"We do us. We've been making rock music as a surgical-unit since 2003. Some call it "alt-pop", some call it "hard rock". We tour hard, we push hard, we're generous (free music for you), and we've done it all with our own means." -Killola

Alesana, A Skylit Drive, Of Mice and Men, The Word Alive, We Came as Romans

Alesana has come a long way in order to bring you their musical vision and incendiary live performance. Exploring the heights of love and the lows of heartbreak and bitterness that often follow, Alesana's music strikes a universal chord with audiences around the world. Fans embrace the emotional sincerity and undeniable intensity of the music while reveling in the reckless abandon with which Alesana performs.

DRI, The Despised Anger Within

Evolving out of a defunct hardcore band called the Suburbanites. Singer Kurt Brecht, drummer Eric Brecht (his brother), and bassist Dennis Johnson had all played in that outfit, and with new guitarist Spike Cassidy in tow, they renamed themselves Dirty Rotten Imbeciles, after a frequent insult from the Brechts' father (who objected vehemently to their rehearsals). Started out as a punk band, then got thrashier and thrashier. DRI is considered the first band that used the blast beat on their song "No Sense!".

Almost Legendary Age of Consent Asher & Quick

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Red Chroma Kadense

Still riding the momentum of its huge-selling Grammy-nominated debut album End of Silence, Red returns with Innocence & Instinct, a provocative new album forged in a perfect storm of inspiration and catastrophe. From the literary spark of Dante's Inferno to the bloody aftermath of a 75-mph highway crash, Red absorbed a flood of ideas and emotions that empowered the band to create next generation rock songs. Finding the sonic sweet spot where epic and primal converge, Innocence & Instinct features animated dynamics that super-charge its innocence vs. instinct theme. They’ll be rocking it out on tour right here in Atlanta so come show some love

Masquerade and Tight Bros Network Presents
Major Lazer, Rusko, Sleigh Bells

Major Lazer is a Jamaican commando who lost his arm in the secret Zombie War of 1984. The US military rescued him and repurposed experimental lazers as prosthetic limbs. Since then Major Lazer has been a hired renegade soldier for a rogue government operating in secrecy underneath the watch of M5 and the CIA. His cover is that of a dancehall night club owner from Trinidad and he enlisted the help of long-time allies and uber-producers, Diplo and Switch, to produce his first LP. His true mission is to protect the world from the dark forces of evil that live just under the surface of a civilized society. He fights vampires and various monsters, parties hard, and has a rocket powered skateboard. Won't you come play?

Tight Bros Network, Speakeasy Promotions, and The Masquerade Present: GZA

Throughout his various projects with the Wu and classic appearances on other member’s side projects, GZA maintained a reputation as a skilled wordsmith with a highly recognizable and authoritative delivery. "There’s always a double or triple meaning when I’m rhyming, that’s the good thing about it, says the cerebral MC. People can listen to something over and over and hear something different every time. That’s what writing is about. I don’t want to be simple, I don’t want to be literal." GZA

Pendulum (Album Preview DJ Set) Featuring MC Verse Trench Kujo w/ Kakarot MC + Arion Lee

This show is 18+ Formed during 2002 by three musicians from Western Australia with similar visions and musical backgrounds, Pendulum’s mission has always been to pull together their production resources, ideas and influences from various styles of music, to create a new sound that they felt was missing from dance music. One of the most visceral and exhilarating live experiences around (“One of the most enthusiastic reactions afforded a main stage act in Big Day Out history,” observed Kerrang! “Phenomenal doesn’t even come close”),

Kreator, Kataklysm, Evile, Lasarus AD, Lightning Swords

Combine extreme music with an edgy, biting implacability, complement it with politically motivated lyrics that have a distinct tendency to point the finger at grievances and aren't afraid of exposing abhorrent facts, and you just might get a sense of the pandemonium of sounds of Germany's cult thrash metal act, Kreator. The band proves themselves to be unusually innovative and a step ahead of the game, always ready to pursue new ideas and treat themselves and their fans to maximum authenticity. With their latest release, Hordes of Chaos, Kreator are proved experts when it comes to pure, unadulterated thrash metal.

FEAR FACTORY Winds of Plague Dirge Within Periphery

Rarely can a musical artist claim to be a true innovator, a creator of their own genre, a revolutionary amongst a sea of sameness. Having invented the “cyber metal” sound, Fear Factory is one of those rare case. Formed in Los Angeles in 1990, Fear Factory entered the metal scene with a crushing debut with 1992’s Soul Of A New Machine. Combining death metal with an industrial influence, the original lineup of vocalist Burton C. Bell, drummer Raymond Herrera, guitarist Dino Cazares and bassist Andrew Shives was onto something that had not been widely explored. Even Fear Factory’s earliest sound was immediately distinguishable by Herrera’s intense machine-like drumming and Bell’s tremendous dual vocal style, which seemed to effortlessly switch between animalistic growls and clear, operatic tones. Fear Factory had set a new standard in extreme music, a standard they would continue to bear to this very day.

A Day To Remember, August Burns Red, Silverstein

It would be almost too easy and obvious to describe A Day To Remember as the creators of one of the unforgettable rock albums of 2007, but that wouldn’t make it any less true. Hailing from Ocala, Florida, the five members of A Day To Remember have crafted a unique blend of what can best be called "pop-mosh" a potent combination of ultra-high energy and tart-sweet melodies. It’s melodic chaos.

A Day To Remember, August Burns Red, Silverstein

It would be almost too easy and obvious to describe A Day To Remember as the creators of one of the unforgettable rock albums of 2007, but that wouldn’t make it any less true. Hailing from Ocala, Florida, the five members of A Day To Remember have crafted a unique blend of what can best be called "pop-mosh" a potent combination of ultra-high energy and tart-sweet melodies. It’s melodic chaos.

The Big Pink, A Place to Bury Strangers

Love’s infinite and sublime vicissitudes have proved a draw for creative sorts since time immemorial, its landscape mapped by every artist who ever felt the rush of oxytocin to the brain’s prefrontal cortex. Not that Robbie Furze and Milo Cordell are daunted. This year’s recipients of the Philip Hall Radar Award, they’ve crafted a sound that could variously be described as ‘big’ and ‘F-off massive’. This is evident from the first minute of their debut, when ‘Crystal Visions’’ ambient atmosphere of chiming guitars is exploded in a wave of gristly feedback and droning vocal – if anyone’s got the scale to ‘do love’, then it’s probably them. Don’t want to miss this one!

Chunklet Presents: Ted Leo and The Pharmacists with Special Guests Gentlemen Jesse

Ted Leo, one of rock's last great intellectual populists, likes to throw you. Now on his fifth album, Living With the Living, the thirtysomething rocker still prefers the same music he's probably loved since his teens: the smarty-pants punk and new wave of turn-of-the-1970s UK labels like Stiff; the amped-up rhythm'n'soul of 60s mod and ska; the rangy heavy rock of Thin Lizzy; the hard-strumming folksiness of 80s indie; and the idealism impressed on him by American hardcore.

The Morning Of Sparks The Rescue Ian Walsh

These young, yet seasoned touring artists have built their grass roots following as well as their songwriting abilities from the ground up through years of touring and hard work, which is a rare and under-appreciated sight in today's music industry. The music is absolutely superb with a catchy sound. Keep your eye out for The Morning Of because they're just getting started!

Yeasayer, Javelin

Yeasayer are a quartet that accomplishes no small task: transcending genre. They can be seen as successors to the genre-defying Brooklyn scene defined by trailblazing. Yeasayer make a baroque folk-rock that sounds both futurist and tribalist at once; fashioning a casually-indefinable collage of four-part harmonies, junkyard percussion, horror-movie synth squelches, and spidery guitar-lines.

Copeland, I Can Make A Mess Like Nobody's Business, Person L, Deas Vail

Every so often, a band comes into the music scene and establishes an enigmatic relationship with their fans. Not in a Radiohead-esque way, but they look just a little bit deeper than everyone else and their fans grow fiercely loyal, just as the haters ruthlessly defend their feelings. Copeland is one of those bands. Expect heavy distortion layered over several of the songs, interesting timings, and what seems like a full orchestra of instruments. Don’t miss them!

The Masquerade Presents @ Centerstage Theater
Blue October Hurricane Bells Stars of Track and Field

Masquerade brings Blue October back to Atlanta. This show takes place at Center Stage at the CW Midtown Complex at the corner of 17th Street / West Peachtree. Tickets are available at the Masquerade as well as Center Stage.

This Providence, The Audition, Anarbor, The Bigger Lights

With its animated energy and strong, soulful lyricism, THIS PROVIDENCE marks the coming of a genuinely inspiring new band. Songs like are rich with passionate riffs and heartfelt emotions that are both deeply individual and universally approachable. Having toured non-stop, This Providence have already earned a fervent following throughout the country. The bighearted melodic rock they play will see the quartet bringing their joyful noise to The Masquerade. Get your tickets!

Appleseed Cast Swank Motel

The Appleseed Cast started their musical experiments in the second half of the 90's, toured the world, put out 4 full-length albums, and now arrive at a precarious place in their career. They've been there... but they haven't done this yet. There is a road to travel, even crawl (black and blue and half drunk sometimes), before a band can reach their catharsis. Not the figurative one, not the one in which bands speak of because it sounds profound in interviews. I'm talking about the authentic, honest, and humbling experience of truly releasing everything in the bag to one distinct piece of work. It's cleansing, and an amazing province that The Appleseed Cast have saddled and made theirs from the beginning of the ride and will go on until the very last second.

JJ Grey & Mofro, Band of Heathens

Like Florida’s state flower, the orange blossom, musician JJ Grey’s songs are fascinating, beautiful, and complex. Both are products of the same ground: the rich, fertile and ancient soil of the Sunshine State. Born and raised just outside of Jacksonville, Florida, Grey comes from a long tradition of Southern musical storytellers and, like the best of the great Southern writers, he fills his songs with details that are at once vivid and personal, political and universal. His multi-textured music overflows with dynamic rhythms and thought-provoking lyrics. From raw funk to deep soul, blues and rock, JJ and his band Mofro deliver devastating live and recorded performances.

Story of the Year, Maylene and the Sons of Disaster, After Midnight Project

Straight from the heart of St Louis, Cometh five humans with rock and roll powers unlike most citizens of Earth. In the immortal and ever knowing words of one Bill S. Preston Esquire and Ted Theodore Logan, Story of the Year have proven themselves "most triumphant. Story of the Year takes pride in knowing that they are undoubtedly one of the hardest working bands in the universe… not to mention one of the hardest rocking. Don’t miss this show.

Anybody Killa

ABK, born James Lowery, was raised on the eastside of Detroit with an upbringing surrounded by his Native American culture. Being the son of a preacher, he got the advantage of always sitting up front, right next to the piano in church. It was there he began his love and passion for music. To hear the music from the piano, and the voices from the choir sending such strong messages, gave him such a feeling, that feeling gave him inspiration. In 2007, ABK surprised Juggalos everywhere by coming back to the Main Stage at the Gathering of the Juggalos. Within a few months he was back in talks with his homies from Psychopathic Records, and in early 2008, the Juggalo world was rocked by the news that he had returned to Psychopathic! With his Hatchet homies at his back, ABK is preparing to keep takin that Native Funk worldwide. He continues to perform and record, and his newest Psychopathic album, Mudface, is in stores now!

Bone Thugs N Harmony

The rise of Cleveland's Bone Thugs-N-Harmony is a classic example of the American Dream, a group of five young "brothas" who had a goal and would not allow any barriers to stop from attaining this goal. Layzie Bone, Krayzie Bone, Wish Bone, Flesh-N-Bone and Bizzy Bone went from being broke, hungry and homeless in 1993 to watching their brand of flowing, rolling, rapid-clip, harmonized rap -- dubbed the "Cleveland Sound" -- hit the top of the charts.

High on Fire, Priestess, Black Cobra, Bison

With a heavy-handed approach and a sound that crashes like thunder, HIGH ON FIRE has put the power back in 'power-trio'. Less a band than a supersonic exercise in conquest by volume and sheer heaviness, the band has burned the metal rulebook and forged a new archetype. They get straight to the point, bashing away with a Neaderthal sense of purpose and creating hypnotic, droning waves of powerful riffs and low-end thunder of the likes not heard before.

Jedi Mind Tricks

Jedi Mind Tricks reps Philadelphia, but unlike the neo-soul sound you may equate with the 215, they are in touch with Philly’s grimier side. Known for Vinnie Paz’s edgy, violent lyrics and Stoupe's unique production, Jedi Mind Tricks has crafted a sound over the years that the Roots probably wouldn’t touch with a 10 foot pole. JMT boast a long list of collaborations with both regional MC's and rap veterans, including Kool G Rap, GZA, R.A. the Rugged Man and Mr. Lif, and their songs are riddled with paranoia, conspiracy theories, and ancient Middle-Eastern mythology. Vinnie Paz has formally declared himself to be a follower of Islam, and manages to reference this numerous times on record in between his trademark aggressive lyrical attacks. Between their multiple albums and EP’s, JMT’s discography is longer than many who have been in the game twice as long, proving that there is more than one way to get business done in Philly.

Rockstar Energy Drink Presents the AP Tour
featuring Never Shout Never, w/ Special Guests Hey Monday, The Cab, Every Avenue, The Summer Set

Never Shout Never has an Island feel to it, with a down-to-earth acoustic guitar to back him up. The songs are heartwarming and story-like, but they are incredible catchy and will make you smile without a doubt. Alongside them this year for the AP Tour are: Hey Monday, The Cab, Every Avenue, and The Summer Set.

Local H, Kinch

Coming in at the tail end of the alternative-rock era, Local H injected enthusiasm into the genre, if not originality; they seized their moment as if playing hooky from school. A duo from Zion, IL (guitarist Scott Lucas and drummer Joe Daniels, later replaced by Brian St. Clair), Local H are the latest in a long line of post-Nirvana grunge bands, but with a twist. They play sternum-smashing melodies that verge on satire, bratty rock & roll Davids poking fun at corporate-rock Goliaths and clueless bullies. At its worst, their humor comes off a touch smug and the music derivative.

FUZE

Free Monthy Drum and Bass Party! Always a crowd pleaser! This event is 18+

Tickets can be purchased directly through the bands

Dear Enemy, Souls Harbor, Sid Aerial, Breaking Vegas South City Riot

In nature, the "Dear Enemy" effect occurs when powerful rivals agree to cooperate for the greater good rather than slug it out. That phenomenon happens all too rarely in the ultra-competitive music world, but great things can happen when it does, and Atlanta's Dear Enemy is proof. Come support your hometown boys!

George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic

An American musician and the principal architect of P-Funk. He was the mastermind of the bands Parliament and Funkadelic during the 1970s and early 1980s, and is a solo funk artist as of 1981. He has been called one of the most important innovators of funk music, next to James Brown and Sly Stone. Clinton is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic.

School Boy Humor, Amely, Action Item

It’s one thing to dream, and entirely another to make that dream reality: If you’re not willing to lay it all on the line, all the talent in the world still won’t bring you any closer to your goal. Despite their youth, this is something that School Boy Humor knows all too well. From their not-so-distant days playing the clubs and basements of Little Rock, Arkansas all the way to your stereo, SBH have already traveled far and wide to get here, and their time has just begun. Running down the list of setbacks endured and sacrifices the band have made—everything from poverty to estranged parents to axed athletic careers—you have to wonder just what keeps the quartet going. Then you hear the songs, and it all makes sense.

Murder By Death Ha Ha Tonka Linfinity

Though they've had eight years to refine their sound and vision, Murder By Death rolled out of the gates fully realized in 2000, playing a blend of rocking Americana noir and dramatic post-punk that erased old style and audience boundaries as much as it tested the limits of new ones. And with their fourth album and Vagrant debut, Red Of Tooth And Claw (3/4/08), the Bloomington, Indiana, quartet are emerging as true artists in the zero-boundary sense: cinematic storytellers whose albums come together in an essential whole, and players whose jaw-dropping performances on record make you yearn for the chance to experience their energy up close and in person. Turla and cellist Sarah Balliet have degrees in religious studies and anthropology; however, beyond the band members’ book-smarts lies a shared love not only of American roots music, but of the gut-level emotion at that music’s core. It’s one thing to be a rock band that writes concept albums, but MBD is not drawn to the sort of clinical, pretentious trappings usually associated with that idea. As Turla explains, "The real energy in our songs comes from stuff like the sexual tension, the murder, the drinking and basically any other dirt you find between the lines."

Cannibal Corpse 1349 Skeletonwitch Lecherous Nocturne

Proving technical dexterity, diabolic vocal grunts and a penchant for serial killers, zombies and gore of all shapes, sizes and textures, Cannibal Corpse won over the hearts of many a metal extremist and have since become a harrowing household name. Since the bands inception they have sold millions of albums world wide and show no sign of slowing or bowing down to the ever changing metal genre. Massive tours throughout the U.S. and Europe as well as Australia and South America only underscored the band's staying power…and all this with zero commercial radio presence and minimal video play. Simply put, they rock.

Little Boots, Dragonette, French Horn Rebellion

"Pop" is easy to write and even easier to say, but it's not so easy to pull off successfully. Victoria "Little Boots" Hesketh has been outspoken in embracing the term. "A pop song is just this three-and-a-half-minute nugget, but it can be so powerful," the synth-toting songstress from Blackpool, England, told Carson Daly the night of her first L.A. show. "My problem with a lot of mainstream pop artists-- I love the songs, and I think they're great songs a lot of the time, but they don't have enough character for me."

Echovalve and Pop Evil with Joan Red

Echovalve is the epitome of emotion, creativity, and raw energy. A group of guys hell bent on not following a pattern or formula, they pour their lives out in their blend of in your face rock music. The diversity of sound they encompass is a direct reflection of each individual's very different musical background and their respective influences. Not every band's history includes homelessness, living on the streets and drug problems so severe that one band member was declared clinically dead following an overdose (yes, Nikki Sixx, you're not the only one.) But while these problems would usually spell the end of a band, Echovalve used their past as fuel, a source of musical inspiration, to rise like that mythical phoenix from the ashes of their own self-destruction, now brimming with fire and passion and ready to unleash the monstrous beast of their music onto the world. Prepare yourself for the sonic assault that is Echovalve. Pop Evil formed in 2001 when lifelong friends Dave, Dylan and Leigh began seriously gigging around Grand Rapids. In 2005, they recorded their debut EP with acclaimed producer Al Sutton (Kid Rock). Quickly, Leigh and Co. unleashed their first single "Somebody Like You" on local radio station 97.9 WGRD. The track was quickly bumped into regular rotation and it became the most requested tune on the station. Local buzz began to build more and more after the band's radio success. In 2007, Pop Evil rounded out their current lineup with Tony and Matt. Solidifying their creative core, they went back into the studio and cut "100 in a 55," which landed them at #1 again on WGRD. When they get together, singer Leigh Kakaty, bassist Matt DiRito, drummer Dylan Allison and guitarists Tony Greve and Dave Grahs make fist-pumping rock with edge and heart. Leigh explains, "We're very driven by classic rock, and we're more worried about writing good songs than creating a sound. If it gets us excited, we go with it." Pop Evil push out a propulsive combination of epic guitar leads, massive sing-a-longs and bombastic beats on songs like "Breathe" and "100 in a 55." When all is said and done, these five men provide the proverbial kick in the pants that hard rock needs these days.

Frightened Rabbit

You are currently reading about Frightened Rabbit. They are a band who live in Glasgow and have done for some time. They record in bedrooms, cupboards and kitchens. Anyone can be in Frightened Rabbit. They have played some live shows in this city, but want to meet people from other cities, in order that they can come and blow into tubes when they play live. Lets keep pop music alive by getting it out of that dress and into a sweater.

Faith And The Muse Paul Mercer/Ghost Project

Amidst a diverse musical background ranging from Dark Alternative Rock and Electronica to World Music & Neo-Classical, to Jazz, Avant Garde and Folk, Faith And The Muse provide one of the rarest experiences in art, theater and music. As artists and songwriters, William Faith and Monica Richards have created their own unique universe by allowing no boundaries to the music they write, reaching across historical genre and cultural style. From personal acoustic pieces and traditional/tribal folk melodies to grand orchestral production and dark rock epics, this diverse combination of simplicity and complexity places Faith And The Muse in their own musical category.

Sonata Arctica, Mutiny Within, Powerglove, Tetrarch

Burning through a couple of different names, some odder than others (including the ever hilarious Tricky Beans), the group that would be known as Sonata Arctica decided on this name, and have been going strong ever since. The 5 piece outfit hails from Finland, and plays power metal, similar in the vein of Stratovarius, though many consider them much better. They have six full length releases to their credit, each an essential piece of power metal history. Full of fast riffs, pounding double bass, excellent guitar and keyboard solos, and some of the best vocals in power metal, Sonata Arctica de ...read more Burning through a couple of different names, some odder than others (including the ever hilarious Tricky Beans), the group that would be known as Sonata Arctica decided on this name, and have been going strong ever since. The 5 piece outfit hails from Finland, and plays power metal, similar in the vein of Stratovarius, though many consider them much better. They have six full length releases to their credit, each an essential piece of power metal history. Full of fast riffs, pounding double bass, excellent guitar and keyboard solos, and some of the best vocals in power metal, Sonata Arctica deserve every right to be one of Finland's finest.

Alexisonfire Trash Talk Therefore I Am La Dispute

This is it. It sounds like a guy with a pretty voice getting into an argument with a guy who is kind of upset about things, while a guy who really likes punk is laughing with a guy who likes to rhyme while there is a guy who looks like a rat keeping time. Get it?

2Cents

Cage, Destroy, Destroy, Destroy Halcyon Way Brazen Angel Eclipsed By Sanity Arktide

Sean Peck on recent shows: Well we’ve been playing a lot of all ages shows and the pits are just insane. Especially our new stuff cause it’s got a lot of thrash beats and some blast beat stuff in it. We’ve been doing nothing, but all ages shows in California. There’s just like a four deep line of long haired heads headbanging up and down and behind that is just a pit of severity and then stage divers the whole way through. It got me re-energized about the scene. We play with a bunch of death metal and screamo bands and then we get up and do our thing and the kids are just like, “holy shit what is this!”

Local Natives Suckers

Originating from Southern Cali, this indie rock quintet refers to themselves as a vocal group more so than a guitar band. The group consists of three strong vocalists, all of which also write. They are often compared to groups such as Arcade Fire and Vampire Weekend. Their debut album Gorilla Manor is referred to as exhilarating, sending out the message "life's Complicated but joyous". Formerly known as Cavil At Rest, Local Natives are beginning to impact the music scene with their fresh name, original sound, and amazing creativity. Their current tour is believed to be a mere stepping stone to an amazing career ahead for the young five. This is one tour NOT to be missed.

Bleeding Through, Born of Osiris, Sleeping Giant, Oceano Dead To The World

Probably the county's biggest misfits, Bleeding Through doesn't play pop, ska, hardcore, or even punk (though they sure look like the latter), but rather crushing aggro-death-core popular among many American post-screamo bands of the mid-2000s. The pain, frustration, and despair of the preyed upon and forgotten have been fashioned into a sharpened point through their music. Skeletons come forth from the closet, secrets are revealed, and broken promises arise from dirtied earth.

The Noise Pollution Tour 2010

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Saliva

Memphis. It's a place where music isn't just played; it's created. From that legacy comes Saliva. On the quintet's 12-song Island debut, Every Six Seconds, Saliva bring the sturm und drang of hard rock together with hip-hop, grunge and sheer, unbridled mayhem, while still preserving the spirit and soulful intensity of its forebears. Every Six Seconds, the name chosen by frontman Josey Scott because "life cycles seem to happen every six seconds," is the sound of tradition beginning a new cycle and forging on into the 21st century. "We were all after the same thing -- I can say that," says Scott, a fourth-generation musician who, like most of the members of Saliva, had established himself through years of service in the Memphis music scene before forming the band. "We were after something really undeniable, sort of heavy and melodic. We were all in these bands that were not getting our rocks off stylistically; we really wanted to build great songs."

Asking Alexandria We Came As Romans From First To Last Our Last Night A Bullet for Pretty Boy

Asking Alexandria smashes out of the gates with a crystalline guitar tone that makes tasteful use of some effect-pedal ear-candy. And the synthesizers are sublime, serving more as a backdrop of differently darkened hues and moods, rather than providing an overbearing presence like those from so many other bands of this ilk. Danny Worsnop’s guttural growls and tortured temper-tantrums aren’t just your run-of-the-mill Cookie Monster approximations that predictably grumble on the verses and then switch back to normal singing on the choruses — his Jekyll and Hyde is more complicated than that. They might have you wondering if they’re prone to vomiting blood.

YIP YIP, ALL LEATHER

Born out of a high-school friendship in March 2001 in the Orlando suburb of Winter Park, FL, quirky electronica duo Yip-Yip (Brian Esser and Jason Temple) didn't set out to perform live shows. Instead, they concentrated on making music at home, using a variety of keyboards, samplers, and other instruments to create their unique NES-meets-noise sound that eschewed melody for pattern and idiosyncrasy. In 2001 they self-released their debut full-length, 1, with Skills appearing the following year. In 2003 the EP High Heel to Mammal was released, and it was also around this time that Yip-Yip decided to start playing live shows. They started to appear locally, booking their first real tour in 2004 and continuing onward from there, helping to make a name for themselves by playing videos and wearing matching hooded jumpsuits (either white or black-and-white checkers) on-stage. In 2004 they pressed a limited number of their third full-length, Pro-Twelve Thinker, which was then picked up by California-based Strictly Amateur Films and reissued the following year. Though on a label, the band continued to do its own artwork and recording, releasing a couple of singles and an album, In the Reptile House, before showing up at New York's CMJ Festival in the fall of 2006 and 2007 and issuing yet another full-length, Two Kings of the Same Kingdom, in the winter of 2008.

The Business, The Hollowpoints, We Won't Stop

Oi!, street rock, punk, whatever you want to call it, the name of The Business is bound to come up within 5 minutes of conversation. Having written legendary albums and tunes throughout their career, the new EP shows that the band is still absolutele THE BUSINESS! Micky Fitz, Trots, Tosh & Bundie prove beyond any doubt that this is the most formidable line-up The Business has spawned! This will showcase The Business at their best, hard yet melodic, in a class of their own.

The Spill Canvas, Tyler Hilton, AM Taxi, New Politics

Picture your next-door neighbor, noticeably talented, quietly charming and extraordinarily friendly. You watch him growing up in the home beside your own, fostering a deep love of music, learning to play the guitar, encouraged by his father to pursue an exploration of these sonic landscapes and claim them for his own. Years pass and one day you look out the window and realize the little boy next-door has become a full-fledged musician-and the members of your small town aren't the only ones who know it.

Household & The Masquerade Present
Shpongle The Charlie P Live Experience w/ MJ of Household and Adrian Ash on Percussion Chris Grass

This Show is 18+ Dongle and Mongle are the only two other words rhyming with Shpongle...a strange hybrid of electronic manipulation and shamanic midgets with frozen digits squeezing the envelope and crawling through the doors of perception, find a new pair of dice...extra numbers and colours an infinite expanding bubble, filled with a bizarre, strange world of dripping hallucinatory wallpaper, a garden of earthly delights...........Shpongleland.....a place of well being, and reflective surfaces, morphing like an Anacondas skin and shimmering like a million colour changing squid, at fifty fathoms.. truly unfathomable like separating water from it's wetness, the Ineffable Mysteries unweave .....

Masquerade and Household Present:
Glitch Mob Free The Robots Deru

The Glitch Mob is a four man musical collaboration with roots from San Francisco and Los Angeles. What initially started as a joke/loose affiliation soon stuck as edIT, Boreta, Kraddy and Ooah found themselves frequently playing the same shows and eventually tag teaming during back to back time slots. This eventually led to the four man sonic onslaught of ferocious bass, head cracking drums and infinitely complex rhythms. A proverbial Voltron effect on stage. Taking influences from hip-hop, experimental, and dance genres, The Glitch Mob have crafted their own form of futuristic dance floor hip-hop that has been "slaying" audiences world wide. Their live sets reinvent the dj “tag-team” concept with four performers on stage at once, interacting like a jazz combo, each taking the lead at intuitive moments, interweaving their own sounds, and remixing everything on the fly. The result is a sound distinctly their own, blending the deep head nod of hip-hop with serious bass music, throwing genre distinctions out the window. The Glitch Mob has been one of the cornerstones of this new electronic hip hop movement that has emerged from Glasgow to Montreal and back to Los Angeles. Taking a nod from the resurgence in the instrumental hip-hop "beats" movement, the Glitch Mob has injected a great sense of dance floor sensibility into the scene and crafted their own niche as new school dance floor destroyers. Members of The Glitch Mob have individually released music on their own imprint Glitch Mob Unlimited which is a subsidiary of Los Angeles' Alpha Pup Records.

Tickets on sale for this show 3/12/2010

Agnostic Front DSK

In today’s civilization, people continue to suffer undergoing the grief, corruption, oppression and exploitation without a way to elude their troubles. Many have lived through these problems for ages, and the moment one tries to fight for what they believe is right, the elite brings them down and their voices are disregarded. For over a decade, AGNOSTIC FRONT has helped get these messages across to the populace to help solve these problems through socially driven music known as "hardcore". Be here.

FUZE

Free Monthy Drum and Bass Party! Always a crowd pleaser! This event is 18+

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Converge Harvey Milk Gaza Lewd Acts Black Breath

Incredibly prolific punk-metal road dogs Converge were formed in 1990 and after several singles and the requisite growing pains, released their first full-length, Halo in a Haystack, in 1994. By the release of their fourth full-length, Jane Doe in 2000, Converge were regarded as one of the most original and innovative bands to emerge from the punk underground. A quartet consisting of Jacob Bannon, Kurt Ballou, Nate Newton and John DiGiorgio, the band also found time to lend out members to various side projects, including Kingdom of the Sun, Old Man Gloom and Kid Kilowatt (the short-lived band that also included members of Cave In). Trudging along, the band during that time played over 600 shows with varying success -- their hard work made it possible for them to retain their cult status within the punk underground without the kind of commercial success that has vaulted other punk bands into the middle of alternative rock radio and press.

Reverend Horton Heat with Cracker, Legendary Shack Shakers,

Recently, the Reverend Horton Heat, aka Jim Heath, had something along the lines of what he calls an epiphany. He's a little tired of being taken so seriously-well, maybe not seriously, exactly, but you get the idea-and lately he's noticed that some of his funnier, country-tinged songs were his biggest crowd pleasers. Besides, being entertaining is what this is all about, right? So, ladies and gents, roll your smokes up in your sleeve and hold on to your cowboy hats, it's time to take a trip back to a time before slick, over-produced country became the norm-a time when outlaws wrote songs about being without a pot to piss in-or at least about psycho exboyfriends and deadbeat girlfriends that spend your paycheck faster than you can say Lone Star.

Mono Twilight Sad

The creaking of old wooden chairs as the orchestra rocks in their seats (both literally and figuratively), puckered lips rolling along flutes, and even the conductor's opening cue can be heard during the hauntingly quiet opening moments. While Hymn continues to mine the cinematic drama inherent in all of MONO's music, the dynamic shifts now come more from dark-to-light instead of quiet-to-loud. The maturity to balance these elements so masterfully has become MONO's strongest virtue. They’re back.

Death Angel

Among the youngest bands ever to storm the metal genre, Death Angel has come to be known as one of the most influential bands to emerge from the thriving Bay Area Thrash Metal Scene in the early 1980s, an era when one could catch Cliff Burton (Metallica) at the front of the stage at Ruthie’s Inn banging his head to Death Angel’s inventive style, and speedy, complex arrangements. They sound like old and new thrash metal school, with the old school prevailing. There are amazingly smashing guitar riffs in every single song, riffs that are shouting for energy and head banging! No useless show off playing here! Mark Osegueda uses his voice in ways to result in angry and breezy vocals to create an exploding feeling. The drumming, for one thing, is a bombardment of breaks, double bass and mid tempo rhythms, offering the best to the music without stealing the glory from the rest.

The Moon & Pluto Presents
Strange Daze Music & Arts Festival

2 Day Pass for $15 ADV

Tickets on sale for this show 3/13/2010