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Sad Summer Fest Brings Taking Back Sunday, Motion City Soundtrack, The Maine, PVRIS & More to Ascend Amphitheater Today, July 23
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From 1995 to 2018 (with an abbreviated final installment in 2019), the Vans Warped Tour was the preeminent, traveling summer festival for fans of punk, pop punk, emo, and punk adjacent music, creating an influencing an entire subculture and standing synonymous with the scene, for better and for worse. Over the years, other tours…
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[REVIEW + PHOTOS] Wrecking Ball 2016
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Review by Philip Obenschain (@pobenschain). Photos by Mary-Beth Blankenship. When The Wrecking Ball hosted its inaugural fest last year, no one, least of all the promoters, seemed to expect it to become an annual tradition; instead, it was a punk-centric celebration of 25 years of an Atlanta landmark, The Masquerade. Another thing The Ball surely didn’t anticipate, even if…
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No Country’s Guide to Wrecking Ball 2016: 13 Can’t Miss Sunday Bands
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What started last year as a 25h anniversary celebration for famed Atlanta venue The Masquerade, this year’s second annual Wrecking Ball festival will serve a very different function: a de facto goodbye to the celebrated concert space in its current and original home (don’t worry, The Masq isn’t closing down for good, just relocating to a new location in West Midtown).…
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[TICKET GIVEAWAY] Motion City Soundtrack: So Long, Farewell Tour | Aug. 9 @ Cannery Ballroom
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Though famed indie/alt/emo rockers Motion City Soundtrack played Nashville twice last year, after not having hit Music City since 2011, the group are set to return next month, Aug. 9 at Cannery Ballroom for one final, special performance, as part of their So Long, Farewell tour (notably featuring the return of longtime drummer Tony Thaxton). Despite a successful 10th anniversary…
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Motion City Soundtrack to Bring Farewell Tour to Cannery Ballroom Aug. 9
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Last month, beloved indie/alt/pop punk group Motion City Soundtrack abruptly announced plans to disband indefinitely, mere months after the release of their sixth album, Panic Stations. A “So Long, Farewell” tour announcement soon followed, but no Nashville dates were included; disappointing, to be sure, but not unexpected, as MCS played here twice last year, both in support of…
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Thursday, Dinosaur Jr., The Promise Ring, More to Play Atlanta’s 2nd Wrecking Ball Fest | Aug. 13 & 14
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What started as a 25h anniversary celebration for Atlanta‘s famed venue The Masquerade and has seemingly morphed into a stacked, annual punk fest, The Wrecking Ball unveiled the lineup for its 2nd annual event last week, set to take place Aug. 13 and 14 (with a pre-party slated for Aug. 12). If Warped Tour is the quintessential teenage punk fest, think of…
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Catch The Wonder Years & Motion City Soundtrack w/ State Champs & You Blew It! | TONIGHT @ Cannery Ballroom
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Returning to Nashville for the first time in several years, beloved, uncompromising pop punk group The Wonder Years are set to co-headline with scene favorites Motion City Soundtrack, both in support of stellar new albums, tonight, Nov. 16 at Cannery Ballroom! Rounded out by buzzworthy up and comers State Champs and emo outfit You Blew It!, this all ages event is a wonderful way…
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Motion City Soundtrack Get Animated in “It’s A Pleasure To Meet You” | Catch Them Nov. 16 @ Cannery Ballroom!
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Beloved indie/alt/pop punk group Motion City Soundtrack recently wound down the 10th anniversary tour cycle for their classic 2005 release Commit This to Memory, and now, free of nostalgia, are pushing full speed ahead in hyping the release of their long-awaited sixth album, Panic Stations, which is set to drop Sept. 18 via Epitaph. The group came out…