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My Chemical Romance, Avril Lavigne, 3OH!3, More To Play When We Were Young Festival

Do you remember going to Warped Tour? Did you have a subscription to Alternative Press sometime between the late 2000s to mid-2010s? Was Hot Topic your go-to store? Well, there’s a festival for you!

Taking place later this fall is the second ever When We Were Young Festival, being held at the Las Vegas Festival Grounds in Nevada. For one day only on Saturday, October 22, old school pop-punk/emo bands, TikTok musicians, and scene bands from the 2010s, will be colliding for one of the best scene festivals to hit the U.S. since Warped Tour in 1995.

Headlining this year are scene gods My Chemical Romance and a recently reunited Paramore. Joining them are Bright Eyes, Avril Lavigne, Jimmy Eat World, A Day To Remember, and Bring Me The Horizon.

Also scheduled to perform are The All-American Rejects, Hawthorne Heights, 3OH!3, The Ready Set, Anberlin, Ice Nine Kills, Manchester Orchestra, The Story So Far, Meet Me @ The Altar, Pierce The Veil (their first show since 2017 when the band took a break after longtime drummer Mike Fuentes was accused of having sexual relations with two then-underaged girls), and more. Check out the full lineup below.

You can register presale tickets right now on their website. All tickets start at $19.99 down. Presale starts this Friday at 10 am PST (1 pm EST).

The first When We Were Young Festival took place on April 8 and 9, 2017 at The Observatory Grounds in Orange County, Calif. Morrissey headlined and featured Cage The Elephant, Streetlight Manifesto, Descendents, Joyce Manor, Silversun Pickups, Turnstile, Balance And Composure, The Get Up Kids, Set Your Goals, Choking Victim, and many more. Check out that lineup below.

Michael Barr Is Back In Volumes, Drop New Song

Welcome back, Michael.

With the departure of original vocalist Gus Farias back in December, original co-vocalist Michael Barr has returned to Volumes.

The progressive metalcore band celebrated by dropping their first new song in five years, “holywater.”

In a statement the band wrote:

“It looks like we have some explaining to do….

As many of you are now aware, Gus and [guitarist] Diego Farias are no longer with Volumes, and Michael Barr is now back with us in full force.

We want to give you one statement to answer some of your questions and set the record straight, so here it is:

Diego was never fired/kicked out of the band. Over the past few years, we have seen him grow in his career as a producer, and as a result, he lost the desire to tour with the band and then subsequently couldn’t further commit to the overall writing process with the group. Some of you may have noticed that in the past few tours, we have had various replacement guitarists tour with the band. We wish nothing but the best of luck for Diego and know that he is on the fast track of becoming one of the most successful producers in the game.

Gus’s situation in the band was a little bit more complicated, and we did inform him that we wanted to part ways several weeks back. We don’t feel it’s necessary to provide full details of how we came to this decision. Still, it’s honestly no different of any relationship that you have with someone for over ten years on a very personal level and decide things are just not compatible any longer. That’s all there is/was to it. Gus is happy working on his project as Yung Yogi, and he will kill the game moving forward.

We would be foolish to ignore or disregard their massive contribution as performers and songwriters to the band, and all know that they were there from the beginning. We have nothing but love for them and wish them the best. We have also sorted out several details on the business side of things to ensure that they have their rightful ownership of everything that they have done in the band, and will continue to as long as the group is in existence and beyond.

And now…Michael Barr is back! When things were at their lowest, and the idea of discontinuing Volumes was a genuine thought, the other members of the band, who had always kept in contact with Michael, started to have some light discussions about the ‘what if’s.’
That quickly grew into more serious talks, and in a very short frame of time, we were all in the studio together, sharing ideas. It became very apparent, very quickly that this was something that we had to continue on with and make it real. We are so happy to have Michael back home.”

“holywater” marks the first song from their upcoming fourth album coming out later this year on Fearless Records (I Prevail, My Kid Brother, Underoath.)

Starset Release 7″ For Fearless Record’s 25th Anniversary

Merry Christmas!

To celebrate the holiday, Fearless Records (Eat Your Heart Out, Movements, The Word Alive,) unveiled the final artist for their 25th anniversary seven inch series: Starset.

The electronic rock quartet have released a 7″ record which features “Manifest” on side A, a track from their latest record Divisions, released back in September, and “Die For You” on side B, which was from their Fearless debut Vessels 2.0. You can purchase the record here. At the time of publishing, only 437 of the original 500 are left to buy.

Starset formed in 2013 after vocalist Dustin Bates’s previous band Downplay went on hiatus. The group are known for writing concept albums based on The Starset Society. Before joining Fearless, Starset released two albums on Razor & Tie. They signed with Fearless in early 2018 and dropped a deluxe edition of Vessels that same year and dropped their new record back in September. After joining Fearless, the group have performed with Islander, Nothing More, Evanescence, Atreyu, and Five Finger Death Punch.

Previous bands who released records for the series include Plain White T’s, Pierce The Veil, Mayday Parade, The Maine, Sugarcult, Every Avenue, I Prevail, Alesana, Motionless In White, The Summer Set, and Go Radio.

Go Radio Release 7″ For Fearless Record’s 25th Anniversary

11 down, one to go.

Fearless Records (Locket, Real Friends, The Word Alive) have revealed the eleventh entry in their 25th anniversary 7″ series. The new record is from Go Radio who recently reunited back in September and contains two songs, one of them being a brand new track.

The song is called “Say It Again” and it is the band’s first new track in seven years. You can listen to the song here. The 7″ features their hit “Goodnight Moon” on Side A and “Say It Again” on Side B. You can purchase the 7″ here.

Go Radio formed in 2007 shortly before frontman Jason Lancaster left his original band Mayday Parade. The band signed with Fearless in 2010, releasing one EP and two full-length albums. They’ve toured with Sparks The Rescue, Tonight Alive, Yellowcard, Paradise Fears, and Lancaster’s old band, Mayday Parade. They appeared on the Vans Warped Tour twice, playing in 2011 on the Nintendo 3DS stage with Every Avenue, Dance Gavin Dance, and I Set My Friends On Fire, and 2013 on the Tilly’s stage with Man Overboard, The Summer Set, and Allstar Weekend, and the Kia Forte stage with Chiodos, Sleeping With Sirens, and Bring Me The Horizon.