New Jersey indie band Steel Train recently released their third full-length, and first self-released, record, “Steel Train,” via their new label Terrible Thrills.The self-titled release also features an accompanying record, Terrible Thrills Vol. 1, featuring a different female vocalist covering each track on “Steel Train.”The band pressed the record on red and blue vinyl, which they made available during their recent tour with Girl in a Coma.Black Squirrel Radio caught up with vocalist, guitarist Jack Antonoff when the tour stopped by Cleveland Friday. More information on Steel Train is available at www.steeltrain.net.
Listen below for Black Squirrel Radio’s chat with Steel Train’s Jack Antonoff.
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The Felix Culpa is a progressive indie band that has been out promoting its latest release, Sever Your Roots, since early this year. The album has received much critical acclaim from the likes of Alternative Press, Absolutepunk.net, and many more. It's definitely Black Squirrel Radio approved too. The band's live performance is one not to be missed.
Black Squirrel Radio talked with vocalist, guitarist Marky Hladish when the band came through town on tour with Sainthood Reps. Continue after the jump for the two-part audio from the interview, as well as a clip of our chat with Sainthood Reps' vocalist Francestco Montesanto, and some photos from the show. For more information on the band, check out www.thefelixculpa.com , or for more on their tourmates, check out myspace.com/sainthoodreps.
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Black Squirrel Radio caught up with the Story Changes, a two-piece rock band from Dayton, Ohio, at their show Friday with Hawthorne Heights and The Audition.The tour kicked off Thursday and will continue through July.
Continue after the jump for interview audio and more photos from the show, as well as details on how you can pick up one of the Story Changes’ songs for free. More information on the band is available at www.thestorychanges.com.
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It can’t suck too badly to be Four Year Strong right now. The band recently released the deluxe edition of the album Enemy of the World, and is currently playing the Altec Lansing stage on this year's Vans Warped Tour We caught up with members Josh Lyford and Joe Weiss to talk about the ups and downs of being on the Warped Tour. We also got all sorts of info about the band’s future plans and how the album and artwork all came together in their latest release from Decaydance Records. For more information on the band check out myspace.com/fouryearstrong.
Listen to our chat after the jump.
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Black Squirrel Radio got to chat with Jordan and Michael of Set Your Goals about how life has been on the Vans Warped Tour. We got to hear about the band’s future plans, which include recording new music in the fall. Check out their latest release from Epitaph Records, This Will Be The Death Of Us, as well as their newly released video for the song “Gaia Bleeds.” For more information on the band, check out myspace.com/setyourgoals.
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Andrew W.K. is currently bringing the party to the main stage on the Vans Warped Tour all summer long. We got a chance to chat with him about his “party hard philosophy,” and how the tour has been. He also told us about how this tour is helping to build up momentum that will be leading to a new album in 2011 as well as more touring and even more surprises. Check out his latest release, Close Calls With Brick Walls, and for more information check out www.andrewwk.com
Check out after the jump to hear all the details from our conversation, and to check out some photos of his performance.
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Black Squirrel Radio caught up with Mike Kitlas, Slade Echeverria and Adam Juwig from Phoenix-based pop-rock band Anarbor during their run on Vans Warped Tour.The band is playing the entire tour on the Alternative Press/Advent Clothing Stage. Anarbor dropped their debut full length, The Words You Don’t Swallow, this past April on Hopeless Records. This is Anarbor’s first Warped Tour run, and they say it has been “a dream come true.” They said they have enjoyed checking out bands like Motion City Soundtrack, All-American Rejects, Alkaline Trio and Sum 41 each day on the tour.The band recommends checking out the Keep-a-Breast and Invisible Children while you're perusing the charity tents on Warped. More information on the band is available at www.anarbor.net.
Continue to hear more about Anarbor’s experience on Warped Tour and to check out BSR’s photos from their set!
“We are Closure in Moscow, and we are from the planet earth,” Closure in Moscow’s lead singer Chris De Cinque said as he introduced their set Thursday on the Ernie Ball Stage of Warped Tour 2010. Closure in Moscow, a progressive rock band from Australia signed to Equal Vision Records, is currently on their first Warped Tour run.Black Squirrel Radio caught up with the band’s guitarist and singer Mansur Zennelli to get the details on the band’s sound and upcoming plans. Zennelli likens Closure in Moscow to “satanic death metal meets Teletubbies,” while his bandmate, drummer Beau McKee, mentions comparisons made to The Mars Volta. The band released their debut album, First Temple, May of last year, and Zennelli said it “encompasses who we are and what we are.”The band also has an EP, The Penance and the Patience, under their belt. The band’s immediate touring plans include an extensive trip to Japan, but it is possible we will see them back in the states sometime in the near future.
Continue for audio from our conversation with Mansur Zennelli and pictures from their Warped set, and check out www.closureinmoscow.com for more information about the band.
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Flint, Michigan natives The Swellers have been tearing up the Ernie Ball stage on the Vans Warped Tour this summer. It's all come full circle for the pop punk band, after having played the stage in 2003 in Detroit after winning a battle of the bands, to today as one of the headliners on the stage. We got a chance to chat with vocalist Nick Diener about the tour and the future plans of the band. If you miss your chance to see them on the Warped Tour, you can check them out on tour with Fireworks, Man Overboard and Transit this fall. For more information on the band and their latest release, Ups and Downsizing released by Fueled By Ramen, go to www.theswellers.com.
Click after the jump to hear our conversation with Nick, and to check out some photos of the show.
VersaEmerge is a Florida-based band on its second Warped Tour run.After spending summer 2009 on the Ernie Ball stage, lead vocalist Sierra Kusterbeck said they’ve been seeing much bigger crowds this year on the Glamour Kills stage.VersaEmerge fans, nicknamed “vultures,” have been snagging the band’s new merch item, feathers to be worn in the hair, so fast the band can’t keep the booth stocked.The band says they will have more soon, though! Kusterbeck says VersaEmerge’s sound is “alternative rock, but cinematic at the same time.” The band recently released its first full-length, Fixed at Zero, on Fueled by Ramen.More information is available on the band’s interactive site for the record, fixedatzero.com, or through their social networking sites.Future touring plans for the band are in the works.
Listen below for some of Black Squirrel Radio’s conversation with Sierra and to check out some photos of the band's set.
