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Set Your Goals tack on more tour dates

Alternative Press - Chris French on 5/20/09 @ 12:05 PM - altpress.com

Set Your Goals have added a slew of new stops to their North American tour with Four Year Strong. Check out the entire summer schedule below:

Jul-15 Iowa City, IA Picador
Jul-16 Chicago, IL Metro
Jul-17 Detroit, MI Magic Stick
Jul-18 Toronto, ON Reverb
Jul-19 Montreal, QC The Underworld
Jul-20 Portland, ME The Station
Jul-22 Albany, NY Northern Lights
Jul-23 Asbury Park, NJ Stone Pony
Jul-24 New Haven, CT Toad's Place
Jul-25 Worcester, MA Palladium
Jul-26 Long Island, NY Crazy Donkey
Jul-27 Buffalo, NY Town Ballroom
Jul-28 Cleveland, OH Peabody's
Jul-29 Pittsburgh, PA Mr. Smalls
Jul-30 Baltimore, MD The Ottobar
Jul-31 Richmond, VA The Canal Club
Aug-01 Columbia, SC New Brookland Tavern
Aug-02 Charlotte, NC Visulite Theatre
Aug-04 Montgomery, AL Off the Wagon
Aug-05 Nashville, TN Rocketown
Aug-06 Atlanta, GA Vinyl
Aug-07 St. Petersburg, FL State Theater
Aug-08 W. Palm Beach, FL Culture Room
Aug-09 Orlando, FL The Social
Aug-11 Metairie, LA The High Ground
Aug-12 Houston, TX Java Jazz
Aug-13 Austin, TX Emo's
Aug-14 Dallas, TX The Max
Aug-15 Tulsa, OK The Marquee
Aug-16 Albuquerque, NM Launchpad
Aug-17 Phoenix, AZ The Clubhouse
Aug-19 San Diego, CA SOMA
Aug-20 Pomona, CA The Glasshouse
Aug-21 San Francisco, CA Slim's
Aug-22 Portland, OR Satyricon
Aug-23 Seattle, WA El Corazon
Aug-24 Boise, ID The Venue
Aug-25 St. Lake City, UT Murray Theatre
Aug-26 Denver, CO Cervantes

Set Your Goal's new album, This Will Be The Death Of Us, comes out July 21 on Epitaph.

Date-by-date breakdown of Blink-182's summer tour

Alternative Press - Scott Heisel on 5/20/09 @ 12:00 PM - altpress.com

With so many bands being confirmed for Blink-182's upcoming summer tour, we at Alternative Press thought it would be helpful to compile all the info that's currently out there so you can find out just who will be rocking your local mega-venue of choice.

So before you can ask (or sing), "What's my opening act again?" check out your date below then consult the key to put two and 180 together. This is officially what Alternative Press knows as of right now, but remember, all lineups are subject to change.

*=Fall Out Boy
@=Weezer
#=The All-American Rejects
$=Taking Back Sunday
%=Panic At The Disco
^=Asher Roth
&=Chester French

July 24: Las Vegas (the Joint) & (+1 TBA)
July 28: Vancouver (GM Place) # &
July 30: Calgary, AB (Saddledome) * #
July 31: Edmonton, AB (Rexall Place) * #
Aug. 1: Saskatoon, SK (Credit Union Center) * #
Aug. 2: Winnipeg, MB (MTS Centre) * #
Aug. 4: Milwaukee (Marcus Amphitheater) * % &
Aug. 6: Boston (Comcast Center) * % &
Aug. 7 Quebec City, QC (Colisee Pepsi) * &
Aug. 8: Montreal (Bell Centre) * &
Aug. 9: Wantagh, N.Y. (Nikon Theater at Jones Beach) * % &
Aug. 12: Hershey, Pa. (the Star Pavilion) * % &
Aug. 13: Cincinnati (Riverbend Music Center) * % &
Aug. 14: Pittsburgh (Post Gazette Pavilion) * % &
Aug. 15: Chicago (First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre) * % &
Aug. 16: Omaha, Neb. (Westfair Amphitheater) * % &
Aug. 18: Minneapolis (Xcel Energy Center) * % &
Aug. 20: Indianapolis (Verizon Wireless Amphitheater) * % &
Aug. 21: Buffalo, N.Y. (Darien Lakes Performing Arts Center) * % &
Aug. 22: Detroit (DTE Energy Music Theatre) * % &
Aug. 23: Toronto (Molson Amphitheater) @ $ &
Aug. 25: Holmdel, N.J. (PNC Bank Arts Center) @ $ &
Aug. 27: Saratoga, N.Y. (Saratoga Performing Arts Center) @ $ &
Aug. 28: Camden, Pa. (Susquehanna Bank Center) @ $ &
Aug. 29: Hartford, Conn. (New England Dodge Music Center) @ $ &
Aug. 30: Washington, D.C. (Meriwether Festival Grounds) @ $ &
Aug. 31: Wantagh, N.Y. (Nikon Theater at Jones Beach) @ $ &
Sept. 2: Cleveland (Blossom Music Center) @ $ &
Sept. 3: St. Louis (Verizon Wireless Amphitheater) @ $ &
Sept. 4: Kansas City, Kan. (Capitol Federal Park at Sandstone) @ $ &
Sept. 6: Denver (Fiddlers Green Amphitheater) @ $ &
Sept. 7: Salt Lake City (David O. McKay Events Center) $ &
Sept. 10: Seattle (White River Amphitheater) @ $ &
Sept. 12: Sacramento, Calif. (Sleep Train Amphitheater) @ $ &
Sept. 13: Mountain View, Calif. (Shoreline Amphitheater) @ $ &
Sept. 14: Santa Barbara, Calif. (Santa Barbara Bowl) $ ^
Sept. 16: San Diego (Cricket Wireless Amphitheater) @ $ ^
Sept. 17: Irvine, Calif. (Verizon Wireless Amphitheater) @ $ ^
Sept. 18: Irvine, Calif. (Verizon Wireless Amphitheater) * # &
Sept. 19: Phoenix (Tempe Beach Park) * #
Sept. 21: Albuquerque, N.M. (Journal Pavilion) * # ^
Sept. 23: Dallas (Superpages.com Center) * # ^
Sept. 24: Houston (Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion) * # ^
Sept. 26: West Palm Beach, Fla. (Cruzan Amphitheater) * # ^
Sept. 27: Tampa, Fla. (Ford Amphitheater) * # ^
Sept. 29: Atlanta (Lakewood Amphitheater) * # ^
Oct. 1: Charlotte, N.C. (Verizon Wireless Amphitheater) * # ^
Oct. 2: Virginia Beach, Va. (Verizon Wireless Amphitheater) * # ^
Oct. 3: Atlantic City, N.J. (Borgata Events Center) ^

Dates for first half of Rx Bandits/Dredg tour revealed

Alternative Press - Scott Heisel on 5/20/09 @ 10:18 AM - altpress.com

Progressive rockers Rx Bandits and Dredg will be teaming up for a co-headlining U.S. tour this summer in support of each band's new album -- RXB's Mandala, which drops July 28 on Sargent House, and Dredg's The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion, out June 9 on the band's own Ohlone label. The first half of the tour has been revealed; you can check out the dates below:

with Good Old War
July 8 - House of Blues - Anaheim, CA
July 9 - SOMA - San Diego, CA
July 10- Marquee - Tempe, AZ
July 11 -Club Congress - Phoenix, AZ
July 12 -Club Congress - Phoenix, AZ
July 14 -House Of Blues - Dallas, TX
July 15- Emo's - Austin, TX
July 16- The White Rabbit - San Antonio, TX

with Zechs Marquise
July 17- Meridian - Houston, TX
July 18- House of Blues - New Orleans, LA
July 20- Club Firestone - Orlando, FL
July 22- Culture Room - Ft Lauderdale, FL
July 23- Firebird - Jacksonville, FL
July 24 - Jannus Landing - St Petersburgh, FL
July 25 - Masquerade - Atlanta, GA
July 26 - Cat's Cradle - Carrboro, NC
July 28- Recher Theatre - Towson, MD
July 29- Theatre of the Living Arts - Philly,PA
July 31- Bowery Ballroom - New York, NY

with As Tall As Lions
July 30 - Irving Plaza - New York, NY
Aug 1 - Aug 31st - TBA

Interpol vocalist goes solo

Alternative Press - Laila Hanson on 5/20/09 @ 10:00 AM - altpress.com

Paul Banks of Interpol fame is gearing up for the release of his solo album on August 4. The record will be entitled, Julian Plenti Is...Skyscraper and will come out on Matador Records. The first single from the album, "Fun That We Have," is available for free download on the label's website. Check out the full track listing below.



01) Only If You Run
02) Fun That We Have
03) Skyscraper
04) Games for Days
05) Madrid Song
06) No Chance of Survival
07) Unwind
08) Girl on the Sporting News
09) On the Esplanade
10) Fly as You Might
11) H

Set Your Goals need you

Alternative Press - Laila Hanson on 5/20/09 @ 9:51 AM - altpress.com

It looks like All Time Low are setting the trend with music videos. Set Your Goals are now looking for music video extras. If you're in the LA area tomorrow, May 21, and want to make an appearance in the band's video make sure to get in touch with them.

Song to benefit Deftones bassist

Alternative Press - Laila Hanson on 5/20/09 @ 9:42 AM - altpress.com

In times of tragedy, friends come together. This has been proven true recently, as Korn members (and ex-members) Reginald "Fieldy" Arvizu, Ray Luzier and Brian "Head" Welch have joined forces with Sevendust's Clint Lowery and Slipknot's Jim Root to record an insturmental song to benefit Deftones bassist Chi Cheng, who was recently in a car accident.

According to Cheng's brother, the bassist's insurance company has recently stopped paying for his treatments. A video of Arvizu discussing the collaboration can be seen below.

Korn - Fieldy talks about the 'Chi song' project