Finally.
With me, I’ve brought a very good friend of mine. Everyone meet Sam.
I just started my senior year of college (I’m a Journalism major now, woo!) so I don’t know how often I or Sam will be posting, but after being away for so long, I missed this blog way too much to let it die completely.
I hope you’re all still on board.
The Used will release their 5th studio album on March 27th via Hopeless records. The title of the album is Vulnerable.
A Day To Remember is the latest band to join the long list of bands that have sued Victory Records
The Court documents can be found here: http://www.courthousenews.com/2011/06/01/Music.pdf
And Victory’s statement can be read below
Recent reports of claims filed by the Victory artist A Day to Remember (ADTR) in litigation presently pending in US District Court in the Northern District of Illinois (a case that was just transferred from Nashville upon Victory’s successful motion based upon improper venue) have misleadingly stated that the principal issue in the case concerns the payment of royalties. The lawsuit, filed shortly after the band hired new management, is really about the band’s refusal to fulfill their 5-album contractual commitment to Victory and their newfound desire to move to a major label. Recycled and often apocryphal stories of misguided and unsuccessful attempts by a few Victory bands to jump ship from the label that put them on the map have one common truthful thread; they always end badly for the band. In those cases, the bands eventually seek reconciliation and often ask to return to the Victory fold after having been disappointed by their post-Victory experiences. Victory is confident that this dispute will be resolved to the satisfaction of both the band and Victory, and that ADTR will continue to deliver great music to Victory in the coming years. Victory continues to honor its commitment to ADTR by placing its significant resources behind the band’s current album, What Separates Me From You, which continues to climb the charts and meet or exceed Victory’s expectations. The band, in the meantime, has enjoyed the benefits of the hundreds of thousands of dollars in record royalties generated from their album sales, which Victory accounts for in full compliance with its contract. Victory’s job remains the same- work hard, sell records and abide by our agreements.
In regards to the statement from Fearless Records below:
Yes it is true, we are no longer a part of their Record Label. Do we care? Not really…. We never want to be a part of any kind of team that doesn’t believe in us the same way that we believe in ourselves, our friends, and supporters. And…
(Source: propertyofzack)
Were looking to work with bands from Nevada, California, Utah, Arizona and Colorado. We just want to help get local bands some quality footage of what they do and get their name out there. If anyone is interested, check out the facebook page or email us at thescenelv@hotmail.com
According to Absolutepunk.net:
“Dance Gavin Dance has cancelled their fall tour. Will Swan has posted on facebook that the band is “on hiatus” until “Jonny (Craig) can get his life together.””
Valencia originally came together back in 2003. Most of us were still just in high school, but we all had gotten to know each other through the tightly knit music community we grew up in around Philadelphia. We started this band because of a mutual need to create something heartfelt and to give everyone a message we needed to share. We all felt like music would be the most significant part of our lives, but never in our wildest dreams could we have predicted the things we’d get to do, or more importantly, the people we would meet because of this band and the songs we wrote and shared with the world.
We started touring full time in late 2004, thanks to everyone at I Surrender Records putting faith in our band and releasing our first record. Ever since then, we’ve given everything we had to our music. We’ve been touring nonstop since then, playing shows in 46 states and five different countries over seven years, all of them places we were brought to thanks to people that believed in what we had to say.
This band started when we were teenagers, and now, as we enter our mid-to-late twenties, we’ve decided that it’s time for us to scale back our time on the road and explore the other elements of life that are not as easily accessible while touring full time. We aren’t considering this our band breaking up, because if that was the case, this situation would feel very final, and it doesn’t feel that way to us. It remains natural for us to write music together and there is always a possibility that we will release new music as Valencia sometime in the future. In the meantime, new music will be written and released by each of us and when that happens, we will let you know.
In honor of starting this next chapter, please join us on December 28th, 2011 for one last show in our hometown of Philadelphia, at the Electric Factory. We hope you’ll be there with us to share one of the most personal, memorable, and important nights of our lives. Thank you all for everything - the letters, the tattoos, the years of listening, for so many countless, priceless sentiments - there’s no way we could ever fully express our gratitude for everything you’ve done for us. We’ve been given the chance to go down a path not many are able to take, and because you’ve had our backs through the story that is our band, we’re able to continue that journey through whatever comes next for us.
From the bottom of our hearts,
Shane, George, Brendan, Dan, Trevor, JD, and Max
ValenciaVALENCIA’S LAST SHOW
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
The Electric Factory
421 N. 7th Street
Philadelphia, PA
phone: 215.627.1332
http://www.electricfactory.info/ticket presale begins October 4 at 12:00 noon at http://valencia.ducatking.com
public onsale will begin on October 14 via Ticketmaster
I’m having a hard time starting this. I could say something like “pride
comes before the fall”, or “the skill in attending a party is knowing when
to leave”. Rather, I’m going to just come right out and be honest. The
September show in New York was the last show for the The Academy Is. While
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