Chiodos Plans A New Album

Chiodos has signed with Razor & Tie Records and have started working on a new album that will be released on their own accord. The band now consists of original members Craig Owens, Bradley Bell, Derrick Frost, Matt Goddard, Pat McManaman and ex-Fall Of Troy/Just Like Vinyl guitarist Thomas Erak. Chiodos is excitied and pleased with Razor & Tie and their future record, keyboardist Bell made this statement about signing with the label,

There needs to be more labels like Razor & Tie out there. I feel like they actually understand the bands motives and will do what it takes to help us present our vision. It’s going to be a fun adventure that we are about to embark on with them.

 

Chiodos Filming Documentary

Chiodos is currently filming a new documentary. Check out the tweet from singer Craig Owens below!

Warped Tour Line-Up Update

Here are the bands that are confirmed to be playing Vans Warped Tour 2013!

Hawthorne Heights
The Early November
Allstar Weekend
Goldfinger
Big D And The Kids Table
Motion City Soundtrack
Chiodos
Reel Big Fish
3OH!3
Bowling For Soup
Woe Is Me
I See Stars
Go Radio
The Story So Far
Like Moths To Flames
Big Chocolate
Stick To Your Guns
Hands Like Houses
Anarbor
letlive.
The Black Dahila Murder
Wallpaper.
VersaEmerge
Upon A Burning Body
Architects (UK)
Forever The Sickest Kids
Shy KidX
Tonight Alive
Action Item
Oh, Sleeper
Middle Finger Salute
While She Sleeps
Man Overboard
RDGLDGRN
Attila
Mac Lethal
The Amity Affliction
MC Lars
The Chariot
For The Foxes
Defeater
New Years Day
The Summer Set
Outasight
Stephan Jacobs
GOLDHOUSE
Five Knives
blessthefall
Itch
Echosmith
Alvarez Kings
Young London
We Came As Romans
Beebs and Her Money Makers
The Wonder Years
Sleeping With Sirens
Kairo Kingdom
Memphis May Fire
Handguns
Forever Came Calling
Madchild
Never Shout Never
August Burns Red
Black Veil Brides
Bring Me The Horizon
Crizzly
I Can Make  A Mess
Alcoa
Allison Weiss
Billy The Kid
Brian Marquis
Charlie Simpson
Craig Owens
Kevin Seconds
Matt Embree
Monte Pittman
Owen Plant
The American Scene
Vinnie Caruana
William Beckett
The Tower and The Fool
Gin Wigmore
Austin Lucas

Stay tuned here for more Warped Tour Updates!!

New Warped Tour Band Announcement!

 

 

Vans Warped Tour announced artist to perform for the Acoustic Basement Tent for this Summer’s Warped Tour 2013! The list is below!

The Acoustic Basement performers:

Craig Owens

William Beckett

Ace Enders

Alcoa

Allison Weiss

Billy The Kid

Charlie Simpson

Kevin Seconds

Matt Embree

Owen Plan

The American Scene

Vinnie Caruana

Brian Marquis

 

 

Vans Warped Tour’s Acoustic Basement Lineup

 

The lineup for this year’s Acoustic Basement within Vans Warped Tour has been announced. Check out the lineup below!

Punk Goes Pop Volume 5

Fearless Records announced their CD franchise Punk Goes… will release the fifth installment of Punk Goes Pop on November 6, 2012.

Head over to punkgoes.com for the complete track listing!

It looks like it’s gonna be a fun album, what do you guys think??

Chiodos Used Hacking to Rise to Fame?

A recent story has popped up about Chiodos and how they got signed on the site Property of Zack. Check it out below:

Way back in December of 2003, an awesome website called MP3.com was shutting down. At the time, this was the legal, free music-sharing service, popular with independent musicians for promoting their work. If you were a band and had songs, you uploaded those to MP3.com. When the site shut down, others stepped in to fill the void created.

One that rose very quickly to the top was PureVolume.com. You had to re-upload your music there, or be a dinosaur. They had a Top 15 Artist Per Plays, Per Day chart on the front page. It would change throughout the day, but if you got on that, group-thinking on the internet would kick in and you would get even more hits/plays/exposure, from kids seeing you rank high and then listening to your audio player. I noticed most of the bands in the Top 15 were bands I’d never heard of, all getting unbelievable stats. This was even before the more established bands of the time had PureVolume pages.

Being a new site, PureVolume didn’t have the best fraud preventions built in to protect their player stats. There’s a list of things they did wrong that allowed bands to maximize plays by cheating. As long as the song started to buffer, it counted as a play. So if your band had five songs, you could increase your play count by five in about five seconds. Have five other members? Coordinate through AIM and get 30 plays just like that.

This part is a little fuzzy, but I think at first, you could just reload your page, and start playing each song for additional plays. I just automated that “Reload, click, pause, click, etc.” with a script or macro or something simple like that. That alone was getting us on the charts. Number 1? Maybe at times. When they fixed the “reload” and “play again” prompts, it would only count one play per song, per IP address. This was actually nice. Less competition from the cheaters that just did it manually. To get around this, I just modified the script to switch to a different open proxy before reloading. Different IPs, more plays.

What do you think of it?

Craig Owens announces solo tour

Craig Owens has announced a string of solo tour dates throughout the Midwest and along the East Coast.  Support for the tour is yet to be announced.  Tickets as well as V.I.P. packages will be available April 11th can be purchased here.  Dates for the tour as are as follows.

05/17 Detroit, MI  Hard Rock Cafe
05/18 Pontiac, MI  The Pike Room at Crofoot Ballroom
05/20 Buffalo, NY  Mohawk Place
05/22 Albany, NY  Valentines
05/23 Cambridge, MA  The Middle East
05/24 New York, NY  The Studio at Webster Hall
05/26 Philadelphia, PA  The Barbary
05/27 Pittsburgh, PA  The Altar Bar
05/28 Columbus, OH  The Basement
05/30 Indianapolis, IN  The Emerson Theater
05/31 Saint Louis, MO  Fubar
06/01 Iowa City, IA  Blue Moose Tap House
06/02 Madison, WI  The Loft
06/03 Joliet, Il  Mojoes

Owens has also hinted at several tours around the same time that these dates were announced.  According to tweets by Owens, there are plans for a solo UK tour as well as a UK tour with D.R.U.G.S. in the near future.

Bassist Adam Russell leaves D.R.U.G.S.

The band Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows released the following statement that their bassist, Adam Russell was leaving the band:

It is with bittersweet sentiment that we announce some news today. Our bass player, Adam Russell, has made the personal decision to move on from Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows to pursue other opportunities.While we are happy to see him make a choice that will ultimately be best for him, of course, we are sad to see him go. Please know that we remain close friends and supporters of Adam, and that there are no hard feelings.

Rest assured this will not affect our current tour schedule. Our close friend, Tai “Never Wrong, Always” Wright, will be filling in on bass duties on the upcoming SIN Tour which starts Thursday in Chicago. Go to our Facebook page for dates & ticket links: Facebook.com/DRUGS

Much love,
D.R.U.G.S.

Check Out: Yours Truly

Hailing from Detroit, Michigan, Jonathan Weber (vocals), Frankie Mastrangelo (guitar & vocals), Dylan Magliocco (guitar), Adam Vuletich (bass), and David Baum (drums), are the boys that make up the energetic and infectious pop punk band, Yours Truly. The band recently streamed their newest EP, Down For the Count, on their Facebook page and has since received nothing but praise from the online music community and even press from AP Magazine. In addition to opening for Breathe Carolina, Yours Truly will be playing an acoustic set alongside Craig Owens tomorrow at The Pike Room and then later opening for Every Avenue and Hit the Lights in Toledo, Ohio. The band differs from the generic brand of pop punk and has a fun, energetic style all their own complete with love-ridden lyrics and pitch-perfect vocals that will sure to have you singing along. Down For the Count can be listened to in its entirety on their official Facebook page and an acoustic version of ‘In the Clouds’ is available for download.

 

Craig Owens Announces Solo Holiday Shows!

 

Craig Owens (Vocalist- D.R.U.G.S.) has announced a small string of holiday solo shows that, according to Owens, will be his “last solo shows for awhile.” due to working on new material with D.R.U.G.S.  Check Out Craig’s post and the tour dates below:

Now, I know that they have been previously announced a few times.. However, I’m still getting quite a few questions about whether or not I’ll be having holiday shows to end out 2011. 

The answer is, YES! YES! YES!

I couldn’t be more excited to play these shows, as they will be my last few solo shows for a while (will be working on new D.R.U.G.S material). So, please come out, bring your singing voices, smiles, and let’s have a great, worry-free time.

Below are the dates / info + links to get your tickets online. The last 9 out of 11 solo shows that I’ve played have sold out, so PLEASE be sure to get them early. I always feel really bad when I hear people travel, and can’t get in.

Also, there WILL be themes for each show announced via my twitter the week of Dec 12th! (Ex: Ugly Christmas Sweater Party, etc). In addition: I’ll be adding meet & greet details, and special contests running from now until the shows as well.

See you guys in a couple of weeks!!

-Craig.

Solo Holiday Shows. (w/ My Arcadia)

12/16 – Grand Rapids, MI @ Mixtape – http://www.mxtp.us/

12/17 – Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop – http://bit.ly/stngch

12/18 – Chicago, IL @ Mojoes – http://theticketrumba.com/tickets/920

12/19 – Pontiac, MI @ Pike Room – http://tktwb.tw/rqFUX2

Glamour Kills Announced Pop Up Shops!

Glamour Kills is running a Pop Up shop in Lower Manhattan, New York! They’ll be selling items from their current “No Regrets” winter collection, as well as some exclusive Pop Up Shop items. And as if that weren’t enough, Glamour Kills is also hosting acoustic performances by The Swellers, The Summer Set, Craig Owens, and more! There will even be a movie night with All Time Low’s Jack Barakat. So what are you waiting for? RSVP to the event of your choice now!

November 19th:
Band – Hot Rod Circuit
RSVP Link

November 20th:
Band – White Wives & Beast Make Bomb
RSVP Link

November 21st:
Band – The Swellers & With The Punches
RSVP Link

November 22nd:
Band – Alex Gaskarth
RSVP Link

November 22nd:
Band – The Ready Set
RSVP Link

November 25th:
Band – Jack Barakat
RSVP Link

November 26th:
Band – Craig Owens & Koji
RSVP Link