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Erik & The Worldly Savages Share Revolutionary Punk Ethos With “Thunder in our Hearts” Folk Punk Revolutionary group Erik & the Worldly Savages are on a solemn quest to uplift the masses as they prepare to release new EP “FUTURE THUNDER VOID” March 7th. Having recently played a series of frontier pushing live shows in Thailand, the band...
The Smashing Pumpkins to Tour North America This Fall with Jane’s Addiction The Smashing Pumpkins have announced a fall North American tour. The Spirit on Fire Tour features dates in October and November with Jane’s Addiction and Poppy. Luckily, we will be attending the Vancouver show at Rogers Arena on November 11. “XYU” alone will...
The world is grieving and needs to have a good therapy session. At least, that’s the sense you get from being in the room during Nick Cave’s current tour, ‘A Conversation with Nick Cave’. When someone goes through the death of a loved one, the tendency is to recoil from the public to grieve and...
12 promoter theory is a tricky thing, but also what I have based a lot of my tour booking experience around especially for lower level bands. It is the belief that it is much better for your band to do weekend dates every other weekend within 250 miles or so of your home town rather...
Incentives, they are one of the big struggles bands have when trying to develop their brand. You want to be bringing a lot ot the table with your incentives. You want to be able to be creating the sort of stuff that people actively want to be involved with. Crafting the type of content that...
So Warped tour is ending and this is a larger symptom of a huge problem the industry is going to be facing in the next few years. In the interview where he dropped the bomb, Warped tour founder said, “We were doing fine, but we had a pretty big dip last year. It was that...
by MATT BACON > There’s a lot to pick apart at your average merch booth. Every band has their own way of doing things, but some bands clearly do way better than their peers – even if they aren’t that much bigger. Obviously some of this relies on your ability to draw superfans and how...
by MATT BACON > Oooh boy, this one is a doozie. I have had some of the best touring experiences of my life in the south as well as some of the worst ones. For the record when I refer to the South I am referring to Virginia on down and all the way over...
by MATT BACON > This is the easy one, the one bands love to do. Even though some might like to argue that West Coast is the best coast. It feels weird to write about this since I’ve spent so much time touring up and down it. The thing is, with a national tour on...
by MATT BACON > This is the first question that any band should be asking themselves at almost any stage of their career. Even major touring bands need to properly think this one out. There are a lot of times when you are not ready to tour, and that’s fine, you just need to accept...
by MATT BACON > The more I tour and the more I book the more I realize some weird hidden secrets about the music industry and putting together shows. There are things that you only start to pick up over years of experience and hard earned observation. It’s part of why it’s important for you...
It’s crucial to build days off into your touring schedule – of course I write this in the midst of a day off, but it’s a day off that I desperately need. In a world where so much of our time is spent waking up at 8 in the morning to get in the car...
