Coheed & Cambria announce tour with The Used and Meet Me @ The Altar
Not only did Coheed & Cambria just expand the lineup of their S.S. Neverender cruise (now including Andrew WK, Tigers Jaw, Covet, and Soul Glo alongside previously announced bands Taking Back Sunday, The Dear Hunter, Cloud Nothings, Sheer Mag, Torche, Three, and more), they’ve now also announced a co-headlining tour with The Used that features support on most dates from fast-rising pop punks Meet Me @ The Altar.
The run with MM@TA includes a NYC-area show at NJ’s PNC Bank Arts Center on September 19. Tickets for the whole tour go on sale Friday (6/18) at 10 AM local time with presales beforehand. All dates are listed below.
This is part of a very busy tour schedule for Meet Me @ The Altar, who will also be playing some shows with nothing,nowhere and Arm’s Length (including NYC’s LPR on 10/5), and both MM@TA and nothing,nowhere are opening All Time Low’s tour.
Coheed & Cambria / The Used — 2021 Tour Dates
Fri Aug 27 – Los Angeles, CA – FivePoint Amphitheatre*
Sat Aug 28 – Phoenix, AZ – Mesa Amphitheatre*
Mon Aug 30 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Complex – Outdoors*
Tue Aug 31 – Denver, CO – Levitt Pavilion Denver*
Thu Sep 02 – Irving, TX – The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory*
Sat Sep 04 – Austin, TX – Germania Insurance Amphitheater*
Sun Sep 05 – Houston, TX – The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion*
Tue Sep 07 – Wichita, KS – WAVE – Outdoors*
Wed Sep 08 – St. Louis, MO – Saint Louis Music Park*
Sat Sep 11 – Columbus, OH – Express Live! – Outdoors*
Sun Sep 12 – Cleveland, OH – Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica*
Tue Sep 14 – Cincinnati, OH – The ICON Festival Stage at Smale Park*
Wed Sep 15 – Indianapolis, IN – TCU Amphitheater at White River State Park*
Sat Sep 18 – Worcester, MA – The Palladium – Outdoors*
Sun Sep 19 – Holmdel, NJ – PNC Bank Arts Center*
Tue Sep 21 – Baltimore, MD – MECU Pavilion^
Wed Sep 22 – Raleigh, NC – Red Hat Amphitheater^
Fri Sep 24 – Jacksonville, FL – Daily’s Place^
* with special guest Meet Me @ The Altar
^ with special guest carolesdaughter
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15 Albums That Shaped Progressive Post-Hardcore in the 2000s
The Mars Volta – De-Loused in the Comatorium (2003)
Coheed & Cambria – In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 (2003)
These Arms Are Snakes – Oxeneers or the Lion Sleeps When Its Antelope Go Home (2004)
The Sound of Animals Fighting – Tiger and the Duke (2005)
The Receiving End of Sirens – Between the Heart and the Synapse (2005)
Gospel – The Moon Is A Cold Dead World (2005)
The Number Twelve Looks Like You – Nuclear. Sad. Nuclear (2005)
The Fall of Troy – Doppelgänger (2005)
Protest The Hero – Kezia (2005)
Fear Before The March of Flames – The Always Open Mouth (2006)
Damiera – M(US)IC (2007)
Circa Survive – On Letting Go (2007)
Dance Gavin Dance – Dance Gavin Dance (2008)
2000s progressive post-hardcore was kind of the result of a bunch of different post-hardcore bands trying their hands at progressive rock all at once. A lot of these bands ended up collaborating and touring together, but it took a few years for this to seem like a coherent subgenre. When the next wave of progressive post-hardcore bands cropped up at the turn of the 2010s, they very much had a specific shared sound in mind. That sound got dubbed "swancore," and the person who coined it was Dance Gavin Dance guitarist (and Blue Swan Records founder) Will Swan. Dance Gavin Dance served as the direct bridge between the early 2000s bands and the 2010s bands (many of whom were signed to Blue Swan). They took the influence of a lot of the earlier bands on this list and they bottled it up and stirred it around until it sounded like an accessible blend of just about all of them. Their self-titled sophomore LP is their second album and first with clean vocalist Kurt Travis (who would go on to front A Lot Like Birds and also has a band with The Fall of Troy frontman Thomas Erak, among many other projects), following their 2007 debut with now-controversial vocalist Jonny Craig. Kurt's a real wailer who can sometimes sound like a cross between Anthony Green and Casey Crescenzo, and Will Swan's mind-melting riffage exists somewhere in the middle ground between The Fall of Troy and The Mars Volta. Sometimes prog bands get a little too polished, and DGD definitely flirt with the cleaner side of the genre, but they keep things gnarly thanks to screamer Jon Mess, who clearly learned his screaming chops from '90s screamo and splits vocal duties almost 50/50 with Kurt on this LP. (They also had some guest vocalists on this album, including none other than Deftones frontman Chino Moreno.) When this album first came out, it might've seemed like a product of its influences, but at this point, DGD have become a highly influential (and long-lasting and consistent) band themselves, and this decade-plus-old sophomore LP still holds up.
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