Hail The Sun, Kaonashi, Kurt Travis & Body Thief announce 2021 fall tour
Progressive post-hardcore staples Hail The Sun will support their new album New Age Filth on an Equal Vision Records-presented headlining tour this fall with support from EVR labelmates Kaonashi (whose anticipated new LP arrives this week), former Dance Gavin Dance/A Lot Like Birds/etc vocalist Kurt Travis (performing full-band solo and Eternity Forever songs), and Body Thief.
The tour kicks off on the West Coast, and hits major cities all across North America including Dallas, Houston, Brooklyn (9/30 at Music Hall of Williamsburg), Toronto, Detroit, Chicago, and more, before wrapping back up with another West Coast run. Pre-sale and VIP tickets to all dates are on sale now. All dates are listed below.
Hail The Sun / Kaonashi / Kurt Travis / Body Thief — 2021 Tour Dates
09/14 – Anaheim, CA @ Chain Reaction
09/15 – Phoenix, AZ @ Rebel Lounge
09/17 – San Antonio, TX @ The Rock Box
09/18 – Dallas, TX @ Trees
09/19 – Houston, TX @ Scout Bar
09/21 – West Palm Beach, FL @ Respectable Street
09/22 – Tampa, FL @ Crowbar
09/23 – Orlando, FL @ The Abbey
09/24 – Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade – Hell
09/25 – Durham, NC @ Motorco Music Hall
09/26 – Virginia Beach, VA @ Elevation 27
09/28 – Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar
09/29 – Worcester, MA @ Palladium Upstairs
09/30 – Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
10/01 – Albany, NY @ Upstate Concert Hall
10/02 – Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church
10/04 – Toronto, ON @ Velvet Underground
10/05 – Columbus, OH @ Woodlands Tavern
10/06 – Detroit, MI @ The Shelter
10/08 – Chicago, IL @ Bottom Lounge
10/09 – St. Paul, MN @ Amsterdam Bar & Hall
10/11 – Denver, CO @ Marquis Theater
10/12 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Hangar House
10/15 – Seattle, WA @ El Corazon
10/16 – Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theatre
10/19 – Fresno, CA @ Strummer’s
10/20 – Santa Cruz, CA @ The Atrium At The Catalyst
10/21 – Sacramento, CA @ Goldfield Trading Post Roseville
10/22 – San Diego, CA @ House Of Blues
10/23 – Los Angeles, CA @ Teragram Ballroom
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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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