2010
Cleveland-based youth-culture magazine ALTERNATIVE PRESS will kick off its 25th anniversary in style with THE 2010 AP TOUR, presented by ROCKSTAR ENERGY DRINK. The tour, featuring a lineup handpicked by AP staff, will kick off March 19 at the House Of Blues in Dallas, Texas.
Since 2007, AP has been determined to bring the best new bands at an affordable ticket price to venues across North America, and the past three years’ tours (including the Fall Ball, which wrapped this past November) have featured such hot, up-and-coming acts as 3OH!3, All Time Low, Mayday Parade, Forever The Sickest Kids and more. What started off as a 28-date tour four years ago has quickly grown far beyond anyone’s expectations, with 2009’s sold-out AP Tour reaching more than 55,000 attendees in over 40 cities.
This spring’s AP Tour bill will feature all three of AP’s 100 BANDS YOU NEED TO KNOW IN 2010 cover stars: Joplin, Missouri’s rising star NEVER SHOUT NEVER will headline the tour, with main support from Las Vegas-based piano-pop band THE CAB and Floridan female-fronted pop-rockers HEY MONDAY, who will share the spotlight, rotating positions each night. Michigan rockers EVERY AVENUE and Arizona electro-pop quintet THE SUMMER SET will round out the lineup.
“The coolest part has been to see our annual 100 Bands You Need To Know special transform into a live production,†says publisher Norman Wonderly. “It’s exciting to watch the careers of the past alumni evolve and know you were with them in the beginning!â€
Once again, this year’s AP Tour includes built-in incentives for both the fans and the bands. First, each ticket purchased includes a one-year subscription to AP for the purchaser or a friend. Also, AP has teamed with GLAMOUR KILLS for the third straight year to provide exclusive AP Tour merch. Each band will design their own T-shirt through Glamour Kills to be sold throughout the tour at their merch booths. Free posters of all five bands will be available at each stop, as well, and attendees can have them signed at AP’s nightly meet-and-greets. Lastly, there will be an exclusive offer for pre-sale purchasers only: For an additional $9.99 along with the purchase of a pre-sale ticket, fans will receive all three newsstand covers of the 100 Bands issue along with the subscriber-only version.
Pre-sale will begin at 5 p.m. local time on Jan. 4, and run though Jan. 8, with regular onsale beginning Jan. 9. Pre-sale tickets are available here: http://theaptour.frontgatetickets.com
THE 2009 AP TOUR routing:
3-19 Dallas, TX (House Of Blues)
3-20 Austin, TX (Emo’s–FREE SXSW Show)*
3-21 Houston, TX (Warehouse Live)
3-23 Tucson, AZ (Rialto Theatre)
3-24 Phoenix, AZ (Marquee Theatre)
3-25 Bakersfield, CA (The Dome)
3-26 San Diego, CA (House Of Blues)
3-27 Las Vegas, NV (Extreme Thing)
3-30 Los Angeles, CA (House Of Blues)
3-31 San Francisco, CA (The Grand Ballroom at The Regency)
4-01 Chico, CA (Senator Theatre)
4-02 Portland, OR (Hawthorne Theatre)
4-03 Seattle, WA (El Corazon)
4-05 Salt Lake City, UT (In The Venue)
4-06 Denver, CO (Gothic Theatre)
4-08 Des Moines, IA (People’s Court)
4-09 St. Paul, MN (Station 4)
4-10 Chicago, IL (House Of Blues)
4-11 Milwaukee, WI (The Rave)
4-13 Kansas City, KS (The Beaumont Club)
4-14 Sauget, IL (Pop’s)
4-15 Nashville, TN (Rocketown)
4-16 Atlanta, GA (The Masquerade)
4-17 Jacksonville, FL (Freebird Live)
4-18 Orlando, FL (House Of Blues)
4-21 Charlotte, NC (Amos’ Southend)
4-22 Norfolk, VA (The NorVa)
4-23 Philadelphia, PA (Theatre Of The Living Arts)
4-24 Allentown, PA (Crocodile Rock)
4-25 Washington, DC (9:30 Club)
4-27 New York, NY (The Fillmore At Irving Plaza)
4-28 Buffalo, NY (Club Infinity)
4-29 Boston, MA (House Of Blues)
4-30 New Haven, CT (Toad’s Place)
5-01 Albany, NY (Northern Lights)
5-04 Pittsburgh, PA (Altar Bar)
5-05 Toronto, ON (Phoenix Theatre)
5-06 Detroit, MI (Crofoot Ballroom)
5-07 Columbus, OH (Newport Music Hall)
5-08 Cleveland, OH (House Of Blues)
*The tour will stop at the world-renowned venue Emo’s during the South By Southwest Music Conference in Austin, Texas. This FREE show will feature the tour lineup, as well as more than a dozen bands from our 100 Bands You Need To Know In 2010 issue as well as special guests.
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Jared Leto Is An Actor Trying To Be A Musician
A good actor can take on a role that is completely different from who he or she is in real life. Musicians, on the other hand, perform at their best when bringing a piece of themselves to the stage.
Herein lies Jared Leto’s problem. He is an actor who thinks he should be doing music, too. His performances in movies like “Requiem for a Dream” were nothing short of remarkable, but unfortunately he is trying to apply the same techniques that made him a successful actor to being a musician.
Way back in May ’08, Jimmy Urine, lead singer of Mindless Self Indulgence, decided to call out Leto in a video he posted online with his wife Chantal Claret Euringer, lead singer of Morningwood. He claimed Leto was in the audience at his Vegas show taking notes.
Now, Urine is known for his high energy off-the-wall (literally) concerts. So it’s understandable, that Leto, whose live show has been criticized, would want to pick something up. Still, Urine was pissed. Seriously, who goes to a rock show to take notes? I guess concert reviewers and people who want to write down set lists, but come on…not a fellow rock star. It’s a little…weird.
Now take a look at the first 30 seconds of 30 Seconds to Mars’ new video “Kings and Queens”.
Thirty Seconds To Mars – Kings + Queens – HD
30 Seconds to Mars | MySpace Music Videos
I get the feeling Leto has also been taking some notes from Bono.
It’s hard to be unique in the music biz, especially when you want to be mainstream, but Leto seems to be lacking any originality.
Leto should really look at his own life and bring that on stage with him for his band’s upcoming tour. That method doesn’t always work if you’re trying to play a part in a movie, but going on stage is not acting. It should be revealing, intimate and real. A true rock star (no matter how popular) can give that to the audience every time.