Take Action Tour with Attack Attack! & Pierce The Veil finally starts this week!
06.09.2010
The Sub City Take Action Tour Australia 2010, featuring Attack Attack! and Pierce The Veil on their first Aussie tours, kicks off this Friday in Adelaide. A percentage of the money raised from ticket sales will go to Australian youth support organisation ReachOut.com. Support a good cause and catch the bands in fine form, fresh off the back of Warped Tour 2010.
Adelaide Enter Shikari show almost sold out!
06.09.2010
Enter Shikari's first headline tour down under kicks off in less than a fortnight. Joining the Brits on the road and for all shows are Melbourne's House VS Hurricane. A very small number of tickets to the Adelaide show are still up for grabs through Moshtix, with Melbourne also set to sell out in the coming week and other shows headed the same way. Grab your tickets today!
The Devil Wears Prada side shows are selling fast!
06.09.2010
The Devil Wears Prada have announced a couple of special headline sideshows, treating Sydney and Melbourne to extended sets while the band are in the country this September. Tickets now on sale and selling fast.
Leatherface (UK) Live and BMTH Guest DJ Set @ Thriller This Week!
06.09.2010
Don't miss Leatherface (UK), Paper Arms, Fires Of Waco and Grenadiers playing live @ Thriller this week as well as Jona from Bring Me The Horizon guest DJing in the party room after their Riverstage show! Plus win threads Fatal Clothing, Disturbed's new CD and every single payer scores a collectors edition Four Seasons tin! Doors @ 9pm. RSVP here.
Mourning Tide + Wish For Wings Live @ Diamond Nights 1st October!
06.09.2010
Catch Mourning Tide, Wish For Wings, Grace Is Gone and Abraxis playing live on Friday 1st October @ Diamond Nights! Plus don't miss your chance to score a heap of threads thanks to Unleash Hell Apparel. Doors @ 9pm. RSVP here.
NEVER DID A POPULAR THING... COULDN'T SELL OUT A TELEPHONE BOOTH... THE PROUD... THE FEW... THE DESCENDENTS
With that tongue-in-cheek battle cry, the nerdsome foursome declared their war against mediocrity. Fueled by the omni-ambitious doctrine of ALL (not ALL the band... that comes later the concept, based on the TOTAL EXTENT, the peak of pinnacles) and a series of caffeine binges, the essences of punk and pop were percolated together in a way that has yet to be recreated, though many have died trying. Ranks of sympathetic adolescents, previously excluded from the ferocious world of punk rock, followed the sound. They boldly strapped on their glasses, wiped their noses on their sleeves, and launched into the slam pit chanting the DESCENDENTS' refrain "I'm not a loser" like a mantra.
In 1978 the DESCENDENTS formed under their common credo of fishing, girls and velocity. Existing briefly as a power trio, the LA-based group released the 7" single Ride The Wild before recruiting a certain crop-haired honors class geek cum heartthrob (enter Milo Aukerman, he of the ubiquitous album illustrations) on vocals. They released the Fat EP in 1981, the only record in the DESCENDENTS' expansive catalog that does not ...
