Press PlayPublication Alternative Publishing Issue One Spring 2017 Image provided by @vanswarpedtour Instagram Gearing Up For Summer ConcertsSpring is a time for many thing: flowers bloom, the grass gets greener and bands all over the nation begin to announce summer concert dates. While some are bigger than other, there is no less excitement to find out a favorite band is coming to a city near you. Vans Warped Tour is a common summer concert series . The lineup is different every summer, but the alternative music tour comes to the same cities every year. The line up for Vans Warped Tour 2017 is announced March 22. Some of the bands attending the concert series this year include American Authors, Beartooth, Blessthefall, Bowling for Soup, Hawthorne Heights, I Prevail, Memphis May- fire , Never Shout Never and countless others. Fans push to get as close as they can to the main stage at Vans Warped Tour several years ago. The summer Recently other bands have begun an- concert series starts June 16 in Seattle, Washington and runs unit August 6 in Pomona, California. nouncing tour dates starting as early as March tour featuring the release of their new album- Shannon And The Clams, Downtown Boys, and running through October. Mayday Parade Last Young Renegade. The Young Renegades Surf Curse, Slow Hollows and Surfboat are announced they would be touring this year to tour will also feature SWMRS, Night Riots, playing this year’s event, along with Radio- celebrate the 10-year anniversary of their al- Waterparks and The Wrecks. head, the Interrupters, Two Door Cinema bum A Lesson in Romantics with Knuckle Puck The famous Coachella music festival has Club, Dreamcar and Car Seat Headrest, which and Milestones headlining the concert. also added more punk bands to their line-up had been announced earlier in the year by All Time Low announced their summer this year trying to reach more fans. T.S.O.L., the six-day music festival. PressMy name is Zoe Glore.Play I’m a sophomore Letter alternative artists.from So this newsletter the is an Editor journalism and media communication major. inside look into everything going on in the I really felt that this newsletter was something alternative music scene from the past, present that I could do to inform the community and future. about something that makes me happier I hope I am able to share a little bit about than most. myself in every one of these articles and Music has always been such a huge part images. I truly cannot express how much this of my life. I’ve had the opportunity to meet so music, these people, these places mean to me many bands and artists that I couldn’t imag- and so many others I know. Bob Marley once ine not sharing those experiences. said, “One good thing about music, when The alternative music scene is one that is it hits you, you feel no pain,” and I couldn’t commonly overlooked, and I don’t feel that is agree more with these words. right. So many popular bands today got their Thank you for taking the time to read Editor Zoe Glore discusses the imapct music can start in small concert venues being called these pieces and I hope you enjoy it. have and how that inspired the newsletter. Press Play1 DeathAll images taken by officialof aDeath Bachelor:of a Bachelor tour photographer A Jake LookChams into Image 1 Image 2 Image 8 The Death of the Bachelor tour has been Image 7 one of the largest Panic! at the Disco has headlined in years. It’s evident that a lot of work was put into planning the show, and Jake Chams, the official Death of a Bachelor photographer captures the extravagance in every image. Brendon Urie put on an amazing perfor- mance as he began the show with pyrotech- nics such as fire, fireworks and more (image 2). Urie stepped through the crowd, shaking hands and hugging fans (image 1 and image 3). Crowds in every city of the tour hold up Image 3 their phones with colored hearts over their Image 6 flashlights during Girls/Girls/Boys, a song which was written about acceptance of love, including that of the LGBTQIA+ community (image 7). Urie holds a rainbow flag during the song (image 6), and drapes the flag over his mic stand. Urie’s musical talent is made evident as he plays piano several times during the set (image 5 and 8), and has a drum solo toward Image 4 Image 5 2Press Play Panic! at the Disco’s Spring Tour the end of the show (image 4). One of the most iconic moments during the set occurs as Brendon Urie speaks to the crowd after Girls/Girls/Boys. With colored lights still in the air, Urie explains how much it means to him to have such an accepting fan base. He encourages the crowd to be the change that only young people can be (image 9). During on of Urie’s piano performances, a piano is positioned in the crowd. As Panic! Image 13 Image 14 at the Disco continues to performs, the piano rises and then slowly comes back down during This is Gospel, a song he wrote for his best friend. The lights and confetti added that much more to the performance (image 12). Urie is known for his wide range and abili- ty to belt just about any note you could think of. Urie’s stage presence is one that is evident to anyone watching (image 10, 11 and 14). Performances are not the only part of a tour like this though. Urie is nothing but smiles at rehearsals in Omaha, NE (image 13). The eight week long tour comes to a close April 15th in Sunrise, FL with Misterwives and Saint Motel. Image 10 Image 11 Image 12 Image 9 Press Play3 How Pop WeGetting discussed Late Nite to Reading, Know Point North and Brady all things fans wantSzuhaj to know. As a forever fan of Late Nite Reading, when I Image provided by @pointnorthband Instagram On aPunk scale of Avril Are Lavigne You?to My Chemical saw Brady Szuhaj, the former bassist, was going to Romance, how pop punk are you? be in Columbus, I asked him for an interview. He took me up on my offer. Not only did Szuhaj thank me for being a fan, for writing the article and telling You’ve been able to say you the world how I felt, but he expressed to me that were listening to a song/band this was one the only pieces he had shared about before it was popular Late Nite Reading since the band broke up. I had plenty of questions and Szuhaj gave me all the an- swers I needed. I finally got some closure knowing People have never heard of your that although Late Nite Reading broke up, there favorite band were good reasons for it and the love for the fans was still there. Szuhaj offers insight into his new life and his feelings about everything that happened. Brady Szuhaj (second from the right) talks about his new band, his move to LA and so much more. You’ve worn black nail polish Q: Things kind of ended and it was kind of and/or black eyeliner regardless of here or there where things were going. What was it down and we write 3-4 songs a week, write and cut initially that you decided to go to LA and start this and cut and once we find one that we love it’s like gender next project? put this one on the record. We write a ton of songs Brady Szuhaj: Absolutely, so basically towards and it’s been awesome. You always had to make a trip the end of LNR, we were all kind of growing as Q: Do you have anything you’d like to say to people and musicians and as much as I liked the the fans who were fans of LNR that are reluctant to to Hot Topic whenever you went to music we were playing, it wasn’t quite where my check out the new band? Because I know that I was! the mall heart was at. I’m a [explicit] punk kid at heart, so S: I think that it’s perfectly fine if you are reluc- after it all ended, I had a whole bunch of friends out tant to it. I think that LNR will always have a special in LA and I kind of wanted some time for myself to place in my heart and in everyone’s hearts, but it’s Most of your wardrobe consists go enjoy California and some head space for myself. not a thing anymore. I’d like it to be a fond memory of band tees and other merch I just went out there and met a bunch of cool for everyone and I would just like it if you’d check people, just a lot of really cool people. I’ve met a lot out this new music because it means a lot to me of lifelong friends out there and met my freaking and LNR meant a lot to me and LNR meant a lot to You prep just as much for a con- two band mates and in a course of two months you so hopefully this [Point North] will too. cert as the band does (not really formed a band together and moved in together. I Q: So as busy as you guys are right now, where but you get what I’m saying) just wanted to play some angry music, some emo to you see this going? music.