[Video Playlist of the Week] Seven Tours in Support of Decade-Old Albums
Recently, more and more bands have been reuniting for the [insert number here] anniversary of their most successful, or most popular, album. In retrospect, everyone always wishes they could’ve been there to see the album played live when it came out, but let’s face it; time travel isn’t a thing, so this is your best bet. Get your credit cards ready: this is a list of upcoming tours in 2015 for bands supporting or reuniting for the 10th anniversary of your favorite record.
Cartel - Chroma [tickets]
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Without a doubt the band’s best album. The group released a statement saying how they weren’t ashamed to jump on the anniversary band wagon and that’s just the way it should be because this album deserves another tour.
Motion City Soundtrack - Commit This To Memory [tickets]
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Lead singer Justin Pierre has rocked the same haircut for more than 10 years, but more importantly, what importance would it have in the scene if no one ever heard Commit This To Memory? Luckily for you, the band is still on tour in support of their decade old, pop-punk staple with William Beckett and Brick and Mortar.
Alkaline Trio - their whole discography [tickets]
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While Crimson is turning 10 this year, it’s not stopping Alkaline Trio from playing their whole discography (eight albums) in eight different cities. Whether this means another Alkaline Trio album is in the works or singer Matt Skiba is leaving indefinitely to join slightly-defunct Blink-182 as Tom DeLonge’s replacement, these shows are must see for Hot Topic regulars from the early 2000s (AKA everyone who listens to Alkaline Trio).
H2o - their entire discography, 20th anniversary shows [tickets]
The grandfathers of PMA have decided to play their entire catalog in their hometown of Brooklyn, New York for three nights as well as the windy city of Chicago. The shows will be small, but so worth the travel to see FTTW and Nothing To Prove played in their entirety. Not to mention, not one, but two albums will be played each night.
Mae - The Everglow [tickets]
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Mae were more of an underground, soft pop-punk band from the early 2000s, but their 2005 album The Everglow was one everyone in the scene knew about.
Hawthorne Heights - The Silence In Black And White [tickets]
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No other song in 2004 resonated with such quote-worthy notoriety than Hawthorne Heights’ “Ohio Is For Lovers.” Other than the pretty bleak lyrics, it made teenagers proud to have their heart in Ohio.
Silverstein - Discovering The Waterfront [tickets]
Giving their decade old, post-hardcore sophomore record Discovering The Waterfront a last hoorah that ends in Australia this year. The band just finished their U.S. leg of the tour.
Honorable mentions:
The Wonder Years - Since being a band [albums in their entirety for three nights]
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The Wonder Years marked their survival of a whole decade filled with old pizza and sappy breakups by playing three shows in their hometown of Philadelphia.
Blink-182 - Untitled [three night show in 2013]
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In 2013, Blink-182 celebrated their last album before their first hiatus in 2003 by playing the Untitled album for three dates in Los Angeles.
Say Anything - ...Is A Real Boy, Saves The Day - Through Being Cool, Reggie & The Full Effect - Under The Tray [recently wrapped]
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Say Anything recently wrapped up their 10 year anniversary tour of their flawless record ...ls A Real Boy with Saves The Day supporting the 10-year anniversary of their iconic album Through Being Cool. Oh, and Reggie & The Full Effect opened up for the two by playing Under The Tray in it’s entirety. This tour was like celebrating Christmas three times in one night.
Relient K - Mmhmm [recently wrapped]
Relient K just got off their anniversary tour for their junior record Mmhmm.
Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends
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If you were a teenager in the early 2000’s with a Myspace, you had a song from TAYF as your profile song. Props to you if you were able to live out your 8th grade dreams of seeing TBS sing “Cute Without The ‘E’” or “There’s No ‘I’ In Team.”
13 Morbid Songs for Friday the 13th
It’s every goth’s second favorite holiday: Friday the 13th. In honor of the infamous day of moral reckoning, I’ve created a playlist of songs to get blasphemous to.
13. "Killing It" - A Wilhelm Scream
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If Jason Vorhees could pick a song to listen to while stabbing someone, I feel like this would be it.
12. "Back to Hell" - Alkaline Trio
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The dark pop-punk trio created an ode (one of many) to the pits below with lyrics like “send us back to hell/we've had our fill of heaven.”
11. "Bleed Black" - AFI
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The gothic, melodic hardcore have mastered the emotional, heavyhearted sound with their 2003 record Sing The Sorrow. This song as well as every other song off the album would be a perfect fit for a day like Friday the 13th.
10. "Cowboys From Hell" - Pantera
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The groove metal band Pantera are no strangers to being associated to the dark lord, so they embodied the notion with one of their most iconic songs.
9. "The God That Failed" - Metallica
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Denouncing the idea of religion/God is pretty much step one in the metal handbook and that’s the most Friday the 13th-y thing you can do.
8. "Your 666" - H.I.M.
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Throw every last superstition out the window by listening to this song with lyrics like, “I welcome your six six six in my heart/I’m losing my faith in you,” you’re sure to have all of the bad luck today (here’s to hoping).
7. "Hellraiser" - Ozzy Osbourne
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Ozzy says he’ll “put a spell on you” with his tribute to rocking in the hardest way possible; raising hell.
6. "Hang ‘Em High" - My Chemical Romance
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MCR’s hit album, Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge, made death cool again in the mid-2000’s. My pick for the playlist has everything to do with the eerie, witchy undertones of the lyrics, “climb out from the pine box, well I'm asking you/'cause she's got nothing to say/The angels just cut out her tongue/call her black Mariah, would I lie to you?”
5. "Blood And Thunder" - Mastodon
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While the song (as well as the entire album) is based off the novel Moby Dick, “Blood and Thunder” starts off with, “I think that someone is trying to kill me/Infecting my blood and destroying my mind;” the most brutal thing said about a whale ever.
4. "Killing In The Name" - Rage Against The Machine
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Again, while the song (and band) is about “bringing down the man” and all, the lyrics, “some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses,” fits into the scheme of Friday the 13th.
3. "Crystal Lake’s Legacy" - Voorhees
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A U.K. hardcore gimmick band based off the aforementioned, fictional murderer “killed it” with their salute to Vorhees with their 2001 record Crystal Lake’s Legacy.
2. "Running With The Devil" - Van Halen
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David Lee Roth said in an interview that he always thought the devil was with him; whether it was running (‘living at a pace that kills’), driving, playing music, eating lunch, etc. Ultimately, it sounds like he lives his life like every day is Friday the 13th.
1. "Dead" - Pixies
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Written about the biblical story (2 Samuel, Chapter 11) from the tale of Bathsheba and King David with mixed in lyrics such as, “my heart is dead,” it’s a no-brainer this song is included to the playlist. Also, the horror movie montage trumps all.