Title Fight announce tour with Touche Amore & The Menzingers. Playing First Unitarian Church & Santos Party House.

Title Fight have announced a full US headlining tour with Touche Amore, The Menzingers and Dead End Path. The run will be kicked off with a stop at Philadelphia's First Unitarian Church on Thursday, May 19th.

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Buckcherry, All That Remains, Hell Yeah, and The Damned Things played Starland Ballroom 02.13.11

Buckcherry, American rock band back from indefinite hiatus, touched down in New Jersey for the first time since releasing their fifth studio album, "All Night Long", which dropped in early August of this past year. The band was asked to headline the Jagermeister Music Tour with supergroup, Hell Yeah, hard rock's most recent success story, All That Remains, and another supergroup, The Damned Things, featuring Keith Buckley from Every Time I Die and Joe Trohman and Andy Hurley of Fall Out Boy.

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Dave Hause, Mikey Erg, Ian Graham announce East Coast tour

Dave Hause, Mikey Erg and Ian Graham have announced a joint East Coast tour. The two week run will make stops at Asbury Park's Asbury Lanes on Thursday, April 28th and New York City's Cake Shop Sunday, May 1st.

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Hellogoodbye, You Me & Everyone We Know @ School of Rock 2.11.11 (photos)

Hellogoodbye, You Me & Everyone We, Gold Motel and more stopped by South Hackensack's School of Rock this past Friday. A bunch of photos of the show can be seen here courtesy of Catherine Powell. The CA group (along with Gold Motel) now start their trek West, where the tour will wrap up in Anaheim, CA March 2nd. Be sure to check out the rest of Hellogoodbye's upcoming tour dates.

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Into It Over It, Daytrader @ The Fire 1.29.11

Into It Over It (Photos By Dan Bassini)

Daytrader

Bearings

Settle For Less

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Into It Over It & Daytrader made a stop at Philadelphia's The Fire this past Saturday, January 29th. The No Sleep & Run For Cover acts had been on the road together for the past 10 days, with Philly being the last show together. The pair also hit Brooklyn's Silent Barn and Clinton's The Aquifer while in the area. Daytrader is currently heading down the East Coast solo until they meet up with Black Numbers' Go Rydell for a few dates. Be sure to check out all of Daytraders 2011 tour dates. All of Into It Over It's upcoming tour dates can be found here.

Black Lips & Vivian Girls announce tour.

Black Lips & Vivian Girls have announced that they'll be hitting the road together come this April. The national tour will bring the pair to Philadelphia's The Trocadero (Tickets) on Saturday, April 9th and New York City's Webster Hall (Tickets) Tuesday, April 12th. Both groups have forth coming LPs, which should be out this Spring. Back in September the Vivian Girls announced that they had signed with Polyvinyl. All of the Black Lips and Vivian Girls joint tour dates can be found below. 

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River City Extension tour updates

River City Extension have been out on the road with The Get Up Kids & Steel Train for the past week. Luckily, the breakout NJ group have been documenting every minute of the tour. Right now you can view 2 tour updates from RCE. Thought they don't feature any live footage they do however show all the other things rock bands due while on tour such as: eat bagels, sing "Happy Birthday" and sleep. You can view their day 1 update above. Day 2 & 3's update can be found below. All of River City Extension's upcoming tour dates, which include a sold out Maxwell's show with Max Bemis (Say Anything) can be found here.

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Disturbed, Korn & Sevendust @ Monmouth University 1.22.11

Disturbed (Photos by Nicole Mago)

Korn

Sevendust

In This Moment

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Disturbed, Korn, Sevendust and In This Moment stopped by Monmouth University's The MAC. The Long Branch show was apart of a massive US arena tour, which is now in it's home stretch. The stacked run will return to New Jersey for it's final date this Sunday, January 30th at Atlantic City's House of Blues. Setlists from all of the bands that performed this past Saturday can be found below thanks to Setlist.fm. Videos from the Monmouth University show can be found below as well. The rest of the upcoming Disturbed, Korn, Sevendust tour dates can be found here.

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Senses Fail lose member. Announce tour dates.

After almost ten years, founding member Garrett Zablocki has decided to leave Senses Fail. The guitarist is set to move from the stage to the classroom as a full time college student. You can read statements from Buddy and Garrett himself about his departure here.

In better SF news, the NJ group has announced a massive headlining run, which will also include The Ghost Inside, Man Overboard and Transit. Unfortunately, the tour won't include and NJ, NYC or Philadelphia dates. However, if you are in dyer need of catching this amazing lineup you may want to road trip it to Scranton, PA, Pawtucket, RI or Allentown, PA. All the dates for the month long US tour can be found below. 

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Man Overboard announce tour with The Wonder Years.

Man Overboard have announced that they will be heading out with pop-punk stalewarts, The Wonder Years. The two groups will only hit the road together for a short run, but will at least be hitting up some places in the surrounding areas such as: Philadelphia's First Unitarian Church on Wedensday, March 2 & Poughkeepsie's The Loft Friday, March 4th. The two groups will be joined by PA's Handguns. All of the short run's dates can be found on the poster above. Man Overboard have been demoing for a new album and expect to head into the studio in the near future to record their Rise Records debut. The Wonder Years will be out in support of their 2010 breakout record The Upsides. At the end of December The Wonder Year's made a surprise appearance at Man Overboard's First Unitarian Church show.

...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead & Surfer Blood announce tour.

...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead & Surfer Blood have announced some tour dates together. The two groups will kickoff their run together at NYC's Bowery Ballroom on April 29th then return to the area May 13th to play Brooklyn Bowl. The tour will also hit Philadelphia's First Unitarian Church Thursday, May 12th. Before their run with Surfer Blood, ...And You Will Know are set to first on a month long European run. All the dates for their tour in Europe and their US tour with Surfer Blood can be found below.

Trail of Dead's new album Tao of the Dead is set to drop February 8 via the band's own Richter Scale Records. You can get your first taste of the album by streaming their song "Summer of All Dead Souls" here. Surfer Blood is still out in support of their debut LP Astro Coast, which was released last January. If you haven't yet, you can pick up that solid release here.

...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead - Worlds Apart (Buy)

Surfer Blood - Swim  (Buy)

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Deftones and The Dillinger Escape Plan announce tour. Playing Starland Ballroom and Best Buy Theatre.

Deftones and The Dillinger Escape Plan have announced a Spring tour that is set to kick off this April. While most of the 2011 tour dates haven't been announced yet, it is confirmed that the tour will hit up Starland Ballroom on Wednesday May 11th and Best Buy Theater on Friday May 13th and Saturday May 14th. Tickets for all three shows go on sale this Saturday at noon and is expected to sell out fast. The Dillinger Escape Plan released their fourth album Option Paralysis last March. You can pick it up here. Deftones latest album Diamond Eyes debuted at number 6 on the Billboard Top 200. You can check out the music video for their song "You've Seen The Butcher" below.

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Daytrader announce Winter tour dates. Playing The Aquifer, The Fire and Silent Barn.

Daytrader have announced a ton of Winter 2011 tour dates. The Long Island group are set to kick things off January 20th in Scranton, PA and bring things to an end in Akron, OH on February 13th. Chicago's Into It Over It, who recently put out a split with Koji on No Sleep Records, will be joining Daytrader for the first 10 days of the tour. In these 10 days the groups will make stops at Clinton, NJ's The Aquifer, Philadelphia's The Fire and surprisingly, the usually strictly indie-rock DIY spot, Silent Barn in Brooklyn. Transit will also be doing a week of the tour early on, but unfortunately won't be on any of the area dates. They did however just play Philly with Fireworks, Man Overboard and The Wonder Years. All of Daytrader's announced 2011 tour dates can be found on the post above, along with details on all the other bands that will be joining for parts of the run.

Best Coast & Wavves announce split 7" for upcoming tour.

Everyone's favorite indie-rock couple, Nathan Williams & Bethany Cosentino have announced that their two bands will be releasing a Wavves & Best Coast split together. The split 7" will be titled Summer Is Forever and will be released via Mexican Summer. Physical copies of the joint release will be exclusively available at the upcoming Best Coast, Wavves tour dates. Track listing for the split can be found below. Tickets for both NYC's Webster Hall and Philly's Starlight Ballroom dates are still available. All of their upcoming tour dates together can be found here. In 2010, The NJ Underground presented both Wavves at Montclair's Meat Locker and Best Coast at Montclair's Meat Locker. Good to see them graduating to some bigger (and slightly cleaner) venues. 

Best Coast - Crazy For You (Buy)

Wavves - Linus Spacehead (Buy)

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Tour dates for upcoming All Time Low/Yellowcard tour leaked. Playing Starland Ballroom and Best Buy Theatre.

Tour dates for the upcoming All Time Low/Yellowcard tour have been leaked. The tour will kick off at Starland Ballroom on March 25th and also stop at Best Buy Theatre on May 3rd. There could be a possible stop at next years Bamboozle. Hey Monday and The Summer Set are also on the lineup. 2011 will be a big year for both ATL and Yellowcard. All Time Low is set to release their major label debut entitled Dirty Work next Spring. The newly reunited Yellowcard will release their seventh album When You're Through Thinking, Say Yes next March through Hopeless Records. This is the band's first release since 2007's Paper Walls. Thanks to Shameless Media for the news tip!

Ted Leo announces solo tour

Ted Leo has announced that he'll be heading out on a solo tour come this January. The US run will include a date at Philadelphia's Kung Fu Necktie. Unlike last Winter, when Ted Leo played Montclair's Meat Locker, the Garden State native does not have any NJ date announced. However, he did play a very special New Brunswick basement show back in July. All of Ted Leo's non-Pharmacists dates can be found below. 

Ted Leo - High Party

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Sparks The Rescue, You Me and Everyone We Know, Amely @ School of Rock 12.4.10

Sparks The Rescue

By: James McGrath

On Saturday night, the “Christmas Brings Me Down” tour stopped by the abandoned warehouse in South Hackensack we affectionately call the School Of Rock.  The tour was aptly named, as most attendees were in the holiday spirit as the dipping temperatures were trying to drag us all down. The tour features Sparks the Rescue, You Me and Everyone We Know and Amely, but had what was described as “a fucking bonus!” by Ben Liebsch; The Morning of played second to last much to everyone’s delight.

Opening the evening were local bands Nottingham and The Ride Down, from different parts of New Jersey and bringing plenty of classmates with them for support.  Each seemed to be proficient at performing their own material but attempted covers that did not pan out as well as intended.  Nottingham was a few songs into its set list when I arrived to an extremely sped up version of the Beatles’ “All My Loving” while The Ride Down layed down a vocal slaughtering of “Grand Theft Autumn”, originally by Fall Out Boy.  It was apparent that the second band of the evening, The Ride Down from nearby Oradell, NJ had quite a fanbase in the building, but the hooting and hollering got into their heads and obviously distracted them from what they came there to do, play songs.  There was time to squeeze two or three more songs in if the bassist did not do a costume change or if the lead singer did not introduce his band mates.

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A Loss For Words, Such Gold, Washington Square Park @ Brighton Bar 12.5.10

A Loss For Words (Photos by Dan Bassini)

Such Gold

Lions Lions

Washington Square Park

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A Loss For Words, Such Gold, Lions Lions tour stopped by Long Branch's Brighton Bar this past Sunday. Our premier photographer, Dan Bassini was there to catch the pop-punk invasion of the Jersey Shore. South Jersey's Bright and Early were added to the bill last minute after having to cancel some out of state dates due to van trouble. Unfortunately we were unable to catch photos of their set, but we did get photos of Washington Square Park who also opened for A Loss For Words when they played NJ's The Aquifer back in May. The A Loss For Words, Such Gold, Lions Lions tour is just past the half way point and will wrap up this Sunday at Front Water Tavern in Massachusetts.

The Chariot, Cancer Bats, Stray From The Path @ Hangar 84 12.4.10

The Chariot (Photos by Dan Bassini)

Cancer Bats

Stray From The Path

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The Chariot, Cancer Bats and Stray From The Path stopped by Vineland's Hangar 84 this past Saturday, December 4th. The three groups are about to wrap up their 10 date stint together. They play Corbin, KY's Technology Center tonight and play the short tour's final show tomorrow in East Ridge TN. The Chariot recently finished recording their upcoming album entitled Long Live. No word yet on a release date. Cancer Bats released their latest album Bears, Mayors, Scraps and Bones this past April.

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