Every Avenue has released a new video of an acoustic performance of “Only Place I Call Home” off of their latest album Bad Habits. The band, currently signed onto Fearless Records is about to embark on a nationwide tour with The Audition, We Are The In Crowd, Plug In Stereo, and Simple as Surgery. The tour kicks off in February in Cleveland, Ohio.

The New York natives will be hitting the road in mid October accompanied by Mayday Parade, You Me At Six, There For Tomorrow, and The Make as part of the Noise Tour, sponsored by Journeys.

10.13.11-Crazy Donkey-Farmingdale, NY

10.14.11-Webster Theatre-Hartford, CT

10.15.11-Stone Pony – Asbury Park, NJ

10.16.11 – Fillmore – Washington, DC

10.17.11 – Theatre of Living Arts – Philadelphia, PA

10.18.11 – House of Blues – Boston, MA

10.20.11 – St. Andrews Hall – Detroit, MI

10.21.11 – Egyptian Room – Indianapolis, IN

10.22.11 – Bogart’s – Cincinnati, OH

10.23.11 – House of Blues – Cleveland, OH

10.25.11 – Skully’s – Columbus, OH

10.26.11 – House of Blues – Chicago, IL

10.27.11 – The Rave II – Milwaukee, WI

10.28.11 – The Blue Moose – Iowa City, IA

10.29.11 – The Beaumont – Kansas City, MO

10.31.11 – The Summit – Denver, CO

11.02.11 – Regency Ballroom – San Francisco, CA

11.03.11 – House of Blues – San Diego, CA

11.04.11 – House of Blues – Las Vegas, NV

11.05.11 – House of Blues – Anaheim, CA

11.06.11 – The Rock – Tucson, AZ

11.08.11 – Emo’s – Austin, TX

11.09.11 – House of Blues – Houston, TX

11.10.11 – House of Blues – Dallas, TX

11.12.11 – Double Down Live – Gainesville, FL

11.13.11 – State Theatre – Tampa, FL

11.14.11 – Floyd’s – Tallahassee, FL

11.16.11 – Masquerade – Atlanta, GA

11.17.11 – House of Blues – Orlando, FL

11.18.11 – Revolution – Ft. Lauderdale, FL

11.19.11 – Freebird Live – Jacksonville, FL

The Time Travel Tour

9.22.11 – Denver, CO-The Summit Music Hall *
9.24.11 – Portland, OR-Wonder Ballroom *
9.25.11 – Puyallup, WA-Western Washington Fair w/The Maine and The Downtown Fiction
9.27.11 – San Francisco, CA-Warfield Theatre *
9.28.11 – West Hollywood, CA-House of Blues**
9.30.11 – Anaheim, CA-The Grove of Anaheim**
10.01.11 – San Diego, CA-Soma**
10.02.11 – Las Vegas, CA-House of Blues**
10.04.11 – Tucson, AZ-Rialto Theatre**
10.06.11 – Pharr, TX-Pharr Events Center**
10.07.11 – San Antonio, TX-The White Rabbit* *
10.08.11 – Dallas, TX-House of Blues**
10.09.11 – Houston, TX-House of Blues**
10.10.11 – New Orleans, LA-House of Blues**
10.12.11 – Orlando, FL-House of Blues Orlando**
10.13.11 – Atlanta, GA-The Tabernacle**
10.15.11 – North Myrtle Beach, SC-House of Blues**
10.16.11 – Charlotte, NC-Amos’ Southend Music Hall* *
10.18.11 – Norfolk, VA-The NorVa**
10.19.11 – Philadelphia, PA-Electric Factory***
10.20.11 – Silver Spring, MD-The Fillmore – Silver Spring***
10.21.11 – New York, NY-Terminal 5***
10.22.11 – Sayreville, NJ -Starland Ballroom***
10.23.11 – Rochester, NY-Water Street Music Hall**
10. 25.11 – Boston, MA-House of Blues***
10.27.11 – Toronto, ONT-Kool Haus***
10.28.11 – Columbus, OH-Newport Music Hall**
10.29.11 – Cincinnati, OH-Bogart’s**
10.30.11 – Indianapolis, IN-Egyptian Room**
11.01.11 – Royal Oak, MI-Royal Oak Music Theatre**
11.02.11 – Cleveland, OH-House of Blues Cleveland**
11.04.11 – Grand Rapids, MI-Orbit Room* *
11.05.11 – Chicago IL-Riviera Theatre**
11.06.11 – St. Louis, MO-The Pageant**

*w/A Rocket to the Moon and Carter Hulsey
**w/ A Rocket to the Moon, Fake Problems, and Carter Hulsey
*** w/ The Plain White T’s, A Rocket to the Moon, Fake Problems, and Carter Hulsey

This year marks the 20th anniversary of Chicago’s annual Lollapalooza music festival. In the heat with a surprising lack of overwhelming humidity, one would have found themselves in an ocean of hipsters and eight stages to choose from on August 5th. At around five o’clock Gold Motel failed to show up to their intimate performance at the Toyota tent, half an hour late and still not arrived, I ventured to the BMI stage to witness a set by Pete Wentz & Bebe Rexha in their new project Black Cards. Their show began with two dancers in tight black clothing donning wolf head masks. While Pete’s main position in the band is supposed to be the bass guitar, his time was spent as follows: 85% dancing on stage while Bebe sang, 10% doing synth, and 5% stage diving into an unsuspecting and unready crowd that struggled to catch the man. A highlight of the show included Bebe pulling a Superbad Fogel-looking boy from the crowd to serenade while she danced and sung “Summer Nights” and “Club Called Heaven”. Black Cards’s show eventually turned into a very crowd interactive performance. By that I mean they eventually had half the crowd on stage with them in a giant dance party. Following Black Cards was OK Go on the new Google+ stage where the members were dressed in coordinating suits in red, blue, green, and yellow. Other than the distracting bodily odored man in front, the set was decent and included a song featuring “bells created by God” that was a very soft song with traits of a lullaby. “Here It Goes” was played midset, followed by a massive departure of the part of the crowd that was only staying for that song being that it was the only one they’ve heard from the band. Second best known hit “This Too Shall Pass” was performed second to last. The hardest decision made at the first night of Lolla arrived when the time came to pick between Coldplay on the Bud Light stage or Muse on Music Unlimited. We chose to pull the half-Coldplay, half-Muse routine. We stayed much longer than intended in anticipation for Chris Martin & Co. to play their new song “Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall”. After staying for much longer than half, there was some serious hauling done in order to catch the last few minutes of Muse’s set on the opposite side of Grant Park. In comparison to other festivals, Lolla is going head to head with Kevin Lyman’s Vans Warped Tour. The crowd was surprisingly polite, and no one over the top aggressive (unless highly intoxicated and provoked). One fan stated that “it’s one thing to see Lolla on TV, but it’s another to be there in person because the energy and feel of the atmosphere gives you chills.” Having the beautiful backdrop of the sun setting on the city skyline behind the stages, Lollapalooza is the epitome of Chicago. Check out the final day of the festival on August 7th.

Former Fall Out Boy frontman Patrick Stump has confirmed a full US tour from August 3rd to September 3rd. More details of the tour such as other performers will be released soon.

We The Kings are hitting the road with The Summer Set, The Downtown Fiction, Action Item, and Hot Chelle Rae on the Friday Is Forever Tour.  The tour kicks off July 10th in Eureka Missouri, nine days before The Summer Set drops their much anticipated album Everything’s Fine on July 19th.

Sub City and Hopeless Records are set to release the tenth edition of their annual compilation CD, Take Action.  This year’s comp features songs, remixes, and acoustic covers by bands such as We Are are In Crowd, The Swellers, VersaEmerge, and All Time Low.  All profits made from album sales will be donated to charities,  the primary benefiting charity being Sex etc., an organization dedicated to improving teen’s sexual health information and resources.  The Take Action tour kicks off on April 22 in Boston, and continues until the end of May.

This year’s Alternative Press Tour features Black Veil Brides, Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows, I See Stars, VersaEmerge and Conditions. Pre-sales begin at 12 p.m. local time January 10th with general tickets on sale January 15th. Each ticket comes with a free one-year subscription to AP for you or a friend (but if you’re an AP Veteran such as myself, then the free subscription doesn’t apply to you).