KIVEN Announces US Tour
Kiven, who released their self-titled EP back in February, is hitting the road with My Body Sings Electric! On the tour, supporting acts will include Beware of Darkness, Ben & LP (formerly of Yellowcard), Treetop Flyer, Feelgood, Stevie and the Hi-Staxx, The Royals, Archbald, The Feeling of Falling, Knights in Color, HARPS, Garrett Lee Robinson, Immigre, and Beat Club.
You can find the full list of the Spring tour dates below!
Show Review:: Yellowcard | Starland Ballroom 1/31/14
Ocean Avenue was released on July 22nd, 2003. I was 11 years old. From that moment on, I knew that this band would leave a permanent mark on me. There was something about their sound and how different they were from every other band that made me fall so in love with them. In 2012, my 11 year old self was ecstatic when I had the opportunity to catch a small portion of Yellocard’s set at the Vans Warped Tour stop in Holmdel, New Jersey. Unfortunately, I had to leave their set early, but for those few songs I caught, I was over the moon.
When the band announced they would be doing an acoustic tour in honor of the 10-year release of Ocean Avenue, I was so excited…until I saw that there was no New Jersey dates and both of the New York dates had sold out. For months, I was frustrated and patiently waiting for the band to announce some other tour so I could finally catch a full set of theirs. Thankfully, the band announced they would be doing a second round of dates for the acoustic tour and one of them was at a favorite venue of mine, Starland Ballroom. I wasn’t missing this show for the world. And even though I had to leave their set early - AGAIN - right after their acoustic set (for reasons beyond my control), just seeing and hearing them play live made me fall in love with them all over again.
Review:: Ocean Avenue Acoustic | Yellowcard
I’ve never ranked Yellowcard as one of my favorite bands.
That being said, I don’t see that as being an insult.
The thing is, I have always given the band my utmost respect. I have been a fan of them for a while, I’ve been fortunate enough to see them perform a few times, even shot photos once.
But, like I said, they’ve never been in my Top Bands list or anything.
However, I have considered Ocean Avenue an important album to me for quite some time. When it was released, I was eleven. Yeah, eleven. I had always been a music fan. My father had sculpted my brother and me into walking, talking jukeboxes filled with pointless trivia, and it’s something that the three of us still bond over to this day.
But, when I first started discovering my own music, that was an entirely new thing to me. Thanks to a friend back in Catholic school (hooray for character building!) and his Walkman, I found out what pop-punk was.
And since then, I’ve devoured every album, song, chorus, note I could find.
