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Win Tickets to The Cool Tour, Plus an Electric Guitar From Ibanez!

Published

14 years ago

June 21, 2010

For three weeks this July some of your favorite metal bands are going to be touring together across the U.S. as part of The Cool Tour. If you aren’t familiar with the tour, it features As I Lay Dying, Underoath, Between The Buried And Me, and five other bands you don’t want to miss. To make sure you get in on the action we’re going to give away some free tickets… the best part is it doesn’t matter where you live because we’re giving away a pair of tickets to each stop on the tour. Then to top it off, one lucky winner will also win an electric guitar from Ibanez. Read on for all the details and how to enter!

THE LINEUP
As I Lay Dying
Underoath
Between The Buried And Me
Blessthefall
The Acacia Strain
Architects
Cancer Bats
War of Ages

THE DATES
July 12 – Orlando, FL @ House Of Blues
July 13 – Atlanta, GA @ The Tabernacle
July 14 – N. Myrtle Beach, SC @ House of Blues SC
July 15 – Charlotte, NC @ The Fillmore Charlotte
July 16 – Baltimore, MD @ Sonar
July 17 – Toronto, ONT @ Sound Academy
July 18 – Detroit, MI @ Royal Oak Music Theatre
July 20 – Boston, MA @ House of Blues Boston
July 21 – Sayreville, NJ @ Starland Ballroom
July 22 – Philadelphia, PA @ Electric Factory
July 23 – Columbus, OH @ The LC Pavilion
July 24 – Milwaukee, WI @ Eagles Ballroom
July 25 – St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant
July 27 – Houston, TX @ Verizon Wireless Theater
July 28 – Dallas, TX @ The Palladium Ballroom
July 30 – Tempe, AZ @ Marquee Theatre
July 31 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Palladium
Aug 1 – San Francisco, CA @ The Warfield

THE GUITAR

Ibanez GART30

HOW TO ENTER

THE CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED, THANKS FOR ENTERING! WE’LL ANNOUNCE WINNERS SOON.

For more on The Cool Tour,
http://www.cooltour10.com
http://www.hs.facebook.com/CoolTour10
http://www.myspace.com/cooltour10
http://twitter.com/Cooltour10

Music

“He Walks By Night” – Listen to a Brand New John Carpenter Song NOW!

Published

2 weeks ago

April 9, 2024

John Squires

It’s a new day, and you’ve got new John Carpenter to listen to. John Carpenter, Daniel Davies and Cody Carpenter have released the new track He Walks By Night this morning, the second single off their upcoming album Lost Themes IV: Noir, out May 3 on Sacred Bones Records.

Lost Themes IV: Noir is the latest installment in a series that sees Carpenter releasing new music for John Carpenter movies that don’t actually exist. The first Lost Themes was released in 2015, followed by Lost Themes II in 2016 and Lost Themes III: Alive After Death in 2021.

Sacred Bones previews, “It’s been a decade since John Carpenter recorded the material that would become Lost Themes, his debut album of non-film music and the opening salvo in one of Hollywood’s great second acts. Those vibrant, synth-driven songs, made in collaboration with his son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies, kickstarted a musical renaissance for the pioneering composer and director. With Lost Themes IV: Noir, they’ve struck gold again, this time mining the rich history of the film noir genre for inspiration.

“Since the first Lost Themes, John has referred to these compositions as “soundtracks for the movies in your mind.” On the fourth installment in the series, those movies are noirs. Like the film genre they were influenced by, what makes these songs “noirish” is sometimes slippery and hard to define, and not merely reducible to a collection of tropes. The scores for the great American noir pictures were largely orchestral, while the Carpenters and Davies work off a sturdy synth-and-guitar backbone.

“The trio’s free-flowing chemistry means Lost Themes IV: Noir runs like a well-oiled machine—the 1951 Jaguar XK120 Roadster from Kiss Me Deadly, perhaps, or the 1958 Plymouth Fury from John’s own Christine. It’s a chemistry that’s helped power one of the most productive stretches of John’s creative life, and Noir proves that it’s nowhere near done yielding brilliant results.”

You can pre-save Lost Themes IV: Noir right now! And listen to the new track below…