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Perhaps taking a page from the Osbournes' concet-planning playbook, or perhaps realizing how many people are unemployed these days, organizers of the Virgin Mobile Fest announced late Tuesday that they're putting on a free show this year.

Or, more specifically, a free festival, headlined by Blink-182 and Weezer.

Dubbed the Virgin Mobile Free Fest, the free, day-long show takes place August 30 at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland. Joining Blink and Weezer on the bill are Franz Ferdinand, Taking Back Sunday, Public Enemy, Wale, the Hold Steady, Girl Talk, the National and more.

Organizers will give away nearly 35,000 free tickets for the show, where parking will also be free. After Virgin Mobile customers get first crack through Ticketmaster on June 25-26, the rest of the tickets will be available to the public starting on June 27.

The Virgin Fest debuted at Baltimore's Pimlico Race Course in 2006, and featured the Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Who atop the bill. It expanded to a two-day event the following year, with a bill that featured the likes of 311, the Smashing Pumpkins and Velvet Revolver. Last year, Kanye West, Lil Wayne, Nine Inch Nails and Bob Dylan all appeared. In previous years, tickets to the Virgin Fest cost $100 per day.

"In a time of economic challenges and daily sacrifices, we wanted to throw a fantastic party so people could let loose and have a great time — on us," Sir Richard Branson, founder and president of Virgin Group, said in a statement.

For more information, check out the festival's official site, VirginMobileFestival.com.

• Blink-182 Party In Honor Of Their Summer Tour

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Blink-182 at their tour party on Monday
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LOS ANGELES — There was a mariachi band, flaming margaritas and lots of musicians on Monday night at the El Compadre Mexican restaurant, as Blink-182 took over the joint for a fiesta in celebration of their upcoming summer tour.

And while there was much celebrating — the mariachi band belted out Blink tunes and the margaritas flamed late into the night — the party also served another function: breaking the ice. After all, when you've got a tour that's positively packed with bands (not just Weezer and Fall Out Boy, but a rotating cast of opening acts like Panic at the Disco, the All-American Rejects, Taking Back Sunday, Chester French and Asher Roth, to name just a few), there's bound to be an odd act out. And Blink wanted to change that.

"We're actually here with all the bands and friends going out on tour — it's always awkward when you first start touring, and it's the first day and there's a bunch of people walking around and you don't know who you're supposed to talk to or not, and some people are standoffish," Blink bassist/singer Mark Hoppus told MTV News. "So we thought, 'Why don't we throw a big party before the tour, [so] everybody can come and hang out?' You know, get some beans, eat some Mexican food, bond. The guys in Chester French gave me some flowers. We bonded. It's going to be a good tour."

Oh, and about that tour: Yesterday, after Blink appeared on KROQ's Kevin & Bean show, MTV News reported that — per a caller's suggestion — the guys were considering naming their summer jaunt "One-Way Ticket to Boneville." As it turns out, that name was actually "Bonerville" (you know, a tiny hamlet just west of Boneville), and though it's currently in the lead, Blink aren't quite ready to start printing up the tour T-shirts just yet. There are still other contenders to the tour name throne.

"There's a new one that Mark is probably a little too scared to do, but I like it: 'Brokeback Mountain: The Tour,' " guitarist/singer Tom DeLonge smiled. "I thought that would be f---ing great, but there's some debate within the band about that."

"I was also thinking of 'High School Musical 5: The Tour.' I don't know about something like that," Hoppus said. "Actually somebody called up on the radio station today and said 'One-Way Ticket to Bonerville' which I think is really genius ... 'One-Way Ticket to Bonerville: Come for the 'ville, stay for the boner.'"

"I've been there," DeLonge added. "You don't need the other ticket."

• Blink-182 Party In Honor Of Their Summer Tour

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Taking Back Sunday's Adam Lazzara in the "Sink Into Me" video
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Taking Back Sunday's "Sink Into Me" video is a mess.

Not of the "OMG, what were they thinking?!?" variety, mind you, but rather in the "icky, inky, sludgy, gooey, that's never gonna come out" sense.

Filmed deep in the heart of Brooklyn and featuring gallons of what can only be described as sticky, black sludge, "Sink" is the sloppy, exhilarating debut of the new Taking Back Sunday, in more ways than one. It's the first clip they've made since replacing departed guitarist Fred Mascherino with new axe-man Matt Fazzi, the debut of their new, big-and-hooky sound, and the first video from their new album, which, fittingly, is called New Again.

It seems like a pressure-packed situation, but when we went out to the set of the video last month, the guys didn't seem to be feeling the heat in the slightest. In fact, it looked like they were having an absolute blast.

Flailing around in the black goo — which, as frontman Adam Lazzara's hands, face and clothes can attest, turned a bizarre shade of purple when dry — sinking into the rigged stage and mugging for the camera, TBS really did appear to be new again. And Fazzi fit right in, joking with drummer Mark O'Connell that he looked extra purple, thanks in large part to his ultra-pale complexion.

For as fun as it looked to make, the "Sink Into Me" clip is just as fun to watch. Dig the trickle of black goo that slips down Lazzara's face — it's a subtle nod to the so-called "black oil" on "The X-Files." And the whole "sinking" thing seems to be a loving ode to the Strokes' underrated "You Only Live Once" video (which, in turn, is an ode to the infamous "Trash Compactor" scene from "Star Wars").

As for the song, well, TBS have always been known for penning insanely huge choruses (check "MakeDamnSure" for proof), but this time, they've applied that concept to an entire track. The result is a jarring, rocking fist-pumper — one that will most certainly go over like gangbusters with live audiences.

Let's just hope they don't shower the stage with black goo. That stuff stains.

• Instant Video Analysis: Taking Back Sunday's 'Sink Into Me'

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Taking Back Sunday on the “Sink Into Me” video set
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Taking Back Sunday have gotten used to silencing critics. That tends to happen when you shed five different bandmembers (including two singers) over the course of a decade.

So, when their latest departure — guitarist Fred Mascherino, who split in 2007 — had the detractors squealing once again, they decided it was time to try a new silencing strategy: They made T-shirts.

More specifically, they made yellow T-shirts, emblazoned with the slogan "I Used to Be in Taking Back Sunday." They've been sending them out with copies of their new album, New Again, due June 2, as a rather ingenious way of heading off haters at the pass. You gotta admit, it's sort of brilliant.

"We figured if you can't laugh at yourself, then you can't laugh at anything. We are from the school of not taking ourselves too seriously. So we've been sending out this shirt that says 'I Used to Be in Taking Back Sunday,' " TBS frontman Adam Lazarra laughed. "Because we've gone through some lineup changes, and you go on the Internet on blogs and things, and there's a lot of people who have a lot to say about that. So we figured that rather than sitting back, why don't we join the fun and also make fun of ourselves?"

There's a lot at stake with Again, which not only serves as the big unveiling of new guitarist Matt Fazzi, but pushes the musical boundaries into areas they've never explored. There are glockenspiels involved. And a flautist.

"When we went in to start writing for New Again, Matt joined the band and helped us out a lot with the writing process, and a lot of the things he brought to the table were a lot of the things that make the record so special, as far as it's clearly a growth to what we've done in the past," Lazarra said. "Experimenting ... a lot of different instruments, horns, glockenspiels, there's a flautist on the record. And it's stuff we never would've tried before. Him coming into the mix really helped us to grow as a band, both musically and personally."

That growth is evident on first single "Sink Into Me," for which the band shot a video earlier this week in New York with director Travis Kopach. It's immediate, fist-pumping and powerful, a song that — unlike some of TBS' earlier tunes — doesn't mess around when it comes to getting to the hook.

"I kind of like to equate it to a freight train. ... Like, if you were to stand in front of it, you would get pummeled. And that's what the chorus sounds like to me," Lazarra explained. "We wanted to come out of the gates swinging, and 'Sink' is one of the songs that sort of represents the direction that Taking Back Sunday is going. Plus, it has a little bit of flavor from where we've been. I think people will be pleasantly surprised. If not, they're a--holes."

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Former Taking Back Sunday guitarist/singer Fred Mascherino
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Guitarist/singer Fred Mascherino decided to leave Taking Back Sunday in early September, after the band wrapped its stint on Linkin Park's Projekt Revolution Tour. The only problem was, no one deemed it necessary to announce his departure — at least, until MTV News' inquiries led the group's label to issue a press release Thursday afternoon (October 4). So he decided to do it himself.

"This is the first time I'm talking to anyone about this," he laughed on Thursday. "But, yeah, I have parted ways with Taking Back Sunday. I felt like during the time we were together, we made some great music together, but it was getting to the point where I felt I had taken the road as long as I possibly could."

Though he wouldn't elaborate on just what made him decide to leave TBS — the band he joined in 2003 that rode to impressive heights thanks to 2004's Where You Want to Be and last year's Louder Now (see "Taking Back Sunday Record New Album, Duck Crazy People In Los Angeles") — he did say that it was something that was in the back of his mind for months. He noted that the band's musical direction, coupled with its rather tumultuous history (since forming in 1999 TBS have shed four members, including two singers) played a part in his decision.

"After Louder Now, I think the band was headed somewhere I didn't want to go, musically. [Louder Now] was a rock album, and there were some songs that I had written that were more pop than anyone else wanted to go," he said.

"There is a direction Taking Back Sunday has been on since before I joined, and it will continue. When you're in a band that has history, then that band sometimes carries responsibilities and weight with it. And as much as I enjoyed it, I just needed to move on from something that happened so long ago."

Mascherino said he's written more than 45 songs over the past two years — the majority of which he said were intended for the follow-up to Louder Now — but when he found the majority of his ideas being shot down by his bandmates, he started to realize that perhaps it was time to move on.

"I hoped to write another record, for sure. But there wasn't a lot of writing going on between the five of us, honestly," he said, speaking in slow, diplomatic bursts. "We weren't really coming together. I felt like it was just a good time to move on, because I was pretty sure I could never make another record with these four guys."

So rather than store those songs away, he's decided to let the world hear them on a solo project he's calling the Color Fred, a name that, ironically enough, was chosen for him by Taking Back Sunday fans ("I know it's kind of a silly name," he laughed, "but I think that's appropriate for my personality"). He's releasing an album on October 30 called Bend to Break, and he hinted that the songs will give TBS fans an inside look at just what led him to leave the band.

"A lot of the songs do sort of tell part of my struggle within the band. I mean, it's not an album about me leaving the band, but it's about what I've been feeling," he explained. "That said, it's just more of the stuff I've always written. It's not, like, me and an acoustic guitar, like, 'Oh, I'm Bob Dylan now!' I want people who have been following my music to like these songs."

When Mascherino takes his new project out on the road later this month, he says it'll be a bit weird, but also, "refreshing." And though he realizes that leaving Taking Back Sunday was a pretty big risk, he's excited about the possibilities of writing and playing whatever he wants. Whenever he wants to do it.

"I'm fully aware of the risk, but I grew up with nothing, and when I was in ninth grade, I said, 'All I want to do is play guitar for the rest of my life.' So as long as I can play guitar, I'm happy," he said. "It's about doing what I want to do for as long as I can. The times in my life where I've had money have not been happy ones. So I want people to listen to my record and hear the honesty in it. I want to make music that's really, truly the truth."

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On October 30, Victory Records will be issuing an album from Taking Back Sunday, a bit of information that doesn't seem all that noteworthy until you realize that TBS has had fairly hostile relations with the label for more than two years.

And given that fact, there are suddenly a whole lot of people who are curious about just what this record will be — a list that also includes pretty much everyone who has anything to do with the band. It all started Wednesday afternoon, when Victory posted a news bulletin on its site that matter-of-factly stated:

"Victory Records will be releasing a Taking Back Sunday album on October 30, 2007 ... A more in-depth press release will be issued in August."

That got TBS supporters buzzing, especially since the band and Victory have maintained a rather icy relationship since the former left the latter to sign with Warner Bros. in 2005. (One infamous instance of said iciness: the leaking of an August '05 e-mail written by Victory honcho Tony Brummel to the Warner Music Group, in which he chastised them for certifying TBS records as gold without his permission and called WMG "a soulless corporate monicker [sic].") Had Taking Back left Warner and re-signed with Victory?

Well, if a band like Thursday — who went through a similar situation with Victory when they left the label in 2002 — could make amends with their old boss (see "Thursday Knew Victory Treaty 'Would Confuse Everybody' "), then anything seemed possible. Or, in an even stranger scenario, was Victory planning on releasing a re-recorded version of TBS' Tell All Your Friends, with current guitarist/vocalist Fred Mascherino and bassist Matt Rubano recording sections originally played by John Nolan and Shaun Cooper?

Well, as it turns out, the answer to those questions is a resounding "No." Victory will be releasing a TBS album, but a label rep said the album will be a collection of Victory-era tracks. The rep declined to provide further information.

When asked about the upcoming album, TBS manager Jillian Newman also declined to comment, but she did write in an e-mail to MTV News that "the release will consist of tracks released when the band was on Victory."

And finally, a spokesperson for Warner had no information about the Victory release, but stressed that Taking Back Sunday have already begun working on a genuinely new album while out on the Projekt Revolution tour (see "Linkin Park, My Chemical Romance, Taking Back Sunday To Headline Projekt Revolution"), and that record will be released on Warner "sometime in 2008."

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On The Record: Emo Overload

Recently, Maureen Callahan wrote a piece for the New York Post about Crush Management, the NYC cadre that shepherds the careers of Fall Out Boy, Panic! at the Disco, the Academy Is ... and Armor for Sleep (or, as Callahan puts it, "basically any band that a 13-year-old girl with a blog and a Hot Topic habit obsesses over").

Aside from providing readers with some genuinely bananas quotes from songwriter/ rock-and-roll vampire Butch Walker about credibility (especially considering this is on his résumé), the article is excellent primarily because it floats the hypothesis that the artists Crush represents are basically the modern-day equivalent of Warrant or White Lion: good-looking, commercially successful bands that no self-respecting music fan would be caught dead listening to. Hair-metal acts for the MySpace generation.

And if that's true (and it probably is), then that raises the question: Are we currently living in the Trixter/Winger era of the genre? Has emo-punk — a term that, at this point, is so indefinable that it somehow encompasses My Chemical Romance, Panic and Cute Is What We Aim For, three bands that are neither particularly "emotional" nor particularly "punk," unless you count ripping off Queen, dressing up like a marionette or being terrible as such — become so same-y, so formulaic and so watered down that it now borders on self-parody? Is 2007 really just 1989 but, you know, worse?

Well, yes.

Let's compare: Both hair-metal and emo-punk acts exist almost primarily on the aesthetic plane — the obvious connection here is the hair — and count among their chief reasons for success the physical attributes of one bandmember (be it Kip Winger's toothy grin or Pete Wentz's, um, pouty lips). As a result, both appeal primarily — nay, almost exclusively — to young girls, those who, as Callahan puts it, are "not yet ready for real rebellion." Both are critically derided, save one act that is begrudgingly admired by critics (Extreme, MCR). And while both do, in fact, rock, no dyed-in-denim rock fan would ever admit to liking them (i.e. a Metallica fan would've never said, "Skid Row is kind of awesome," inasmuch as no Linkin Park fan would admit that "Boys Like Girls totally brought it last night").

And, of course, there's the songs, which tend to tackle serious issues in seriously bantam-weight ways (Skid Row's "18 and Life," Taking Back Sunday's "A Decade Under the Influence"); the overtly crass accessibility (hair metal, by definition and execution, was tailor-made for radio, whereas emo-punk is neatly customized for MySpace players); and, uh, the fact that both genres died (or are dying) under the sheer weight of "bands" operating underneath their respective umbrellas.

The comparison brings up several rather, uh, troubling questions: Are MCR and FOB this generation's Guns N' Roses and Metallica — i.e. rock acts that are actually pretty awesome yet won't be truly recognized for their brilliance until all other pretenders to the throne die off? Who will be the 2007 version of Firehouse? (Coheed and Cambria?) And will we all, in 20 years' time, clamor for a Taking Back Sunday reunion tour?

And — perhaps more importantly — when emo-punk finally does die off, what will take its place? We all know that hair metal begat Nirvana, primarily because Kurt Cobain was the very antithesis of hair metal's Pablum and posturing (but also because Nirvana were a great band). So what will succeed emo? If history is correct, it'll be a band as far removed as possible from Fall Out Boy, one that plays totally insincere, totally ripping rock, and one fronted by a totally un-hirsute, totally ugly dude.

Which totally describes the Bronx, who are, coincidentally, also managed by Crush. There is no escape.

B-Sides: Other Stories I'm Following This Week

No Doubt write songs without Gwen; Gwen totally reminded she used to be in a band. (See "New No Doubt Songs Ready To Roll — Once Stefani Is.")

I think the RATM clock countdown could've ended more anticlimactically. Actually, wait ... no I don't. (See "Rage Against The Machine Clock Counting Down To Wisconsin Concert.")

Also on "Transformers" fans' wish lists: Bumblebee to be played by "totally hot chick," move out of parents' basement. (See " 'Transformers' Fans Wanted Peter Cullen — Not Clooney — To Voice Optimus Prime.")

Cleaning Out My Inbox (Or "Interactivity, While A Touchstone Of So-Called 'New Media,' Is Actually Overrated And Kind Of A Waste Of Time")

Last week's edition of BTTS (see "White Stripes Give Radio Station A Case Of The Stupids, In Bigger Than The Sound") caused a mini-maelstrom on radio stations across the country, which resulted in my inbox being overstuffed with e-mails from super-angry listeners and irate rock jocks (meaning a 150 percent increase in letters from dudes named "LAZLO," "CHAOS MOTOR" and "DASH"). Some — read: most — were just exercises in profanity, but a few actually included a coherent sentence or three, so I'm including them here.

"There is a much, much, much bigger issue here. Every album this year has leaked. Every single album. Modest Mouse, 5 weeks before. Chevelle, a month. Manson leaked a month ago. Queens leaked 3 weeks ago. Lots and lots and lots of people have access to this music. If the record company still wants to use radio as a tool to expose new music, it sounds completely insincere and a lot of times like an outright lie to have World Premiers and debuts of songs and albums that are not new. Even if the label were to come to us and ask us to host an exclusive stream of the album on our website and we could point to that rather than playing it, that would be great too. They don't though. They are no longer able to control the time of the release of these albums. We can sit here and debate whether that's good, bad or indifferent, but regardless, it happens and we've got to find a way to deal with it. To kick and scream and stomp and wonder where the good old days of album artwork and getting excited for new music Tuesday went is a waste of time. That's what we're doing."

-Spike, music director, Q101, Chicago

"Mr. Montgomery, as a DJ at my school's student radio station, I can tell you that we are encouraged to play any leaked material we have obtained from an outside source, and we do this because we know our rights as a station, and because it's what listeners want to hear. Was this stupid of Q101 to do, knowing what a nutjob Jack White can be? Probably. But does that mean they shouldn't have done it to avoid the wrath of Mr. White? No, not really. I'm no expert in media law, but I hope this clarifies a few things. Thanks."

-Garrett Lawton, WIUX, Bloomington, Indiana

"Wait ... hang on ... someone at MTV actually has an opinion that is somewhat relevant, and is allowed to voice it, in print no less, and borders on amusing? WTF? I guess I should tune in again, maybe you guys aren't just hanging out with the lead singer from Filter and showing 4th rate quasi-reality half-hour bullsh-- anymore."

-Ted Taylor, somewhere in the wilds of the Internet

"I just read your article about the radio station playing a leaked copy of the White Stripes' new album. While I agree with you that it wasn't the most intelligent thing for them to do, do you actually believe that it was because of them that it was later found on P2P networks? If anything, it would have just created more awareness that it was out there to be had — but on the internet, you don't need much to get the word out. ... While I agree it was wrong, I don't see the harm. If anything, it generates interest in the album. The people who are going to download it illegally are still going to no matter where they hear it first. Oh, and what the hell is wrong with the Squirrel Nut Zippers?"

-Doug Turley, Edwardsville, IL

"Hola a todos, es un agrado para mi comunicarme con ustedes y enviarles una información de mucho valor para los interesados en adquirir Bienes Raíces únicos de nuestro hermoso país que es Chile ...A continuación verán algunas fotos de una Hacienda que posee mas de 7000 (Siete Mil) Hectáreas de terreno, cuyos paisajes absolutamente envidiables hacen de éste, un paraíso de lugar, tanto comercial como personal para quienes gustan de la naturaleza, el agua, la nieve, la vegetación, las riquezas mineras y todo tipo de apasionados deportes extremos. En su interior hay una extensión plana, llamada planicie de la Luna, la que puede ser usada como pista de aterrizaje en tiempos y condiciones aptas para el vuelo. El valor comercial de esta Hacienda supera los $1.400.000.000."

-Francisco Javier Salgado Contreras, Antuco, Chile

Questions? Concerns? Drop me a line at BTTS@MTVStaff.com.

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Linkin Park's Chester Bennington and Mike Shinoda at New York's Museum of Television and Radio on Monday
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NEW YORK — There are plenty of big things about Linkin Park's upcoming Minutes to Midnight.

They include the producer (Rick Rubin), the expectations (um, real huge) and, naturally, the accompanying tour (see "Linkin Park's Minutes To Midnight Preview: Nu-Metallers Grow Up").

So it's easy to understand why LP chose the massive, marble-filled Museum of Television and Radio as the location to announce that tour: the reborn Projekt Revolution, which they founded in 2003.

"This is very important tour for us, so we're excited to announce the return of Projekt Revolution," Linkin Park co-frontman Chester Bennington said. "We wanna go out there and kick as much ass as we can, and with the bill we've assembled, the pressure will be on us to prove we deserve to headline it."

Bennington made the announcement backed by a large Projekt Revolution banner and flanked by his bandmate Mike Shinoda. Also along for the pomp and/or circumstance were My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way and Taking Back Sunday's Adam Lazzara and Matt Rubano.

Those two acts will join LP on the tour, which kicks off July 25 in a city to be announced later this month.

"We were inspired by tours like Lollapalooza, where you have all these awesome bands playing together," Bennington said. "All the bands are really exciting and they'll bring something diverse to the bill. I can't wait to get out there and bring it every night and destroy everything in our path."

"When [Linkin Park's 2000 debut] Hybrid Theory came out, I had just graduated from art school and was hitting the pavement trying to find a job," Way laughed. "I remember seeing a poster for that album in the Virgin Records in Union Square ... so to be touring with them now is great."

The bill — which will feature bands on two stages — also includes Placebo, H.I.M. and Julien-K joining the headliners on the Main Stage, and Saosin, Styles of Beyond (who guested on Shinoda's Fort Minor project), Mindless Self Indulgence, the Bled and Madina Lake on the Revolution Stage.

Linkin Park launched the first Projekt Revolution tour in 2003, with a bill that included Mudvayne and Xzibit. The following year, the tour expanded to a two-stage affair, with Ghostface, Korn and Snoop Dogg joining LP.

There was no PR in 2005, and the band made rumblings about relaunching it in late 2006, but the band didn't have an album to promote at the time, so it ultimately didn't happen.

Of course, that album, Minutes to Midnight, is now done and hits stores on May 15.

The itinerary for Projekt Revolution, according to Linkin Park's publicist:

»7/25 - TBD
»7/27 - Marysville, CA @ Sleep Train Amphitheatre
»7/28 - San Bernardino, CA @ Hyundai Pavilion
»7/29 - Mountain View, CA @ Shoreline Amphitheatre
»8/1 - Phoenix, AZ @ Cricket Pavilion
»8/3 - Selma, TX @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
»8/4 - Woodlands, TX @ Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
»8/5 - Dallas, TX @ Smirnoff Music Center
»8/7 - Atlanta, GA @ HiFi Buys Amphitheatre
»8/8 - Charlotte, NC @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre Charlotte
»8/10 - West Palm Beach, FL @ Sound Advice Amphitheatre
»8/11 - Tampa, FL @ Ford Amphitheatre
»8/13 - Raleigh, NC @ Walnut Creek Amphitheatre
»8/14 - Virginia Beach, VA @ Verizon Wireless Virginia Beach Amphitheatre
»8/15 - Wantaugh, NY @ Nikon at Jones Beach Theater
»8/17 - Cuyahoga Falls, OH @ Blossom Music Center
»8/18 - Darien Center, NY @ Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
»8/19 - Bristow, VA @ Nissan Pavilion
»8/21 - Toronto, ON @ Molson Amphitheatre
»8/22 - Clarkston, MI @ DTE Energy Music Theatre
»8/24 - Mansfield, MA @ Tweeter Center for the Performing Arts
»8/25 - Camden, NJ @ Tweeter Center at the Waterfront
»8/26 - Hartford, CT @ New England Dodge Music Center
»8/28 - Syracuse, NY @ New York State Fair
»8/29 - Holmdel, NJ @ PNC Bank Arts Center
»8/31 - Noblesville, IN @ Verizon Wireless Music Center
»9/1 - Tinley Park, IL @ First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre
»9/3 - Englewood, CO @ Coors Amphitheatre

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