By Ethan, on March 29th, 2012% (via Property of Zack)
It’s no mystery that Transit is one of my favorite bands. I mean I’ve shot them a million times and seen them a million times. Now they’re raising funs for a tour documentary! And they’re not just doing a boring old kickstarter, they’ve started their own fundraiser, except it’s a “Fun-Raiser!”. Check it out here and read a statement from the band below.
We came up with a cool idea… We want to put together a tour documentary to give our fans an inside look at all the insanity that happens on the road and share the experience with all of you.
In order to ramp up the excitement-factor, we decided to basically pimp ourselves out and do a bunch of crazy things – while capturing all the footage. What’s even better is that you can be a part of some of them (see the options below).
We also put together a “Best of Transit Thursday” digital download with 10 of the best Transit Thursday covers (chosen by our fans) which is included in every single price option below. We plan to use the money we raise to help fund the documentary, and also to buy beer. Kidding… but not really.
There’s an option to choose five songs for an upcoming show, I’m thinking of chipping in a hundred bucks for a chance to hear some old Transit songs (like xFTWx five times)
By Ethan, on March 29th, 2012%
Check out this video of Seahaven performing a new song entitled Honey Bee!
By Ethan, on March 5th, 2012% So there have been some rumors floating around the Internet (okay tumblr) lately about an upcoming pop-punk compilation….of Disney songs. I took this with a few (heaping) grains of salt until tonight. Tumblr user Ashley recently posted a song (listen to it below) and some major major hints about some bands that are going to be on the compilation. Hints have been dropped to Transit, La Dispute, Man Overboard and The Story So Far. I will be the first to admit that I love Disney, a lot. No joke. I love Disney, hate on it. I also love pop-punk. This is amazing.
Expect the compilation to be out sometime this Summer and keep an eye on that dudes tumblr (and here). I’ll post updates when I have them.
I’m giving this song Single Of The Week status: Calls Landing covering I Just Can’t Wait To Be King from The Lion King. Check them out here
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UPDATE: One of my tumblr followers (follow him here) sent me a list of seven possible songs from various hints that Ashey has dropped, they are below
- “A Whole New World” (Aladdin) – Man Overboard,
- “I’ll Make a Man Out of You” (Mulan) – Transit,
- “I Can Go The Distance” (Hercules) – A Loss for Words,
- “Kiss De Girl” (Little Mermaid) – Crucial Dudes,
- “I Just Can’t Wait to be King” (Lion King) – Calls Landing,
- Unknown Nightmare Before Christmas song – La Dispute,
- Unknown Aristocats song – Major League
By Ethan, on December 29th, 2011% Hey Everybody! I know I’ve been kind of remiss in updating my site but that will changing soon! I’ve got a new member of the team and her name is Becki! She saw Handguns in Southern Maryland with a few local bands, her review is below. You’ll be hearing a lot more from her in the coming weeks.
Everything that follows is from Becki herself
At the end of their short December tour with fellow pop-punkers Man Overboard, Handguns so kindly decided to cater to the dreams of a few Southern Maryland kids by playing yet another show…
…in a garage. I’m also fairly sure that the show was arranged about a week or so before it actually was to occur. That gave me a week to mentally prepare to shoot the biggest band I’d ever had the privilege to.
Hit the jump for more!
Continue reading Handguns, Greenhouse, Collapse the Night, FLS and Hank!
By Ethan, on November 2nd, 2011% 
Former Handguns vocalist Taylor Eby has rejoined the band after four months away. A statement from Taylor (via Alt Press) is below. I, for one, am quite stoked about this
“As many of you know, I parted ways with Handguns back in July due to personal reasons. It felt like the touring life was really starting to take a toll on me and I got scared and did what I thought would be the best decision: I came home, settled down and got a job. Someone I work with asked me if I saw myself doing this job for the rest of my life. It was right there and that moment that I knew where it is I exactly need to be and exactly where I belong: in a van and on stage with my best friends. I’m refusing to give up on this dream I’ve had since I was thirteen. This is who I am and all I know.”
Be sure to catch Handguns on their mini tour with Forever Came Calling
By Tyler, on October 9th, 2011% Well I first want to apologize for the lack of photos that will be here from this show, I was taking pictures of the first band and my flash for whatever reason stopped working. and if you’ve ever been to the Democracy Center in Cambridge, MA you know it can get pretty dark in there.
I arrived a little early to the show, before anyone from any band was actually their so I hung out around the corner with some friends, and eventually started seeing a lot of old friends I’ve met from following Featherweight since their start 2.5 years ago. Soon enough everyone was their and bands were ready to play.
**I’m going to try to say a few words about each band to leave room for Featherweight, although I loved every single band on the bill last night**
Risk: a hardcore band from the MVHC (Merrimack Valley Hardcore) Scene opened up the show, according to featherweight they were the first band they were ever very friendly with starting out, great guys great music. Their set was pretty tame, as a lot of people hadn’t arrived yet. Frontman, Brendan Glennon for whatever reason had lost about 80% of his voice, which made for an interesting set ( I made the comparison that he sounded like Kate Winslet in Titanic when she was almost too cold to speak.
After Risk we had Old Gray, an emo band from New Hampshire, I can’t begin to say enough good things about this band, they just play awesome music, awesome personalities, awesome emotion. They’ve only been around since around March or April. Featherweight loves playing shows with them and they love playing shows with them. I remember Cam, their guitar player put it like this “Raph plays guitar, Charlie plays drums and everyone screams”.
Aviator, took the floor next, I can’t say enough about them, they play a type of hardcore I’ve never heard before. I think they were one of the first bands I saw play with Featherweight. Just can’t really say anything more than that, they’re just a band worth checking out.
My Fictions: Once again, another band I can only tell you to see live; talented, sincere, just great people.
Districts: Reunion show, they broke up about a year ago I think, I always remember hearing their name and them being revered as an awesome band, that much was made true to myself last night.
FINALLY.
Featherweight, words cannot justify how much emotion was in that room the whole night, Frontman Sean Ahern took a few minutes, before they played, to give a sincere thanks to all the specific people and specific bands that have helped them, supported them or just been good to them, ofcourse thanked his and the rest of Featherweight’s families, and any ex members(whether they were there or not). Victor, the original bass player switched off with Zac, another bass player apart of the band throughout the night. They played their whole first demo, Family Ties and Flooded Eyes which seriously paved the way for the music they presently made. They played songs they never recorded, Sean handed the mic to different people, including myself, throughout the night.
I’ve just never been able to correctly word how much emotion Featherweight puts into their music. How hard they’ve worked to achieve what they have and how much they care about the people around them and the scene they’ve built up. They ended with the song Nightcrawlers off of their summer tour sampler, one of my favorite songs. Some of the most emotional 5 minutes I’ve ever been through.
My stomach hurts from screaming, I have no voice, I’m sore and exhausted, but last night will live in infamy.
Featherweight will be missed by all those who got to experience them. On a bright side, ex-members have made a new band that should be playing shows in the winter, more will be posted soon.
Thank you for reading
By Ethan, on October 4th, 2011% Handguns and Forever Came Calling are doing a short run of shows in November to support the release of their split, which is due out 11/8/11
Check out the tour dates below. Any DC Metro Area readers I better see you there
By Ethan, on September 30th, 2011% I have literally listened to this CD over and over again for the past day. Why? First the fact that Transit is easily one of my favorite bands (no really, I know the words to 90% of their songs and have seen them 8+ times). Second is because I am loving the CD more and more with every listen. I could listen to it all day and not grow tired of it. Also I want to learn all the words to all the songs before I see Transit again. Of course that’s not the point of this review.
The point of the review is that you need to go out and pick up this CD when it drops October 4th. At the DC stop of the PMA Tour that Transit was on recently I had a chance to talk with frontman Joe Boynton. During our small talk about various topics (I’m originally from the Boston area and hadn’t seen Transit in a while) the topic of their new CD came up. He said it was going to be a different than their previous releases, a departure from the voracious pop-punk sound that they were known for. And as I’m listening to Listen & Forgive I can see what he means, it is different. But it’s not different in a bad way, in fact it’s different in a very good way. Transit cannot be accused of producing a CD that sounds exactly like their previous full length, that’s for sure (that’s the excellent Keep This To Yourself for those of you playing along at home).
Let me diverge for a second to tell you that For The World is my favorite Transit song. It’s fast paced, emotive and once the ever talented Tim Landers starts singing/screaming you know the crowd is going to get rowdy. If you were expecting Listen & Forgive to contain songs along the same lines you will be mistaken, but you will be pleasantly mistaken. The “pop-punk” sound that Transit had perfected in their previous releases is a bit more subdued in Listen & Forgive; conceding to a more indie rock sound and slowing things down a little bit. But the raw emotion is still there as it has been with Transit all along and through the album shows no signs of stopping. I guarantee that there will be pile-ups and gang vocals a plenty from the crowd when Transit hits the road again on October 6th. The boys really know how to write a song, Joe Boynton knows how to sing them and Tim Landers know how to lend his amazing backing vocals (on a side note check out Misser, Tim’s solo project).
In short I am in love with Listen & Forgive. Sure it’s a bit different from Keep This To Yourself and earlier releases but in, like I’ve been saying all along, a very good way. This is an album that you need to pick up and listen to immediately when it drops October 4th whether you are a die hard Transit fan or just getting into them. You won’t be able to stop listening and then you’ll tell your friends about the album and they won’t be able to stop listening. I know this album is going to be my weekend soundtrack. Did I mention there is a new version of 1978 on Listen & Forgive? Cause there is.
Not to mention this album will provide teenagers with perfect facebook statuses for weeks to come. The downside to the lyrical greatness of Transit. I mean who can resist posting lyrics such as “Find me again like a rusted bike in your backyard. Pull me up from the debris, I’m covered up in dust and leaves” from the song Listen & Forgive or pretty much every line of Long Lost Friends. I mentioned the new version of 1978 which might some view as sacrilege as the original version off their acoustic EP was just plain great. When I started the review I didn’t think highly of the new version but as I finish the review (a couple of hours and plays later) it’s starting to grow on me. I must also say hearing the full band version of Over Your Head came as a bit of a surprise because I was so used to the acoustic version that they played in Boston in May.
Now a “must listen” on the album? That’s going to be a bit tough because I love all the songs on the new release. However saying that all the songs are must listen is a bit of a cop out. I’m going to have to go with The Answer Comes In Time which is a bonus track on the physical version. So you’ll have to buy a physical version of the CD to hear it or be a horrible person and download the CD. Okay, I’m kidding with the horrible person part, downloading is starting to become part of the scene. So if you download the CD go see Transit and support them by buying a t-shirt and then get in the crowd and sing along. Though as I listen to the album more I’m finding it’s a tie between The Answer Comes In Time and Over Your Head.
Listen & Forgive is out everywhere October 4th. You better be lining up outside your local record store to nab a copy because it’s not something you want to sleep on.
Check out Transit on Facebook and pre-order the album here and hit the jump for a photo of Transit in Washington DC and the album art
Continue reading Album Review: Transit – Listen & Forgive
By Ethan, on September 21st, 2011% Man Overboard will be hitting the UK with support from The Story So Far, check the poster below
By Ethan, on September 19th, 2011% One of my favorite bands Transit has posted a new song: All Your Heart feat. Patrick Stump. It can be streamed here and also heard below
Transit is easily one of my favorite bands and I am wicked stoked for the new CD that is coming out October 4th. You need to pre-order this CD
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