06/30: Ventura, CA @ Seaside Park
07/01: Mountain View, CA @ Shoreline
07/03: Vancouver, BC @ Thunderbird Stadium at UBC
07/05: Calgary, AB @ Race City Motorsport Park
07/06: Salt Lake City, UT @ Utah State Fairgrounds
07/11: Phoenix, AZ @ Cricket Pavilion
07/12: Las Cruces, NM @ NMSU Practice Field
07/13: San Antonio, TX @ Verizon Wireless
07/15: Houston, TX @ Reliant Center
07/18: Atlanta, GA @ HiFi Buys Amphitheater
07/19: Jacksonville, FL @ Equestrian Center
07/20: St. Petersburg, FL @ Vinoy Park
07/21: Miami, FL @ Bayfront Park
07/22: Orlando, FL @ Tinker Field
07/23: Charlotte, NC @ Verizon Wireless
07/24: Virginia Beach, VA @ Verizon Wireless
07/25: Washington, DC @ Merriweather Post Pavilion
07/26: Scranton, PA @ Montage Mountain
07/27: Detroit, MI @ Comerica Park & Street
07/28: Chicago, IL @ First Midwest Bank
07/29: Minneapolis, MN @ Metrodome
07/31: Milwaukee, WI @ Marcus Amphitheater
08/01: Cincinnati, OH @ Riverbend Music Center
08/02: Cleveland, OH @ Tower City Amphitheater
08/03: Philadelphia, PA @ Tweeter Center
08/04: New York, NY @ Nassau Coliseum
08/05: Englishtown, NJ @ Raceway Park
08/07: Indianapolis, IN @ Verizon Wireless
08/08: Pittsburgh, PA @ Post Gazette Pavillion
08/09: Boston, MA @ Tweeter Center
08/10: Buffalo, NY @ Darien Lakes Fields
08/12: Montreal, QC @ Pac Jean-Drapeau
08/14: St. Louis, MO @ UMB Bank Pavilion
08/15: Kansas City, KS @ Verizon Wireless
08/17: Boise, ID @ Idaho Center
08/18: Seattle, WA @ The Gorge
08/19: Portland, OR @ Columbia Meadows
08/22: Fresno, CA @ Selland Arena
08/23: Sacramento, CA @ Sleep Train
08/24: San Diego, CA @ Coors
I was kind of surprise to find out that Bad Religion's 14th studio album, New Maps of Hell, is being released in a few weeks (July 10th), and crazy, they are on the Warped Tour.
Bad Religion came from Woodland Hills, California, and started in 1980 in high school. They were already well established in the punk community when I first heard of them in seventh grade. I had a skater friend (I think his name was Chris), who knew I was just starting to get into "alternative" music, so he gave me Generator (1992).
So I went home and put this in my CD player and this was probably the best thing I've ever heard! I thought Greg Graffin, with his mouthful of politcal lyrics, was a genius! So, I came back to school the next day, and I eagerly told Chris how much I loved it. This was his response:
Yeah, they totally sold out. I don't like them anymore, you can have the rest of my Bad Religion tapes.
And that's how I became a Bad Religion fan.
I have never thought they sold out, even after they left Epitaph Records for a major record label, Atlanta. As long as the band remain true to their fans (like not trying to sue them, cough, Metallica, cough), their music, and lifestyle, then how can they possibly "sell out"? Undeniably, Bad Religion, at that time, was the biggest punk band in the universe.
Anyroad, by the time the band released their second Atlanta album, Stranger Than Fiction (1994), Brett "Mr Brett" Gurewitz had left the band. I don't know if there was some sort of disagreement, but I can probably think of one reason: Epitaph had a huge mega hit with the Offspring. Their song "Come Out to Play" still plays in dance clubs to this day! I know because I just heard it a few weeks ago (not that I go to dance clubs!)
Somehow Gurewitz and Graffin kissed and made up with their reunion album The Process Of Belief (2002) (released by Epitaph).
"Heroes & Martyrs", the lead single off New Maps of Hell is a very, very short song, true to the two-minute punk songs! There's something comforting in knowing that their sound have not changed in the past 27 years. I love it.
Bonus: You can download Heroes & Martyrs on Epitaph's website as well as watch a high-quality (640x480) DIVX video of Atomic Garden (video from Generator).
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