Tuesday, January 22, 2013

TOUR: hardDrive Live

 

TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED TODAY FOR 5TH ANNUAL HARDDRIVE LIVE TOUR
BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE TO HEADLINE
WITH HALESTORM AND YOUNG GUNS
Pre-Order Album Gets You Early Access to Tickets
Tickets on Sale January 25th
 
(New York- January 22, 2013) United Stations Radio Networks’ nationally syndicated radio show hardDrive announces today upcoming tour dates for their fifth annual 2013 hardDrive Live “Five Tour” with headlining Welsh rockers Bullet For My Valentine, main support Halestorm, special guests Young Guns and openers Stars In Stereo.  The tour will kick off April 12th in Denver, CO at the Fillmore. The tour is produced by Ledge Entertainment. Tickets go on sale this Friday, January 25th.  Find tour dates listed below and visit www.harddrivelivetour.com for more information, tour updates and more. 

Comments Matt Tuck of Bullet for My Valentine: “We’re super stoked to be touring America again. We’re going to be bringing the big hits and big guns. With the new album (TEMPER TEMPER), our fourth, we’ve got loads of songs to choose from.   Thanks to hardDrive, sky’s the limit in the States! “
 
 Lzzy Hale of Halestorm says “hardDrive has been such a huge part of us breaking in the last couple of years.  The show has always supported us and what we do.  We can’t wait to get back on the road in front of real rock fans with our friends in Bullet, Young Guns, and Stars in Stereo. It’s going to be a great time.”
 
'We did one of our very first US interviews with HardDrive’s Roxy Myzal last year,” says Gus Wood, lead singer for Young Guns. “It was so exciting to be speaking to someone that was aware of our band, even at that early stage for us in the States.  Since then everyone at HardDrive has been supportive and instrumental in helping us to progress as quickly as we have. We're super grateful and honoured to be involved with this tour, and we can't wait to get started. See you down front!”
 
And Stars in Stereo comments: "We can't wait to be a part of this hardDrive tour.  With our first album coming out right beforehand, we couldn't ask for better company to release it in and couldn't imagine a better tour to support it with.  We won't waste the opportunity to learn a thing or two from Bullet for My Valentine, Halestorm, and Young Guns either.  You can expect a lot of energy and excitement coming from SinS!"
 
Bullet for My Valentine is gearing up for the release of their brand new album TEMPER TEMPER on February 12th (RCA). Fans can pre-order their new album now at www.bulletformyvalentine.com .com which also includes an exclusive limited edition t-shirt and access to tickets for the tour prior to the on-sale date for the general public. The album’s first single “Riot” was just released at all digital providers to overwhelming critical raves: In a 5 out of 5 star review Artist Direct writes “‘Riot’ stands out as one of the most incendiary sonic grenades in Bullet For My Valentine's well-stocked arsenal.”CLICK HERE TO WATCH RED HOT NEW “RIOT” VIDEO. Bullet for My Valentine’s album TEMPER TEMPER was produced by Don Gilmore (Linkin Park / Pearl Jam) who worked with the band on their previous album, 2010’s Fever,and was recorded in Thailand and Wales. Fever debuted in the Top 10 in the UK (#5), USA (#3), Japan (#1), Australia (#5), Austria (#2), Canada (#4), Germany (#3) and Switzerland (#7). The metal giants recently headlined the UK’s Radio 1’s Rock Week at the BBC Maida Vale studios where they debuted the title track. They have also announced a UK tour for March which is already sold out. www.bulletformyvalentine.com, www.facebook.com/BulletForMyValentine,  www.twitter.com/bfmvofficial.  Press photos and more available at www.rcarecordspress.com.
 
“Upon its release last spring, THE STRANGE CASE OF, the second album from Atlantic Records artist HALESTORM, shot to the #1 slot on Billboard’s Hard Rock Albums chart. The first single, “Love Bites (So Do I),” marked the first song by a female fronted group to top the active rock chart, and earned the band a Grammy nomination for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance.  Halestorm will perform the song, which was the #1 song of 2012 on SiriusXM’s Octane, on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Tuesday, January 29th.  Last year, frontwoman Lzzy Hale appeared on the cover of Revolver, who named her their #1 “Hottest Chick In Hard Rock.”  True road warriors, Halestorm spent much of 2012 on tour, including countless headline dates around the world, support slots alongside Avenged Sevenfold, Godsmack, Staind, and the one and only Alice Cooper, and festival tours like the Carnival of Madness 2012 Tour with Evanescence.  For more information on Halestorm, visit www.halestormrocks.com, www.facebook.com/halestormrocks, and www.twitter.com/halestorm.  
 
Buzz continues to build for UK rock band YOUNG GUNS, who recently made headlines when Kerrang! awarded their new single ("Bones") the No. 1 spot on its list of the "250 Greatest Rock Songs of 2012." Thanks to “Bones,” a song whose companion video (http://bit.ly/QKP5ch) has racked up more than 1.3 million YouTube views, Young Guns also hold the distinction of being the highest charting new band at Active Rock Radio in 2012. Their full-length Wind-up debut, also titled BONES, has drawn rave reviews from the likes of Revolver, Q Magazine, the BBC and Alternative Press, who wrote, “Young Guns are making waves the old-fashioned way – writing great songs and playing their hearts out every night.” Over the course of the past few years, the London-based quintet (vocalist Gustav Wood, guitarists Fraser Taylor and John Taylor, bassist Simon Mitchell and drummer Ben Jolliffe) has emerged as one of the UK's most electrifying new bands, garnering heavy radio play and chart success while playing to packed-house crowds all across Europe, including a main stage performance at the Reading Festival, where they were part of a lineup that included Arcade Fire, Queens of the Stone Age, Guns N' Roses and Modest Mouse.  For more info, please visit www.weareyoungguns.com, www.facebook.com/younggunsuk and @YoungGunsUK.
 
Stars in Stereo is wasting no time getting back on the road in the new year and bringing their self-titled debut album with them.  They had a busy 2012, releasing "The Broken" single on iTunes<https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-broken-single/id529205075>, and touring with the likes of The Used, Blue October, Hoobastank, and Foxy Shazam. The band will be hitting the road in 2013, starting off with a nationwide tour with hard rock heavyweights Drowning Pool and Flyleaf and continuing on to the fifth annual hardDrive tour, directly after, with heavy hitters Bullet for My Valentine, Halestorm, and Young Guns.  SinS is ready to bring their own brand of non-stop energy and exciting performances to any city they can get to. Having developed their live show into something that is not to be missed, SinS says they want audiences to “leave shows feeling like they are a part of something. Something they can be proud to represent. We want them to leave exhausted, sweating, and ready for more... an army of the broken.”  The buzz around Stars in Stereo is no less electric.  With a rapidly growing following of SinnerS and a growing anticipation of their first album, Stars in Stereo is a band to keep an eye on in 2013.
 
HardDrive with Lou Brutus debuted on July 5, 1996.  With 120 radio stations broadcasting the show, HardDrive is America’s longest running new rock show supporting the careers of hundreds of groups from Korn to Five Finger Death Punch.  Multi-platinum metal band Slipknot received some of their first national airplay on the two-hour weekend syndicated show.  United Stations acquired the series in 2001, and in 2007 originator / producer Roxy Myzal developed the much longer, five-night-a-week brand extension, HardDrive XL, also featuring Lou Brutus.   Myzal has been awarded RadioContraband's Non-Traditional Rock Programmer of the year for 2011 & 2012.  
 
United Stations Radio Networks, Inc. (“USRN”) is America's leading independently owned and operated radio network.   USRN currently produces and distributes dozens of format-specific programs and services accounting for over 5000 affiliations with commercial radio stations across the country.  The New York-based company maintains programming, sales and affiliate marketing offices in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Washington and Nashville.   USRN was founded in 1994 by radio pioneers Dick Clark and Nick Verbitsky.  
 
hardDrive Live “Five” Tour Dates:
Fri        4/12/2013                                  Denver, CO                     Fillmore                        
Sat        4/13/2013                                  Salt Lake City, UT          Great Salt Air     
Sun       4/14/2013                                  Boise, ID                        Revolution Center                      
Tue       4/16/2013                                  Reno, NV                      Grand Sierra Theater                  
Wed      4/17/2013                                  San Francisco, CA          Warfield                        
Fri        4/19/2013                                  Pomona, CA                  The Fox                                   
Sun       4/21/2013                                  Tempe, AZ                    Marquee                                   
Tue       4/23/2013                                  Dallas, TX                      HOB                                         
Wed      4/24/2013                                  Houston, TX                   Warehouse Live             
Tue       4/30/2013                                  New York, NY                Roseland                      
Wed      5/1/2013                                    Worcester, MA                The Palladium                           
Fri        5/3/2013                                     Silver Spring, MD           The Fillmore                  
Sun       5/5/2013                                    Philadelphia, PA              Electric Factory Outdoors
Tue       5/7/2013                                    Toronto, ON                   Sound Academy            
Wed      5/8/2013                                     Ft. Wayne , IN                Expo Center      
Fri        5/10/2013                                  Buffalo, NY                    Town Ballroom              
Sat        5/11/2013                                  Grand Rapids, MI           Orbit Room                               
Wed      5/15/2013                                  Minneapolis, MN             Myth                                        
Fri        5/17/2013                                  Pittsburgh, PA                 Stage AE                                  
Sun       5/19/2013                                  Stroudsburg, PA              Sherman Theater                       
Tue       5/21/2013                                  Chicago, IL                    Riviera                         
Wed      5/22/2013                                  Milwaukee, WI                Eagles Ballroom

Tour site:  www. harddrivelivetour.com          

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