Gold-selling arduous rockers OF MICE & MEN — Aaron Pauley (bass + vocals),Valentino Arteaga (drums),Alan Ashby (guitar) and Phil Manansala (guitar) — are hitting the highway this spring, with assist from GORE. and UNTIL I WAKE.
Tickets go on sale on January 29. All dates are beneath.
Pauley feedback on the upcoming tour, saying, “We’re past stoked to be saying these dates with UNTIL I WAKE and GORE. We wish to thank all of our followers for the years of assist and we will not wait to rejoice the final 15 years of music with you all at these exhibits.”
OF MICE & MEN on tour with UNTIL I WAKE and GORE.:
Could 06 – Dallas, TX – Echo Lounge
Could 07 – Lawrence, KS – Granada Theatre
Could 09 – Saint Louis, MO – Delmar Corridor
Could 10 – Columbus, OH – Sonic Temple Competition
Could 11 – Asheville, NC – Orange Peel
Could 13 – Huntsville, AL – Von Braun Middle
Could 14 – New Orleans, LA – Home of Blues
Could 16 – Destin, FL – Membership LA
Could 17 – Daytona Seaside, FL – Welcome To Rockville Competition
Could 19 – Charleston, SC – Music Farm
Could 20 – Atlanta, GA – Middle Stage
Could 21 – Charlotte, NC – The Underground
Could 23 – Norfolk, VA – The Norva
Could 24 – Pittsburgh, PA – Mr Smalls Theatre
Taking all inventive issues into their very own fingers, the Southern California quartet self-produced and engineered the entire songs on “Tether”, their eighth album. Pauley combined and mastered the album, whereas Arteaga designed and painted the album’s paintings. As a legion of devoted listeners worldwide has come to anticipate, guitarists Phil Manansala and Alan Ashby, Aaron and Tino poured their hearts and souls into each observe, creating one other sonic doc of their lives.
“With this one, we weren’t actually centered on the way it sounded as a lot as we centered on the way it felt,” Pauley explains. “And that is a bizarre factor to do when all you are working with is sound. However that was actually the objective. And we walked away from making it, feeling like we have completed that.”
OF MICE & MEN take sobering appears to be like at despair, nervousness, loneliness, and existential dread, powering by means of the darkness, and emphasizing the significance of creativity as a balm for psychological well being. A commanding tempest of sounds coalesces inside OF MICE & MEN, mixing the uplifting eloquence of contemporary energetic rock with the atmospheric dissonance of experimental post-rock. The band first emerged as a part of a vanguard of future aggressive rock hitmakers. Over time, they’ve distinguished themselves with musicality, inventive ambition, and resilient willpower.
Album eight was no much less bold. “Tether” is anchored by a reflective meditation on what it means to attract collectively as associates, household males, artists, and bandmates. What does it imply to be there for the individuals who rely on us, figuring out we will not totally defend them from the hardships of life?
The OF MICE & MEN core since 2016 — Aaron, Alan, Tino and Phil — keep a robust bond with their viewers and one another, regardless of the obstacles. Whether or not a robust anthem or atmospheric confession, their songs translate in intimate golf equipment and big festivals. “It is about creating moments for individuals,” Pauley says. “Music is the soundtrack to individuals’s lives.”
