The Academy Is...

singing for the Chicago Bears. Hit the :40 mark to check it out.



What's really funny is that the majority of people in the video were probably like, who the hell are those people?

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UK Tour News

You know how I feel about The Academy Is... but I know how some of you crazy kids feel so here you go:

September

13 Cardiff, Clwb Ifor Bach
14 Manchester, Academy III
15 Glasgow, ABC II
16 Leeds, Cockpit
17 London, Islington Academy
19 Oxford, Academy
20 Birmingham, Barfly
21 Portsmouth, Wedgewood Rooms

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Bands for UK Taste of Chaos have been announced. The line-up will include Atreyu, Glassjaw, Story of the Year, Everytime I Die and another yet-to-be-announced band.

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Warped Tour bands announced

Let's keep it simple, stupid.

3OH!3
The Academy Is...
A Day to Remember
Against Me!
Aggrolites
Alesana
The All-American Rejects
All That Remains
All Time Low
Anberlin
Angels and Airwaves
As I Lay Dying
The Audition
August Burns Red
Automatic Love Letter
Beat Union
Bedouin Soundclash
Between the Trees
Bouncing Souls
The Briggs
Bring Me the Horizon
Broadway Calls
The Bronx
Charlotte Sometimes
Cinematic Sunrise
Classic Crime
Cobra Starship
The Color Fred
Confide
Danger Radio
The Devil Wears Prada
The Dillinger Escape Plan
Dr. Manhattan
Evergreen Terrace
Every Avenue
Everytime I Die
The Fabulous Rudies
Family Force 5
Forever the Sickest Kids
Four Year Strong
From First to Last
GBH
Greeley Estates
Gym Class Heroes
The Higher
Horrorpops
The Human Abstract
Jack's Mannequin
Just Surrender
Katy Perry
The Lordz
Ludo
Madina Lake
The Maine
Mayday Parade
Maylene and the Sons of Disaster
MC Chris
The Morning Light
Motion City Soundtrack
MURS
Norma Jean
Oreska
Paramore
Pennywise
Pierce the Veil
The Pinker Tones
Protest the Hero
Reel Big Fish
Relient K
Rise Against
The Saint Alvia Cartel
Say Anything
The Secret Handshake
Set Your Goals
Shwayze
Sick City
Sky Eats Airplane
Stick to Your Guns
Story of the Year
Street Dogs
The Vandals
We the Kings

They aren't all playing the whole tour so see the rundown here.

Cobra Starship @ Subterranean - Chicago, IL - 01.29.08

I was in Chicago earlier this week on business for the job that pays me and caught Cobra Starship on Tuesday night for a sold out show. The show was, in one unnecessarily hyphenated word, A-mazing.

The venue was small which was nice, maybe a couple hundred people. Most of which had the black X of forced sobriety. The crowd erupted into two handed cobra symbols when the band began to take the stage.

I'm not the guy that takes a sheet of paper to write down the set list so from what I can remember the songs played, but not necessarily in this order were (with notes when needed):

The City Is At War

Guilty Pleasure

One Day, Robots will Cry - This is a beautiful song and when it was performed live the whole vibe in the room changed. Good stuff.

Kiss My Sass - Round one of the hormonal riot with the lyrical declaration of "I can be a nasty guy."

Damn You Look Good And I'm Drunk - This song is hilarious. Period.

The World Has Its Shine

Smile for the Paparazzi - This was accompanied by a story about how they were going to sell it to Papa John's (a Louisville-based pizza company) with lyrics featuring Pep-pep-pepperoni instead.

Prostitution Is The Worlds Oldest Profession - This song is fairly forgettable on the album and live.

My Moves Are White (White Hot, That Is) - He selected to sing one round of "girl I'm gonna make you sweat" as "girl I'm gonna make you wet" which needless to say incited hormonal riot #2.

Being From Jersey...

Send My Love To The Dancefloor

Keep It Simple

Hollaback Boy

Bring It (Snakes On A Plane) - William Beckett from The Academy Is... made a special appearance to sing his part of the song. Sunshine, he's cut the Bay City Rollers hair. It's still Bay City, but not quite as Rollers.

Watch some videos from the show below. The quality ain't great but you get the idea. No, these are not mine - I yanked them from YouTube.