Tour Press Force

After 24 years of good music and even better memories, Vans Warped Tour is amidst its final full cross-country tour and Tour Press Force (TPF) is rockin' Phoenix, AZ today. Come rock out with us (Nahnalah, Mickey and Sammi) at Ak-Chin Pavilion! Big headliners for this year’s tour are: Taking Back Sunday, Sum 41, All Time Low, and Less Than Jake to name just a few. In addition to the artist from Warped Tour’s main genres Punk and Metal, there are quite a few musicians from out

Have you ever been to an artist's show back to back at different venues and can’t help yourself, but to compare the two? Well, I recently went through that dilemma with Trophy Eyes show at The Echo in Los Angeles on November 27th and The Chain Reaction in Anaheim on November 28th, 2017. Typically Los Angeles shows tend to make me want to tap out as if I was in a wrestling match, lol. Whereas, at Chain Reaction it feels as if you’re being serenaded to even if it only lasts for

Let me give you a brief example of how my day at 2017 Vans Warped Tour [SAN DIEGO 8.5.17] went… There were a ton of hair flipping, head-banging, air punching, crowd surfing, music playing all while boiling in the sun! lol First up was Lisa Johnson’s Life In The Pit: The Rock Photographer Experience TEI Workshop. Instantly, I went from checking in to now heading towards heavens of all heaven…the pit (dun dun dun). First up of the day was a Rock/Experimental band from Cranberry

A hush fell over Tempe on April 21, 2017 as kids and teens settled in for the night. Meanwhile, adults shook the dust from their well-loved Taking Back Sunday shirts and pulled themselves up from the depths of their Emo-Punk retirement. Everyone’s early 2000s favorite bands, Say Anything and Bayside, brought the older millennial crowd out of hiding for a night. The two bands along with Reggie and the Full Effect dug up the past and brought a nostalgia-fueled energy to The Mar

On March 13, the Nile Theater was overrun with people of all demographics and music tastes. Enter Shikari stormed into Mesa with Being As An Ocean. While there are common themes among the acts, this night brought forth an array of talent and genres. Concert-goers were exposed to some things that were hard to believe happened at shows. The local band Undefined was first up for the night. Undefined is a Progressive Punk group from Los Angeles, California and Prescott, Arizona.

Warped In Reverse - Episode #14 Interview by Cosmic-A (Monica Demattei) | Transcription by Kiya Gaskin | Photography by Taryn Poe Kentucky based Post-Hardcore band, Emarosa, was far away from home when Tour Press Force caught up with them at the Phoenix, Arizona tour date of Vans Warped Tour 2016. Emarosa is: Bradley Scott Walden, ER White, Jordan Stewart, and Matthew Marcellus. The band is signed to Hopeless Records and their latest release was their new music video “Sure” o

Attila’s Chaos Tour lived up to its name. Chaos and madness ensued when Fronz and the rest of his tour mates played at Livewire in early November. This show was rowdy and definitely not for the easily offended. Local Post Hardcore band Go Ask Alice was first up for the night. The trouble with having local bands open for bigger acts like Attila is that often people do not care about them. That unfortunately was the case with Go Ask Alice. When they went on stage, not many peop

Classic Pop Punk powerhouses The Wonder Years, Real Friends, Knuckle Puck, Moose Blood and Seaway came together for a tour of a lifetime. Their stop in Phoenix was memorable for most fans, in the fact that the show came just a day after the election results, and the men held nothing back. The bands got political and emotional, making this show one of the best Pop Punk shows in a long time. Most people dread the opening act of a Pop Punk show. They are usually some overzealous

From darkness to light, high-energy interaction streamed throughout The Nile Underground during Emarosa’s 2016 Fall Tour. The show opened with AZ Homegrown bands Mimelight and Never Let This Go, along with the touring band Cold Collective, and the Valley’s very own Anarbor followed by the headliner of the night, Emarosa. The show opened up with the AZ Homegrown Indie Rock band Mimelight out of Mesa, AZ. Being the opener, their job was to get the audience relaxed and warmed up