Cassie The Venomous' Blog

Photo from Alternative Press So, for the past few days, I have been living vicariously through the Live-tweeting of Alternative Press , who are at RiotFest , a Chicago-based punk-rock extravaganza. AltPress just broke that Alkaline Trio played two brand new songs during their RiotFest set tonight at the Congress Theater in Chicago, and singer Matt Skiba announced before the first of the two that the 'Trio has finished recording their new album. From the set list pictured, it seems that those two songs are called "Dine, Dine" and "This Addiction" or some longer variants of those two titles. Alternative Press claim they have videos of said songs, and I will post them here as soon as they are available. ... And, more than two-and-a-half hours later, here they are: "Dine, Dine, My Darling" "This Addiction" The sound quality of the first video pretty terrible, but you can get the general idea. I am LOVING "This Addiction" already, thou...

So, I'm sitting here, miserable because the third issue of Dallas came out today and, due to Athens's SUCKING, it is not in my hands. I think to myself, "I have an entire icy day free of classes and am about to cry. What could cheer me up?" Duh. Warped Tour. I had planned on writing my Warped Tour blog earlier than this, pushed it away from my focuses, then was reminded by my blog-follower, Sarah, who posted a blog about a Warped Tour documentary. ----- There's nothing in the world quite like Warped tour, where you are likely to run into any variation of being available all while burning in the sun and watching, on your choice of several stages, the most diverse concert line-up out there. Warped tour is less of a show than an experience, a hot and sticky experience that takes place on the burning asphalt of a parking lot in the dead of summer. The mere smell of Warped Tour is unlike anything else in the world. There's no other way to describe it than the s...