Say Anything
Feb 27, 2012
After ending a long relationship with the large corporation who put out their records for many years, Say Anything has signed with the independent label, Equal Vision Records - who actually want the band to play whatever they want to play and have it be as neurotic and strange as they want it to be.
Say Anything are an indie-punk band from Los Angeles formed in 2000 by Max Bemis. The six-piece band consists of Coby Linder (drums), Jake Turner (guitar, vocals), Jeff Turner (guitar, vocals), Parker Case (keyboard), and Adam Siska (bass guitar), The band has been making odd, unclassifiable indie rock music since they were 14 or 15 years old, playing strangely literate and loud rock, characterized by what one might imagine if Larry David fronted a Fugazi cover band with the members of Queen. Not that that's a stretch or anything. Having been birthed from the indie/punk boom of the early twenty-first century, Say Anything rose to prominence with their (oddly) popular record ...Is a Real Boy and somehow broke the "pretty boy punk" mold by establishing a career that thrived somewhere between music your pretentious college student of an older brother would like and the loud crap that your little brother uses to annoy him with. Say Anything followed that record up with the equally eclectic and lengthy, In Defense of the Genre and their exceedingly bratty (hopefully in a good way) self-titled 2009 LP.
All together, those records sold almost half a million copies and were illegally downloaded by even more people, who were too broke to pay for them but still really dug the band. Those listeners did however, care enough to go see Say Anything play, which allowed for them to contribute to a reliably chaotic, liberating live experience. Say Anything has toured heavily with other bands such as Thrice, Manchester Orchestra, mewithoutYou, Saves the Day, Biffy Clyro and Eisley, among many others, and has established themselves as one of the few bands nowadays who end up as sweaty, busted up and bruised after a show as the people who are actually watching them.
The band's fifth studio album is set to be released on March 13th through Equal Vision Records. The new single entiled "Say Anything" is impacting at Alternative Radio now. Say Anything have just released dates and destinations for their upcoming headline tour in support of the album, appropriately named, Anarchy My Dear.
Say Anarchy Tour Dates:
- 3/24/2012 @ Regency Ballroom - San Francisco, CA
- 3/25/2012 @ Wonder Ballroom - Portland, OR
- 3/27/2012 @ The Showbox @ The Market - Seattle, WA
- 3/29/2012 @ The Complex- Grand Room - Salt Lake City, UT
- 3/30/2012 @ The Summit Music Hall - Denver, CO
- 3/31/2012 @ Bourbon Theatre - Lincoln, NE
- 4/01/2012 @ The Firebird - St. Louis, MO
- 4/03/2012 @ Station 4 - St. Paul, MN
- 4/04/2012 @ House of Blues - Chicago, IL
- 4/05/2012 @ Clutch Cargos - Pontiac, MI
- 4/06/2012 @ The Opera House - Toronto, ON
- 4/07/2012 @ Corona - Montreal, QC
- 4/09/2012 @ Webster Theatre - Hartford, CT
- 4/10/2012 @ Water Street Music Hall - Rochester, NY
- 4/11/2012 @ Mr. Smalls Theatre - Pittsburgh, PA
- 4/13/2012 @ Best Buy Theatre- Times Square - New York, NY
- 4/14/2012 @ House of Blues - Boston, MA
- 4/15/2012 @ Theatre of the Living Arts Philadelphia, PA
- 4/17/2012 @ Black Cat - Washington, DC
- 4/18/2012 @ The National - Richmond, VA
- 4/20/2012 @ Orange Peel - Asheville, NC
- 4/21/2012 @ Cats Cradle - Carrboro, NC
- 4/22/2012 @ The Masquerade - Atlanta, GA
- 4/24/2012 @ Revolution - Ft. Lauderdale, FL
- 4/25/2012 @ Beacham - Theatre Orlando, FL
- 4/27/2012 @ Warehouse - Live Houston, TX
- 4/28/2012 @ Live At Mokah - Dallas, TX
- 4/29/2012 @ La Zona - Rosa Austin, TX
- 5/01/2012 @ The Marquee - Tempe, AZ
- 5/02/2012 @ House of Blues - San Diego, CA
- 5/03/2012 @ House of Blues - Los Angeles, CA