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On Friday, Oct. 11th the Community Center for the Performing Arts proudly welcomes Hawthorne Heights to the WOW Hall.Buy Tickets
https://www.ticketweb.com/event/hawthorne-heights-wow-hall-tickets/13832823
Doors Open
6:30 p.m.
Cost
$35 advance / $40 Day of Show
HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS
Dayton, OH natives, Hawthorne Heights are back, HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS – JT Woodruff (Vocals, Guitar), Mark McMillon (Guitar, Backing Vocals), Matt Ridenour (Bass, Backing Vocals), Chris Popadak (Drums) are still delivering monumental albums and maintaining their DIY mentality, while remaining dedicated to their longtime fans.
Throughout their long and storied career as one of the most iconic emo acts of the new millennium, the quartet have overcome obstacles at every turn – but these roadblocks always seemed to come from external forces, from unscrupulous record labels and the shifting whims of fickle audiences to unimaginable personal tragedy threatening to derail them.
Despite the odds, Hawthorne Heights have overcome it all: earning two Gold albums (2004’s The Silence In Black And White and 2006’s If Only You Were Lonely), penning some of the genre’s most well-known songs (“Ohio Is For Lovers,” “Saying Sorry”), and remaining a hard-touring act nearly two decades after forming in Dayton, Ohio.
But in 2019, the band – Woodruff, Matt Ridenour (bass, backing vocals), Mark McMillon (guitar, unclean vocals) and Chris “Poppy” Popadak (drums) – found themselves staring down maybe their biggest foe yet: themselves.
2018’s Bad Frequencies, the group’s first album for Pure Noise, had re-established Hawthorne Heights in the scene after a series of self-released efforts, and they followed it by – what else? – heading out on tour with the likes of New Found Glory and Silverstein. The shows were epic, celebratory, and cathartic for the band as they re-found their footing, but they also complicated things tremendously when it came time to start working on Bad Frequencies’ follow-up.
It was this moment of realization that cements THE RAIN JUST FOLLOWS ME as an essential entry into the Hawthorne Heights discography, as the group adroitly swerve between soaring pop melodies and caustic breakdowns with little warning – keeping audiences, and even themselves, guessing.
They didn’t set out to replicate the sound of their early albums, but rather the spirit, eschewing overthinking and instead simply following their instincts: the riffy, frenetic (and aptly named) first single “Constant Dread” that finds Counterparts vocalist Brendan Murphy delivering a bone-rattling guest spot; the driving title track and reflective “Thunder In Our Hearts”; the album standout “Spray Paint It Black,” featuring Bayside’s Anthony Raneri.
The 11-track record stands as some of Woodruff’s most resonant writing to date, as he unravels themes of both physical and emotional distance as well as personal identity – anxieties so exacerbated by the last year that it’s incredible the album was completed before the pandemic hit. (“There’s so many undertones of what would happen over the next 16 months,” he says with a laugh. “I don’t know if that makes us the emo Nostradamus or what.”)
Most of all, THE RAIN JUST FOLLOWS ME is quintessentially Hawthorne Heights. It’s who they’ve always been – they just needed to push down the heartache and strife long enough to rediscover those intangible characteristics.
SUPPORTING ACT: AMBER PACIFIC
AMBER PACIFIC
Amber Pacific was established in 2004 which marked the debut release of their EP titled, Fading Days via Hopeless Records, a hugely successful independent record label based in Van Nuys, CA representing artists such as All Time Low, New Found Glory, Sum 41, and Yellowcard. Armed with an EP packed with potential, the band hit the road landing the first of what came to be four consecutive appearances on the Vans Warped Tour through 2007. The band returned to the studio in the Winter of 2004 to begin work on The Possibility and The Promise, their first full length album that would be released on May 24, 2005 going on to sell over 81,000 copies featuring song placements in EA Sports Burnout 3 and Twentieth Century Fox major motion picture, Flicka.
As momentum gained, the band continued to tour year around building a following that would ultimately lead to their first appearance on the Billboard Top 200 at number 64 with the release of their follow up album, Truth In Sincerity on May 22, 2007 including their first single, Fall Back Into My Life which was featured in the Warner Brothers major motion picture, TMNT, as well as a guest vocal appearance by the beloved pop-punk legend, Mike Herrera of MxPx.
A brief lineup change brought about a new label as well as a new full length record titled Virtues, released via Victory Records on April 13, 2010. The band released their first single, Three Words, and continued to leave their mark in film scoring another placement through Dimension Films major motion picture, Piranha 3DD as well as performing live on Fearless Music HD in New York City.
It wasn’t long before original vocalist Matt Young returned to the band prior to their 2014 release titled The Turn, released via Digitally Sound Records. The crowd funded release was welcomed with raving reviews as the band returned to their original form as famed Blogger Zack Zarrillo of Property of Zack wrote, “Many of the tracks are bold and brimming with a youthful radiance that will take listeners by surprise.” Add guest appearances by Alex Gaskarth, lead vocalist of All Time Low and the return of Mike Herrera of MxPx on bass and vocals, the record merely accelerated the long anticipated return of the sound that started it all as the band celebrated its 10th anniversary.
To date, the band has accumulated over 140,000 monthly listeners on Spotify, over 5,000,000 streams spanning over 18 years with upwards of 2,000+ shows including multiple headlining tours through every state and major city in the United States (excluding Alaska / Hawaii) with music reaching over 100 countries through various music outlets including Apple Music, Amazon Music, and Tidal to name a few. The band continues to thrive showing over 62,000 followers strong on their Facebook page as they look to find new and exciting ways to share their music in a landscape and a world that is ever changing.
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