Are you ready to rock ... and whine about your ex-girlfriend/boyfriend or girls/boys who won't talk to you? Look no further than this fall's first ever Rock Band Live Tour.
Headlined by Panic at the Disco and Dashboard Confessional (with special guests Plain White T's and The Cab), the Rock Band Live Tour will offer fans a chance to play Rock Band on the main concert stage in-between the tour's acts. Rock Band bands will be selected by local radio promotions and other national contests. Think you've got what it takes? You'll have some competition.
"I'm practicing my Rock Band drumming," said Dashboard Confessional singer-songwriter Chris Carrabba, "With any luck I'll win a spot on stage to show what I can really do."
Panic at the Disco already have a track featured on the Rock Band 2 disc ("Nine in the Afternoon"). According to Harmonix and MTV Games, we can also expect tracks from the other touring bands to appear as downloadable content sometime in the future.
The full tour schedule can be found after the jump.
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2:55 PM on 07.30.2008
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...Never again.
have emo-pop bands play your show! hooray!
All I can say is they better build a wat to skip their songs in the game or I'm gonna be hella pissed.
You guys are just haters.
Or...
Coud it be that emo just plain sucks?
Ya that's more likely.
Not that I'd go anyways.
After some research it turns out you're right. But I'm going to have to say that it doesn't matter either way. Emo originated in Punk which has essentially become garbage. The older punk bands may have had a good message but their music was awful, but emo didn't even originate there, or as a genre of music at all but rather to describe the performance of particular bands in Washington D.C.
Either way it sucks.
@ ThisYearsPink
Weezer is not emo, they're alternative or geek rock. Emo is short for emocore, which evolved out of the hardcore punk movement of the 80s. Good example: Sunny Day Real Estate. Nowadays, it's been used to label any band that's whiny and dresses like they're some neo-glam rock band. I'm fairly certain Panic! is just "pop dance punk" and Dashboard Confessional is just whiny acoustic rock. Regardless, they both suck, so let's stop making music elitists like me feel the need to define things no one cares about.
Weezer is not emo. As a long-time, die-hard Weezer fan, I cannot state this often, or emphatically, enough. If Pinkerton did create the emo genre, then everyone else took "emo" and turned into something completely different, including Dashboard.
Also, Necros said things that are right.
This is probably a good move on the part of Harmonix and MTV in terms of making money.
To avoid Linkin Park, or to avoid PatD?
I'm going to have to think long and hard about that one.
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hate away <33 this tour is practically my top bands hah