event Mayday Parade
Also Playing: The Academy Is... and Set Your Goals and The Secret Handshake and You Me At Six
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Sun Nov 1
4 pm,
Mayday Parade, The Academy Is..., Set Your Goals, The Secret Handshake, and You Me At Six at 9:30 Club
After the success of 2005’s Almost Here, Chicago emo-punk group The Academy Is… took a creative gamble on its rockier follow-up Santi. Unfortunately, the risks didn’t pay off: Fans revolted, critics drubbed it, and the band itself publicly badmouthed it. All of that backlash seems to have cowed TAI from taking any more chances, as its 2008 disc Fast Times At Barrington High harkens back to what got it here—namely energetic, radio-ready anthems about girls and summer fun. Having refined what made it appealing in the first place, The Academy Is… took steps toward maturity with September’s Cure-cribbing, keyboard-heavy EP Lost In Pacific Time.
9:30 Club 815 V St. NW, Washington D.C., DC
After the success of 2005’s Almost Here, Chicago emo-punk group The Academy Is… took a creative gamble on its rockier follow-up Santi. Unfortunately, the risks didn’t pay off: Fans revolted, critics drubbed it, and the band itself publicly badmouthed it. All of that backlash seems to have cowed TAI from taking any more chances, as its 2008 disc Fast Times At Barrington High harkens back to what got it here—namely energetic, radio-ready anthems about girls and summer fun. Having refined what made it appealing in the first place, The Academy Is… took steps toward maturity with September’s Cure-cribbing, keyboard-heavy EP Lost In Pacific Time.
Updated 10/21/2009
