From the RAGGED Archives: Hellogoodbye Past Pleasures and Future Sounds

As we’re experiencing an unseasonably warm January day in New York City (currently a balmy 52 degrees!), we couldn’t help but think about summer and crank out our favorite sunny-day jams, including the incomparable Hellogoodbye! It’s only fitting that today’s “From the Archives” feature takes us back to last summer’s Vans Warped Tour, where we got plenty of quality time with the SoCal indie pop band. Be sure to download the complete issue as a free PDF here, including several more photos from our shoot with the band. Enjoy!

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“A friend was in Travis’s car, sitting shotgun. One of us went back into the trunk getting some bags and, for some reason, he made the assumption that we were going through his CDs,” Hellogoodbye frontman Forrest Kline laughs as he recounts a summer trip with pals to a family-owned cabin in Big Bear. “And because of that, he started banging at the windshield yelling at us, and he cracked the windshield open! That may be one of my best memories of summer.”

The Long Beach, California-based band (which also includes keyboardist Joseph Marro, drummer Michael Nielsen, guitarist Andrew Richards and the aforementioned bassist Travis Head) are no strangers to fun in the sun. Their infectious, ennui-laced indie pop feels custom-made to soundtrack a lifetime worth of summers. This June, the band are set to help fans create more memories as they take to the road with Warped Tour—which Hellogoodbye haven’t been a part of since 2006.

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Bamboozle Adds Over 60 Acts to Lineup Including Jimmy Eat World, The All-American Rejects & More!

Very, very exciting news today, RAGGED readers! As you know, we’ll be holding down the fort once again this year at the Bamboozle Festival in May and have been closely monitoring lineup announcements. We were already excited by the prospect of seeing the likes of Blink-182, Bon Jovi and Mac Miller in Asbury Park this Spring, but today’s announcement of over 60 new acts has truly taken us over the top!

To name just a few of the artists added, we’re stoked to see our friends The All-American Rejects (who graced the cover of Issue #9), Jimmy Eat World, Motion City Soundtrack, NeverShoutNever, Boys Like Girls, The Maine, A$AP Rocky, and so many more. Check out the up-to-date flier below, including all of the announced artists and their performance day, and set your calendar reminder to purchase three-day passes when they go on sale THIS SATURDAY, January 21 at 10am at www.thebamboozle.com.

So, what say you, friends? Are you excited to join us at Bamboozle?

From the RAGGED Archives: Attack Attack! Ready, Aim, Fire

Today marks the release of Attack Attack!‘s new record, This Means War, and to commemorate the day, we thought we’d dig through our archives to give you a peek back at our first interview with the band, featured in Issue #13 last summer (full issue download here!). We talked with the band about their jump to headlining Vans Warped Tour and even the progress on the now-released new album! Pick up This Means War in stores now and enjoy our look down memory lane below!

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Normally, inclusion on Warped Tour signifies that a band is on the cusp. But ascending to mid-afternoon performer on the main stage? Now that’s progress. And Ohio- based Attack Attack! has done exactly that in just a few years’ time. After paying its dues on the festival’s smaller stages, this year the band sees its hard work come to fruition.

“We’ve gone out the past few years and have had a great time and did really well,” drummer Andrew Wetzel remarks. “So [Warped] asked us to come back again this year and be on the main stage with some of the biggest bands on
the tour.”

This summer, Attack Attack! will join acts on the main stage like 3OH!3, Against Me! and Gym Class Heroes. In the past, bands such as My Chemical Romance, Anberlin, Motion City Soundtrack and Avenged Sevenfold have achieved widespread success after playing the Warped main stage, a fact that isn’t lost on Wetzel.

“It’s very exciting, and we’ve got a lot of stuff lined up and we’re not going to be wasting this great opportunity. We want to make it, like so many of the bands that have before. It’s always great to play on the Warped Tour, but to be on the main stage—-that’s something else.”

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Contest: Enter to Win Florence + the Machine Album and Numark Turntable!

Are you suffering from a post-holiday, dog days of (ahem) January general sense of blahhh? It happens to the best of us, and we couldn’t think of any better way to help you through the winter doldrums than with a chance to win an amazing prizepack! We’ve teamed up with Universal Music to give one lucky reader a brand new Numark TTUSB Turntable along with the amazing new Florence + the Machine LP, Ceremonials (available now on iTunes).

Note: Please be sure to use your real e-mail address when commenting as that is how we will be contacting winners! Only admins will be able to access that information, and you will only be contacted if chosen as a winner. You have until January 30th to enter and can read the full, official rules here. Good luck!