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This is a message that Pouyan from Scary Kids wrote regarding the show in Fresno on the Vs. Tour with Haste the Day. Check it out:

“We’d like to explain to everybody what happened tonight, and apart from it all we’d like to thank everybody who stood with us.

Shortly after Haste The Day’s set, when we were about to play tonight, a member of security told everybody, including us for the first time that there were “technical difficulties” and that the show would be postponed for minutes at most. He also asked that everybody leave the main stage area and enter the merch area until they figured everything out.

we had personally been told that the venue had a visit from the fire marshall because they were over capacity, and were escorting people out of the show to reach the allowed number of people.

After the Fire Marshall left, We had heard that they might be shutting the show entirely down and after a short while, we decided we would play to ensure that everyone who had paid had gotten their moneys worth.

Then some shit went down. Security refused to allow people back through the only door that lead to the main room. We told security from stage that everybody should be let through to watch the rest of the show. We continued playing, until I was handed a phone with a text saying “people are being pepper sprayed. ” We immediately stopped playing and told security that the police were being called and that we were ending the show in order to look out, and be there for all our fans stuck outside being sprayed.
The night concluded with police vehicles surrounding the venue and ambulances helping young girls and boys wash pepper spray out of their eyes.

We want everyone to know how furious we are at security, and venues that destroy the community we have built together.
We have worked for many years with little help to share love and will continue being true to our goals.
We are working to find a way to make it up to everybody who was put through this with us tonight.
Even if it comes down to playing a house party, I promise we will make it up.

much love.

Pouyan

Scary Kids”

http://purevolume.com/scarykidsscaringkids

For those of you who like snowboarding and cars, this video is right up your alley…

A little Primus never hurt anyone either.

For those of you who know about the greatness of David Lee Roth, join me in reverie of his vocal track from ‘Running With the Devil’

**note - turn the volume WAY up.

We just launched a featured video the other day by a band called Course of Nature and the director for the video is none other than Melissa Joan Hart - star of Nickelodeon’s Clarissa Explains It All.



I wonder what Ferguson is up to these days…

I’m not sure how old everyone is who reads this but this post will certainly be telling. I was talking with some of my friends about how people in general are converting their music collections from CDs to MP3’s and it got me thinking about the last musical format transition… Cassette Tapes!
All I had growing up were cassette tapes and it wasn’t until 6th grade (1993) that I really felt pressure to stop buying tapes and start buying CDs. The moral of the story is hat I can remember, vividly, the last tape and first CD I bought…

The Offspring - Smash (Last Cassette Ever)
Live - Throwing Copper (First CD Ever)

Can you remember yours?

The beginning of December myself and a a few friends went to Vegas. They included: Josh Rowe (PureVolume), Mike Carden (The Academy Is), Gabe Saporta (Cobra Starship), Rob Hitt (I Surrender Records), Nick Rhodes (Nicky Digital), Ryan Wilson (Paer Clothing/ Take the Crown ) and a bunch of other super cool people (you know who you are). We went there to celebrate Rob Hitt’s & Mike Carden’s birthdays. One night we went to a karaoke lounge and rented a room. The following video is proof:

*See if you can figure out who the PureVolume guys (myself, Josh) are