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August 23, 2012
 

LIONIZE Announce Tour With Streelight Manifesto

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Written by: Paul Ferritto [Fritz]
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Washington, DC quartet LIONIZE are pleased to announce that they will be spending this fall on tour with Streetlight Manifesto, as well as playing select dates with Maryland rockers CLUTCH.  The first leg of the tour kicks off October 16th in Toronto and runs through October 28th in Ft. Lauderdale, FL.  Following those dates LIONIZE will join up with CLUTCH for a string of shows kicking off Halloween night in Flint, MI and wrapping up on November 4th in Detroit, MI.  After a short break the band will return to the road with Streetlight Manifesto on November 13th in Portland, OR through December 7th in Sacramento, CA.  A complete list of dates can be found below.

Guitarist/Vocalist Nate Bergman commented on the band’s upcoming tour dates with Streetlight Manifesto and CLUTCH:

“We are looking forward to going out and providing support on such diverse bills. It’s refreshing for us to be able to bring in our fans and expose our sound to new fans via a ska/punk tour and a tour with CLUTCH, who is absolutely one of the finest rock bands on the planet.  We will be road-testing new material and will finally get back to cities long overdue for a LIONIZE set.”

For a band with so little pretense, sometimes it can be easy to forget just how much LIONIZE accomplished since their inception in 2004.  From being the first band to play both Bonnaroo and the Vans Warped Tour in the same year to their five full-length albums to virtually non-stop touring year after year, the groove-heavy rock group has dared to do more than most bands could ever hope to accomplish.  On the release of their most recent album, Superczar and the Vulture, produced by the famed J. Robbins and their first on Pentimento Music Company, the band showcases their live sound in a way that they have never done before, allowing the listener an unprecedented look at the experience of hearing the songs played live in front of them.

With their heavy touring continuing throughout the foreseeable future, one can be assured that LIONIZE‘s incomparable sound will only continue to grow stronger with each show and audiences will persist in being impressed by a band which, as one critic said, makes even the most notable musicians “shake their heads and wish they’d thought of that.”

Headline Shows:
8/23: Lake Worth, FL @ Propaganda

8/24: Vero Beach, FL @ Filthy McNasty’s

8/25: St. Augustine, FL @ Panama Hatties

8/26: Jacksonville Beach, FL @ Blue Water

Open Road Music & Arts Festival:
9/8: Worcester, MA @ Institute Park

Homegrown Festival:
9/21: Jamestown, NY @ The Crown Theater

With Echo Movement:
10/12: Asbury Park, NJ @ The Stone Pony


With Streetlight Manifesto:

10/16: Toronto, ON @ The Sound Academy

10/17: Montreal, QC @ Metropolis

10/18: Northampton, MA @ Pear Street – Upstairs

10/19: Atlantic City, NJ @ House of Blues

10/20: Lancaster, PA @ Chameleon Club

10/21: Norfolk, VA @ Norva Theater

10/23: Raleigh, NC @ Lincoln Theater

10/24: Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade

10/26: Orlando, FL @ The Plaza ‘Live’ Theater

10/28: Ft. Lauderdale, FL @ Culture Room


With CLUTCH:

10/31: Flint, MI @ The Machine Shop

11/1: Flint, MI @ The Machine Shop (Sold Out – Rescheduled from 5/13)

11/2: Joliet, IL @ Mojoes

11/3: Detroit, MI @ St. Andrews Hall (Sold Out – Rescheduled from 5/12)

11/4: Detroit, MI @ St Andrews Hall

With Streetlight Manifesto:
11/13: Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theater

11/14: Seattle, WA @ Neptune Theater

11/16: Salt Lake City, UT @ Club Sound

11/17: Denver, CO @ Ogden Theater

11/19: Minneapolis, MN @ Mill City Nights

11/20: Chicago, IL @ House of Blues

11/21: Pontiac, MI @ Clutch Cargo’s

11/23: Sayreville, NJ @ Starland Ballroom

11/24: Boston, MA @ Royale

11/25: New York, NY @ Best Buy Theater

11/29: San Antonio, TX @ White Rabbit

12/1: Tempe, AZ @ Marquee Theater

12/2: Santa Ana, CA @ Yost Theater

12/4: San Diego, CA @ House of Blues

12/5: Los Angeles, CA @ Mayan Theater

12/6: San Francisco, CA @ Slim’s

12/7: Sacramento, CA @ Ace of Spades
Source: Freeman Promtions


About the Author

Paul Ferritto [Fritz]
First off, Fritz isn't my real name. It's a nickname I've had for so long, that I forget sometimes that my real name is Paul. So for all intents and purposes all you fine people can call me Fritz.

Anyway I'm one of the co-founders of Axis Of Metal, which I created out of a love for all things heavy. Admittedly my first foray into music wasn't so heavy. At twelve i developed a love for grunge music, which then lead to a love of classic rock, and punk. Then as I consumed almost every piece of music in said genres I needed something with a bit more intensity, and something more extreme. One day I was walking through the halls in my high school, and i heard music blasting out of someone's headphones, and it was exactly what I was looking for. So after I found out that it was Slayer's "Disciple" I went home that day, and listened to every song Slayer had ever released, and that's how it all started.

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