download on itunes<\/a><\/p>\nAnthony Green on Tour
\n8\/6 \u2013 Philadelphia, PA \u2013 Starlight Ballroom
\n8\/7 \u2013 Cleveland Heights, OH \u2013 Grog Shop
\n8\/8 \u2013 Detroit, MI \u2013 Shelter
\n8\/9 \u2013 Chicago, IL \u2013 Reggie\u2019s Rock Club
\n8\/10 \u2013 Minneapolis, MN \u2013 Triple Rock Club
\n8\/11 \u2013 Omaha, NE \u2013 The Waiting Room
\n8\/13 \u2013 Denver, CO \u2013 Marquis Theater
\n8\/14 \u2013 Salt Lake City, UT \u2013 Avalon Theatre
\n8\/16 \u2013 Seattle, WA \u2013 El Corazon
\n8\/17 \u2013 Portland, OR \u2013 Hawthorne Theatre
\n8\/18 \u2013 Orangevale, CA \u2013 Boardwalk
\n8\/19 \u2013 San Francisco, CA \u2013 Bottom of the Hill
\n8\/20 \u2013 West Hollywod, CA \u2013 Troubadour
\n8\/22 \u2013 Anaheim, CA \u2013 Chain Reaction
\n8\/23 \u2013 Anaheim, CA \u2013 Chain Reaction
\n8\/24 \u2013 San Diego, CA \u2013 Soma
\n8\/26 \u2013 Phoenix, AZ \u2013 Modified Arts
\n8\/27 \u2013 Albuquerque, NM \u2013 Launchpad
\n8\/29 \u2013 Austin, TX \u2013 Stubbs BBQ
\n8\/30 \u2013 Dallas, TX \u2013 House of Blues \u2013 Cambridge Room
\n8\/31 \u2013 Houston, TX \u2013 Warehouse Live
\n9\/2 \u2013 Tampa, FL \u2013 The Orpheum Theatre
\n9\/3 \u2013 Fort Lauderdale, FL \u2013 Culture Room
\n9\/4 \u2013 Orlando, FL \u2013 The Social
\n9\/5 \u2013 Atlanta, GA \u2013 Masquerade
\n9\/7 \u2013 Baltimore, MD \u2013 Ottobar
\n9\/9 \u2013 New York, NY \u2013 Highline Ballroom
\n9\/10 \u2013 Farmingdale, NY \u2013 The Crazy Donkey
\n9\/11 \u2013 Boston, MA \u2013 Harper\u2019s Ferry
\n9\/13 \u2013 New Haven, CT \u2013 Toad\u2019s Place
\n9\/14 \u2013 South Hackensack, NJ \u2013 School of Rock<\/p>\n
From Joyce\u2019s Dublin to Springsteen\u2019s Asbury Park, environments have always had a massive influence on writers and musicians\u2019 creative output. Such is also the case with singer\/songwriter Anthony Green\u2019s debut solo release Avalon. Recorded last March over an eight-day period with Green and some friends at his fianc\u00e9\u2019s parents\u2019 house in the sleepy beach town of Avalon, New Jersey, the album spans Green\u2019s adolescence and adulthood and shows him at both his most visceral and vulnerable. \u201cWe had a short timeline [to record this album] and that\u2019s the way I used to work back in the day; you\u2019d only have three days in the studio so you had to plan out everything and then just go for it,\u201d Green explains. \u201cI\u2019ve been wanting to record these songs for the past two years and this was the perfect time and place to make it happen.\u201d <\/p>\n
Although the 26-year-old Green is best known as the lead singer for the Philadelphia-based progressive punk act Circa Survive, he\u2019s also an accomplished instrumentalist in his own right and has been penning the songs that would eventually become Avalon consistently for the past decade. \u201cSome of these songs are brand new, but most of them are really old,\u201d Green explains. \u201cFor one of the versions of \u2018Dear Child (I\u2019ve Been Dying To Reach You)\u2019 that\u2019s on this record, I wrote the lyrics for it four or five years ago and the music even years before that,\u201d he elaborates, adding that many of these songs were composed while he was still a junior in high school. Although Green initially intended many of these songs to be used in Circa Survive, ultimately he decided that in order to fully realize his artistic vision he would have to tackle these tracks on his own\u2014a decision that was due to communicative issues as much as they were musical. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think at the time that I was writing a lot of these songs I wasn\u2019t necessarily able to articulate to [Circa Survive] all the stuff musically I wanted to do with them,\u201d Green explains. \u201cI don\u2019t know chords; I don\u2019t know scales; I can\u2019t talk to anybody about time signatures, so I couldn\u2019t really explain how I wanted these to sound without doing something ridiculous like humming something out that doesn\u2019t make sense to anyone except myself,\u201d he adds. The logistics surrounding the writing and recording process of Avalon allowed Green to present his songs exactly the way he envisioned them, making this album the first true glimpse into the inner workings of Green\u2019s psyche. <\/p>\n
However despite the fact this is a \u201csolo\u201d album, that doesn\u2019t mean that these songs are all composed of Green plaintively singing and strumming an acoustic guitar (although songs like \u201cDrugdealer\u201d are beautiful representations of just that). In fact, from the lush, Cure-inspired pop of \u201cBabygirl\u201d to the electronically driven ballad \u201cSpringtime Out The Van Window\u201d and the harmonica and keyboard augmented \u201cSlowing Down,\u201d the inventive arrangements on these tracks perfectly complement Green\u2019s distinctive vocal stylings. Then, there\u2019s \u201cDear Child (I\u2019ve Been Dying To Reach You),\u201d which was the recorded on the West Coast with producer John Feldmann \u2014 and, although it has a completely different production value than the rest of the disc, effortlessly fits into the context of the album and is a perfect example of the artistic scope inherent on Avalon. <\/p>\n
Although he prefers to allow his lyrics to be open to interpretation instead of laying out exactly what they\u2019re about, Green will admit that every song on this album is related to something that he\u2019s experienced personally over the past ten years, adding that instead of cloaking his message in metaphor and symbolism these songs contain some of the most direct lyrics he\u2019s written to date. \u201c\u2018She Loves Me So\u2019 is about exactly what you think you feel about love and I wrote \u2018Devil\u2019s Song\u2019 after a conversation I had with Saves The Day\u2019s Chris Conley about how much of your soul you put into your music,\u201d Green says about two of his favorite tracks. \u201cI think everyone is always trying to look for what the meaning of everything is and what\u2019s funny to me about these songs is that they\u2019re all so obvious.\u201d <\/p>\n
While one might assume that after spending most of the year touring, he\u2019d want to spend some time off relaxing, Green is adamant about constantly writing songs and making them available for his fans whether it\u2019s in the form of Avalon or via demos he circulates on the Internet. \u201cI\u2019m always busy, I\u2019ll be busy all my life; that\u2019s just the way I like it,\u201d he explains with a laugh. \u201cI never liked working hard until I found something that didn\u2019t make me feel like an alien to what I was doing; I think with music and art I belong there and I\u2019m a native so I don\u2019t mind doing it all the time. In fact, I embrace it.\u201d Hopefully you\u2019ll also embrace Avalon as a labor of love that Green has crafted as much for his fans as he has himself, because although it was recorded in scantly over a week on Seven Mile Island, Avalon truly took decades to unfold. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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