BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:905@jointherevolution.net DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260420T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261020T230000 DTSTAMP:20261020T071248Z URL:https://www.jointherevolution.net/concerts/four-year-strong-rise-or-di e-trying-25-year-anniversary-tour/ SUMMARY:Four Year Strong: Rise or Die Trying 25 Year Anniversary Tour DESCRIPTION:If it’s hard for you to believe that Four Year Strong have be en a band for nearly two decades\, you’re not alone because its members feel the same way. Since forming in 2001 in Worcester\, Massachusettes\, w hile the members were still in high school\, Four Year Strong have carved out their own niche in the music community by merging the infectiousness o f pop-punk with the aggression of hardcore and never shying away from brea king with creativity-limiting conventions. This is evident on the band’s fifth full-length Brain Pain\, a collection of songs that retains the qua lities of the band that fans have grown to love while pushing forward the band’s effort to continually redefine their sound. “One thing we’ve struggled with in the past is writing in a way that’s personal to us tha t our wide range of fans can find a way to relate to as well\,” vocalist /guitarist Dan O’Connor explains. “On this record we really tried to f ind the thing that connects us to our younger fans or the people who have been listening to us for a long time who still see us as younger kids desp ite the fact that we’re now in our thirties.”\n\nThe band — which al so features vocalist/guitarist Alan Day\, bassist Joe Weiss and drummer Ja ke Massucco — began conceptualizing the ideas for Brain Pain two years a go and for the past year-and-a-half have focused on bringing those thought s to fruition. “We probably had 40 song ideas to get the creative juices flowing and some of those grew into the songs that are on this record\, ” Day explains\, adding that it was important for the group not to rush the album or go into it with any musical or logistical limitations. “We didn’t want to set a strict deadline for this album because we wanted to be sure we took the time to write the best songs possible. In the past ou r writing and recording was so dependent on getting something out in time to go on tour\; this time we really had the opportunity to take our time a nd work through these ideas.” In order to capture that sound the group e nlisted producer Will Putney\, who was an engineer on 2008’s Enemy Of Th e World and already had a relationship with the band. “We were really em otionally invested in this music so we wanted to go with someone who we kn ew would care about it as much as we did and Will was that guy\,” Day sa ys.\n\nFrom the off-time breakdown of the opener “It’s Cool” to the orchestral balladry of “Be Good When I’m Gone” to the midtempo groov e of “Get Out Of My Head\,” Brain Pain sees Four Year Strong showcasin g the various aspects of their sound\, which ranges from catchy to chaotic \, yet all sound undeniably like Four Year Strong. “I think ‘Get Out O f My Head’ holds a special place in our hearts because it was the first song that we finished front-to-back with all the pieces in there\,” Day explains. “Almost none of it changed from when we first wrote it to the finished version of it and it felt like a turning point in the writing pro cess.” Alternately “Seventeen” evokes the best parts of nostalgia wi thout sounding dated while the syncopated riffing on “Usefully Useless ” crafts a sonic maelstrom that’s as inventive as it is infectious. Fi nally old-school fans will love songs like “Mouth Full Of Dirt” which showcases the melodic hardcore style the band helped pioneer and sounds ab solutely massive thanks to Putney’s production.\n\nVocally Brain Pain se es the band being more direct and carrying over cohesive themes in a way t hey haven’t done in the past\, making for a more complete narrative. “ I think that from a lyrical perspective this is the most thought we’ve e ver put into a record\,” O’ Connor explains — and it shows. Sonicall y the album’s vocals also sit in the mix in a way that they aren’t bat tling with the other elements\, making Brain Pain the band’s most dynami c release to date. “There are a lot more bands doing the heavy-but-poppy hybrid thing now than there were when we started out and we just really w anted this record to stand out and be its own version of that\,” Massucc o explains. “Our goal was to make a record that felt authentic to who we are\, not pander to some version of us that we thought people wanted to h ear\,” Day affirms. “I think we did that this time around.”\n\n“We always try to evolve the sound of our band\,” O’Connor adds. “I thi nk that’s one of the things that has separated us from some of the bands who are around for a long time because you can get kind of sendenary and happy with where you are. We always say\, ‘if Four Year Strong is a box we’re always trying to push the edges of that box out a little bit of wh at the band can be’ and I think that’s keeps it exciting for us\,” h e summarizes when asked about how the band have managed to stay relevant f or so long. “A lot of the things we did when we were younger kids were t hrowing things against the wall and seeing what sticks. Now we’re trying to come to a place with everything we’re doing where it’s a little mo re thought out… which is what old guys would do\,” he adds with a laug h\, “but we’re really happy with how it turned out.” ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.jointherevolution.net/wp-content/upl oads/2026/10/Static_Social-Instagram_1080x1350_FourYearStrong_2026_Regiona l_RevolutionLive_0420.jpg CATEGORIES:All Ages,Concerts,Events LOCATION:Revolution Live\, 100 SW 3rd Ave.\, Fort Lauderdale\, FL\, 33312\, United States GEO:26.121358;-80.1461974 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=100 SW 3rd Ave.\, Fort Laud erdale\, FL\, 33312\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Revolution Live:geo:26.121358,-80.1461974 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR