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:591@jointherevolution.net DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240615T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240615T234500 DTSTAMP:20240227T164823Z URL:https://www.jointherevolution.net/concerts/the-menzingers/ SUMMARY:The Menzingers DESCRIPTION:At this point\, the Menzingers are an absolute institution. The Philadelphia punk legends’ multi-decade reputation as road warriors wit h an unbeatable catalog is cemented as hard truth—and their seventh albu m\, Some Of It Was True\, stands as their most immediate-sounding and ener getic record to date. The follow-up to 2019’s sensational Hello Exile ac complishes the daunting task of capturing the Menzingers’ distinctive li ve energy in the confines of the studio\, resulting in a sound that’s bo th rich\, raw\, and complementary to the group’s increasingly prismatic songwriting approach. More than 15 years in\, the Menzingers are still hol ding their listeners square in the immediate present\, and Some Of It Was True documents that power in thrilling fashion.\n\n \;\n\nSome Of It W as True comes after the longest gap between Menzingers records to date—a gestational period brought on by the Hello Exile-era tour schedule’s de lays due to the COVID-19 tour industry shutdown. “We weren’t really wr iting new music yet\,” Greg Barnett explains. “We were talking about i t\, but we were honestly just happy to be out and touring again.” The ac oustic reworks of 2020’s From Exile followed\, as well as Barnett’s so lo record Don’t Go Throwing Roses at My Grave from last year\, which was when Some Of It Was True started to come together.\n\n \;\n\n“We tu rned down any offers at that point because we needed the time to write\, ” Tom May explains while discussing the writing and recording process\, which technically started while on the road and continued in intensive fas hion while the boys were back home. “We’d go out on tour\, come home\, and be in the practice space writing our asses off five days a week\,” Barnett says. We had to learn to trust our instincts\, which is the hardes t thing to do when you’ve been in a band like this for so long. You get caught in your ways! It took a while to trust ourselves\, but when we did\ , it was an amazing feeling.”\n\n \;\n\nMaking the process easier: G rammy-nominated producer Brad Cook (Bon Iver\, the War on Drugs\, Waxahatc hee)\, who joined the Menzingers in El Paso’s legendary Sonic Ranch stud ios and lent his incredible ear for raw\, immediate sound to help the band achieve Some Of It Was True’s in-the-room live feel. “The Menzingers are as real as it gets\,” Cook says on his time in the studio with the b and. I had an absolute blast working with these guys and was moved to tear s many times. They are truly dedicated to artistic growth\, and to each ot her\, in ways I found both refreshing and beautiful. I am now a lifer.”\ n\n \;\n\n“Brad massively changed the way we were approaching the re cord\,” May says. “We were able to bust out a ton of songs during the last part of the recording process as a result. We’d talk about music an d develop a vocabulary about how to work together\, and that made us embra ce chasing the feeling instead worrying about locking in things immediatel y.” “We wanted to make a fun record and write songs that we wanted to play live\, and that’s exactly what we did\,” Barnett adds. “We’ve always said that we want every album to sound live\, but we never recorde d an album live before. This was the first time we committed to that idea. We wanted to sound like how our band sounds onstage.”\n\n \;\n\nLyr ically\, Some Of It Was True is a showcase for how the band’s songwritin g has expanded beyond their own personal experiences\, drawing from what ’s happening around them and the lives of those who keep this world’s lifeforce pumping. “Not everything has to derive from your own life\,” Barnett explains. “We have the creative license to look around at our f riends and family and write through their perspective. Everyone’s gone t hrough so much.” “We started this band when we were teenagers\, and we ’ve been at it for a while—and we’re a punk band\, which usually rep resents a lot of youthful energy\,” May adds. “We’re getting older n ow\, so the last thing we wanted to do was re-do anything we’ve tried in the past.”\n\n \;\n\nCase in point: The anthemic burn of first sing le “There’s No Place In this World For Me” clicked into place after Barnett met several fans during a European tour stop who fled from Russia in opposition to the war. “They were the epitome of the song—they had nowhere left to go\,” he remembers. “They were my main focus when it c ame to finishing the song\, it was really inspiring.” More broadly\, the song addresses the push and pull of life on the road\, and how growing ol der plays into that evolving dynamic: “It’s about that feeling of sitt ing at home and thinking\, ‘How much fun would it be to be in Berlin wit h your friends right now?’ And you get there and think\, ‘Man\, I just want to be home.’ The older you get\, the more you feel that way\, and this song is about trying to find that balance when it comes to where you are in life.”\n\n \;\n\nElsewhere\, “Try” swaggers with a slight power-pop influence\, while the May-led “Nobody Stays” soars with a h ard-driving edge\, as his bell-clear vocals dig deep into the feelings tha t accompany watching things—and people—disappear over time. “We’ve lived in this city for a long time as we’ve seen people come and go\, ” he recalls. “Some people\, you’ll never see again—or\, maybe\, e ven know what happens to them again. Instead of yearning\, we’re approac hing acceptance of those changes in our lives. I miss a lot of those peopl e\, but it’s OK that they’re gone\, too.”\n\n \;\n\nThe passage of time and how things change are\, of course\, topics that are always on peoples’ minds—but when it comes to Some Of It Was True\, the Menzinge rs are kickstarting a new era in their already illustrious career by tappi ng into the energy that brought the band to life in the very beginning. “This record just feels different for us\,” Barnett explains. “It’ s a really important one in our catalog\, and a pivotal moment in our hist ory. We have the liberty of our fans growing with us now\, and after writi ng these lyrical songs about where we are in life\, we decided to take oth er peoples’ stories and make something bigger out of it.”\n\n \;\n \n“It brought us back to our energetic side as a band\,” May concurs. “We got to let loose\, which is what drew us to the energy of being in a band in the first place. This is a live band—why shouldn’t we record live songs? As a result\, we’re back to why we started this band in the first place.” CATEGORIES:All Ages 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:20240310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR