New York rockers Bayside stream single ‘Enemy Lines’ from their upcoming album, Vacancy
May 12, 2016
Queens punk-rockers Bayside are releaseing their seventh album, Vacancy, this summer. The record is due out August 19 via Hopeless Records. You now have a chance to listen to Bayside’s first single off the Vacancy album, ‘Enemy Lines’ (stream the track below).
Frontman Anthony Raneri revealed this was the band’s most challenging record so far. Read how he described the recording process: “I moved to Nashville two-and-a-half years ago with my wife and baby. The plan was to go down for a couple of years, plant seeds and move back to New york. We came down and after a year of being here we split up. I was like, ‘do I live in Tennessee now? Alone?’ the singer says.
Raneri goes on admitting, “It was a crazy super isolated time where I didn’t know what was going to come next and moved into an apartment to try and sort things out. That’s where I wrote the record, I wrote Vacancy in that apartment. I had a couch, a TV, my bed, a desk, a computer and my guitar—everything else was in boxes, waiting for me to figure out where they were going to go. We were calling it the hotel, which is where the hotel on the cover came from; Vacancy had a double meaning, the physical and emotional experience. This is the first record I’ve written that’s had a theme to it, I didn’t want to write a typical break-up record, it’s not about what happened, it’s about the aftermath.”
Bayside have a North American leg of shows scheduled for August/September 2016 with their colleagues, Menzingers and Sorority Noise. The rockers’ previous record, Cult, came out in 2014, followed by Raneri’s second solo EP, titled Sorry State of Mind, released in June 2015.
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Bayside Summer/Fall Tour Dates 2016
Aug 11 Ft. Lauderdale, FL @ Revolution
Aug 12 Orlando, FL @ Hard Rock Live
Aug 13 Atlanta, GA @ Wrecking Ball Festival
Aug 14 Charlotte, NC @ Amos Southend
Aug 16 Norfolk, VA @ NorVa
Aug 17 Baltimore, MD @ Rams Head
Aug 18 Philadelphia, PA @ Electric Factory
Aug 19 New York, NY @ PlayStation Theater
Aug 20 Sayreville, NJ @ Starland Ballroom
Aug 21 Boston, MA @ House of Blues
Aug 23 Pittsburgh, PA @ Altar Bar
Aug 24 Cleveland, OH @ Agora
Aug 25 Toronto, ON @ Opera House
Aug 26 Detroit, MI @ The Majestic
Aug 27 Chicago, IL @ 350 Fest
Aug 28 Minneapolis, MN @ Mill City Nights
Aug 30 Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre
Aug 31 Salt Lake City, UT @ The Complex
Sept 2 Seattle, WA @ The Showbox
Sept 3 Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theatre
Sept 4 San Francisco @ Regency
Sept 6 Santa Ana, CA @ The Observatory
Sept 7 Los Angeles, CA @ Regent Theater
Sept 8 San Diego, CA @ The Observatory North Park
Sept 9 Las Vegas, NV @ Brooklyn Bowl
Sept 10 Phoenix, AZ @ The Pressroom
Sept 11 Albuquerque, NM @ The Sunshine Theater
Sept 13 San Antonio, TX @ Alamo City Music Hall
Sept 14 Houston, TX @ House of Blues
Sept 15 Dallas, TX @ Gas Monkey Live
Sept 16 Lawrence, KS @ Granada Theater
Sept 17 St. Louis, MO @ The Ready Room
Sept 18 Nashville, TN @ Exit/In
