Bayside will be opening for Taking Back Sunday on Friday October 19th at the Crystal Ballroom in Portland Oregon. You can find more info about tickets here and a little more information about Bayside below.
Bayside lead singer/rhythm guitarist and founding member Anthony Raneri has been waiting 10 years–since he formed the rock group in Queens, N.Y. in the winter of 2000–to make an album like Killing Time, which represents a number of firsts for the band named after his hometown.
The album is the band’s debut for new label Wind-up Records after four releases on Chicago-based indie Victory Records, including Sirens and Condolences (2004), Bayside (2005), The Walking Wounded (2007) and Shudder (2008), steadily growing their following through tireless touring. Recording their latest at Dreamland Studios in Woodstock, N.Y., and Water Music in Hoboken, N.J., with renowned producer Gil Norton [Foo Fighters, Counting Crows, Pixies, Jimmy Eat World], Bayside finally had the time and resources to fulfill their creative vision.
“This is a new chapter, a new beginning for us,” acknowledges guitarist Jack O’Shea, who joined the band in 2003 and has played on all five of their albums. “This feels like our debut release. Gil really encouraged us to push the boundaries of what we do, and not to become timid. Having that kind of encouragement from someone so accomplished really gave us the confi dence to be more creative.”
“I really think this album has the best elements of all our previous releases,” says O’Shea, whose own guitar heroes include metal speedsters like Metallica’s Kirk Hammett and Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine as well as Slash, along with such jazz-rock muses as Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Allan Holdsworth, Al DiMelola and John McLaughlin. “It’s the most representative of what we’ve always gone for as a band. It encompasses what our fans like best about us.” With 10 songs weighing in at 38 minutes, there is no filler on Killing Time, an album, while not a concept, with songs that are organically connected and of a piece, like Green Day’s American Idiot or Nirvana’s Nevermind. (Mike Thrasher Presents)
