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FREE THROW’s debut album, THOSE DAYS ARE GONE, took the underground by storm when it was released in September 2014, with Brooklyn Vegan hailing lead single “Tongue Tied” for its ability to “successfully bring together Tell All Your Friends dual vocals with American Football’s shimmering guitars.”
The sepia-toned emotional resonance of songs like the 6/8 “Two Beers In,” loud/soft dynamism of “Hey Ken, Someone Methodically Mushed the Donuts” and riff-ready “Pallet Town” painted a portrait of the uncertainty and growing pains of life in your 20s: a Groundhog Day of bad luck, bad love, and bad habits, set atop inventive rhythms, Midwestern-inspired guitars and tightly wound catharsis. It’s this unfiltered honesty that helped the Nashville-based quintet immediately connect with a new generation of listeners, spawning tens of millions of streams and tours with the likes of New Found Glory and The Wonder Years.
To celebrate the 10-year anniversary of Those Days Are Gone, Free Throw will embark on a U.S. tour in early 2025, performing the record in full alongside fan favorites from their five-album catalog – melding these timeless songs with their reputation for raucous live sing-alongs.
“We didn’t quite know Those Days Are Gone was going to be as special as a lot of people consider it today, but we thought that we had something really good,” singer/guitarist Cory Castro says. “ There’s been so much that’s happened since then, but in some ways, it still feels like yesterday.” ##
Although the old adage of ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ is something that Oklahoma four-piece Ben Quad knew before they began making their new EP, Ephemera, they decided to wholeheartedly ignore it. Since forming in 2018, the band—Sam Wegrzynski (lead vocals/rhythm guitar), Henry Shields (backing vocals/bass), Edgar Viveros (lead guitar) and Isaac Young (drums)—have released three split EPs and their 2022 debut album, I’m Scared That’s All There Is. Those records, alongside tours with Hot Mulligan, Arm’s Length and Forests have helped establish Ben Quad as one of the emo/indie/punk bands around—a hybrid all those scenes and sounds that works incredibly well, both live and on record.
