Warped Tour

So I caught the Red Arrow to Calgary on Thursday morning (6:30 am) to go see the Van’s Warped Tour.  This was my third time to Warped, and it was pretty awesome again.

Bands I liked:

• Pennywise
• Bad Religion
• New Found Glory
• Tiger Army
• Yellowcard
• Panamore
• Cute is What We Aim For
• Ill Scarlet
• Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
• The Vincent Black Shadow

Bands I didn’t care for:

• Circa Survive (way too emo, and not in a good way)
• Coheed and Cambria (too metal for me)
• Killswitch Engage (again, too metal)

Other memories:

• Biggest score of swag at any event I’ve ever been to (like 8 sample cds plus a couple fistfuls of stickers and a few other random things)
• Awesome weather (32C, sunny all day) - luckily we got shade for most of the day
• Yellowcard closed and had a circle pit around the sound booth with only 1/10 of the total crowd left
• Should probably eat more than one hot dog all day next time
• Smaller bands are always begging for your attention (Authority Zero)
• Larger bands can now rip you off on clothing (Bad Religion t-shirt = $25)

An awesome trip, I can’t wait for next year.

Internet Music

For a while I was using Pandora Internet Radio to listen to various music.  Unfortunately they began blocking Canadian IP addresses, so no more music through that.  I’ve just started using Last.fm and it seems to use a similar idea.  Hopefully this will give me the music I want.