Here is the band’s statement, taken from their Facebook account.
Flogging Molly Cancels 2025 Tour Dates
Haunt: Spring Break ’25 Tour
California-based metal band Haunt has announced the Spring Break ’25 Tour. Featuring support from Spain’s very own Hitten, this 20-date run kicks off March 14th in Los Angeles. Tickets are on sale at the venues’ websites!
- 3/14 – Los Angeles, CA – Knucklehead
- 3/15 – Oceanside, CA – Pour House
- 3/16 – Las Vegas, NV – Sinwave
- 3/17 – Albuquerque, NM – Launchpad
- 3/19 – Austin, TX – Mohawk
- 3/20 – San Antonio, TX – 502 Bar
- 3/21 – Houston, TX – Hell’s Heroes
- 3/23 – New Orleans, LA – Siberia
- 3/24 – Pensacola, FL – Handlebar
- 3/25 – Orlando, FL – Conduit
- 3/27- Atlanta, GA – Altar at The Masquerade
- 3/28 – Little Rock, AR – Stickyz
- 3/29 – Tulsa, OK – 2 Minutes to Tulsa
- 3/31 – Milwaukee, WI – X-ray Arcade
- 4/1 – Chicago, IL – Live Wire
- 4/2 – Lawrence, KS – Bottleneck
- 4/3 – Denver, CO – HQ
- 4/4 – Salt Lake City, UT – Aces High
- 4/5 – Reno, NV • Cellar Stage
- 4/6 – San Francisco, CA – Bottom of the Hill
Song of the Day – Bad Valentines: “Mariia”
Citizen Soldier: The Semicolon Tour 2025
Hard rockers Citizen Soldier have shared a handful of dates for May 2025. The three week run features special guests 10 Years, Thousand Below, and Nerv. Tickets and VIP upgrades are available at citizensoldierband.com!
- 5/2 – Salt Lake City, UT – Rockwell at The Complex
- 5/3 – Denver, CO – Fillmore Auditorium
- 5/4 – Omaha, NE – The Admiral Theater
- 5/5 – Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue
- 5/7 – Milwaukee, WI – The Rave/Eagles Club
- 5/8 – Grand Rapids, MI – The Intersection
- 5/9 – McKees Rocks, PA – Roxian Theatre
- 5/10 – Columbus, OH – Sonic Temple Art & Music Festival 2025
- 5/12 – Rochester, NY – Water Street Music Hall
- 5/13 – New York, NY – Irving Plaza
- 5/14 – Baltimore, MD – Baltimore Soundstage
- 5/16 – Knoxville, TN – The Mill & Mine#
- 5/17 – Atlanta, GA – Buckhead Theatre#
- 5/18 – Destin, FL – Club LA
- 5/20 – Louisville, KY – Mercury Ballroom
- 5/21 – Nashville, TN – Brooklyn Bowl
- 5/22 – Fayetteville, AR – JJ’s Live
- 5/23 – Wichita, KS – Wave+
# No Nerv
+ No 10 Years
Song of the Day – Januarius: “Strange Illusions”
What was the first album you ever bought with your own money? [QOTW, 2/2/25]
I decided to change the title format for these posts. Anyone reading, feel free to leave your answer in my comments!!! Not all the questions will be catered to bands/artists.
- “Underoath: They’re Only Chasing Safety.” – Seethe
- “Rob Zombie: Hellbilly Deluxe.” – TJ, K.A.R.L. (Kill All Remaining Life)
- “Mine was a cassette. T-Rex: The Collection. It had a cool photo of Marc Bolan on the cover!” – Richard, RJ Archer and the Painful Memories
- “Mariah Carey: One Sweet Day. Guilty as charged.” – Martin, Naked Sunday
- “First CD purchase was two. Bought both Slipknot’s and Flaw’s debut albums.” – Encircled Throne
- “Foreigner: 4, in 4th or 5th grade.” – A/V Cult
- “Mötley Crüe: Decade of Decadence.” – Deadly Vices
- “Bon Jovi: Slippery When Wet, when I was in the 3rd grade.” – Mandatory Affect
- “Sum 41: All Killer, No Filler.” – The Welcoming
- “Europe: The Final Countdown, when I had just turned 9.” – Xavi, The Lürxx
- “Megadeth: Countdown to Extinction on cassette.” – Marco, After the Apocalypse
- “The first album I bought was KISS on vinyl.” – Scot, Road to Ruin
- “My first two records, I got them together, were Toto’s Through the Looking Glass and Dream Theater’s Scenes From a Memory.” – Kyle, AV/drum tech, ex-Edge of Destiny
Song of the Day – Moon Veil: “Enough”
Capstan: The Cult Tour 2025
Progressive post-hardcore outfit Capstan will be touring this spring, performing a career spanning set that includes acoustic songs they’ve never played live. Joining them on the road will be Colorblind, True North, and Not Enough Space. Tickets and VIP are available at capstanband.com!
- 3/21 – Jacksonville, FL – Underbelly*
- 3/22 – Tampa, FL – Crowbar*
- 3/23 – Pensacola, FL – Handlebar*
- 3/25 – Dallas, TX – RBC Deep Ellum
- 3/26 – Austin, TX – Empire Control Room & Garage
- 3/28 – Mesa, AZ – The Nile Theater
- 3/29 – Anaheim, CA – Chain Reaction
- 3/30 – San Diego, CA – SOMA
- 3/31 – Las Vegas, NV – Sinwave
- 4/1 – Fresno, CA – Strummer’s
- 4/2 – Sacramento, CA – Goldfield Trading Post
- 4/4 – Seattle, WA – El Corazon
- 4/5 – Portland, OR – Dante’s
- 4/7 – Salt Lake City, UT – Kilby Court
- 4/9 – Denver, CO – Marquis Theater
- 4/11 – Kansas City, MO – recordBar
- 4/12 – Chicago, IL – Cobra Lounge
- 4/13 – Ferndale, MI – The Loving Touch
- 4/14 – Toronto, ON – Hard Luck Bar
- 4/16 – Lakewood, OH – Mahall’s
- 4/17 – Pittsburgh, PA – Spirit Hall
- 4/18 – Philadelphia, PA – Brooklyn Bowl
- 4/19 – Worcester, MA – Palladium
- 4/20 – Brooklyn, NY – The Brooklyn Monarch
- 4/22 – Baltimore, MD – Ottobar
- 4/23 – Richmond, VA – Canal Club
- 4/24 – Greensboro, NC – Hangar 1819
- 4/25 – Atlanta, GA – The Masquerade
- 4/26 – Orlando, FL – The Abbey
* No True North
The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist, Pt. 1 (Updated 1/31/25)
This is the second, and final, playlist update for January. I have already begun compiling my Top 50 of 2025 – I think this year is going to be difficult to narrow down… (I say that every year, but I already have 6 contenders and it’s not even February. If that happens every month, my life is going to be a challenge come December. Ha ha!)
Here are the tracks that have been added to the playlist since January 14th. You can view the list in its entirety here.
- Blank Labels: “Drive”
- Danny Worsnop: “Ain’t No Use”
- Elirah’s Cross: “The Walk” (ft. Histheory)
- Not Enough Space: “Solace in Silence”
- Sloans Grove: “Above It All”
- The Lycan: “Memento”
- Against the Sun: “Pieces” (ft. Alibis)
- The Mysterious Bruises: “Cold Long Nights”
- Never the Name: “Consequences”
- The Bettors: “Never Change”
- Dethamphetamine: “Brains”
- Gnostician: “Dwarf Star Partition”
- Silent WVLF: “Elation”
- Last Good Thing: “Wish You Were”
- Van Berlain: “Glass House”
- Featured: “Just Another Day” (ft. Rose Berlin)
- HotWax: “One More Reason”
- Seven Year Witch: “Blue Flower, Red Thorns”
- little image: “The Pressure”
- By the River: “Bridges”
- Dimensionist: “Syntagma”
- MNYKR: “Sweat With Me” (ft. Greco Ray)
- Mandatory Affect: “Transient”
- Mandatory Affect: “Letters to the Lost”
- Lift the Curse: “Save Me”
- Levana: “Set Me Free”
- Swim the Current: “Right Your Wrong”
- One Day Alive: “The Calling”
- Young Other: “Iron Horse”
- Shinedown: “Dance, Kid, Dance”
- Shinedown: “Three Six Five”
- Bad Valentines: “Last Days in the Sun”
- SKNN: “Radioactive”
- The Fiction We Create: “Knightfall”
- Any Given Sin: “Rest for the Wicked”
- TJ Marzonie: “Blame It on the Devil”
- Kissing Lilith: “More Than Worth It”
- Bridges Ablaze: “Heartless”
- Photon Flux: “Hypofrontality”
- Damien Graves: “Skyfall” (ft. Forsaken Silence)
- Disconnected: “We Carry On”
- Landslide: “Lost”
- Robbie Ekblom Jr.: “Darkness Befalls” (ft. Hall of Lost)
- Out of Body: “The Hold Up”
- Deadcode: “Don’t Let Me Go”
- SkyMuseum: “Unawake” (ft. Adam Faris)
- Feverlust: “1000 Memories”
- Draven: “Hollowed Penance”
- The Split: “Son of New Ages”
- Jay Gearhart: “Faced With Hate”
- Gemini Syndrome: “Suffer in Silence”
- Krysis: “The Summit’s Ice”
- Call of Sirens: “Siren”
- Mr. Strange: “Easy Come, Easy Go”
- Matte Blvck: “Vicious Dreams”
- Effing and Blinding: “We’re All Gonna Get It”
- Boogeymvn: “Once Upon a Dream”
- Boogeymvn: “I Feel Nothing”
- Mean Silver Machine: “Motorcycle Rock”
- Adelitas Way: “What If You Go?”
- Anaria: “Stay”
- AGBAT: “Fair Winds”
- Glis: “Street Dragon Ninja”
- Glis: “A Different Dream”
- Seethe: “Mandela Effect”
- No Fly List: “Tension”
- Dead Rabbitts: “Artificial Gods” (ft. Escape the Fate, HIGHSOCIETY, and Judge & Jury)
- Traverse the Abyss: “Reasoning”
- When Hearts Wither: “I’ll Wait For Your Return, My Friend”
- Into Elysium: “Her Name Was”
- Hands Like Houses: “Fatally Fractured”
- The Truth Music: “The Peace I Need”
- The Space Turtles: “IPV”
- Beauty is Betrayal: “Afterlife”
- The Immaculate Crows: “Shylene”
- Storm Kingdom: “The Fall of the Morning Star”
- Seas on the Moon: “The Trailhead” (ft. Eissa Morphide)
- Enemy of Fate: “Killswitch”
- Verging on Hopeless: “Turning Away”
Goodreads Reading Challenge 2025 [Updated 1/30/25]
January has been a slow month, but I still read six books! (The number isn’t my best; in my defense, it took a while to get through Watership Down and The Hobbit.)
Here are the novels I finished and my rating of each.
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
Rating: 4/5
‘Twas the Knife Before Christmas (Jacqueline Frost)
Rating: 5/5
Watership Down (Richard Adams)
Rating: 3.5/5
Horror Movie (Paul Tremblay)
Rating: 4/5
The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
Rating: 4/5
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (C.S. Lewis)
Rating: 4/5
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I am currently reading The Murder of Sleepy Hollow (Michele Pariza Wacek) and Unholy Magic (Stacia Kane).
Progress: 6/50
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