With their widely-acclaimed fourth album, Violent Waves, self- released on August 28th, one might have expected silence from a crowd where, while half the crowd looked like they’d turn their noses up, “Ugh, I liked ‘em better in 2005,” and the other half looked like they were hardly old enough to drink, let alone vividly remember Green’s transition from Saosin to Circa Survive. Despite these differences, everyone seemed satisfied with the set list, which varied in a good range of the band’s discography.
Though many, possibly all, may have overestimated Purity Ring’s “undergroundedness,” that belief was nearly instantly shattered when the duo not only sold out the venue, but led fans to scrounge for entrance days prior and pack themselves inside the day of. Ultimately this type of adulation labeled the Crescent show deservingly as, “Oh, you weren’t there? You should have been,” kind of performance in downtown Phoenix.
Nestled discreetly within the skyline of downtown Phoenix, Crescent Ballroom played host to fans of Philadelphia-bred mewithoutYou, who gathered July 31 to reminisce on the mid-2000’s days of the post hardcore scene, and to celebrate the release of Ten Stories, mewithoutYou’s newest venture since their birth in 2004.
