NEON TREES

“ANIMAL” JUST WENT NUMBER ONE ON BILLBOARD ALTERNATIVE ROCK CHARTS. NUMBER ONE ALTERNATIVE ROCK SONG IN THE NATION. IM GOING OUT WITH MOM & EATING A VEGGIE BURGER AT IN N OUT, SINGING “ANIMAL” AS LOUD AS I F’ING CAN WITH THE WINDOWS DOWN, MY CLAWS UP AND HEAD CLEAR. THANK YOU TO EVERY KID YOUNG AND OLD THAT STAY TRUE T…O THE DREAMS OF THEIR YOUTH. YOU ARE THE ONES THAT INSPIRE ME. FAKE IS NOT A WORD IN MY UNIVERSE. I CANT FATHOM IT. I JUST DO, I JUST SPEAK, I JUST SING.

NO ONE CAN TOUCH YOU, MY LOVES.

ITS TIME FOR SOMETHING REAL!

LOVE AND AFFECTION, TYLER

Hello All-

 

Tyler here. Something extremely un rock n roll that I said this weekend was how great the weather in Chicago was for 2010's Lollapalooza fest. But we couldn't have asked for a better environment to watch rock n roll at a typically brutal summer time setting. 

 

Our Friday was spent rubbing shoulders with our friends Foxy Shazam, new friends Semi Precious Weapons, and their friend Lady Gaga, whom we witnessed jumping into the crowd during the Weapons set. After running back stage to where we were standing she gave an accomplished smile said "it's been sooooo long since I've done that." She didn't leave without stopping to take a photo with me, as if we were old friends (though I've never met her prior).

Our set followed... we played for a gnarly crowd of over 7000, all showing us their claws during "Animal," throwing their feet in the air to "In The Next Room" and chanting along to "Sins of my Youth." All in all, a total dream for us.

 

The big debate of possibly the whole weekend was Lady Gaga vs The Strokes, as both New York artists were playing at the same time on opposite ends of the park (about a 30 minutes walk btw). The sea of people watching Gaga looked like a crowd from decades prior. You don't see crowds like that all the time, and that alone was stunning to watch. We caught most of her set from behind the stage. We saw her perform "Telephone" and give an almost drunken emotional version of "Speechless," where she shouted out to her father in a gruff groan, "we did it Daddy, I'm a star!" 

We snuck out early to make the trek to catch The Strokes play jams "Soma" and "Last Nite," with songs from "First Impressions of Earth" sprinkled in. Julian Casablancas is a cool dork and looked like Joey Ramone.

 

Saturday's fest seemed to turn adult Warped Tour as punk bands like Against Me, Gogol Bordello, AFI, Social Distortion and Green Day filled out a lot of the days stages. But it was the impromptu intimate acoustic show back in the media tent from Phoenix that was a highlight of the day.

 

In fact it seems our most memorable moments of the festival so far have been the ones that weren't planned. A suggestion to next years festival patrons....throw away the schedule and get lost in the surroundings of Grant Park's rock n roll.     

Read more at Buzznet.com

 

Who is going to Lollapalooza this weekend?

We are excited to go and we thought we pass along our must see bands:

Elaine: the Strokes, Lady Gaga, Phoenix
Tyler: The national, Cut Copy, Empire of the sun
Chris: Arcade fire, Gogol Bordello, Devo
Branden: Wolfmother, the Black Keys, Spoon

Thank you so much for the continued support and devotion to Neon Trees. We are extremely excited to be out on the road and the shows have been some of our best ever so far. Its time to officially BANG THE GONG and bust into your city throughout the summer.

The tickets will be cheap, the rooms will be packed, the merch will be fresh and we have more songs to sing for you than previous tours. A couple other things of note, to celebrate our upcoming The Bang The Gong Tour, we are giving away MP3s from Civil Twilight, Paper Tongues and us!

In exchange for one tour tweet, you can get an MP3 (at no cost to you) from each band including an exclusive"Animal" Yes Giantess Remix, a live version of "Letters From The Sky" by Civil Twilight and "Everybody" by Paper Tongues" DOWNLOAD NOW!

After you download your tracks, you can enter for a chance to win a prize pack with select merch from each band including the Habits LP, the “Letters From The Sky” 7" with B-side of Massive Attack’s “Teardrop,” and a Paper Tongues Exclusive package including a custom skate deck!

Come hang at Lollapalooza!

We are playing at Lollapalooza and Express is giving you a chance to win a trip to come see us!

Thank You again with all love and sincerity I can give. See you this summer, and for some of you, very very soon!

PREACH

Tyler

The tour has kept going UP UP UP, which makes me happy. All of us in the different bands are starting to gel, and I have nothing but cool things to say about both MuteMath and 30STM.

It’s been fun to feel love form the new cities we play, especially as more people hear “Animal” and buy the record. I can tell it’s reaching more people because each show gets louder with people singing along.

New Jersey really blew me away, we were able to play a longer set and the theatre was beautiful and kind of intimate. We did a really great version of State Trooper by Bruce Springsteen in a nod to Jersey, and I loved the feeling of the crowd.

Philadelphia was a massive highlight for me as well! The loudest city I’d heard sing along to Sins of My Youth, it was like we were all together strangers uniting and screaming this “prayer” out. It inspired me and re-reminded me that music makes people feel and changes entire rooms!

Jared need some time off to rest his voice, so we had to miss Charlotte North Carolina, a city I was looking forward to getting back too.

But it actually made it very apparent that we all needed a couple days to recoup. I got to fly early to Miami and soak in the beauty of the ocean. It felt like a vacation get away, even if it was just two days. What was even more rewarding was the incredible show Miami turned out to be. Jeeze! Who knew Miami had such a rabid rock crowd?

I think both Florida shows in fact stick out as really memorable times on this tour. Orlando was packed to the brim before we even went on, and everyone was so into the music, it was truly exciting.

I’m really enjoying the time out here, the things I’m learning as a performer and the feeling I get when I sing to crowds of new people every night.

I remember those faces that sing a long and smile, I truly do, and it means so much to me and us. Thank you to the 30STM fans and the Mute Math fans and all of our new fans that come out to these shows and give us energy to do what we love!

I can’t wait to see Salt Lake City and play for that home crowd, and also the west coast shows!

We played Tulsa, OK Tuesday night. Started off the afternoon w/ a trip to the radio station to perform "Animal" on the air. Very nice peeps there. It was my first time playing the new Gretsch bass. We then went to the Brady Theater to do a "meet & greet" w/ some fans. This was also the first date that Mute Math were on the bill, so it was cool to meet them and chat. Cool dudes for sure. The theater was built in the 1920's and is said to be haunted??? We went exploring thru some of the walkways upstairs and it was kind of a trip. Our set was a blast. Since we've been getting radio play, there were some good sing-a-longs. We also filmed some of our show for MTV.

Neon Trees - SXSW 10 Interview & Acoustic Performance
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