2006

Happy holidays! Today I updated the site with some pictures from the December 19th show and the setlist from the holiday show in Minnesota. Enjoy your day =)

There's an interview with Matt and Tony up a podcast called "Emo Girl Talk". Some of the questions are kind of commonly asked but we do find out why they don't play "When You're Around" live very often anymore. It's worth a listen. Also, Saint Rock N Roll.com recently posted interview posted with Justin. In this interview he mentions that they plan to record their new record in New York in March and April and hopefully have it finished by May.

And finally, the setlist from yesterday's show in St. Paul is up now, thanks to some of the MCS boardies who went :) If anyone has anything from recent shows, please send it in! And also, don't forget to go out and get Alternative Press! It is pretty much out on all newsstands now.

There is a small Q&A with Justin in an article in the St. Paul Pioneer Press today. One of the questions was what is next for the band in 2007, and Justin's reply was "We plan to record our third record starting in late January and hope for a release in late summer. We have upwards of 20 'songs' currently and hope to sift through the crap of it all and get down to serious business soon." Read the article at the Pioneer Press's site. In an article in the Star Tribune Matt also mentioned that the band was focusing on the new album, "We're all about making the next record right now. We're still in the early stages of writing and demo-ing, but we're all really excited about it."

In other news, the Tournado tour is winding down. If you have any pictures or setlists or anything, please send them in to me. By the way, I just posted a setlist for the first date MCS was on the tour (Houston, TX).

MCS announced their holiday show today... here are the details:

"The Night Motion City Soundtrack Stole Christmas II: Santa's Revenge"
with special guests The Spill Canvas & Attention

Thursday, December 21 2006
First Avenue - Minneapolis, MN
5:30pm doors, 6:30pm show

Tickets are $20 and go on sale this Friday at 4 pm at all Ticketmaster outlets/Ticketmaster.com and at the First Avenue box office. Also, everyone that buys a ticket to the show will get a 9x24 handscreened, limited edition commemorative poster (available at the show)!

That contest going on over at Motion City Soundtrack's Buzznet group now says the prize is tickets for the show on 12/19 (not 12/20 as it used to say).

The latest news posting on Motion City Soundtrack's official site indicates that there may be a holiday show planned for the 21st (in past years it has been in Minnesota). Interpret this as you will:

"In other news, we want to clear up some confusion regarding a show on December 21. The good news is that we WILL be playing a show SOMEWHERE in the United States on that night, but the bad news is that it WILL NOT be with the All American Rejects and Boys Like Girls in St. Louis... We unfortunately had a prior commitment on that evevning you'll learn more about in the weeks ahead... Shouldn't be that hard to figure out where we are going to be that night and what we will be doing, but stay tuned for more details regardless."

Happy 28th birthday to Matt Taylor today! :)

There is a contest going on over at Motion City Soundtrack's Buzznet group page:

"Motion City Soundtrack has joined Buzznet and we are giving the fans and the band a big welcome by offereing you and a friend a chance to fly to Chicago on 12/20 for the final concert of the Motion City Soundtrack's 2006 tour. Enjoy free plane tix, 2 VIP passes to the show, an exlusive meet & greet with the band, a Kyocera Cyclops Phone to photo blog with the band, $200.00 cash, and a hotel room for the night!"

To enter this contest, you must submit your best lip syncing video for the song When You're Around to Lip Sync Contest Collection. The deadline to enter is 12/7 11:59 pm PST. Goodluck to all!

Lastly, here is the regular cover of Alternative Press that will be hitting newsstands on December 7th, make sure you pick it up!

The issue of Alternative Press magazine that Motion City Soundtrack is going to be on the cover of is the "Most Anticipated Of 2007" issue. The magazine is supposed to hit newsstands on December 7th and subscribers should get it about a week prior to the newsstand date. The subscriber cover is featured to the left.

MCS's run on the Tournado tour is about to begin next week, so if you get go to any of those shows, please send in setlists, reviews, and pictures! Oh, and have fun :)

Motion City Soundtrack is going to be on the cover of the next issue of Alternative Press magazine for January 2007. According to an e-mail from the MCS mailing list, the issue is a special issue and will have two different covers. One of the covers will be available to AP subscribers only and the other is for everybody else. You must be an AP subscriber to get the limited edition cover with the exclusive cover photo. To get the special cover and the special $12 subscription price, you must subscribe before November 8th.

You can now download a live MCS set from Warped Tour 06 over at the Rhapsody Warped Tour Bootleg Series.

MCS's merch girl, Beth Raebel, is featured in the October issue of Jane Magazine. Christina Aguilera is on the cover. There is a small picture of her and quote on page 81.

Speaking of Beth, you should go join her Secret Society on MySpace. One of the recent posts says she is going to be giving away some of her MCS stuff, that she has accumulated over the years, so check it out and join!

Many people have been wondering if MCS is working on a new album. The band has mentioned that they are in recent interviews and also confirms it right on their site:

Currently we're spending some quality time at home working on our next album. Sounds weird to say, but we probably won't be touring much in the months ahead, so please try to come out and catch us on the second half of the All-American Rejects tour.

The band also mentions that they have new merch that will be put up in their store today and reminds everyone that their Amsterdam concert is up for viewing online.

Anyone out there catch a setlist from the UK tour? Apparently MCS covered Nirvana on that tour. If you have a setlist you'd like to share please send it in, you can click on Submit up at the top or e-mail me at mcmemories@gmail.com. Thanks if anyone can help :)

Check out PunkRockPix.com for some great pictures of MCS from the September 6-8 college shows.

The interview with Matt is now up!! Check it out. Also, there are a few pictures up in the concert archive from the Paris show last week. Thanks Nagwa!

Pictures from the concert in Wolverhampton a couple of days ago are now up in the concert archive, courtesy of Sam. Also, an older setlist was posted from a show in Chicago from 2003.

A few new Tournado dates have been posted and tickets for most of the shows are now on sale. Check out the tour dates page for more information.

Lastly, don't forget to vote for MCS for the Streaming Woodie. Head on over to the Woodie Awards website and stream their video for "Hold Me Down" to help them secure more votes!

MCS is up for another mtvU Woodie Award again this year. You might recall that they won the "Breaking Woodie" last year. You can vote for them this week for the "Streaming Woodie". For four weeks artists will compete for this award for the most downloaded artist. Go vote for MCS now at mtvU.com!


Tickets for the show at St. Olaf College next week are finally on sale. They are $20 for the public and $8 for students (the prices are more the day of the show though). You can get tickets and more information at StOlafTickets.com.


In site news, the setlist is now posted for Saturday's show in Amsterdam. Also, someone sent in some pictures from a show from February, so check those out too.

Also, the interview with Matt that Nagwa did in Paris should be posted sometime soon, so keep checking back!

Motion City Soundtrack is playing in Paris tonight, and thanks to Nagwa, we should have an interview with a band member to post sometime in the next week or so. The interview was an idea I had to have an interview with questions that were not commonly asked, and also questions asked by the Motion City Soundtrack message board members. So, check back for that soon!

Tomorrow MCS will be doing a concert in Amsterdam, and FabChannel.com will be webcasting the show at 3:00pm EST (or 21:00 Central European Time). If you can't watch it then, the show should be archived for a couple of days after as well (this news is from MCS's e-mail list). Enjoy!

Motion City Soundtrack is kicking off their European tour tonight in Germany. They will be doing a couple of signings while in Europe, the information on these signings (from their website) is below:


9/15/05
L'INDIEN BOUTIQUE
Rue Keller
Paris, France
75011

9/25/05
EXIT
Corn Exchange
Leeds, United Kingdom
LS1 7BR


For more information on the European tour and for ticket information, see the tour dates page.

Happy birthday to TONY THAXTON today. Hopefully it's a good one. :)

Recent setlists for the Syracuse and Lansing shows are up in the concert archive.. check 'em out.

Today I added the setlist for the show at WVU a couple of weeks ago. Check it out in the concert archive.

Justin and Jesse of Motion City Soundtrack are featured in the latest "From The Road: Kevin Lyman" podcast from Warped Tour. You can find the podcast at Rhapsody, and if you would like to save it, right click here and pick Save Target As (or Save Link As).

I added a fan review today, it is from a show from 2004... check it out. Also, feel free to keep sending things in!

Here is what the latest blog on The Starting Line's MySpace page says (which should help you know if MCS is coming to your Tournado date or not):

"The Starting Line will be playing the following dates this fall on the Tournado Tour with The All American Rejects, The Format and Gym Class Heros!
ps. all the dates are NOT released yet. if you don't see your city, don't freak out......more dates are added every week.

10/27 Mid_Hudson Civic Center Poughkeepsie, NY
10/28 Hammerstein Ballroom New York, NY
10/29 Hammerstein Ballroom New York, NY
11/01 Tsongas Arena Lowell, MA
11/03 Convention Hall Asbury Park, NJ
11/04 Tweeter Center Camden, NJ
11/06 Blue Cross Arena Rochester, NY
11/07 Arrow Hall Mississauga, ON
11/09 Patriot Center Fairfax, VA
11/11 Veterans Memorial Arena Jacksonville, FL
11/13 UCF Arena Orlando, FL
11/14 USF Sun Dome Tampa, FL
11/15 University of Miami Convocation Center Coral Gables, FL
11/17 The Arena @ Gwinnett Center Duluth, GA


***Motion City Soundtrack will be playing the remaining tour dates as MAIN SUPPORT (in place of TSL)***"

The setlist for last night's free show at Cornell University is now up, courtesy of Christy.

Also, the article about the Syracuse show that I posted yesterday from the Daily Orange has a misprint. The concert is only open for SU and SUNY ESF students and staff, sorry for any confusion that caused.

I found some more info about the show at Syracuse University on 9/3. It appears that it is open to students and their guests... this article states that tickets for students are $10 and that general admission is $15 (general admission is I think people who are guests of a student). It looks like the only place to buy them is on campus at the Schine Box Office. The article also states that the Starting Line and Blackalicious will be there. If anyone has any other info feel free to send me it.

In other tour news, some/most of the Tournado tour dates have been posted on Epitaph.com and so I have posted the ones on there on this site. It looks like MCS will be on the tour from 11/28-12/19. For more information, see the tourdates section. For tickets (presale) go to AAR's ticketing site at https://tixx1.artistarena.com/aar/. Once you go there, click the "Register" button and then fill out the form. It will e-mail you a username and password to use to access the presale tickets.

Lastly, In the concert archive I added some pictures for the Denver, CO Warped date and the Bristow, VA Warped date as well as a fan review for a show from February. Check it all out!

I put up a couple of new tour dates today. One is 9/30/06 in Northfield, MN at St. Olaf College. I have no info for this show other than it is posted on Epitaph.com. The other show I added is a date from the Tournado tour with the All-American Rejects which is going on sale tomorrow at 10 AM. The show is December 18 at Eastern Michigan University. See the tour dates page for all the information I have and for the AAR Tournado tour dates see their MySpace page. MCS's dates on the tour have not been confirmed, except for that Michigan date going on sale tomorrow.

There are only a few more opportunities for fans to see MCS on tour this year. They are playing a few college shows over the next 3 weeks, then heading out on a European tour, and then will be touring with the All American Rejects on their 'Tournado' tour. They will not be on that entire AAR tour, but will be on about half of it. The dates have come out, but I don't want to post anything here till I am pretty sure that it is accurate that MCS will be on it. Rumor is they will be on the second half of the tour.

Here is some information for you on the upcoming shows before the European tour:

8/21/06 Morgantown, WV - Mountainlair Plaza (West Virginia University):
This show is FallFest, and is free for WVU students with their student ID. The show starts at 6:15


8/26/06 Ithaca, NY - Cornell University Arts Quad: This show is free for everyone, both students and the general public. Starts at 6pm. Go here for more information.


9/03/06 Syracuse, NY - Standart Parking Lot (Syracuse University): This show is for SU and SUNY ESF students only. You can tickets at the Schine Box Office. For more information, go here.


9/04/06 Lansing, MI - Temple Club: Tickets for this show are $16 and doors open at 6pm. To buy tickets online, visit groovetickets.


9/06/06 Marshall, MN - SMSU RA Facility (Southwest Minnesota State University): Tickets are $12 for SMSU students, $15 for the general public, and $20 the day of the show. Doors are at 6pm for this show, and the show starts at 6:45. To get tickets online visit smsutickets.com. You can also get tickets in person at the Student Center Info Desk Monday-Thursday from 10am-6pm, Friday from 10am-4pm, and Saturday from Noon-2 pm (cash or check payable to SMSU). For more information, go here.


9/07/06 Vermillion, SD - Slagle Auditorium (University of South Dakota): Doors are at 7pm for this show, and the show starts at 7:30. To get tickets online visit usdticketsonline.com. For more information, go here.


9/08/06 Bemidji, MN - John Glass Field House (Bemidji State University): Tickets are $15 for BSU students, $20 for the general public. Doors are at 6pm for this show, and the show starts at 6:45. To get tickets online visit bsuticketsonline.com. You can also get tickets in person at the Hobson Memorial Union information desk at BSU, at both Lueken's Village Food stores in Bemidji, and at Overbeek Electronics and Music in Bemidji. For more information, go here.


Lastly, be sure you check out the concert archive for setlists and pictures from the last few weeks of Warped Tour. If you have any setlists or pictures from shows, or if you want to review a show, click on the 'Submit' links above.

I attended Warped Tour in Bristow, VA on Thursday and got the setlist. Also, Hannah donated some pictures from that show and mine will be up once I develop my film. We also have the setlist from Cleveland from yesterday and some pictures from Old Bridge, NJ and Uniondale, NY. Check it all out in the concert archive.

Also, I updated the discography a little today to include the former bands that MCS members were in. I have CDs listed in there from Slide Coaster, Champagne Kiss, and Submerge. If you have any information that I am missing I would appreciate any help! Just e-mail me at mcmemories@gmail.com. Thanks!

MCS will be playing at West Virginia University on August 21st. If I find any information on this I will post it... or if anyone has any information on this show, or anything else, hit me up.

Also, I just posted the setlist from Warped Tour in Darien Center, NY in the concert archive.

The latest Warped Tour setlists have been posted in the concert archive... thanks to the MCS boardies for those. You can see the setlists from the Uniondale, NY show and the Old Bridge, NJ show.

In other news, tickets for the MCS show at University of South Dakota are on sale now for students at USDTicketsOnline.com and will be on sale to the general public on August 14 at 8am. 500 of the 1900 tickets will be general admission.

Finally, there is only about a week left of Warped Tour.. so get in your votes for what songs you want MCS to play by commenting on the blog at Atticus Clothing's MySpace page. And also keep voting for MCS in the Energizer extra 10 minutes contest.

Motion City Soundtrack updated the tour dates on their website today including another New York show. They will be playing at Syracuse University on September 3rd with Blackalicious. If I find anymore info I will post it.

I added a couple of new shows to the tour dates today. First, MCS will be playing a free show at Cornell University on August 26. For more information see this website.

Second, MCS is playing a show in Lansing, MI at Temple Club with Sherwood on September 4th (according to Sherwood's MySpace page). Those tickets are on sale now online for $16. Sherwood has also been added to the shows in Marshall, Vermillion, and Bemidji.

Speaking of those shows, the tickets for the show in Marshall, MN at Southwest Minnesota State University on September 6th will be going on sale at 8:30am on August 7th. Tickets price is $12 with a student ID (with a limit of 2 per ID), $15 for the general public, and $20 on the day of the show. Visit SMSUtickets.com to purchase tickets online or you can get them on campus at the SMSU Student Center office. Visit SMSU's site for more information about the show.

Today is Joshua Cain's birthday... happy birthday Josh!

Today I added a few recent setlists to the concert archive. Christy sent in the setlists for July 23, July 26, and July 27. Remember that you can vote for songs you would like to see MCS play at your Warped Tour date by visiting Atticus Clothing on MySpace! Also remember to vote for MCS in the Energizer extra 10 minutes contest-- they won for yesterday (7/29 in Detroit) so keep the votes coming!

Atticus Clothing has posted a blog on their MySpace and their Warped Tour site saying that you can vote for what songs you would like MCS to play at your Warped Tour date. All you have to do is add them as a MySpace friend and then reply to their blog or send them a message with the date and city of the show you are going to and which songs you want to vote for. I think this is a wonderful idea so make sure you vote! Check those sites for more details.

Yay! MCS is currently in the lead for the extra 10 minutes contest for Warped Tour in St. Louis today. Hopefully they will pull through and win.

I added some pictures from Anna today, from the San Fancisco Warped date on July 8th, so check those out. Also, I updated the tour dates. The Matches have been added as support for the UK tour dates in the fall, according to their MySpace page. Also, I have come to the conclusion that the show in South Dakota in September is actually on the 7th, and I am mainly basing this on epitaph.com and Ronnie Day's MySpace page. More on that whenever information comes out. If anyone has any info on shows feel free to send it my way.

We have some new pictures up in the concert archive from the California Warped Tour dates, as well as the setlist MCS played, all courtesy of Christy (and her birthday is today by the way, so happy birthday Christy!). Today is a special day indeed as MCS have won the Energizer contest on WarpedTour.com, I believe for the first time. So today they will get an extra 10 minutes added to their set. Keep voting for them for your date! They are within about 100 for the 7/25 date, 30 for the 7/29 show, and I have been voting for 8/10 if anyone wants to help.

In other news, MCS will be supporting the All American Rejects headlining tour this fall called "Tournado." They had mentioned MCS being on the tour in an interview on Fuse about a month ago, and recently they confirmed it in an article on WWE.com. Jesse also mentioned it in an interview on shinysilverfords.com, but descibes it as a "short stint", which leads me to believe that they will be on part of the tour, but who knows. The tour lineup includes All American Rejects, Motion City Soundtrack, The Format, The Starting Line, and Gym Class Heroes.

Hey guys, I finally made some buttons and banners this weekend. So if you like this site feel free to use them (be sure you save them, do not link directly from here please) to link back. And if you need help with how to do that I will be glad to help if you just e-mail me me. The buttons and banners are found under Site using the menus at the top. Also, check out the interviews page for a couple of new interviews.

I hope everyone is enjoying the Warped tour. If you get a setlist or write it down remember to send it in! The band does signings at every date, so make sure you visit their merch tent to find out what time they will be doing a signing that day. Also, incase you didn't know, you can vote for MCS in the contest for which band gets 10 more minutes... the link for that is http://www.warpedtour.com/images/energizer2/index.html. You can only vote for one show and vote once, but I have found ways around it. If you use Netscape or Mozilla/Firefox clear your cookies and you can vote for more than one show. And usually after about an hour you can vote again for your show.

Hey everyone! I've found 3 new tour dates for later on this year. Before heading to Europe MCS will be doing a few college shows with June, The Dog and Everything, and Ronnie Day. Here is the information on these shows:

9/06/06 Marshall MN
SMSU R.A. Facility
1501 State St.
Time: 6:00 pm
Price: $6

09/07/06 Vermillion, SD
Slagle Auditorium - University of South Dakota
414 East Clark St.
Time: 7:00 pm
Price: $20

09/08/06 Bemidji, MN
John Glass Field House
Bemidji State University
Time: 6:00 pm
Price: $20

Both June's MySpace Page and epitaph.com list these dates.

Happy 4th of July everyone. I added some links to the links page, and if you have a link you want to see there feel free to e-mail me it (fan sites, fanlistings, MySpace groups, whatever as long as it relates to the band). I updated a lot of things today, I added a bunch of fan photos and I also added some setlists and pictures to the archive, mostly old shows. Anna sent in the setlist from Warped Tour in Houston on June 30, so be sure to check that out if you want to know what they are playing. We also have pictures from that show and also pictures and setlists from the Warped shows in Columbia, MD (June 15) and Minneapolis, MN (June 18). If you aren't going to Warped Tour you should consider it! It is a lot of fun and MCS even said on their website that they will be doing a signing at every date.

Also, MCS's newest song, "The Worst Part" from the Superman Returns soundtrack is now available on iTunes for 99 cents. Be sure you download it or pick up the album! Thanks again to everyone who has sent stuff in and keep spreading the word about this site, I hope to have banners and buttons soon.

Today I added a ton of pictures to 2005 and 2006 in the concert archive, courtesy of Christy. Also, if you have not gotten the Commit This To Memory Deluxe Edition CD/DVD yet... it is only $11.98 at Target (I saw it today) and that price goes till July 10th.

I've been adding some more things to the discography that I found tracklistings for by doing web searches... so I don't have pictures of them. If anyone out there has anything that I am missing pictures of and can scan a picture of it that would be great. Just e-mail me at mcmemories@gmail.com if you can help, thanks! Also, thanks to everyone who has been sending stuff in, this site is really coming together :)

If you are going to the Warped Tour this summer, be sure to pick up an Epitaph Sampler at the Epitaph booth. The sampler is free and has "Everything is Alright" on it. It also comes with stickers. I am not sure if the same stickers are in every sampler, but mine had a MCS sticker in it, so maybe yours will too!

Also, MCS's very own Justin Pierre is featured on the cover of the latest (may not be out yet) Alternative Press magazine for August 2006 along with the lead singers of Armor for Sleep, The Academy Is..., and From First To Last. You can also view AP's Warped Tour site to see an article that has Justin's "top 12 records he'll be rockin' this summer."

Welcome to Motion City Memories. I have been developing this website for many months now and am very happy to finally put it up! Please e-mail me at mcmemories@gmail.com if you have any comments, have anything to contribute, or notice errors on anything (especially the concert archive!). Thanks!

As for news, Motion City Soundtrack's deluxe version of their Commit This To Memory album hit stores on June 20th. Be sure to pick it up, it comes with a DVD which has a documentary on the band, their music videos, plus a full live concert! You can get it for $14.99 at Best Buy, $12.99 at Circuit City, and $9.99 at FYE. Or, stop by their merch booth (the bright pink tent) at the Warped Tour and you should be able to pick it up there.