The New Year

As 2011 arrives I take a look back at 2010. The year started off pretty slow, but things picked up once my band (facebook.com/thegraduaterock) signed to Razor and Tie in April. After signing we went directly to Baltimore for a little over a month to finish our sophomore album. This was probably my favorite month out of the year (mainly because of the awesomeness that Baltimore contains).

After being home for a few months we finally got back on the road. We first toured with The Bigger Lights, YouMeAndEveryoneWeKnow, and Weather Star. After many drunken adventures and suitcases filled with urine(I'll have to explain that in a different post), we made our way back home to release our new album, "Only Every Time."

Immediately following the release, we hit the road again for a month and a half with Ludo, There for Tomorrow, and Tommy and the Highpilots. This was an amazing time, to say the least. During this tour we also got the chance to make a few music videos (one has already been released, the other will be released to the world sometime early within the new year). After playing great shows and drinking Ludo's beer all across the country we wrapped up that tour at one of my favorite venues, Stl's the Pageant.

With literally no time off between tours, we jumped on tour with Automatic Loveletter. We definitely enjoyed getting to play some places that we usually don't get a chance to. We also enjoyed illegally staying in a hotel room in Boston that somehow no one paid for(long story). We concluded this tour in our favorite city, Baltimore. We spent Halloween weekend in Btown enjoying Naddy Bohs, Yuengling, and Resurrection. Unfortunately, our van (Amadeus), decided that he needed a rest and decided to break down on us. So after dropping off the tour, and in the middle of a 15 hour drive home, at 3am Amadeus decided that he would turn off his lights. Luckily, we made it home.

We concluded our year by playing a few local shows and going back to a somewhat normal routine. There are too many stories to fit into this blog, but needless to say, 2010 was filled with enough adventures for a life-time. As we enter into 2011, its unclear of what the year will bring. However, I'm pretty excited to see what lies ahead. In order to make 2011 the best year that I can, I decided to make a bucketlist. Here it is...
1) Go on Springbreak
2) Go to Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany
3) Release more Music
4) Learn more German, Italian, and French
5) Go somewhere I've never been
6) Move somewhere new
7) Create my own company
8) Don't die in a plane crash
9) Sell at least 1 Million Albums
10) Make a Million Dollars

Ok, maybe only a few of those are realistic, but wish me luck.
I hope everyone had a great 2010, and hopefully a better 2011!