SEETHER Announces U.S. Tour With SAINT ASONIA

SEETHER has announced its final headlining tour of the year, a 19-city jaunt that keeps the hard rocking outfit on the road through October. Joining SEETHER will be special guests SAINT ASONIA, the new act featuring ex-THREE DAYS GRACE frontman Adam Gontier and STAIND guitarist Mike Mushok. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. on Friday, July 31.

SEETHER tour dates:

Oct. 03 – Louisville, KY – Louder Than Life
Oct. 04 – Chattanooga, TN – Track 29
Oct. 06 – Omaha, NE – Sokol Auditorium
Oct. 07 – Kansas City, MO – The Midland
Oct. 09 – Milwaukee, WI – Eagles Ballroom
Oct. 10 – Detroit, MI – The Fillmore
Oct. 12 – Pittsburgh, PA – Stage AE
Oct. 13 – Birmingham, AL – Iron City
Oct. 14 – Memphis, TN – New Daisy
Oct. 16 – Austin, TX – Stubb’s
Oct. 17 – San Antonio, TX – Aztec Theatre
Oct. 20 – Las Vegas, NV – House of Blues
Oct. 21 – San Diego, CA – House of Blues
Oct. 23 – Riverside, CA – Riverside Municipal Auditorium
Oct. 24 – Sacramento, CA – Aftershock @ Discovery Park
Oct. 25 – Reno, NV – Knitting Factory
Oct. 27 – Portland, OR – Roseland Theater
Oct. 28 – Seattle, WA – Showbox SoDo
Oct. 29 – Spokane, WA – Knitting Factory

SEETHER frontman Shaun Morgan recently expressed his dismay with the stifled state of U.S. rock radio, explaining that may of the longtime classic and hard rock stations have switched to an alternative-only format.

Speaking to Sticks For Stones, Morgan said: “Here in the States, it’s becoming more difficult, man. Alternative radio stations just don’t want to play songs with guitarists. They play ’90s alternative bands like ALICE IN CHAINS and NIRVANA, but they don’t play new bands with guitar. They’re, like, ‘That’s not alternative anymore.’ That’s just how it is now. If we’re lucky enough to get played on radio, we’ll get played right after a Lorde song, which is fine. I like Lorde, but I don’t think she’s a goddamn rock artist. She’s not alternative; I think she’s more pop.”

He continued: “I think there is a weird sort of gray area about what is rock music and what is alternative music. It’s sort of annoying. It seems like alternative stations think they’re ‘the cool kids of the radio world.’ They can make and break careers, man. There’s a lot of bullshit bands coming out and a lot of bands being ignored because they play guitar. We used to be one of the five or ten bands they’d play all the time; no questions asked. If we put out a single, they’d play it because we’d done so much for them. But now they’ve switched to ‘alternative,’ and we don’t get played at all.”

Morgan added: “We went for ten years playing every single radio station, playing all their events and birthday bashes or whatever the hell you call them, and then they turn around and say, ‘We don’t play you guys anymore because we’re alternative. We don’t play rock bands now.’ It’s, like, ‘Get your head out of your fucking arse, dude.’ It’s bullshit.”

SEETHER‘s latest album, “Isolate And Medicate”, landed at No. 4 on the Billboard album chart last summer. The follow-up to 2011’s “Holding Onto Strings Better Left To Fray” marked the group’s debut on Concord Record Group after spending the first decade of their career with Wind-Up Records.

Fonte: Blabbermouth.net