A lot can change in ten years: personalities, tastes, relationships. For Mayday Parade the last ten years have been a chance to grow as a band, explore new ways to entertain, and to connect with their fans. Which is why—almost exactly a decade after seeing them live for the first time—I’m sitting on a tour bus in Chicago, chatting with frontman Derek Sanders. We’re at the back of the bus. On one side of Sanders, guitarist Brooks Betts is fiddling around on a laptop, on the other, bassist Jeremy Lenzo pre-signs a stack of Sunnyland CDs. The window is cracked… Read more »
Gunz talks with Derek Sanders about how the band keeps things fresh on tour.
Mayday Parade have released a new song called “The Problem With the Big Picture is That it’s Hard to See”, taken from the special 10 year anniversary edition of their debut EP Tales Told By Dead Friends.
With a summer on the Vans Warped Tour on the horizon, pop punk/emo favorites Mayday Parade have announced the release of their new music video.
idobi photographer Gaelle Pitrel covered the Mayday Parade show at Backstage By The Mill in Paris.
Black Lines is difficult to get a grip on, because it’s so emphatically different from anything Mayday Parade has ever done. It’s nothing like the kind of “happy heartache†pop-rock a listener might come to expect. It’s much more aggressive, but worth hearing.
Mayday Parade are streaming their newest song “Letting Go†over at Rolling Stone today. The song is from their upcoming album Black Lines.
Gunz chats with Derek Sanders of Mayday Parade about Warped Tour adventures and the band’s killer main stage set. Listen in, and check them out on the Vans Warped Tour all summer long!
Mayday Parade are streaming the three bonus tracks from the deluxe edition of Monsters In The Closet.
Watch Mayday Parade’s new music video for “Hold on to Me.” The song comes off the band’s latest album Monsters In The Closet.