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..Story Of The Year Is:
Dan Marsala / Vocals
Josh Wills / Drums
Ryan Philips / Guitar
Adam Russel / Bass
Philip Sneed / Guitar
New Album And New DVD Out NOW!
TOUR DATES
HOMETOWN SHOW
Sat 09/20/08 Maryland Heights, MO @Verizon Wireless Amph. St. Louis
UK DATES
Wed 10/15/08 London, UK @The Astoria
Thu 10/16/08 Lincoln, UK @Engine Shed
Fri 10/17/08 Norwich, UK @Univ. Of East Anglia LCR-Union
Sun 10/19/08 Cardiff, UK @Cardiff University
Mon 10/20/08 Nottingham, UK @Rock City
Tue 10/21/08 Birmingham, UK @Carling Academy Birmingham
Wed 10/22/08 Leeds, UK @Metropolitan University
Fri 10/24/08 Hull, UK @Hull University
Sat 10/25/08 Edinburgh, UK @Picture House
Sun 10/26/08 Dundee, UK @Fat Sam's
Mon 10/27/08 Glasgow, UK @ABC1
Wed 10/29/08 Preston, UK @53 Degrees
Thu 10/30/08 Manchester, UK @Manchester Academy
Fri 10/31/08 Oxford, UK @Carling Academy Oxford
"Don't expect to hear a poppy, acoustic album about girls and how much life sucks. we're here to kick ass and write songs with significance."
-dan of the year
"I'm also going to hire someone to write a hit song for me so I can get a Porche and go to the VMA's in a dress shirt and freshly pressed slacks. Music really isn't that important. I'm just going to quit working so much and just throw together some "safety" chords and ask Dan to sing about committing suicide after a girl dumps him, then I'm going to make sure it's around 3 minutes long, then make sure it sounds like robots recorded it, then throw on a shit load of makeup and wear head to toe black and get hair that covers at least one of my eyes then rock out. Real hard. I could get paid nigga."
- The Nose
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New Online Diary / August 25th, 2007 Ryan
What's up little creatures. Just finished watching Real Time with Bill Maher. Tim Robbins was on there. He announced that they were filming Shawshank Redemption part 2. Sweet Chuck from Police Academy is replacing Morgan Freeman and it's being filmed underwater in spanish. I just free based cocaine. And ordered a wife online. I've basically been almost straightedge lately. Besides sniffing gasoline and eating paint I haven't really been drinking the old booze much. We've been so so so fucking busy. Our dearest friend and avid coin collector, Al Hessler (AKA "snoop", AKA "beanpole", AKA, "the coal miner's daughter") came in town and we just spent the last 2 weeks doing our first official demos for the new record here in the Steamy Nook. (For those of you who don't know, the steamy nook is our multi hundred dollar world class studio in my house) They sound fucking great. They sound like a mix between both of our records, but at the same time reaching in directions that we've never been quite able to reach. I'm on top of the world. I really just want to say fuck the producer shit and do the entire record by ourselves with fucking good old AL at the wheel. That's how awesome this shit is. Too many people are putting out crap. Crap that they don't even like because the record labels tell them they won't put out their record if they don't have the hit pop song. Either that or the bands want new cars, and don't care if they put out bullshit. But you know what? I don't care. They can do what they want, and that's fine. I am really over being pissed off about how shitty this business is. It's not ever going to get better, almost everything on the radio is a joke, and people are never going to buy music like they used to, so fuck it. I'm going to stay true to myself, my band, and our fans and make music from the heart, for the right reasons, and I'm going to do it with purity and honesty. I really don't care if we sell 10 records, or 10 million. I would way way rather sell 10 million, but it will not, ever, ever dictate how I write music. The end. Period. In other news, I have a giant canker sore that looks like a vagina on my inner lip and feels like a dragon is biting me every time a piece of food hits it. And I still haven't seen fucking transformers. My dog farts like a human. And I really, really, can't wait for fall to come. Here in St Louis it's been around 100 degrees every damn day. I want to wear jeans and a hoodie again. I love the fall. It always reminds me of going shopping for school supplies. I'm not sure why, but it gives me a great feeling. Then winter comes and I'm pissed off because the back of your jeans get all wet and rub on your legs and since I haven't worn underwear in 4 years, my weenie gets really cold. It's becomes the opposite of big. Oh yeah, the only band that has ever worked here in the Steamy Nook is Story of the Year. But Allan is mixing some live stuff here at my house for Avenged Sevenfold. I'm going to go into the control room while Alan is smoking and record oboe tracks on their shit. By the way, Mr Sinister Gates can shred. He kissed me on warped tour and I bought him ice cream. Oh yeah, this is cool... Listen to this. We played a show in Canada a while back, and I met this dude named Bill who has a tattoo of my green PRS custom ("snake") on his fucking back! How cool is that? I talked and hung with him for a long time. People like him make this shit completely worth it. The dude loves my band like I love Rage and the Pumpkins and Pantera. I can't think of a greater gift. CLICK HERE. to look at his tattoo. I have to go now. Also, CLICK HERE. to look at my new MySpace site. I just finished it. I'm going running now. I love you all. Sorry this record is talking so long. We just want to get it right. It's too important to rush through it like we rush through almost everything. Trust me, I sincerely believe that it will be worth every second of the wait. And I don't really freebase cocaine. But Adam does.
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