The Braid and Balance and Composure split release for No Sleep Records can be streamed here: http://nosleepsampler.com/album/split-3. The 7-inch features a pair of new songs from each band. Digital downloads are on Bandcamp and hard copies are still available from Polyvinyl Records.
The AV Club is streaming two new songs from Braid: “Lux” and “Many Enemies.” Both songs appear on the band’s split with Balance and Composure, which drops on February 26 via No Sleep Records. You can check out the songs here.
Balance and Composure covered the Smiths’ “Bigmouth Strikes Again” during their recent UK tour. The song originally appears on 1986′s the Queen Is Dead. Check out B&C’s rendition below.
Influential Champaign-Urbana-based indie-rock quartet Braid have teamed up with rising alternative rock act Balance and Composure to release a split EP via No Sleep Records on February 26, 2013. Beginning today, fans can pre-order the EP on limited edition vinyl 7” and digitally at https://www.nosleepstore.com/product/1115. Braid will be selling an exclusive dark maroon color via [...]
Balance and Composure will hit the road in early 2013 for a headlining U.S. tour in support of their debut full length album Separation. The tour, featuring support acts The Jealous Sound and Daylight, will kick off on January 31 in Cleveland and culminate on February 24 in New York City. Tickets go on sale [...]
Touche Amore is currently on the road in the U.S. with Circa Survive, Balance and Composure, and O Brother before they hit Australia with Make Do And Mend, make a pit stop in Southeast Asia (marking the band’s first appearances there), and finally touring Europe and the UK alongside the almighty Converge. Tour dates are [...]
Doylestown, PA based alternative rock quintet Balance and Composure has released a new video for the song “Quake,” from their latest full-length album Separation. Directed by Dan Centrone, “Quake,” is a dark, moody video beautifully shot in the cornfields of Bucks County, PA where the band’s five members prepare for a burial with spliced shots [...]
Touche Amore, Balance And Composure and O’Brother have lined up the following off-dates together from their upcoming dates as support acts for Circa Survive. 09/25 Jacksonville, FL – Phoenix Taproom 09/27 Tupelo, MS – Goodtime Charlie’s 10/14 Twin Falls, ID – Radio Rondevoo 10/17 Omaha, NE – Sokol Underground 10/23 Pittsburgh, PA – Altar Bar [...]
Circa Survive will embark on the “Violent Waves Tour” this September with Touche Amore, Balance And Composure and O’Brother as support. Dates for the trek run as follows: 09/13 New Haven, CT – Toad’s Place 09/14 New York, NY – Terminal 5 09/15 Boston, MA – House of Blues 09/16 Baltimore, MD – Rams Head [...]
Balance and Composure, Acoustic, No Sleep Featuring three songs from what was damn near my favorite album of 2011, Separation, Balance and Composure deliver an acoustic EP/7” uncovering an extremely passionate group of songs that translate seamlessly for their unplugged treatments. Though vocalist Jon Simmons typically delivers the three songs here with a growl and [...]