A Lot Like Birds Talk Influence, Music and Touring:
A Lot Like Birds sat down with CelebNMusic247.com backstage at the Vans Warped Tour for a one on one about rock music today, mosh pits, musical influences, coming from Sacramento and more.
The Sacramento native band is on the first leg of The Vans Warped Tour. They set it off this year at Warped and we happily sat down with the two of the bands members. The Equal Vision Records artists talked about making music and how it moves their fans. They are happy to see that more and more people are starting to follow their music and loved being apart of the Warped Tour.
Being that the festival was great exposure for the band who has been grinding since 2009, lead-vocalist Kurt Travis, co-vocalist Cory Lockwood spoke on their cult following as well as, the topic of mosh pits today versus the 90s. in 2010 the broke torugh with their debut Plan B album which was followed with the Birds is most notable album in 2011, Conversation Piece. In 2013 they signed to Equal Vision to release their third album, No Place and have been touring and making music for their upcoming fourth album that has no scheduled date of release at this time.
When asked about who the want to tour with next, the guys said they are excited to tour with Plague Vendor.
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Checkout some music by A Lot Like Birds:
“Connector”:
“Next to Ungodliness”
Who is A Lot Like Birds?
A Lot Like Birds’ idiosyncrasies through dark, intricate soundscapes that range from crazy and chaotic to beautiful and melodic. The Equal Vision Records band comes from Sacramento California and the members include, lead-vocalist Kurt Travis, co-vocalist Cory Lockwood, Guitarist Ben Wiacek, guitarists Michael Franzino, bassist Michael “Butter” Littlefield and drummer Joe Arrington.
A Lot Like Birds music is a seamlesslyintertwine, layer and harmonize while interchanging singing, screaming and spoken word duties, while guitarists Michael Franzino and Ben Wiacek alternate frantic riffs with ambient wails and bassist Michael “Butter” Littlefield and drummer Joe Arrington deliver driving grooves, uniting the band’s sound.
A Lot Like Birds last date on the Vans Warped Tour was the 11th of July.
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