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City: Philadelphia
State: Pennsylvania
Country: US
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Tuesday, January 05, 2010 
I miss being on tour. I miss playing shows and we can't really do any of that until after the record release shows, so we found away around it. In like two weeks we're going to do a few in-stores. Two are planned. We can add one or two more if someone wants to host it. Probably on Friday the 15th. But, here's the plan: we're not just going to play songs. I don't know how Hot Topic feels about this but Championship is on board and if Hot Topic isn't we'll figure something out. We want to do a bunch of a cool stuff. For instance:

- Play acoustic set. Take requests.
- Play the whole new record over the sound system whilst hanging out.
- Hang out.
- Take pictures. (Trying to set up some sort of make shift photo-booth)
- POT LUCK. Bring food please please please!
- Scavenger hunt?

Please contact us with ideas. We just want to run around and hang out and play songs and have fun! Here's the info so far:

January 14th- Staten Island Hot Topic- 6 pm, Free?, Staten Island, NY
January 16th- Championship Records- 7 pm, $3, Lemoyne, PA

Also, don't forget our record release shows! I've never been more excited to play:

January 26th- 6:00 EST
Allston, MA- The ICC- 557 Cambridge Street
Feat: A Loss for Words, Energy, Transit, Lions Lions, Late Nite Wars

January 27th- 7:00 PST
Canoga Park, CA- The Cobalt Cafe- 22047 Sherman Way
Feat: Second to Last, The Sheds

January 29th- 6:00 EST
Chalftont, PA- CUMC- 11 Meadowbrook Lane
Feat: Man Overboard, A Loss for Words, Daylight, Ben Roth

January 30th- 4:30 EST
Covington, KY- The Mad Hatter- 620 Scott St
Feat: Small Time Crooks, The Pledge

January 31st- 6:00 EST
Southgate, MI- The Modern Exchange- 12219 Dix Toledo Road
Feat: Shorelines, The Bravest Kids, Anchors, Slaves to the Pavement

Let's rage.
<3 TWY
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Thursday, December 17, 2009 
Melrose Diner
Lyrics -
I hate your bad tattoos and your second-hand stories; those anecdotes that grew old last month. I hate the way you move when you’re drunk and try dancing. It’s not sexy. It’s just keeping us up and I’m just not fond of anyone, but that’s got everything to do with us. I hate the way I get when I can’t handle bad news. It feels like I’ve been an asshole for months. All I’ve got left are these handfuls of fuck you and man, that’s never enough. I guess I’m just down. I guess I’ll be honest. I could use you around. I can’t stand the dork that you’re hanging with now. I guess I’ll be honest. I could use you around. I hate the way that you can’t keep your hair straight. I hate the way that you’re leaning on me. I hate the way that you point out when girls are staring because you know that I won’t do a thing. I hate the context clues you leave out of your writing because I can’t find myself here at all. You know that I hate when you call me wasted. I expect it whenever you call. My friends all say he’s just a b-rate version of me; he’s stuck on video games and weed. They’re just trying to help me get to sleep. My friends all say you’re sitting way too close to me, that I should just get up and leave. It’s like I’m weighed down to the seat. My friends all say he’s just the broke-dick version of me. They’re just trying to help me get some sleep. I know he’s what you need.

Song Explanation -
Everyone needs a good break-up song, right? This one just came very late. When we started writing the record, before there was kind of a concept behind it, I was having trouble with inspiration so I started to dig back to upsetting events that I had to deal with before. This is a song about a party and dealing with a few different people I didn’t want to deal with as well as my own inner monologue. No two verses are about the same person and honestly, now, I like everyone that this song is about. Funny how times change.
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Thursday, December 03, 2009 
Washington Square Park

Im not going to go into how many talks we had in the van about what song you should hear first. Suffice to say that it was quite a few. We weren't sure if we wanted to show you guys our favorite. Fuck, we weren't sure which song was our favorite. After months of working on this record, I'm attached to every track. We decided to lead off with Washington Square Park because we think its the best microcosm of the record. The lyrics and explanation of the song are below and I think they say anything I want to say. I hope it ends up meaning something to you. Recently, I've had a bad couple weeks and when I get shaky, this has been the song to stabilize me. Sometimes you've gotta learn to take your own advice.

Lyrics - 
I’m looking for the upsides to these panic-attack nights where I’m staying in eating take-out food by TV light. I’m trying to play the b-side to this awkward life of mine. You could flip me over, I’d sing a few lines about how I’m so used to shooting myself in the kneecaps, standing in the way of progress or letting down my friends. I’m nailing shards of hope together to put something over my head because you know here it’s always raining and it happened again. It happened again. She said, “I let this slide when we were younger. You know you don’t have to write like this. The whole world’s full of losers. If you get a chance to win, take it.” I stood on the roof with Matt and Molly. Watched the gray slide off the city because it’s finally spring. We rode our bikes over to 6th Street, to Washington Square Park to see if the tides would turn for me. I left a lot of blood in California on our first trip out west. I was younger and restless back then and I thought, if no one’s in my corner, since everyone left, I’d better make it worth it.

Song Explanation - 
"This is the song that named the record. I was sick of looking at life like I was letting everyone down—like I was letting myself down. This song chronicles everything that came together to show me that I wasn’t doing things the right way. I used to destroy myself. I’m still not really sure why. I guess I had myself convinced that there was some sort of artistic merit to it. I mention it in the chorus and at the end of the song. In other bands, I used to write depressing lyrics even if I wasn’t depressed because that’s what I thought I was supposed to do. I used to break my face open with my microphone on stage during the early Wonder Years tours because I felt like nobody gave a shit about me and that I shouldn’t give a shit about myself. This is a song about changing that. My whole life I would tend to look at things from the downside. It was time to flip the record over and see what else I had in me. This is a song for anyone who’s ever told me to keep my head up. You were right." - Soupy

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Wednesday, November 11, 2009 
The new record, entitled The Upsides, will see a January 26th, 2010 release date. Tracklist and a message about the album can be seen below. Pre-order info will follow shortly! I'm so excited!!

01. My Last Semester
02. Logan Circle
03. Everything I Own Fits In This Backpack
04. Dynamite Shovel
05. New Years With Carl Weathers
06. It’s Never Sunny In South Philadelphia
07. Hostels & Brothels
08. Melrose Diner
09. This Party Sucks
10. Hey Thanks
11. Washington Square Park
12. All My Friends Are In Bar Bands

More than anything else, The Upsides is a record about fighting back. I felt like the past year left me and all of my friends defeated. Our early-twenties had beaten us down. We listened to sad songs and we watched sad movies and we talked about sad shit. It was like everyone looked at the rest of their lives and decided that now was the time to start being miserable. A lot of the lyrics for this record were written on my bike while I avoided traffic and bad parts of the city. Before we actually started writing songs, I had compiled a notebook full of the lines that I pulled from the fog my breath produced on all of my freezing, snowy morning bike rides. I had given up, and this was going to be a record about just that, and then, one day, I was riding my bike down 19th Street on the way to work and from the top of Callowhill, I could see that the fountain at Logan Circle had been turned on. Something clicked in my head and I guess it was because this meant it was Spring, or maybe it was just because it reminded me of happier times, but I decided then that it wasn’t okay to be this defeated at twenty-three. A few months later the band moved into the house I was living in South Philly with my girlfriend and roommate. They slept on the floor of our living room and every day we would wake up and walk down into the 15-square foot basement to write songs. We spent a very long, very hot month between May and June surviving on freezie-pops and Dunkin’ Donuts iced coffee alone. Everyone, literally and figuratively poured themselves into this record as we must have lost a collective ten pounds from sweat alone. My basement still smells terrible to this day. There were a few times when we walked upstairs after an argument and I didn’t think we’d ever come back down because every song was that important to every one of us. The result is a record that we’re all very proud of and that I think carries a very real message. The whole world wants you to be miserable. It wants you to put your head down, sigh to yourself and give up on being happy, and I know just as well as anyone that sometimes, giving up seems like the only option, but if you take one thing from this record, I hope it’s this: Don’t give those mother-fuckers an inch. Stand your ground every chance you get because everybody deserves a chance to be happy.

- The Upsides
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Friday, October 30, 2009 
ATTN: THE WONDER YEARS/NO SLEEP RECORDS FANS:

We have always known that TWY fans are the most loyal and supportive fans around, and that you are the ones that make everything we do possible.  With that in mind, we now ask you to help TWY and No Sleep Records make this next year our biggest and best ever!  No Sleep Records and The Wonder Years are rebuilding their Street Team for exclusive projects surrounding the new Wonder Years record and other No Sleep releases this winter and coming spring!  We already have new and unusual projects planned for the coming months, and your help is imperative to their success.  If you are at all interested in working with us, or simply want to find out more about this, then please follow this link to sign up or re-register for the No Sleep Records/The Wonder Years Street Team ASAP!!!  Go to: http://nosleeprecs.com/streetteam/ to learn more and sign up.  If you have signed up before, and still want to help, please sign up again, as we are currently rebuilding our list.

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Monday, October 19, 2009 
Pre-order this limited edition brand new shirt from The Wonder Years, only available here and ONLY available during pre-orders. We will ONLY be printing the amount that are ordered. Pre-ordering ends on November 9th, and orders will start shipping by November 18th. Pre-order now here.
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Thursday, October 15, 2009 
So people have been asking how to get one since some can't go to a show on the tour or live overseas, so we gave 30 copies to Chris at No Sleep over the weekend to add to his store, so order them now at www.nosleepstore.com - This may be your only chance to get it if you don't live near the tour or whatever, depends if any are left after the tour or not Buy now for $5 at www.nosleepstore.com ALSO all WNDR zip-up and crew neck orders are shipping today through Saturday, so those are heading your way, and you can now buy them but at full price at www.nosleepstore.com, if a size is out of stock keep checking back as everything will be re-stocked as often as possible "I Refuse to Sink: A Collection of Prior Recordings" features 6 tracks from both now out of print 7"'s releases "Won't Be Pathetic Forever" & "Distances" from The Wonder Years. This collection is available as a limited edition CD and hand numbered out of 250, and will be only available on the bands upcoming Ghostbus-Tour with Energy and A Loss For Words. 01. Mike Kennedy is a Bad Friend 02. Solo & Chewy: Holdin' it Down 03. Won't Be Pathetic Forever 04. You're not Salinger. Get over it. 05. An Elegy for Baby Blue 06. Don't Open the Fridge!
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Monday, October 12, 2009 
As you may or may not know, a series of fights broke out at our show this evening during an opening act. I was outside during the beginning of the exchange but from what I'm told, a few people were dancing too hard and ended up hurting someone pretty badly which resulted in a fight that spiraled into several other fights in the fenced off outdoor area of the venue. By the end, it took 9 cop cars and a helicopter overhead to subdue the violence. No one on the tour was seriously injured but a lot of us were in some way caught in the crossfire in attempts to break everything up. I wanted to say a few things on the topic: 1, We're very sorry that we weren't able to play. For everyone's safety and at the request of the venue, the cops had to force everyone to leave. This was not our choice. When everyone starting trouble left I was hoping we'd be able to play but it didn't work out. 2. We ARE playing tomorrow at The Cobalt Cafe in Canoga Park about 20 minutes north of LA. I know some of you drove a serious distance to get to the show tonight and won't be able to make it out tomorrow. Again, I'm so sorry. I know that all of you paid ten dollars to see us tonight that was not refunded. As tomorrow is a show run by a completely unrelated person, your wrist bands will not be honored. If you come for a second show, we will try to do something special to make it up to you.

3. We're trying really hard to do a big west coast CD release show in January. It's going to be hard because we'll have to fly out for it and after tonight I know it needs to be a bigger venue with security, unfortunately, but I want everyone to be able to come and be safe and have fun. We will keep you posted. It should be the cheapest way to get our new full length. 4. We absolutely don't condone violence like this at Wonder Years shows. We are not a band that warrants such a reaction and we hope to never see anything like this again. I invite people from any walk of life to come to see us but there is no need whatsoever to hurt someone else at a show. Most people I know listen to this kind of music because we don't fit in anywhere else. I know that that's the case with me at least. Why would you want to hurt someone who has the same interests as you, is excited to see the same bands and who also feels that punk rock and hardcore provide the only environment they feel comfortable in? We should all be friends here. Take care of one another. The rest of the world is fucked enough. Let's keep this little piece of it that we have for ourselves safe and fun. My dudes in Fireworks said it best. "Fuck your world. I'll take mine." END RANT
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Saturday, September 19, 2009 
Just added to the No Sleep store! "WNDR" Zip-ups are back! This time in Athletic Gray and with slightly different graphics! The old versions said "Get Stoked on It!" on the front, these ones say Realist Pop Punk. Also up are the "Solo & Chewy Holdin Capn Down" Crew Necks! Both are up for pre-order, and by ordering now you save $5 on each! Or $10 if you pre-order both! Pick them up now at http://nosleepstore.com/store/index.php?cPath=30





Also just added for pre-order..

Balance and Composure "Crushed Hope" Crew Neck Sweatshirt


Touche Amore "LA" Long Sleeve T-Shirt


http://nosleepstore.com/store/index.php?cPath=30

Recently Added and IN STOCK..



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Sunday, July 12, 2009 
FOR A LIMITED TIME GET OUR FULL LENGTH "GET STOKED ON IT!" FOR ONLY $5 AT NOSLEEPSTORE.COM! IF YOU DON'T HAVE IT YET, ORDER IT NOW!! http://nosleepstore.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=33
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