YOUNG TURKS

EDIT 11/13/12: We’re playing with Power in Portland. We’re home. We’re tired....

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 16:16:00 -0500

EDIT 11/13/12: We’re playing with Power in Portland.

We’re home. We’re tired. We’re broke.

Thanks to everyone who was a part of this tour. Tony @ No Idea/Fest, Matt Medina and Animal Style Records, our trusty merch lackeys (Ashley) Jenkins and (Josh) Drink Cup, our friends, and our families truly made this tour happen. We are incredibly grateful for their support. There are too many individuals to name specifically. But to everyone who booked a show, bought merch, put gas in our tank, sang along, stagedived, or told us they had fun, thank you.

This tour had some really amazing moments that I’ll never forget, and some really bad moments that I’ll also never forget. At the end of all of it, there is nothing I would have rather done in the last 4 weeks than get in the van with my friends, play 25 shows and support our new record.

I’ll probably post a chunk of pictures when we get it all organized. There should be a few videos floating around too.

We are going to take the rest of the year to chill, enjoy some Blazers basketball, continue to complain about the NHL lockout, and write some new songs. We’re glad that the record has been received in such high regard with many of the people we met.

I have no definitive answers to what we will release next, a split, a 7”, another full length, who knows. But we are locking ourselves in the practice space and time will tell how much music materializes. The winter is long in Portland, and I don’t imagine we will be rushing out to tour for a while.

We do however plan on touring more extensively in 2013. So if you didn’t see us on this tour, or if we skipped your town, we won’t next year.

If you want to keep up with us more often than the seldom post on here, follow our Twitter and Facebook (there are some links to the right). I realize this post is really just a long winded “thank you” and “we didn’t kill each other so we’re going to keep writing music”, but if you want details, I’ll always deliver in overabundance.

P.S. Support these bands: Tharsis They, Pentimento, Former Thieves, Burning Love, From Ashes Rise, Bone Dance, Silver Snakes, and Sweet Weapons.

Yo dawgz. You have this song that has this melodic bridge/ending to a song that I really enjoy! Have fun on tour! Also.. What is that song called? It's played in your seattle video I found on youtube. The riff starts around 5:20.

Tue, 09 Oct 2012 14:11:57 -0400

That song is called “Three Goggles”. It’s named at Wesley Matthews (Of Portland Trailblazer fame) signature crowd salute after sinking a 3 pointer.

animalstylerecords: Young Turks have announced dates for their...

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 17:33:00 -0400

animalstylerecords:

Young Turks have announced dates for their upcoming US tour! The band will be hitting the road beginning Oct 12 and will make their second appearance at THE FEST.

10/12 - Spokane, WA @ Carr’s Corner (21+)
10/13 - Missoula, MT @ Ole Beck VFW Post 209
10/14 - Fargo, ND @ New Direction
10/15 - Minneapolis, MN @ Memory Lanes (Punk Rock Bowling, 21+)
10/16 - Madison, WI @ TBA
10/17 - Chicago, IL @ Livewire Lounge
10/18 - Detroit, MI @ The Bearcave (House show)
10/19 - Brooklyn, NY @ Tommy’s Tavern (21+)
10/20 - New Britain, CT @ Horse’s Mouth
10/21 - Philadelphia, PA @ Mount Thrashmore
10/22 - Baltimore, MD @ Charm City Art Space
10/23 - Greenville, NC @ Tipsy Teapot
10/24 - Charlotte, NC @ Milestone
10/26-10/28 - Gainesville, FL @ FEST 11
10/30 - Pensacola, FL @ TBA
10/31 - New Orleans, LA @ TBA
11/1 - Houston, TX @ Mango’s
11/2 - Austin, TX @ Annex at 1808
11/3 - Ft Worth, TX @ 1919 Hemphill
11/5 - Albuquerque, NM @ Gasworks
11/6 - Denver, CO @ 7th Circle
11/7 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Shred Shed
11/8 - Boise, ID @ B7B Studio

If you can help with shows in any of the areas without venues listed, please contact [email protected]">[email protected].

Vote for us on Deli Portland!

Wed, 19 Sep 2012 21:18:23 -0400

You can vote for us on Deli Portland and help us get the artist of the month spotlight. It only takes a few clicks, so like and reblog!

Animal Style Records takes over Fest 11.

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 20:24:00 -0400

Animal Style Records takes over Fest 11.

openarmsareopen: #yhbft #nwhc (Taken with Instagram)

Sun, 16 Sep 2012 01:55:24 -0400

openarmsareopen:

#yhbft #nwhc (Taken with Instagram)

MFNW this weekend. Vancouver next weekend.

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 20:50:00 -0400

MFNW this weekend.

Vancouver next weekend.

Summer tour 2012

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 04:38:00 -0400

Summer tour is a precious thing for a band. For us it meant sunshine, California, heat wave, burritos, and every body of water we could possibly swim in. Thanks to all of our friends who booked our shows and put us up (big ups to Mike Hood for taking us to Disneyland), everyone who bought records, and our trusty vegan warrior merch man Andrew. We had a blast and can’t wait for the the Fest tour coming up.

[EDIT 8/23/12] If you’re having a problem looking at pictures, just go to this link.

TOUR BEGINS TOMORROW.

Fri, 03 Aug 2012 12:54:00 -0400

If you haven’t seen the tour poster or the extensively edited blog post with all of the dates for our upcoming tour, please consider reblogging them to keep spreading the word about the tour. We are really excited to get back out on the road, especially with a new record in hand. If you use Twitter or Instagram, look for the hashtag #yhbft (Young Hearts Be Free Tonight) if you’re taking pictures, talking shit about us, etc.

As a final note before we leave for tour, there will be fifteen record release covers at our Portland, Oregon show to accompany the limited vinyl version of “Where I Lie”.

Couldn’t be more excited about this tour and the future of the band. Thanks for sticking with us through the process of putting out this record, we hope you enjoy it.

-Jason, Mason, Matthew, Gareth, Bryan

[edit 8/2/12] Our record drops today! You can pick it up in the Animal Style Records webstore or on iTunes!

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Thu, 26 Jul 2012 02:48:00 -0400

"Where I Lie" + Tour.

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 12:20:00 -0400

We can’t describe what it’s like to have the new record and having to just sit on it. But that’s what we get to do for the next 8 weeks or so. We sincerely wanted to say “Thank you” for being supportive and patient with this process. We hope that you will like the finished product as much as we do. In the meantime, GlueHC is doing an exclusive three part video series that you can check out HERE.

Young Turks Studio Update 1 from Animal Style Records on Vimeo.

Young Turks Studio Update 2 from Animal Style Records on Vimeo.

Young Turks Studio Update 3: Dream Tours from Animal Style Records on Vimeo.

Officially. “Where I Lie” will be released on August 7th. There will be very limited record release colors for the tour, a separate preorder color, as well as a standard color.

RECORDS WILL BE AVAILABLE AT ALL SHOWS LISTED BELOW.

Booking for the record release tour is underway and will look something like this:

8/4 Olympia, WA @ New Direction Fest (3:30pm)

8/4 Seattle, WA @ West Seattle Legion Hall

8/5 Centralia, WA @ Quesadilla Factory (doors at 4pm)

8/7 Portland, OR @ Backspace

8/9 Sacramento, CA @ Blue Lamp

8/10 Fresno, CA @ CYC

8/11 LA, CA @ Blue Star (w/ Red City Radio)

8/12 San Diego, CA @ Eleven

8/13 Pomona, CA @ Alladin Jr’s

8/14 Reno, NV @ Fort Ryland

8/15 Medford, OR @ Musichead w/ Worthless Eaters

Lastly. I updated the shows with two coming up in June. Our first show in Salem, OR and a Laughing Horse Books banger with crust-lords Cynarae.

Thanks again for being great and patient. Hopefully those videos, a teaser track, and some tour dates will tide you over for the next few weeks.

[edit 7/11/12] We were added to Portland’s Music Fest NW and will be playing with Defeater and Touche Amore on 9-8-12 at Backspace.

[edit 7/23/12] If you haven’t been keeping up with our Twitter/FB, here are all the links to songs we’ve released before “Where I Lie” drops on 8/7/12

“Priceline”

“Letters”

Upcoming shows / News

Wed, 16 May 2012 15:57:26 -0400

Thursday, May 24th @ The Redroom in Tacoma, WA

GRAVEMAKER
TAKE OFFENSE
HARNESS
YOUNG TURKS
GROWING STRONGER

7pm

$10

FB Event

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

7:00pm

NAYSAYER(VA)
http://naysayer.bandcamp.com/

FOCUSEDXMINDS(WI)
http://focusedxminds.bandcamp.com/

WRECK(WA)
http://wrecktacoma.bandcamp.com/

YOUNG TURKS(OR)
http://youngturks.bandcamp.com/

BAD INFLUENCE(WA)
http://badinfluence.bandcamp.com/

+MORE TBA

$8

FB Event

Young Turks to return to The Fest in Gainesville this October.

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 15:57:23 -0400

We are so excited to go back to Gainesville this fall. We had an absolute blast last year and are already looking forward to seeing good friends from all across the country converge in beautiful balmy Florida. I guess this is as good of time as any to say that us playing Fest will be in conjunction with a full US tour. A first for us. More info as that gets closer.

Reggae Shack. We are coming for you.

Also. If you haven’t caught on. We are hashtagging everything to hell with #yhbft and as annoying as it might seem (to us at least). It’ll be a great way to keep on top of what’s going on with us as far as Twitter and Instagram. Basically, keep on top of your hashtags, and you’ll be in the know for rad shit that you can be a part of, or rad shit that we are doing currently. Take that with a grain of salt though, because sometimes we just post stupid shit or make references to #pedes

Oh yeah. Come see us play with Trial.

FB Event here

Generic Insight Radio Comp.

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 16:36:34 -0400

openarmsareopen:

Go scope it out HERE. It features Young Turks, All Teeth, No Trigger, Half Hearted Hero, and a shitload more.

REBLOG REBLOG REBLOG

I keep forgetting to post two things. One. Here’s a video from the Losing Skin weekend. Two....

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 12:36:11 -0400

I keep forgetting to post two things.

One. Here’s a video from the Losing Skin weekend.

Two. We’re playing with Trial, All Teeth, Unrestrained, and TwoHands in Portland. FB Event here.

More details about our upcoming full length (like a title, release date, pre-order and press info) is coming soon.

For the moment. Things with us are quiet. It feels good to have...

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 13:26:23 -0400

For the moment. Things with us are quiet. It feels good to have the record tracked and our end of things being completed. We got to play that awesome show with Make Do & Mend, and now we just sort of sit around for the next 5 weeks until that Trial show. Til then, we will be working with our friend Matt on putting together some video to let everyone see the recording process a little more in depth. There will be some interviews, some live footage, and a lot of us fucking around. Hopefully the next time I write on here, it will be regarding an album title and official release date.

I swear I will do a recording blog with pictures and video and blah blah blah. But that’s not...

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:58:46 -0400

I swear I will do a recording blog with pictures and video and blah blah blah. But that’s not important because MAKE DO & MEND IS PLAYING THE TINIEST VENUE EVER. FB EVENT HERE

Young Turks signs to Animal Style Records

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:25:56 -0500

We are proud to announce that we will be joining the Animal Style Records family. Matt (aka Big Cat, aka Manimal Style) has been great to work with so far. Our decision to work with Animal Style stems from his attitude about bringing us onto the roster. When you get the feeling that you’re working with someone that has engulfed themselves in the current punk and hardcore, instead of someone looking to make a buck off of you without the insight of being a part of punk and hardcore, it’s easy to decide who you’re going to work with.

In conjunction with that announcement we put up another song available for stream at altpress.com called “Priceline”. We used to call it “William Shatner and Priceline.com and the Wrath of Bong”. I will always prefer the latter.

As far as our record goes, we are going to record with our friend D-Wreck in SE Portland. It’s going to be mixed and mastered elsewhere, but it feels good to be tracking in our hometown. Tentatively, it is 10 songs. It does not have a title yet, although me and Gareth came up with “Zero Gravyty” at breakfast this morning.

The record is slated to come out in June/July. There will be a supporting tour to follow.

After this chunk of shows we just finished, we are going to concentrate on putting together the best record possible. For many people, this record will be their first listen, and we’re excited to have the opportunity to expand on the sound of “Halfhearted”.

Ultimately, I think we all want to say thank you to Matt and Animal Style Records, and to everyone who has been so overwhelmingly supportive of us. We’re carving out a niche for ourselves in Portland, and we’re thankful for everyone who has helped us with that.

We’re playing tomorrow. Here’s the FB Event. We will be making a big announcement in the...

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 15:15:07 -0500

We’re playing tomorrow. Here’s the FB Event.

We will be making a big announcement in the next few days. So hang on tight.

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Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:56:44 -0500