Nylon Summer Music Tour

Everyone’s Favourite Magazine Takes a Roadtrip

by Haley Cullingham

Nylon is taking their NYC cool on the road to cities and towns across North America. The line-up features the indie-rock goodness of She Wants Revenge, The Virgins, Be Your Own Pet, and Switches. Meet the talent :  

Justin Warfield and Adam Bravin of She Wants Revenge have been making music for over two decades, and their individual resumes carry collaborations with everyone from Dr. Dre to The Chemical Brothers. (No big deal, though.) Dark, dance-influenced, and never boring, this Californian band begs Interpol comparisons and escapes definition.  

http://www.myspace.com/shewantsrevenge

Is there anything cooler than opening for Sonic Youth? How about opening for Sonic Youth before you officially have a band name? Or playing one of your first gigs at Bungalow 8, in front of a crowd of New York’s finest, drunkest socialites? That’s The Virgins’ pedigree, a New Wave-y New York band with talent exceeded only by their collective hipster dreaminess. NYC! NYC!  

http://www.myspace.com/thevirginsnyc 

With her baby-Karen O voice and fab spastic dance moves, Be Your Own Pet’s front-woman, Jemima Pearl, throws more energy behind her individual performance than most bandmembers manage to come up with between them. Pearl’s band-mates meet the challenge and deliver equally amazing performances, and the resulting show is sure to incite a dance-riot (is there anything better?)  

http://www.myspace.com/beyourownpetmusic

More 60’s-inspired than their American tour-mates, the UK’s Switches can’t escape British Invasion references, and they definitely live up to them.  

http://www.myspace.com/weareswitches

Get your bod-ay to the Phoenix June 4th for the Nylon Summer Music Tour.  

http://www.nylonmag.com/summertour