Tour Diaries

Local band, Morgan Orion’s tour diaries told through the eyes of Erin Hayes.

This is the first we have heard from So Long Forgotten, a Champaign-Urbana based rockers on a massive two-and-a-half month bad boy of a tour. _“Trips like ours are greener grass left unknown for fear …

July 12th – Day off in Portland, OR: We woke up in Portland at our friends Joni & Mary’s house after a late-night drive from Boise. We spent the day seeing why Portland is a …

Saturday, July 5th: The Blue Fugue – Columbia, Mo: Day 1 of our 35 days out on the road. This tour will be 4 times longer than anything we’ve ever done. We’ll put 7,000 miles …

With their recently released sophomore album, Some Racing, Some Stopping, in their hot little hands, local indie-pop darlings Headlights head home from Virginia, now halfway through a North American tour. Guitarist and vocalist Tristan Wraight …

With their recently released sophomore album, Some Racing, Some Stopping, in their hot little hands, local indie-pop darlings Headlights take to the half-pipes and highways on the first leg of their North American tour. Guitarist …

Local rockers Shipwreck complete their utter and total domination of the West Coast… 11/14/2007 Mappy wanted to write today’s entry. So here it is: “01010010100100100100100100010010110101110101011101 101010000101001001001010010010111010100100010101010 100111101010010000101001001000001010111010010010010 010000100111100110100100100101001001010101111010010 010100101010100101010010011100100101010010101001010 10010101010010101010010100100010” Owned! Face! You gonna take …

Local rockers Shipwreck continue their pillaging of the West Coast, shilling their new album, Rabbit in the Kitchen with a New Dress On. Healthy Times Fun Club – Seattle, WA 10/31/2007 Jake and Rebecca have …

Four-piece Champaign group Shipwreck tie up their magic phones, live cobras, and intoxicating brand of atmospheric rock into a red handkerchief on a stick, take to the highway to inspire enchanting dance parties in strippers, …