BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Find Local//findlocal.community//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:a76b0f22-0130-4146-9542-52f1bbf6bed5@findlocal.community DTSTAMP:20261026T203823Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261103T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261103T210000 SUMMARY:The Menzingers DESCRIPTION:Everything I Ever Saw finds the Menzingers entering a new era in what’s already been a storied career. The Philadelphia punk legends’ eighth album chronicles moments of significant change—the personal\, th e political\, and the universal—while returning to the core creative pri nciples that first put them on the map with listeners the world over. Tw enty years in\, the Menzingers have discovered that the wisdom gained wi th time’s passing is even stronger than the emotional armor they once wo re in their youth\, and Everything I Ever Saw captures the quartet embra cing the here and now while strengthening the bonds that have held them together. Work on Everything I Ever Saw started in earnest after touring behind 2023’s Some Of It Was True\, as the group felt a re-energized ur gency while their worlds changed around them. “It wasn’t something that we initially set out to do\,” vocalist/guitarist Greg Barnett says. “We started writing immediately after our last record in a very fun\, casual way—but we were going through really special moments that we wanted to document.” “We’ve been doing this for so long that it’s routine\,” vocal ist/guitarist Tom May adds. “Between this record and the last record\, h owever\, so much happened in our lives\, and we always write about what’ s going on.” Indeed\, the last three years have been plenty busy in the Menzingers’ world: while Barnett got married and welcomed his first chil d\, May got divorced and navigated new emotional territory both in and o utside of the band. “We’re no strangers to writing about breakups\, but divorce is different\,” he says. “There’s a weirdness to it that cuts so much deeper and hurts much more. The most devastating part is that you had a vision for your life that’s gone now\, and you have to figure out how to navigate that while growing as a person. But through that sufferi ng\, I definitely became a better person than I was before. When you’re broken\, you can put yourself back together in a way where you are who y ou truly want to become.” “It was sad for him\, but he became the person that he always wanted to be\, and he found so much happiness in this wa y his life changed\,” Barnett adds. “I’ll always look back on this recor d as living in the moment of these massive changes in our lives.” While working on the record in the band’s new studio space in the Port Richmon d area of Philadelphia\, the quartet—rounded out by bassist Eric Keen an d drummer Joe Godino—engaged in some group camaraderie (and\, yes\, a co uple of frosty beverages) to help their bandmate and lifelong friend nav igate this particular era of growing pains in his personal life. “Those guys took care of me\,” May says\, “and I can’t even put it into words h ow powerful that was. It solidified our creative relationship\, because they’re some of the few people that I can talk about these things with.” It’s that sense of coming together that inspired Barnett’s lyrics on th e charging “Nobody’s Heroes\,” which opens with the glowing tick-tock of a drum machine before launching into the type of passionate burn the Me nzingers have long been known for. “It feels like the story of the Menzi ngers to me\,” he says while talking about the song. “I wanted to write about my experiences of trying to be there for him through everything he was going through. Then\, the approach became the whole band rallying a round each other\, and an anthem for everything that we’ve been through\ , while shining a light on the connection that we have together.” Websit e\n\nTickets: https://www.etix.com/ticket/p/43322126/the-menzingerswith- hot-water-musicweakened-friends-carrboro-cats-cradle?partner_id=100\n\nh ttps://findlocal.community/event/a76b0f22-0130-4146-9542-52f1bbf6bed5 LOCATION:Cat's Cradle\, 300 East Main Street\, Carrboro\, NC 27510 URL:https://findlocal.community/event/a76b0f22-0130-4146-9542-52f1bbf6bed 5 STATUS:CONFIRMED SEQUENCE:0 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR