April 24th, 2013 
Anthony Galasso Vinnie Caruana of I Am The Avalanche and The Movielife has announced a short stint of co-headlining West Coast dates with Geoff Rickly, formerly of Thursday, this June.
The dates will kick off on June 22 in Portland, Oregon and finish up in Las Vegas on June 29. Tickets will go on sale Friday, April 26.
Caruana will also be performing on the Acoustic Basement Stage at Warped Tour this year between July 7 and August 4.
Check out Caruana and Rickly’s full set of West Coast tour dates below.
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April 16th, 2013 Adrian Garza UTG’s close friends at Property Of Zack have premiered a video with Peace’d Out as their latest addition to the site’s “Behind The Booth” series.
As of right now, Peace’d Out hasn’t played any shows, and that could be due to the fact that the project is composed of busy musicians like Vinnie Caruana of I Am The Avalanche, Steve Choi of RX Bandits, Roger Camero of No Motiv, and Casey Deitz of The Velvet Teen.
While it’s only part one of three, the video really helps give insight on what the four piece experimental band believe it is that …
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April 10th, 2013 Dan Bogosian Peace’d Out, the supergroup featuring members from I Am The Avalanche, RX Bandits, the Velvet Teen, No Motiv, and the Warriors, have yet to tour or do a show. Nonetheless, after finishing their EP, they are now working on their debut full length recording. They’ve now released a video from their EP of them performing the song “I would like. To feed your fingertips. To the wolverines.” live.
The song features Peace’d Out playing at Bright Lights Studio. The track is killer, in our opinion – one of our favorites on the self-titled release we gave high …
Posted in News, Streams Tags: I Am The Avalanche, live, new song, Peace'd Out, rx bandits, steve choi, the movielife, Vinnie Caruana No Comments » February 11th, 2013 Anthony Galasso Singer and songwriter, Vinnie Caruana recently played one of his old band’s songs while performing on the Acoustic Basement Tour.
Co-headlining the tour with former Thursday vocalist, Geoff Rickly, Caruana performed “Walking On Glass”, the opening track to The Movielife’s 2002 EP, Has A Gambling Problem.
Tour dates for the rest of the Acoustic Basement Tour with Rickly, Caruana, A Loss For Words, Koji and Brian Marquis can be found here.
Additionally, Caruana released his newest EP, City By The Sea, on February 5. Stream the EP here and pick it up on iTunes. Watch Caruana …
Posted in Live, News Tags: acoustic, acoustic basement tour, live performance, the movielife, Vinnie Caruana No Comments » February 4th, 2013 Anthony Galasso AltPress.com is streaming Vinnie Caruana‘s entire new EP, City By The Sea, on their website. The EP is due for release tomorrow via I Surrender/Run For Cover Records.
Read a review of the talented Movielife/I Am The Avalanche vocalist’s six-song EP right here on Under The Gun while streaming the EP on AltPress.com.
Caruana is currently supporting his EP while on the Acoustic Basement tour with Thursday vocalist Geoff Rickley, A Loss For Words, Koji and Brian Marquis. Check out the tour dates on Caruana’s Facebook.
January 31st, 2013 Tyler Osborne Artist: Vinnie Caruana
Album: City By the Sea
Label: Run For Cover Records
Genre: Punk/Acoustic
If you like pop-punk music and don’t know who Vinnie Caruana is, you’re probably really young, and that’s not really your fault. For those who don’t know, Vinnie Caruana has been in the pop-punk scene for a while now, first becoming famous for fronting the iconic band The Movielife. Now as the singer of I Am the Avalanche, Vinnie is slowly but surely making his way back into the ears of kids all over the punk scene. However today, I’m not reviewing either …
Posted in Features, News Tags: acoustic, campfire, city by the sea, ep, I Am The Avalanche, punk (genre), records, run for cover, solo, solo album, summer, the movielife, Vinnie Caruana No Comments » January 14th, 2013 Tyler Osborne Punk icon Vinnie Caruana (of I Am the Avalanche and The Movielife fame) is streaming a new song “Boy, You’re in Heaven” with our good friends at AbsolutePunk. The song is the second track that has been released to the internet from his debut solo EP, City By the Sea. His debut EP comes out via Run For Cover Records on February 5, and is most certainly one of the most anticipated releases of the year.
You can check out the new song by heading over to AbsolutePunk’s website here, but let us know in the comments what …
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January 8th, 2013 Tyler Osborne Today is a great day. We are pleased to let you know that Vinnie Caruana of I Am the Avalanche and The Movielife fame is currently streaming a new song “Somehow the World Keeps Turning,” which is the first single off his debut solo EP City By the Sea. Vinnie is one of those artists who you can pretty much guarantee there will be a certain level of quality to his music, and this song is no different. It’s got that sound you’ve really come to know in love from all of his projects, and I am so excited …
November 27th, 2012 Anthony Galasso On December 11, Pacific Ridge Records will be releasing a cover album honoring The Movielife. The album will simply be titled A Tribute to The Movielife and feature artists such as The Scene Aesthetic, This Time Next Year, That’s Outrageous!, I Call Fives and many more.
Many songs have already surfaced, such as This Time Next Year’s cover of “Walking On Glass”. But Alter The Press announced that they are exclusively streaming The Scene Aesthetic’s cover of The Movielife’s “Hey”.
Stream these songs in the links provided above. More songs from the tribute album can …
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November 18th, 2012 Dan Bogosian While pop punk band This Time Next Year is apparently breaking up for good, they seem to still be releasing new material – or at least, whatever material they have left. Yesterday, on Absolute Voices sister blog PropertyOfZack, the band debuted a cover of The Movielife‘s “Walking On Glass”. While some of us are holding out hope that someday The Movielife comes back into our lives (everyone’s doing it! It’s a ten year thing!), this cover is a pretty good rendition of a great song.
Hear the song for yourself right here on UTG after the jump.…
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October 22nd, 2012 Dan Bogosian Vinnie Caruana, vocalist for The Movielife, I Am The Avalanche, and new supergroup Peace’d Out, has announced his first solo album. The album will be released on Run For Cover Records, and aims to be out in “early 2013.” Steve Choi of the RX Bandits and Peace’d Out will apparently be producing him, as the press release also mentions him being in the studio.
The full PR reads as follows: “After years of fronting popular indie punk act I Am The Avalanche and formerly hardcore punk band The Movielife, accomplished New York songwriter Vinnie Caruana…
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October 18th, 2012 Dan Bogosian Peace’d Out, the strange super group that features musicians from the RX Bandits, The Movielife, The Velvet Teen, and No Motiv, have released a video on the making of their upcoming EP.
The video is primarily clips from interviews with vocalist Vinnie Caruana and guitarist Steve Choi, and is one in a series of three to come before the self titled EP’s release. Watch it here by clicking “Read more.”
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