PARTFO UR:ALLTIMELO W 'S SUMMEREVERAfTERTO UR by Lexy Bouras
All Time Low is one of those bands that occupies a strange and special place in my heart. Despite listening to them for years, I just recently got the opportunity to see them live for the first time at the San Diego date of the final Warped Tour. Their set was incredibly fun and definitely unforgettable, but for me at least, one thing was missing: Stella. Was it surprising that my favorite All Time Low song, track 2 off 2009's Nothing Personal didn't make the six-song Warped cut? No, but after waiting so long to see this band and getting a taste of their contagious onstage energy, I wanted absolutely nothing more than to experience that again; this time magnified by Jack Barakat's fast-paced guitar, Rian Dawson and Zack Merrick's killer rhythm section, and Alex Gaskarth's vocals belting out a desperate love song to a controlling vice. I wanted "Stella".
So, when I watched the band's Summer Ever After pre-tour diary confirming that they were indeed playing this song live again, I jumped at the opportunity and rushed to check out tour dates. I soon realized, however, that there were no SoCal dates to be seen. The band was slated to stop in San Fransisco, there was only a vague tweet from Gaskarth promising that they had "something special" planned for LA to be announced (this turned out to be their headliner at Emo Nite Day, a story for another day!). A guaranteed shot to hear "Stella", but no shows around me within a hundreds of miles? I could not let that stand in my way.
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