NewsOctober 20, 2021 12:19 PM ET5,796 views

American Nightmare announce 'Background Music' 20th anniversary tour dates

American Nightmare

Travis Shinn

Hardcore punk outfit American Nightmare will reconvene this winter to honor the 20th anniversary of their landmark album, Background Music. The band will be performing the album at select shows on the East and West Coasts in January 2022, with confirmed dates as follows:

1/6 Boston, MA @ Paradise
1/7 New York, NY @ Irving Plaza
1/8 Asbury Park, NJ @ Stone Pony
1/9 Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian
1/13 San Francisco, CA @ The Independent
1/14 Los Angeles, CA @ The Fonda
1/15 Santa Ana, CA @ The Observatory
1/16 San Diego, CA @ House of Blues


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easyhateoven 10/20/2021 9:27:31 AM

no atlanta date, no care

anonymous 10/20/2021 9:27:35 AM

this is going to sound awful.

evil_hero 10/20/2021 9:34:38 AM

no one in any other city will come out for these shows

evil_hero 10/20/2021 9:35:03 AM

easyhateoven 7 minutes ago no atlanta date, no care you'd be the only person there!

anonymous 10/20/2021 9:37:35 AM

*Some Girls* is infinitely better than American Nightmare(give up the ghost.) whatever the hell you want to call them.

iwilladapt 10/20/2021 9:39:08 AM

evil_hero 2 minutes ago easyhateoven 7 minutes ago no atlanta date, no care you'd be the only person there No, I'd drive down from NC. So there would be two of us.

anonymous 10/20/2021 9:39:28 AM

I'm going to go out on a limb here^ & say I Agree with the cat above me.^

anonymous 10/20/2021 9:50:43 AM

Yo you better have that vax pass ready!

anonymous 10/20/2021 9:52:08 AM

Hope conspiracy < AH as a whole. prove me the F***wrong

anonymous 10/20/2021 9:52:14 AM

Band goes to 8 leftist shitholes

anonymous 10/20/2021 9:57:34 AM

anonymous 2 minutes ago Band goes to 8 leftist shitholes Yep. Gone are the days of bands wearing a nice button-up shirt and tie performing at a beautiful pavilion in the park. Bring back nice, clean, family-friendly music we can swing and Charleston to.

anonymous 10/20/2021 10:00:15 AM

If this was 2003 I would be so stoked!

anonymous 10/20/2021 10:03:49 AM

Yep. Gone are the days of bands wearing a nice button-up shirt and tie performing at a beautiful pavilion in the park. Bring back nice, clean, family-friendly music we can swing and Charleston to. Yea unfortunately it's now just artsy pretentious buttholes performing in front of they/thems in lousy venues.

anonymous 10/20/2021 10:14:24 AM

anonymous 6 minutes ago I wonder if Todd Jones approves of their leather<--- nobody gives a flying f*ck what Todd Jones thinks or "approves of"-he is angry at himself for not being "terror's" roadie any longer.

anonymous 10/20/2021 10:25:09 AM

Vaccine mandates are stoked.

anonymous 10/20/2021 10:55:40 AM

"I'm going to go out on a limb here^ & say I Agree with the cat above me.^" Stop with the limb shaming...

anonymous 10/20/2021 11:23:59 AM

Imagine being a Republican and thinking you ever had a place in hardcore. Y'all are just mad that you can't be homophobic at shows anymore without getting your asses beat by a non-binary 16 year old furry.

anonymous 10/20/2021 11:34:56 AM

" Hope conspiracy < AH as a whole. prove me the F***wrong" Nah, dogg. They both suck.

anonymous 10/20/2021 11:49:01 AM

I wonder if Todd Jones approves of their leather<--- nobody gives a flying f*ck what Todd Jones thinks or "approves of"-he is angry at himself for not being "terror's" roadie any longer. --- Todd Jones here. You will never be one of us.

anonymous 10/20/2021 12:27:32 PM

All I wanted was a covid shot in the dark

anonymous 10/20/2021 12:29:21 PM

Who is even in this band anymore, Wes and his right hand man?

anonymous 10/20/2021 12:50:10 PM

dudes are really trying to wring out the money towel huh

anonymous 10/20/2021 12:50:28 PM

Smart move having a mini tour split up between two completely opposite sides of the country.

anonymous 10/20/2021 12:51:02 PM

^^^^ it's literally 4/5 of the pre-breakup lineup

anonymous 10/20/2021 1:25:35 PM

anonymous 2 hours ago Imagine being a Republican and thinking you ever had a place in hardcore. Y'all are just mad that you can't be homophobic at shows anymore without getting your asses beat by a non-binary 16 year old furry. ^Todd Jones

anonymous 10/20/2021 2:00:14 PM

Blue states only?

anonymous 10/20/2021 2:11:21 PM

Will ricktalife b there

anonymous 10/20/2021 4:29:55 PM

Oh look, wannabe goth/New Waver herb Wes I Sold Out making believe he's a hardcore dude again with another cash-in run. He does American Nightmare when's not making money/enough money with Cold Cave. This is just another cash-in by middle-aged dudes who sh it talked hardcore when it wasn't cool anymore. I mean it's one thing to walk away talking sh it but to come back after you were is just weak & pathetic.

anonymous 10/20/2021 5:19:56 PM

Imagine being a Republican and thinking you ever had a place in hardcore. ^^^ Embrace Today would like a word with you. Lol this dude is big mad. Whatever, only Joe Biden voters would be caught dead at this.

anonymous 10/20/2021 5:32:17 PM

This band is as overrated as Converge.

anonymous 10/20/2021 6:46:41 PM

anonymous 5 hours ago ^^^^ it's literally 4/5 of the pre-breakup lineup And the missing 1/5 is the person who actually wrote this album.

anonymous 10/20/2021 9:27:34 PM

Imagine being a Republican and thinking you ever had a place in hardcore. ^^^^^^^ leftist pussy

easyhateoven 10/20/2021 9:32:48 PM

iwilladapt 11 hours ago evil_hero 2 minutes ago easyhateoven 7 minutes ago no atlanta date, no care you'd be the only person there No, I'd drive down from NC. So there would be two of us. intimate set!

anonymous 10/20/2021 10:56:59 PM

Flying in from Chowchilla for this.

anonymous 10/20/2021 11:07:59 PM

Whatever happened to Timbomb?

anonymous 10/20/2021 11:23:05 PM

This band truly sucks.

anonymous 10/21/2021 1:38:25 AM

I wonder if that freak from Touche Amore will be all over this like ebola to an african village again.

anonymous 10/21/2021 6:53:23 AM

Alex Jones here…I just wanted to say hi to all the American Nightmare fans and give thanks for the support from all the conspiracy theorists. Make sure to go to my new website www.imahumantoad.org to buy cool merch and products you'll need for the apocalypse.

anonymous 10/21/2021 7:06:14 AM

"Whatever happened to Timbomb?" I heard that when they first got together and started to actually make money Wes wanted a bigger cut. Tim said we're both OGs here, let's split us a bigger cut and Wes said, let me get back to you on that. Next day Tim got the boot.

anonymous 10/21/2021 8:44:15 AM

anonymous 5 hours ago ^^^^ And the missing 1/5 is the person who actually wrote this album. ^^^^ Yeah so many people have tattoos of this band's riffs

anonymous 10/21/2021 4:53:02 PM

Joe Hardcore here, 9/11 was an inside job, take it from me, a concrete dust huffing former gang member

anonymous 10/21/2021 8:07:59 PM

Joe Kindya here. Thanks Joe Hardcore for making sure no one found out I killed that kid in a confederate flag shirt at a show in NJ.

anonymous 10/21/2021 11:32:44 PM

That was Alex Franklin and I saw it happen on the boardwalk outside club deep in asbury park. dudes head hit and ground and he was gone...freak accident but no cell phones or cameras and old school Alex walked free

anonymous 10/22/2021 12:14:01 AM

Joe Hardcore is a 9/11 truther and a scumbag who said he didn't care that people died in a nightclub fire. The little bitch (what he is) deleted his coldhearted remark but someone screenshot it haha. Asshole.

anonymous 10/22/2021 7:43:14 AM

Joey Tribbiani here. I see Ross, he's in a fight, they got him down, it's 3 one. 5 of us show, guess who won? Boston came around one night, push came to shove and WE WERE DOWN TO FIGHT!! f*ck American Nightmare. Background Noise to Sick Of It All, if you ask me.

anonymous 10/22/2021 1:42:48 PM

I loved Joe Hardcore in the movie Mask. Very convincing.

anonymous 10/22/2021 2:31:25 PM

^^^ He was good in The Hills Have Eyes too. Does anyone else besides me think he looks like a parrot? Round head like one, beak-like nose - paint his nose black, white at the top 😂




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