Premiere: Night Riots, ‘Shine’ (acoustic)
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Ever since they thundered down the 101 from Templeton a couple of years ago, Night Riots have lived by the go-big-or-go-home credo. Their 2015 EP “Howl” boasts the bombastic single “Contagious,” a swathed-in-seriousness emotional purge that puts the quintet — singer Travis Hawley, guitarists Nick Fotinakes and Matt DePauw, bassist Mikel Van Kranenburg and drummer Rico Rodriguez — in league with rock radio giants. Their arena-ready production is dialed back in the new alternate version of the EP track “Shine,” a tune that comes off as a ray of hope in Night Riots’ otherwise brooding world. “We’ll find a way,” Hawley sings, and indeed, sometimes that way involves peeling back the layers and letting a song breathe.
||| Stream: “Shine” (acoustic)
||| Live: Night Riots play the Warped Tour, including June 19 at the Pomona Fairplex and June 21 at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Ventura.
||| Previously: “Spiders”
||| Also: Watch the video for “Contagious”:
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