Set Your Goals, Such Gold + Living With Lions Added To South By So What?!

Set Your Goals, Such Gold and Living With Lions have been confirmed to play South By So What?! on March 17th in Dallas, TX at Quiktrip Park..

Bands earlier announced to play the one day event include: Every Avenue, Cartel, Hellogoodbye, I See Stars, A Skylit Drive, Comeback Kid, Close Your Eyes, Stick To Your Guns, Conditions, Motionless In White, Make Me Famous, MyChildren MyBride, Abandon All Ships, Secrets, Asking Alexandria, We Came As Romans, For Today, Emmure and Sleeping With Sirens.

Album Review: Living Like Ghosts - Treading Water‏

Living Like Ghosts has been around for just over a year, and have already had a slight line-up change and released two EP’s. They have also released 2010’s best band related prank, serving up a hilarious fuck you to the rise of crunkcore and neon scenester bands (check their website, even if you don’t end up liking their music). If that won’t automatically endear the listener to them the fact that their most recent offering, 'Treading Water' is a decent collection of tunes should help some.

Introductory track “Disconnect” starts with vocalist Jeremy Johnson softly lamenting how far he has come, before the music cuts and he screams to kick off the actual song. Johnson’s scream is the only real one he performs on the EP, and that is a good thing, as that brief moment is jarring and slightly off putting. Once that awkward moment is over the guitar slams in heavily and it becomes evident that Living Like Ghosts is a slightly hard sound to define. Not because they are overly unique but because it straddles the line between two genres while never really committing. They are certainly not the ‘pop punk’ they are labelled on their various websites, but not as heavy as influences Thrice and Alexisonfire.