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Rolo Tomassi Announce US West Coast Tour Dates

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Rolo Tomassi will be heading out on a US headline tour next month, hitting the US West Coast with support from Pound and The Callous Daoboys.

They’ll start out in Denver on June 6th, and then perform a variety of different dates throughout the month, concluding the tour at Seattle’s Substation on June 20th.

The following is a full list of their US West Coast tour dates:

6/6/23: Denver, CO – Bluebird Theater 
6/7/23: Albuquerque, NM – Launchpad 
6/9/23: Dallas, TX – Sundown at Granada 
6/10/23: San Antonio, TX – Vibes Underground
6/11/23: Austin, TX – Come and Take It Live
6/13/23: Mesa, AZ – The Nile Theater
6/14/23: San Diego, CA – Voodoo Room
6/15/23: Los Angeles, CA – The Roxy Theatre
6/16/23: Sacramento, CA – Harlow’s 
6/17/23: San Francisco, CA – Neck of the Woods
6/19/23: Portland, OR – Star Theater
6/20/23: Seattle, WA – Substation 

Rolo Tomassi heading out on tour with Bastions in May 2013

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Rola Tomassi UK Tour

As you can see from the tour poster above, Rolo Tomassi will be heading out on tour in May, along with fellow UK based band, Bastions.

Tickets are still available online for these shows, and can be bought from SeeTickets / WeGotTickets at a price of £5 per ticket.

Rolo Tomassi released third studio album ‘Astraea‘ through Destination Moon in 2012, receiving incredibly positive reviews for the album from a variety of sources. £5 to see an extremely highly rated British mathcore band is most definitely a very inviting offer, and will also provide a fine opportunity to check out Bastions in support.

Hassle Records Summer 2010 Sampler

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Providing a taste of what the label has to offer; Hassle Records is currently giving away a Summer Sampler featuring nine tracks from its artists. If you weren’t already convinced of the brilliance of this UK label then this ought to be the thing to do it, with a number of artists featured here including Alkaline Trio, We Are The Ocean, Cancer Bats, and Rolo Tomassi.

With the instrumental rock of 65daysofstatic, the mellow indie pop of fun., and the full on hardcore attack of Trash Talk there is therefore plenty to sink your teeth into here, with the label offering up some of its artists’ best material, completely for free.

Cancer Bats’ fantastic cover of the Beastie Boys hits ‘Sabotage’ is featured here, as too is We Are The Ocean’s superb sing along anthem ‘Look Alive’ from the ‘Cutting Our Teeth’ album, and the incredibly upbeat pop punk fun of Fireworks’ ‘Detroit’ is included here also. Hassle Records has got some supremely talented artists on its roster right now, and as you listen to this Summer Sampler this is something that quickly becomes glaringly obvious.

There’s a great deal of variety here and it’s therefore probable that you won’t enjoy all nine tracks equally, with so much variety here however the sampler should have something to offer for everyone, and as it’s available as a free download you can’t really go far wrong in giving these nine tracks a try.

This sampler provides fantastic evidence of what a great job Hassle Records is doing as a record label right now, putting out quality music of all different genres, and backing it up with a passionate team of music lovers that help give the record label the reputation it deserves.

Give this Summer Sampler a try and it surely won’t leave you disappointed.

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The following is the full list of tracks featured on the sampler:

65daysofstatic – Crash Tactics
Alkaline Trio – This Addiction
Cancer Bats – Sabotage
FACT – Slip of the Lip
Fireworks – Detroit
fun. – At Least I’m Not As Sad (As I Used To Be)
Rolo Tomassi – Party Wounds
Trash Talk – Explode
We Are The Ocean – Look Alive

Free Hassle Records Summer 2010 Sampler

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Having celebrated Slam Dunk Festival in style with five Hassle Records artists performing there, Hassle Records is now giving away a free sampler featuring nine tracks by artists on the label. Alkaline Trio, Rolo Tomassi, Trash Talk, We Are The Ocean, Fireworks, FACT, 65daysofstatic, Cancer Bats and fun. can all be found on the sampler, and if you’d like to download a copy of the sampler then you can do so here.

The following is the full list of tracks featured on the sampler:

65daysofstatic – Crash Tactics
Alkaline Trio – This Addiction
Cancer Bats – Sabotage
FACT – Slip of the Lip
Fireworks – Detroit
fun. – At Least I’m Not As Sad (As I Used To Be)
Rolo Tomassi – Party Wounds
Trash Talk – Explode
We Are The Ocean – Look Alive

Rolo Tomassi – Oh, Hello Ghost Video

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An interesting video for Rolo Tomassi’s ‘Oh Hello Ghost‘, the opening track from the band’s 2008 ‘Hysterics‘ debut album. The ‘Hysterics‘ album received positive reviews from the likes of Kerrang, Metal Hammer, and Rock Sound, as well as a perfect score from Thrash Hits.

Rolo Tomassi – I Love Turbulence Video

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The official video for Rolo Tomassi’s ‘I Love Turbulence‘, a track taken from the band’s 2008 ‘Hysterics‘ album, released through Hassle Records. ‘I Love Turbulence‘ was released as a single in December 2008.

Introducing Rolo Tomassi

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Having kicked off our Hassle Records week with FACT yesterday, today we’re focussing on the female-fronted Sheffield mathcore band Rolo Tomassi.

Taking their name from a character in the Curtis Hanson directed film L.A. Confidential, Rolo Tomassi formed in 2005 and quickly began recording material as they looked to establish themselves. The band released its first EP, the ‘Rolo Tomassi EP’ through Holy Roar Records in 2006, having already at this stage released a couple of demos as well as a split CD with Mirror! Mirror!. Further releases came for the band in 2007, and by 2008 it was time for the band to get things properly moving as it released its debut album ‘Hysterics’ through Hassle Records in the September of that year. 2008 was a big year for the band as they also played the Download Festival, and with further festivals following in 2009 the band was really able to grow and strengthen its fan base by putting on some utterly explosive live performances for the masses.

With a dual vocal attack of James and Eva Spence, the band is able to hit hard with its powerful sound, with the two vocalists bouncing off one another incredibly well as the male/female vocal combination comes across superbly. James Spence’s synth is a strong component of the music, and really does add something rather special to the Rolo Tomassi sound.

2010 has seen Rolo Tomassi release its second studio album, again through Hassle Records, and with ‘Cosmology’ receiving extremely positive reviews from the likes of NME, Rock Sound, and Drowned in Sound, it is clear that Rolo Tomassi is a band very capable of impressing with its recorded material, as well as being able to please with its live performances.

‘Party Wounds’ is the latest single to have been released by Rolo Tomassi, taken from the band’s 2010 ‘Cosmology’ album. The following is the video for the single:

Hassle Records Week

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Each day of this week we will be featuring a different Hassle Records artist on the website that played at the Slam Dunk Festival in Hatfield/Leeds over the weekend.

Starting out with FACT, you will then see us cover Alkaline Trio, Rolo Tomassi, Fireworks, and We Are The Ocean as the week progresses, with a different band being focussed on from Monday through Friday.

Expect to see information about these five bands featured here, along with videos aplenty, and much much more in store as we get out Hassle Records Week well and truly under way.