Valencia Announce Anniversary Shows

Valencia

Valencia have announced a ten year anniversary show for We All Need a Reason to Believe:

On December 28, 2018 at Union Transfer in our hometown of Philadelphia, PA, we will be celebrating 10 years of our album We All Need A Reason to Believe. This was an album that took our band on an incredible journey across the world, and introduced us to so many inspiring, diverse, and magnetic people. We are going to be playing it in full, alongside many other favorites, with some other special surprises!

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Review: Valencia – We All Need a Reason to Believe

Valencia - We All Need a Reason to Believe

Pop-punk is dead.

Okay, so maybe that isn’t as great or grand as the statement Nas made in 2007 about hip-hop, but it still applies here. Once a genre full of camaraderie, energy, and statements has become stale, as bands are more concerned with their neon clothes, swooping hair cuts, and which 17 year old groupie they are going to nail tonight. Pop punk is dead. And like Nas tried to resurrect his genre, we need a band that can breathe new life into pop-punk. 

This band is Valencia.

The band’s debut, 2005’s This Could Be A Possibility, was overall a good album, displaying themes and vibes that brought back memories of quality pop-punk, but their Columbia Records debut, We All Need A Reason To Believe takes the Philadelphia quintet’s sound to the next level. Produced by Ariel Rechtshaid (We Are Scientists, Plain White T’s), We All Need A Reason To Believe features eleven tracks that are fast, raw, and pack an emotional punch the majority of the bands in the genre fail to generate.

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