Here’s a list of our current tour dates for the KID DANGEROUS MADE ME DO IT TOUR, sponsored by Kid Dangerous Grime Couture and Gaining Ground Media:

(MORE INFO ON TIMES AND LOCATIONS CAN BE FOUND HERE)

4/28 – Time Warp Tavern – Watertown NY (Acoustic)

5/3 – Dundee’s – Brownville NY (Acoustic)

5/4 – Velocity – Watertown NY (Tour kickoff show with Still Rings True, Maps of War, Landslide Victory and more!)

5/5 – VFW – Ilion NY

5/7 – Herkimer Community College – Herkimer NY

5/9 – Blub Blub Hookah Hub – Utica NY

5/10 – Black Oak Tavern – Oneonta NY

5/11 – Birtchy’s Joint – Binghamton NY

5/12 – Picc’s Pub – Delhi NY

5/13 – Sylvana’s – Dover NJ

5/18 – Corner Pocket Cafe – Orange CT

5/19 – Mainstay Rock Bar – Cincinnatti OH (with The Trews and more!)

5/23 – Zeppelin’s Music Hall – Lansing Charter Township MI

5/26 – Crimson and Gold – Denver CO

6/1 – TBA – Denver CO

6/3 – TBA – Denver CO

6/8 – The Park Bar and Grill – Burbank CA

6/14 – Boondocks Pub – Corona CA

Keep posted! More show announcements are on deck! Portions to benefit The Federation for Polar Bat Justice. See you at the shows!

check check it! may 4th we’re kicking off the KID DANGEROUS MADE ME DO IT TOUR in Watertown NY, with stops around the United States!

CLICK HERE TO CHECK OUT DATES FOR THE REST OF OUR TOUR!

And don’t forget to check out our friends at KidDangerous.com and GainingGroundMedia.com!

More info and dates coming very very soon! Stay sassy!

nick swardson came out to see us at our show on friday and fed me several weird apple-flavored shots before this picture was taken. it was very surreal to see him jamming hard to songs that i wrote with little to no clothing on. needless to say, i was extremely befuddled, sexually confused and pleasantly surprised.

it’s been quite some time since i’ve taken to this world wide web of ours to express my intentions with any semblance of attitude or conviction and i’d really like to rectify that.

i’ve spent the better part of the past four months living in squalor in the mojave desert with two of my best friends, a happy-go-lucky pooch with a taste for ganja treats, and one singular intention: to pick up where i left off and pen a true masterpiece of an album before the opportunity slips between my nimble digits.

anyone familiar with my history will know this has come as no easy task to yours truly. the universe has thrown some serious curve balls my way. i’ve had my share of incredible highs, gut-wrenching lows, spiteful ex-bandmates, spiteful ex-girlfriends, shady management-types, hallucinogenic breakdowns, crippling paranoia, heartbreaking betrayal, unrelenting addiction, unbearable grief and hyphen-filled sentences along the way.

every time i started to feel like tables were starting to turn and things were finally on my side, another roadblock would surface, and so would my doubt, like a shady private eye, crouching behind a cutlass supreme in the parking lot of my imagination, peering through his over sized binoculars, like it was no big deal or something.

taking the advice of my good friend, kevin hinman, i started to write about the things i was less than comfortable writing about and, in particular, the entire process of trying to make this music that i love so much, what i’ve really gotten out of it, what i really want to get out of it, what it’s cost me, and how unrelenting i am to make some serious noise before i croak. it ended up being an extremely fun and rewarding process. come to find out, there is nothing more therapeutic than making light of the questions that you just can’t help but ask yourself, but never really expected anyone else to hear.

i’ve always felt a little bit like the universe has been testing me. the thing is, i’ve studied up, and i’m ready to ace this one. take note, ladies and germs: there is no such thing as a no-win scenario. you just have to change the rules a little bit.

til next time, true believers…

arison cain

(credit: Dustin Nicholson)

Howdy Space Cadets,

I trust you’ve kept yourselves entertained during our short reprieve from this discourse.  How is everybody liking “Anthems”?  Here’s to hoping it will be enough to momentarily tide you over. If you haven’t checked out the new E.P. yet, what are you waiting for? It’s streaming right now at arisoncain.bandcamp.com.

Lately we’ve been hard at work at thrusting ourselves into your town and exploding all over you.

Here’s a quick rundown of our upcoming shows:

Sept. 23rd – Hurley’s Nightclub, SUNY Potsdam, Potsdam N.Y.

Sept. 30th – The Westcott Theater, Syracuse N.Y.

Oct. 8th – PUNK N’ FEST – Velocity, Watertown N.Y.

Oct. 9th – Cocktails, Morrisonville N.Y.

Oct 15th – Denise Clarke CD Release – Freight Street Gallery, Waterbury, C.T.

As always, more info is available in our “Shows” section and more announcements are coming soon.

And lastly, (but certainly not leastly) I wanted to share with you guys a few videos from the Baldwinsville show with Bright Eyes and The Mountain Goats, and from the Syracuse show with Anthony Green, courtesy of my good friend Dustin Nicholson.

“Optimistically Sober” Live in Baldwinsville NY (Bright Eyes Show)

“Who’s to Say?” from Syracuse, NY (Anthony Green Show)

From the bottom of my cockles, I wanna summon a resounding THANK YOU to everyone that helped to make those two shows so special for me.  Everything moves on, but I’m not about to forget those feelings that you let me share with you.  Now, onward and upward.

(so this is the other side?)

Surprise!
“Anthems for the Fucked Up and Unreasonable: Vol. 1″ is available to purchase RIGHT NOW at arisoncain.bandcamp.com! If you purchase the album on bandcamp, you’ll get an exclusive B-side, “The Disastrous Course”.

I certainly have a whole lot to say about this (among other things), so i’ll have a long post tomorrow. For now, sleep is enveloping yours truly.

(i did this once before, in a dream.)

Preparations for my show tomorrow with BRIGHT EYES and THE MOUNTAIN GOATS (at Paper Mill Island in Baldwinsville, NY) have reached a fever pitch!  I’ve spent the last few days doing squatted thrusts, thrusted squats and thrusted thrusts, all while deliberating with an extremely attractive female scientist to determine the perfect mathematical set list for tomorrow’s performance.  There will most certainly be action, intrigue, suspense, loads of songs that I seldom get to play live, and maybe just a c’ hair of sass.

I still have last minute tickets if you need to get any! I hope to see some smiling faces tomorrow, friends and strangers alike.

Much love!

(never underestimate your ability to resonate)

Awww here it goes…

NEW SHOW ANNOUNCEMENT!

This SUNDAY, July 31st, I’ll be playing with BRIGHT EYES and THE MOUNTAIN GOATS

@ Paper Mill Island Amphitheater.
Lock 24. Baldwinsville, NY
Gates open at 4pm. All Ages Admitted.

More info AVAILABLE HERE.

Shit’s about to go down! Stay tuned for MORE GNARLY SHOW ANNOUNCEMENTS and a seriously AWESOME announcement about our debut E.P., ANTHEMS FOR THE FUCKED UP AND UNREASONABLE: VOL. 1,  that you are not gonna wanna miss!

(stay thirsty my friends)

Greetings true believers! I hope you all feel unbelievable today.

Warped Tour was a great success! Thanks to everyone that came out and let us share our noises with you! I almost passed out/cried/puked from the heat all at once, but it was, and will always be, worth it, no matter what, and I can’t wait for the next one.

Pressing business:

(insert drumrolls and confetti drops)

WE ARE UNBELIEVABLY PROUD TO ANNOUNCE THIS:

The wait is over! Come celebrate the release of “Anthems for the Fucked Up and Unreasonable: Vol. 1″, the new E.P. by

Also, tickets for Anthony Green w/Special Guest Arison Cain on August 20th are very limited! I have an incredibly small amount, so don’t hesitate to email me at arisoncain@gmail.com if you are in need of one. They are also available at www.upstateshows.com

On a personal note, that weekend is shaping up to be one of the most important ones of my life. I’d love to share it with as many of my good friends, brothers and sisters as  imaginable.  Thank you all for your continued support. I have nothing but love for you, and I will never let you down. I hope to see you soon.

Happy Friday, everyone!

I’m pleased to announce that on August 20th, in Syracuse, NY, I’ll be performing at a very intimate acoustic show with Anthony Green! (Circa Survive) This is personally the most excited I’ve probably ever been about a show to date, and I’d love to see you guys there.  There are only 200 tickets available, so do not hesitate! More information at Upstateshows.com!

And please, don’t forget! We’re gonna be performing on the Dave Dzambo Foundation stage at the Vans Warped Tour in Darien Lake, NY on July 12th. More info at DaveDzambo.com!

(never settle for less than monumental)