Concert/Album: The Young Veins in Los Angeles

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Story by Phil Gallo
SoundSpike Contributor
Published June 11, 2010 12:06 PM

Ryan Ross and Jon Walker of Panic! At The Disco become '60s revivalists in the Young Veins, a journey away from the Vegas Strip and onto the Sunset Strip at its swingingest -- as they used to say when "boss" and "groovy" were key in the teen lexicon.

You have to half wonder how they arrived at this sound. It's more inspired by one-hit wonders and lesser-fabled sounds from the Beatles ouevre -- more Association than the Beach Boys in the vocal style, more "Muswell Hillbillies" than "Lola" in distilling the influence of the Kinks. Did they find a box of 45s in the basement of their mother's older sister? Quite possibly, as this music is not the '60s sound promoted by oldies radio.
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Young Veins, Gaslight Anthem give Bonnaroo crowds an early boost

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"It's a summer album, and it's summertime," Young Veins singer/guitarist Ryan Ross said Friday from Bonnaroo's Troo Music Lounge, by way of introduction to "Take a Vacation!," the title track from the band's new debut LP. It sure was hard to forget about it being summer, what with the June-afternoon Tennessee sun boiling tens of thousands of heads across the Bonnaroo grounds.

Easy, though, to forget that it wasn't so long ago that Ross' musical output seemed more fitting at punk road show Warped Tour than Bonnaroo.

His new outfit with fellow former Panic! at the Disco member Jon Walker takes a long leap from their emo-centric Panic past. While that former band's later work certainly showed an appreciation for sunny, '60s pop and psychedelia, Take a Vacation embodies that vibe wholly — maybe more thoroughly than the vast majority of young bands currently working that angle.

The Young Veins played through Vacation track "Cape Town" with reserved head-nods and sticky bah-bah-bah refrains, and Walker took the lead on bouncy, bright harmony-inflected track "Maybe I Will, Maybe I Won't." Both were solid indicators of the band's grasp of hummable, memorable songwriting, beyond those well-constructed throwback moods. As live performers, they're taut well beyond the young members' individual years, and certainly the new band's years. And that all certainly threatens to make Walker and Ross rare escapees from the forever-emo-tagged briar patch.

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Interview: The Young Veins

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Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:52:39

The Young Veins' Ryan Ross talks to ARTISTdirect.com editor and Dolor author Rick Florino in this exclusive interview about catching an old school wave and more...

Interview: The Young Veins
The Young Veins rocked across the globe in order to make Take A Vacation! Former Panic! At the Disco creative cohorts Ryan Ross and Jon Walker tap into the '60s like never before on Vacation, and it happened while they were traveling the world—from Africa to Singapore and everywhere in between—while in Panic!

Their last offering with Panic!, Pretty. Odd., showed signs of psychedelica, but Ross and Walker embrace that sentiment to the fullest on the sunny, dreamy and undeniably catchy mission statement from Veins. Vacation bristles with vibrant energy on the likes of "Change" and "Cape Town," equally challenging the two most important B's—The Beatles and The Beach Boys. It's the perfect soundtrack to your summer this year or any…

The Young Veins' Ryan Ross sat down with ARTISTdirect.com editor Rick Florino for an exclusive interview about channeling the '60s without sounding dated, caper movies and so much more!
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Young Veins, The - Take A Vacation

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Reviewed by: lalaKR@dr1cx (06/10/10)
The Young Veins - Take a Vacation
Record Label: One Haven
Release Date: June 8, 2010

Let's give it up. Some of us need to understand that the time period of the 60's will forever be foreign ground to us and our fucked up little generation. It doesn't matter how many records you blast through that stereo/vinyl player/bar jukebox because you're never going to be able to know the feeling of rushing out of school to pick up your new favorite records at the shacks downtown. Your heroes are dead (probably) and God rest their souls because they are the milestones of many people's beloved collections. Our generation is a cheating one, a cheap hooker of a generation. We get our concert fix through streaming online videos. We all download our albums illegally instead of buying them. We succumb to the torture of the music industry and it's evil propaganda, etc. We could use our hormones as instruments to triumph on and write the most insipid, incendiary battle statements to match our forefathers and their poetics but frankly as of late I could care less about the 60's and you know what? I could care even less about Ryan Ross.

Summer most recently gave me a good sucker punch on the back of my head. In heralding it's arrival (abruptly I might add), I've been blasting old pop punk records that I've been neglecting for quite sometime. Ryan Ross is going to celebrate his summer touring behind this limping hipster of an album: it's packed to the brim with bright melodies, vocal harmonies galore, and the whole nine yards from about everything even remotely resembling the pop music of yesteryear from bands who know their place in history. The band in this case is The Young Veins and the album is tentatively called Take A Vacation which isn't too off putting considering the sunshine contained within.
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