Everclear
Summerland Tour 2021 is rolling through Hop Springs Beer Park on July 31, to the delight of ’90s alternative rock fans and curious listeners for an evening of readymade nostalgia. Everclear joins Living Colour, Hoobastank and Wheatus rocking not only the hits, but further, more in-depth coverage of the bands’ long-running careers.
Chronologically, and for those barely old enough to understand rock radio, Living Colour’s 1988 debut, Vivid, gave us “Cult of Personality,” which blared locally from early ’90s godsend 103.3 KDF, whose Faith No More- and Soundgarden-heavy sets blasted from older siblings’ radios.
Everclear’s 1995 national debut, Sparkle and Fade, established its well-knowns, such as “Santa Monica,” and the popular alt-rock name the band made for itself in the ’90s is still going strong 25 years later.
Wheatus is joining Summerland Tour 2021, fresh off of a 2000 self-titled debut, from which the runaway track “Teenage Dirtbag” fueled some after-school Total Request Live rock-outs. And Hoobastank earned some notoriety from its own 2001 self-titled debut with “Crawling in the Dark” as the take-off single during the transitional, post-KDF, afterschool TRL rock-out days.
An entire nostalgia-heavy tour of alternative rock cannot simply be a dozen hits from four bands, repeat encores and onstage collaborations. No, sir.
“By mixing it up and digging into the catalogue, it still makes it fun and relevant for us, and I think for the fans,” says Everclear frontman Art Alexakis.
“It’s still important to play the hits,” he continues, “but by playing those other songs as well, it makes it all seem more vibrant and real. Even though I recorded some of those songs 20 years ago. I haven’t played them in a long time, so it’s like reinventing the wheel. I’m having more fun now than I have in years. I think all of us are.”
Tickets for Summerland Tour 2021 at Hop Springs Beerpark range from $35 for general admission, $99 for the Summerland VIP tour package and $199 for the Everclear Meet & Greet package. Those can be found at ticketmaster.com, summerlandtour.net and hopspringstn.com.
Hop Springs is located at 6790 John Bragg Hwy. in Murfreesboro.
