When We Were Young is an annual music festival currently held at the Las Vegas Festival Grounds in Winchester, Nevada . It is typically scheduled for the third weekend of October. The most recent event took place from October 19–20, 2024.
12-407: Good Health is the first studio album by Pretty Girls Make Graves . Originally released in 2002 by Lookout Records , it was re-released by Matador Records with an additional 4 songs made up of the band's first self-titled EP . This album is often mistakenly referred to as Is It Broken, Doctor? on some internet discussion boards and file-sharing services due to the inclusion of that phrase on
24-481: A 2022 retrospective list by BrooklynVegan , it placed #33 out of 35 of 2002's best emo & post-hardcore albums. The site's Andrew Sacher wrote that the group "came out of the gate swinging" on the record and that, 20 years on, its tracks "still pack a refreshing punch." Pretty Girls Make Graves Pretty Girls Make Graves is a post-hardcore band formed in Seattle in 2001, named after The Smiths ' song of
36-587: A drum machine on that tour. Dewitt continued working on his solo electronic project Dutch Dub. He also played with Amy Blaschke in Night Canopy. Fudesco, meanwhile, formed The Cave Singers , with Pete Quirk of Hint Hint and Marty Lund of Cobra High. Soon after leaving Pretty Girls Make Graves, Thelen started Moonrats in Seattle together with keyboard player Aska Matsumiya and drummer Jason Echeverria. They moved to Los Angeles and released an EP on their own. They put out
48-467: A full-length and a 7" on LA Records in 2008. Thelen then formed Drug Cabin, with Marcus Congleton of Ambulance Ltd, releasing two albums in early 2015 on 401K Music Inc. Zollo played drums with Triumph of Lethargy Skinned Alive to Death, and also sang in Deep Creep with Fudesco. She later left the music industry, and began work as a hairstylist. In November 2023, the band were announced on the line-up for
60-446: A multi-instrumentalist. On January 29, 2007, the band announced that Nick had left the band and their May 2007 tour would be their last. Clark formed Jaguar Love with former Blood Brothers members Johnny Whitney and Cody Votolato . They signed with Matador Records , the former label home of Pretty Girls Make Graves. On February 18, 2009, it was announced Jay was no longer playing in the line up of Jaguar Love, being replaced with
72-468: A three-day festival to a two-day weekend festival, a format that was also used for the 2024 festival. On November 13, 2023, after a lineup was leaked, all artists officially announced the lineup for 2024, set to be headlined by Fall Out Boy and My Chemical Romance . As opposed to previous years, in 2024, nearly all of the performing bands are set to play sets that consist of one of their albums played in its entirety. The All-American Rejects dropped out
84-742: The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in 2004. The band announced its split on January 29, 2007, with their final two shows taking place in Seattle that June. The band released their first EP on Dim Mak and Sound Virus Records before releasing their debut album Good Health on Lookout Records in April 2002. The band would later sign to Matador Records where they released The New Romance , and then later Elan Vital . Guitarist Nathan Thelen left Pretty Girls Make Graves in March 2004 to form Moonrats and Leona Marrs (formerly of HintHint) joined as
96-510: The 2024 iteration of the When We Were Young festival. There, the band will perform The New Romance in its entirety. In February 2024, the band announced a headlining show to take place at The Showbox in Seattle that September. When We Were Young (festival) The first incarnation of the festival took place at The Observatory in Santa Ana, California on April 8 and 9, 2017. It
108-473: The cover of the album, on which the actual title is not present. Musically, Good Health has been aligned with punk , indie rock , emo , and "twitchy" post-hardcore akin to The Nation of Ulysses . In a 20th anniversary review, Stereogum ' s Tom Breihan dubbed Health "28 delirious minutes [that are] enough to leave you breathless and stirred." He positively called its sound "fast and urgent and adrenaline-charged", as well as "rich and dynamic." In
120-428: The festival lineup was announced before bands were committed but that all bands would agree to play. The first day was canceled due to weather. The band Car Seat Headrest was scheduled to play as part of the 2022 lineup but pulled out due to health issues. On October 11, 2022, the festival announced it was returning for a second year in 2023, with Blink-182 and Green Day as headliners. The event also moved from
132-551: The same name (which itself was named after a quote from Jack Kerouac 's The Dharma Bums ). Andrea Zollo and Derek Fudesco had played together previously in The Hookers, as well as The Death Wish Kids and Area 51 along with Dann Gallucci, with whom Derek had formed Murder City Devils . Not long before the Murder City Devils disbanded, Derek and Andrea formed Pretty Girls Make Graves along with Jay, Nick and Nathan. They played
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#1732854937434144-489: Was headlined by Morrissey . In 2022, the festival was moved to Winchester, Nevada at the Las Vegas Festival Grounds . The event was first announced on January 18, 2022, as a one-day event on October 22, 2022, headlined by My Chemical Romance and Paramore . Tickets sold out quickly, leading to the addition of second and third dates on October 23 and 29, 2022. Matt Skiba of Alkaline Trio asserts that
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