Articles by Brent Warnken

The Olympic Winter Games in full swing in her native Canada, but Three Days Grace is prepping for a tour in the States this spring. The ever-punk-rock band tour dates in Canada played to close out 2009 and is currently lined on the road in the U.S. with additional dates through March and April.

Pollstar the band presented new batch of tour dates in support of the band’s last album Life Starts Now, on 15 February. The band will kick off its recently announced series of concerts in Grand Rapids, Mich., at the Delta Plex on 26 March and ends at the Dow Event Center in Saginaw, Michigan on 27 March and the Resch Center in Green Bay, Wisconsin continues on 28 March. Savannah, Ga., and Knoxville, Tennessee, with special guests Chevelle and Adelitas Way in tow, from there the group will no longer be in cities like St. Paul, Minnesota to make. Do not miss the band earlier this year-get your Three Days Grace tickets online.

Three Days Grace emerged from the ashes of a band called Groundswell by Adam Gontier (vocals, guitar), Brad Walst (bass), Neil Sanderson (drums) and two others formed in their native language Norwood, Ontario, Canada in 1992nd Five years later the group was stripped to a trio of Gontier, Walst and Sanderson together. They changed their name and moved to Toronto where she met producer Gavin Brown. After consulting a private set, Brown was fascinated and supports the trio in the production of a demo for EMI Music Publishing Canada.

On the strength of their single “(I Hate) Everything About You” by Three Days Grace inked a record deal with EMI, and soon signed a recording contract with Jive. Brown traveled with the band to Boston, Massachusetts, where she set to work on their debut album. The band was eventually titled debut in sleepy Woodstock, NY and were incorporated influences from artists such as Sunny Day Real Estate and Kyuss. Came at the time the album on the shelves in July 2003 “(I Hate) Everything About You” is already an alternative radio staple was in Canada.

Three Days Grace spent the next two years on the road in support of their debut, and the feeling of isolation felt on tour, the band’s next album, 2006 One-X operated. Three Days Grace’s second album at number five on the Billboard 200 chart and reached was also the first album with second guitarist Barry Stock. While touring with Staind, Nickelback and Hoobastank, enjoying the now four-piece band, the success of number one modern rock hit “Animal I Have Become Have” from the album.

Life Starts Now, their third full album came in 2009 and the band has always busy on the road. So busy, in fact, that the Toronto-based band was not able to make it to the recent G-Winter Games in Aspen, Colo. reported the four rockers are apparently big fans of action sports, and ESPN, that made available for three songs “Riot”, “B” and “The Good Life” for ESPN coverage of the X-Games one to not be able to be there.