{"id":31946,"date":"2021-06-01T02:18:07","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T09:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/?p=31946"},"modified":"2021-05-20T04:21:30","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T11:21:30","slug":"des-rocs-announces-debut-headline-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/concerts\/des-rocs-announces-debut-headline-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Des Rocs Announces Debut Headline Tour\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Des Rocs - This is Our Life [Official Audio]\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lsad4VMBL_I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/des-rocs-tickets\">Des Rocs<\/a> announced his first ever headline tour, \u201cDes Rocs Alive\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He wrote of the news on twitter:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cthis ain&#8217;t a joke, i&#8217;ll do the sentimental post later about how much this means to me but for now MY FIRST EVER HEADLINE TOUR IS HERE &amp; I\u2019M READY TO DRINK UR SWEAT &amp; PRAY TO THE DEVIL LETS GOOOOO!\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The musician will hitting the road for 21 shows this fall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The trek kicks off with Des&#8217; appearance at the Firefly Music Festival in Delaware the weekend of September 23-26 with shows booked through his Nov. 4 hometown finale at New York City&#8217;s Bowery Ballroom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><em>\u201cI feel like I was put on this earth to play shows,\u201d<\/em> said Des. <em>\u201cSince I was 13 I\u2019ve played my guitar in basements and dive bars across the country to anyone who\u2019d listen. This tour is a lifetime in the making. All the bumps and bruises along the way have made me who I am, they\u2019re gonna pour out through my veins every single night of this tour. I can\u2019t wait to finally put all these songs on a stage after dreamin\u2019 about it for a year in isolation. I\u2019m ready to lose myself again, the way I always have.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The announcement of \u201cDes Rocs Alive\u201d follows his breakthrough EP \u201cThis Is Our Life\u201d, which was released via 300 Entertainment in December of 2020. The album&#8217;s title track &#8220;This Is Our Life&#8221; has been streamed 6M+ times and hit Top 20 at Active Rock radio and Top 40 at Alternative radio.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With a law degree \u2014 and opening gigs for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/the-rolling-stones-tickets\">The Rolling Stones<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/muse-tickets\">Muse<\/a> \u2014 under his belt, the ambitious rocker who grew up in Long Island and previously played in the band Secret Weapons in a recent interview said this about his new EP:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThere\u2019s always common ground in my EPs. We might release a lot of the songs as singles in the run-up to all of them existing together, but they\u2019re all tied together by certain themes. \u2026 This one is uniquely focused on introspection and deals with a lot of personal struggles.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Available Des Rocs ticket info can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/des-rocs-tickets\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Des Rocs 2021 Tour Dates<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Show date and time: September 23-26 \u2013 November 4, 2021<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Show location: Firefly Music Festival, Dover, DE \u2013 Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Des Rocs announced his first ever headline tour, \u201cDes Rocs Alive\u201d.\u00a0 He wrote of the news on twitter: \u201cthis ain&#8217;t a joke, i&#8217;ll do the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-concerts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31946"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31948,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31946\/revisions\/31948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}