All Time Low Brings Everyone’s Talking! Tour to the Boeing Center
All Photos by Mali Lares
Growing up on bands like The Cab, Mayday Parade, and All Time Low defined how I experience music. At 29, that sound still hits a part of my soul that is very hard to tap into with some new music.
When I found The Paradox earlier this year, it was like reconnecting with a feeling I thought existed only within my emo preteen years, but they’ve brought it back, and it feels new again. If Blink 182, Sum 41, and Simple Plan are your vibe, these are the dudes you need to hear. Like....yesterday. Their refreshing energy deserves to be recognized and I’m so thankful All Time Low included them. The energy, the attitude, the throwback sound...FIRE from start to finish. We talked to a couple of the band members after their set, and I just have to say, they’re some really awesome and funny dudes. They loved Texas and especially San Antonio, even going so far to say (in private, mind you) that San Antonio was one of the best crowds they’ve ever played for.
Seeing The Cab on this lineup sent me to space and back. I legitimately COULD NOT fucking believe it!!!!! ‘Whisper War’ was absolutely VITAL to my everyday rotation on the skinny purple iPod I carried with me on my walks to school in 8th grade. Flash forward to 2025, they deliver this high-energy, SUPER nostalgic set that reignited all those memories. Alex DeLeon’s vocals were as powerful as ever, of course. His voice didnt change a single bit and I was outside my body the entire time. Pure nostalgia, pure bliss.
Mayday...fucking...Parade... Y’all- This band’s music, along with the others on this lineup, but especially Mayday- MADE me who I am today and created super strong bonds between myself and others as a child. Derek Saunders’ voice takes me to higher places spiritually. (Nevermind my undying love for this man). His love for his fans (yes yes, met him at warped tour), and his stage presence is what has kept me fangirling for now, almost TWO DECADES. Opening with ‘Under My Sweater’ and ‘JERSEY’!! and closing with ‘JAMIE ALL OVER’. Not a single note, other than “Can you please do this until I’m 60?”.
Closing the night, All Time Low and their beyond colorful set design struck MAGIC. I haven’t seen them live since Unsilent Night in Dallas in 2011, when smartphones weren’t anywhere near what they are now, and all the photos I have of the bands are blurry and unrecognizable. They are so talented and they’ve somehow managed to preserve their signature sound, keeping that nostalgia factor alive. It’s truly fucking amazing what they can do and HAVE done.
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Fav ATL song rn- SUCKERPUNCH :)
And speaking of AMAZING, just this past week, after having to cut his Red Rocks show short and reschedule Seattle due to a sudden throat infection, Alex Gaskarth somehow bounced back JUST in time for San Antonio. He Served us those old-skool bangers like ‘Weightless’ and ‘Dear Maria Count Me In’, and then KILLED the newer ones like ‘Suckerpunch’. I’m so stunned and thankful he was able to pull through and recover just in time for the show. HE and THEY were PHENOMENAL.
If you told middle school me that 20 years later she’d be in the photo pit shooting her favorite bands, she wouldn’t have believed you. What a stacked lineup, and so reminiscent of the Warped Tour days (r.i.p Warped San Antonio!!). Being a fan of this genre is part of what makes the music scene so exciting to be in. All Time Low knows their fans-what we like, what we want, and they served us this tour on a silver platter from the very first band to the last.
