Defy Tomorrow Return To Rock Warped Tour In August

The world of pop and hard rock collide on American stages this summer with the driving sound of Defy Tomorrow. The band will be playing a second round of dates next month on the Vans Warped Tour, following their successful performances in California, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Colorado on the June portion of the tour. The band will return to the stage August 13 in Fresno, CA.

Formed in July 2007, Defy Tomorrow is the unlikely teaming of former MTV Pop Artist Marissa with lead singer for hard rock band ColdFusion Mike Oliver. Both founding members have received national attention for their musical talents: the music video for Marissa's "Just So Able" was voted the No. 1 Pop Video on VH1's Music Nation while making the rounds on MTV and MTV Overdrive, and Oliver's ColdFusion were featured on the premiere episode of Dane Cook's HBO special Tourgasm.

Defy Tomorrow will be featured in broadcasts of new MTV show Exiled, premiering this August, which follows Marissa and seven other cast members as they are sent out to remote locations around the globe to acclimate to life with indigenous tribes. The show will include footage of Marissa's everyday life in Scottsdale, Arizona, including performances by the band.

On tour, the band will be performing material from their debut EP One Through the Heart, now available through their website and iTunes. The sound matches Oliver's hard-rock backing, featuring screaming guitars and explosive drumming, with Marissa's impassioned pop-vocal delivery of her bitter, heartbroken lyrics. The EP's lead track, "Words Don't Mean a Thing," showcases a bitterly sarcastic take on a shattered love affair, against a chaotic, overdriven backdrop - as Marissa sings, "Words don't mean a thing/Fairy tale endings don't come true/I know that now and it's ok because I'm over you."

Vans Warped Tour Dates:
August 13 Save Mart Center Fresno, CA
August 14 Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre Chula Vista, CA
August 15 Shoreline Amphitheatre Mountain View, CA

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