WBCN Presents Staind, Seether & Papa Roach  

 

November 16, 2008

Sunday 6:30pm

Detail:

Another WBCN Concert Event!

"The Rock of Boston, 104.1 WBCN" presents STAIND!

 

. THE ILLUSION OF PROGRESS, the new album from Flip/Atlantic recording artists STAIND, rocketed onto the Billboard 200 this week at # 3, making it the fourth consecutive album of the band’s career to debut in the top 3.

News of the album’s explosive arrival follows a flurry of headline-making moves for the multi-platinum band, who recently teamed with online retailer Amazon.com for an innovative pre-release promotion, and have been on a worldwide summer tour, to be followed by a run in Europe with Nickelback in September, and headlining dates with special guests Seether and Papa Roach beginning October 4th at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, MD and including a date at Tsongas Arena in Lowell, MA on November 16.

THE ILLUSION OF PROGRESS is being propelled by chart-topping lead single “Believe,” currently #2 at Modern Rock, #5 at Active Rock, and #4 at Mainstream Rock. The song has already begun crossing over to the Hot AC charts with a debut at #34. “Believe” is STAIND’s fastest-growing hit since “It’s Been Awhile.”


About THE ILLUSION OF PROGRESS, the Boston Globe wrote, “…the music packs as much punch as ever—and more variety, as STAIND sometimes departs from its rock-metal power ballads for tunes that suggest Pink Floyd and even Brit band Oasis.” The Hartford Courant praised the band for “pushing its musical boundaries outward,” and USA Today hailed the quartet for serving up a “nicely crafted ballad or two” and “a few engaging surprises, including the sparse, acoustic “Tangled Up In You,” politically charged “Rainy Day Parade” and “The Corner,” with a gospel choir and a bluesy grandeur worthy of Pink Floyd.”