Hot on the heels of its arena tour with Korn, Breaking Benjamin has announced a summer North American tour – including a Milwaukee date.
The band will play the American Family Insurance Amphitheater on Friday, Aug. 7 with Bush, Saint Asonia and Cory Marks. (Note that Theory, which is playing most of the other dates, is not on the Milwaukee gig at the moment.)
Breaking Benjamin is on the road supporting its latest record, "Aurora," a retrospective with one new track alongside acoustic and other alternate versions of previously released tunes.
Tickets for the show go on sale Friday, March 6 at noon at Ticketmaster.com and at the Amp box office.
VIP packages and tickets for Breaking Benjamin Fan Club members are on sale now. Text ‘SUMMER2020’ to (844) 626-3736 for an exclusive pre-sale on Wednesday, March 4.
Tickets will also be available via Live Nation’s Ticket to Rock a multi-show promo ticket that also includes admission to summer tours by the likes of Korn and Faith No More, Disturbed, Slipknot, and Megadeth and Lamb of God. Details here.
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he lived until he was 17, Bobby received his BA-Mass Communications from UWM in 1989 and has lived in Walker's Point, Bay View, Enderis Park, South Milwaukee and on the East Side.
He has published three non-fiction books in Italy – including one about an event in Milwaukee history, which was published in the U.S. in autumn 2010. Four more books, all about Milwaukee, have been published by The History Press.
With his most recent band, The Yell Leaders, Bobby released four LPs and had a songs featured in episodes of TV's "Party of Five" and "Dawson's Creek," and films in Japan, South America and the U.S. The Yell Leaders were named the best unsigned band in their region by VH-1 as part of its Rock Across America 1998 Tour. Most recently, the band contributed tracks to a UK vinyl/CD tribute to the Redskins and collaborated on a track with Italian novelist Enrico Remmert.
He's produced three installments of the "OMCD" series of local music compilations for OnMilwaukee.com and in 2007 produced a CD of Italian music and poetry.
In 2005, he was awarded the City of Asti's (Italy) Journalism Prize for his work focusing on that area. He has also won awards from the Milwaukee Press Club.
He has be heard on 88Nine Radio Milwaukee talking about his "Urban Spelunking" series of stories, in that station's most popular podcast.
