Sleeping with Sirens decided to kick off 2020 with an old-fashioned barnstorm across the country, playing 21 dates in 32 days during The Medicine Tour. It's the kind of pace that used to burn out bands and cut careers short, but by now singer Kellin Quinn knows how much punishment his earnest, fragile tenor can handle. Quinn's voice is instantly recognizable and as much of an instrument as the keyboards he plays, offsetting the calamitous uproar Sleeping with Sirens is capable of. He sounds as fresh on new album How It Feels to Be Lost as it did on breakthrough track "If I'm James Dean, You're Audrey Hepburn."
Altpress named that song No. 5 out of the 50 top emo songs that defined the 2010s, and recently cited his guest vocals on It Comes in Waves' "Wolf in Disguise" as taking the metalcore song "from great to incredible."
Quinn is also evolving comfortably into the role of mentor for rising bands, creating an organization called Dreamer that pushes music forward by supporting new artists. Sleeping with Sirens are supported by Set It Off, Belmont and Point North on this tour though, taking a break for several months afterward that will afford Quinn time to indulge his passion for taking great bands and making them incredible.
House of Blues at Mandalay Bay, 6 p.m. Jan. 17, starting at $22 plus tax and fee. 702.632.7600
