{"id":483627,"date":"2019-03-20T03:55:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T09:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rocksound.tv\/news\/read\/did-awsten-knight-just-signal-the-beginning-of-the-new-era-of-waterparks-by"},"modified":"2019-03-20T03:55:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T09:55:00","slug":"did-awsten-knight-just-signal-the-beginning-of-the-new-era-of-waterparks-by-dying-his-hair-red","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/did-awsten-knight-just-signal-the-beginning-of-the-new-era-of-waterparks-by-dying-his-hair-red\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Awsten Knight Just Signal The Beginning Of The New Era Of Waterparks By Dying His Hair Red?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"excerpt\">\n<p>The ultimate tease.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt src=\"https:\/\/www.rocksound.tv\/assets\/uploads\/waterparks_redhair.png\"><\/p>\n<p>Last month&nbsp;<strong>Waterparks<\/strong>&nbsp;started <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocksound.tv\/news\/read\/waterparks-merch-new-album-friendly-reminder-title\">teasing their fans<\/a> by releasing a piece of tour merch which dropped a few key hints about the band&#8217;s new era.<\/p>\n<p>Along with teasers alluding to the title of the upcoming Waterparks album (&#8216;Friendly Reminder&#8217;) and the name of a few new tracks (&#8216;Noise&#8217;, &#8216;Lemonade&#8217; and &#8216;Glitter Times&#8217;), they also directly mentioned frontman Awsten Knight dying his hair red.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>WELL NOW.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Overnight, that&#8217;s exactly what Awsten did. He dyed his hair bright red, and debuted it at their show in Los Angeles:<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt src=\"https:\/\/www.rocksound.tv\/assets\/uploads\/IMG_2284.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Is this Awsten&#8217;s not-so-subtle way of announcing to us that the new era of Waterparks has begun?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Quite possibly. Bring it on.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And just in case you missed it, check out the text from their tour T-shirt below (in all caps, because of course it is):<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I AM WATERPARKS TRASH. I CAN\u2019T BELIEVE \u2018ENTERTAINMENT\u2019 HAS ONLY BEEN OUT A YEAR FEELS LIKE IT CAME OUT FOREVER AGO. EITHER WAY I\u2019M SO EXCITED TO HEAR \u2018FRIENDLY REMINDER\u2019. IT\u2019S PROBABLY GONNA BE ANGRY. IF \u2018NOISE\u2019, \u2018LEMONADE\u2019, AND \u2018GLITTER TIMES\u2019 ARE ON IT I\u2019M GONNA FREAK OUT. UGH. I\u2019M SO CURIOUS TO SEE WHAT COLOR AWSTEN DYES HIS HAIR. RED HAIR AWSTEN WILL RISE. I HOPE GEOFF HAS ANOTHER SOLO.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>EITHER WAY AWSTEN IS STILL PROBLEMATIC AND A BIG POSER. I\u2019M JUST HERE FOR OTTOPARKS. MY WIG FLIED FIRST CLASS WITH NO SEATBELT TO VENUS FOR OTTOPARKS. I HOPE THEY PLAY \u2018CRAVE\u2019. I WONDER IF IT\u2019S GONNA BE OFF THE SET WHEN THE NEW ALBUM COMES OUT. I\u2019LL THROW HANDS IDC.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>THE TOUR MERCH IS SO CUTE THIS TIME. YAS JUST TAKE MY MONEY. AND YES I AM FULL PREPARED TO YELL AT THEM FOR ONLY PLAYING SIX SONGS DESPITE THE FACE THAT THEY\u2019RE NOT HEADLINING, DON\u2019T CARE. NOT MY PROBLEM. GEOFF IS CUTE.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\" readability=\"3.6964285714286\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">NEW TOUR MERCH, I\u2019M FUCKING LAUGHING <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3OeIrVnZhT\">pic.twitter.com\/3OeIrVnZhT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 WATERPARKS (@waterparks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/waterparks\/status\/1097970358647287808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 19, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;Waterparks are part of our &#8216;Worship And Tributes: Volume II&#8217; covers album! Check out a snippet below, and order your copy of our 250th issue which comes with a FREE copy of our covers album now from&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/shop.rocksound.tv\">SHOP.ROCKSOUND.TV<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\" readability=\"9.1914893617021\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">We have <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/waterparks?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@waterparks<\/a> covering \u2018Beating Heart Baby\u2019 by Head Automatica on \u2018Worship And Tributes: Volume II\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Baby, is this love for real? If it is, pre-order your copy and and get the full song, plus 12 more awesome covers from <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5GNfemteYJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/5GNfemteYJ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dYE5XgEgP2\">pic.twitter.com\/dYE5XgEgP2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rock Sound (@rocksound) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rocksound\/status\/1100802748407152646?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 27, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocksound.tv\/news\/read\/did-awsten-knight-just-signal-the-beginning-of-the-new-era-of-waterparks-by\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rock Sound News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ultimate tease. Last month&nbsp;Waterparks&nbsp;started teasing their fans by releasing a piece of tour merch which dropped a few key hints about the band&#8217;s new era. Along with teasers alluding to the title of the upcoming Waterparks album (&#8216;Friendly Reminder&#8217;) and the name of a few new tracks (&#8216;Noise&#8217;, &#8216;Lemonade&#8217; and &#8216;Glitter Times&#8217;), they also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-483627","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 17:13:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}