Action/Adventure Tickets

What does the expression 'ever after' mean? Most people will automatically assume it's preceded by the word 'happily', but that isn't necessarily the case. By calling their second full-length Ever After, Chicago's Action/Adventure are leaning into the ambiguity of those two words. Given their history, that's not surprising. Having played together since 2014, the band-- lead vocalist Blake Evaristo, vocalist/guitarist Brompton Jackson, drummer Adrian Brown, bassist Manny Avila and guitarist Oren Trace--went viral on TikTok in 2020 with "Barricades", a song that highlighted the obstacles the five-piece faced as an entirely BIPOC band in the pop-punk scene. It was also the band's first TikTok video, having made their account earlier that day. In 2021, they released their first EP for Pure Noise, Pulling Focus. The next year the label issued the band's debut album Imposter Syndrome, an accomplished set of songs that undermined the record's title and its self-deprecating inspiration that Action/Adventure didn't feel worthy of the attention, acclaim or success they'd been receiving.