As summer concert season kicks into full gear, fans of post-hardcore and emo revival are gearing up for one of the most anticipated tours of the year. On June 3, Sleeping with Sirens will take the stage at the iconic Blossom Music Center, opening for longtime friends in Pierce The Veil. With over a decade in the scene, the band has weathered industry shifts, personal changes, and evolving sounds—yet continues to connect with fans both old and new. Phoning CleveRock’s interview hotline ahead of the tour, Sleeping with Sirens’ frontman Kellin Quinn to talk about the upcoming tour, the band’s longevity, the importance of music as an emotional escape, and what the future holds—including a few hints about new material on the horizon.
Sleeping with Sirens is no stranger to sharing a stage with Pierce The Veil. The tour, which kicked off in mid-May, includes many dates that have sold out well in advance. {Tickets still remain for the show at Blossom Music Center on June 3!} The band’s lead singer is ready to get back to doing live shows.
“I’m very, very excited. I mean, the last show we played was in November in Australia, so it’s good to be back,” Quinn said. “We’ve been very busy in the meantime though, finishing a new album. We just got drums tracked for that and so we’re in a really good place. I think after this tour I have a little bit of time off and then I go in to finalize all my vocals and then everything will be turned in and ready to rock.”
Sleeping with Sirens’ most recent album, ‘Complete Collapse,’ was released back in 2022. Without the need to support new music, the guys are free to dig deep into their catalog, which spans seven studio albums over a 15-year period. While Quinn wouldn’t go as far as to agree that this is a ‘greatest hits’ or ‘best of tour,’ the band already has a good idea of what they’ll be cooking up for a setlist for the upcoming tour.
“We have an idea of the songs that we’re looking forward to playing, but we also have a couple of other ones just on standby, just in case we’re just going to kind of feel it out as we go,” he revealed. “I think the cool thing about doing a support slot is that you’re able to go in and just kind of play your heavy hitters, and this is Pierce The Veil’s tour, and we’re happy to be a part of it. We just want to go in and play the songs that we know will do really, really well for us and get in and get out. It’s going to be great.”
Looking back to 2010, many of the bands that were breaking into the scene with Sleeping With Sirens have since disbanded, been relegated to small clubs (or worse, rib burnoffs), and other established bands have also fallen off the map. Quinn was asked what has been the difference maker for SWS that has allowed them not only to maintain their status but also to continue growing and thriving in 2025.
“Honestly, that’s a really great question. I was just talking to my band about this and also to my wife about this is the fact that we’re really lucky in comparison to a lot of the other bands that kind of came up with us, that we are able to still go out and even on our own play pretty amazing size venues and sell out shows and stuff. I have no idea,” he said. “I think honestly for me the biggest thing is just growing up and maturing and kind of doing away with the childish shit that we used to do when we were younger and taking it seriously and really putting our all into the music and having something to say. And I think that’s what we do on our end, but the rest of it’s really just up to the people that still care about listening to us.”
The population of the United States is approximately 340 million people. The total number of song streams that Sleeping With Siren amassed in recent years exceeds that number by a long shot. (Yes, it must be factored in that folks stream entire albums and listen to songs multiple times. The entire country is not counted amongst their ban base. That’s not the point!)
“I don’t really look at the metrics of anything often. I’m very much the type of person that I focus on what’s in front of me right here, right now,” Quinn said.
“I think this new album has been in my personal space for so long, just writing these new songs. I think we wrote 50 and narrowed it down to 12. That’s kind of how I look at everything that I’m doing, is just everything’s in front of me,” he continued. “I don’t worry about the stuff that’s in the past, other than we go out there, we play the songs that people love to hear, and then just focus on putting out new stuff and see where that takes us.”
Taking on the role of an opening slot on an opening tour, there is the assumption that many in attendance are coming to the show primarily to see Pierce The Veil. Quinn was quizzed on what he hopes those fans takeaway will be from Sleeping With Sirens’ set.
“I have to assume that they kind of know who we are based on the fact that ‘King for a Day’ is such a massive song,” he said. “But I honestly think that we always expect or want from anybody coming out to see our shows is that they have a great time that they’re able to forget about whatever’s going on in their world and just come out to a show and just have fun and feel great for the few hours that they get to come to see all the bands on the tour. I think our job, as musicians, is to go out there and make people feel amazing for a night and forget about their troubles. And so that’s what our focus is.“
To his point, this country (and beyond) has gone completely off the rails. The 24-hour news cycle is cringeworthy, no matter how one slices it. Fans coming out to see Pierce The Veil and Sleeping with Sirens on June 3 aren’t coming to the show to focus on the bullshit; it’s a time to forget about all the negativity, if only for a few hours, and just have a good time within the confines of the venue. As odd as it sounds, there’s pressure on touring artists to deliver on that front.
“I think there’s a lot of artists that go out there and try to propaganda shit. For me, as a fan of music, I don’t want to go to a show and be preached at, I want to go to a show and I want to enjoy myself,” Quinn said. “There’s already so much shit going on around us all the time and it’s always in your face. So, I think our job as a band and our identity is to go out there and help you forget that stuff and just have a good time, sing along, and have a blast. That’s what going to concerts is all about.”
Before the 10-minute chat wrapped, Quinn was asked if he could spill any details about the new music he alluded to or offer clues about the immediate future for Sleeping with Sirens:
This is a record that we went back to playing together as a band in a room, which we haven’t done in a long time,” he said. “I think a lot of bands kind of go into a small studio space and work directly alongside the producer, and one guy’s playing the guitar, the other guy’s singing along, and a lot of things are programmed. We really wanted to go back to a situation where we’re all in a circle playing and writing together, and everything is organic sounding. Obviously, we’ll have the bits and pieces to make it feel modern, but we’re working with Will Yip on this album. He’s very much a, ‘if you can’t play it, it’s not making the record’ type of guy. And these songs were hard work, but the songs are going to pay off for that because we had to work our asses off. And because of that, the songs are amazing. So we’re very, very excited.”
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