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• July 11, 2026
• Colleen Johnson
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The last time Las Vegas’s The Cab found themselves in the area was in 2012, a little bit out of town at Showcase Live in Foxboro, before the band made their return recently on the last day of June. That tour was a co-headliner with The Summer Set and featured a teeny little band called Paradise Fears at the time. A band that spoke about in their own main support slot at The Royale, reminiscing about how they went on this incredible tour as main support for this incredible band called The Cab, just to have that band then disappear on them. 

But the show the other night was pure 2012 energy, for the crowd, it seemed like no time had passed. Commented on by vocalist/frontman of Paradise Fears, Sam Miller, saying, “We’ve grown up a bit since we last saw you. We’ve got jobs, 401 (k) s, children, and wives. You may have that too, but it is 2012 in this room, and we expect you to act accordingly.” For Paradise Fears, it was a full band return for the lineup, an incredible feat, but absolutely makes sense considering the band’s roots were formed by traveling from their small town in North Dakota and relentlessly following other bands’ tours in a van promoting their band.

Highlights for Paradise Fears included tons of conversation from Miller throughout the set, and ended their swift 45-minute set with a duo of legendary hits for the band with  “Battle Scars” and “Sanctuary,” back to back, and so much interaction and love were shared with their clear several pockets of fans throughout the intimate room. 

Just before the band left the stage, they stood together as a unit for a very warranted curtain call bow to those in attendance on this very special summer night. Boston’s show was the last night of the tour, and a cheering section of wives was highlighted in the balcony, along with a child or two. The nostalgia and strong performance definitely warmed up the room for the quick-to-come-to-the-stage headlining band, The Cab. 

From the second The Cab walked on stage, to the tune of the anthemic “Locked & Loaded,” off their brand new album, Chasing Crowns, it was game over for those in attendance. Before the brand-new album, the band’s last album, Symphony Soldier, came out in 2012, and its tracks were all over the setlist. Second up for the band was “Temporary Bliss,” and as the band stepped into this track, the room ignited. It featured gorgeous vocals from both frontman Alex DeLeon and  a man who wears a lot of the hats in the band, pianist and rhythm guitarist Alex Marshall, and it only excelled from there. Just after the track finished, DeLeon had his first interaction with the crowd, saying, “Ladies and Gentlemen, we’re The Cab. We’re back from the dead,” transitioning into the song from their latest album, “Back From the Dead.” 

From this point on, the set screamed:  This is for our die-hards. Quickly moving into Bad, Deleon commented, “14 years, it took us to get back to you guys,” and from this point on, it was for the girls. With the exception of a medley featuring NSYNC, Backstreet Boys, and Britney, and a later in the set cover of Justin Bieber’s “Yukon,” the set was majorly composed of every song you could ever name from The Cab’s historic but brief era as one of the Warped Tour era favorites. Be it moments like “Bounce” and “Take My Hand,” to a strong but appreciated dependence on the aforementioned Symphony Soldier, with “Endlessly,” and “Angel With A Shotgun” closing the set out, it was a non-stop flow of an enraptured room and a band that had been gone from this city for too long. 

As the night culminated with a massive crowd of emotions for the final song, those who made it out of the venue early were met by Deleon popping up outside the front of the venue within ten minutes or so of the band jumping off stage. It’s clear one thing hasn’t changed for this long-loved unit. The night was the final show of a tour that took The Cab back over the nation, the band’s first headline run in thirteen years. And despite the time the band has been a band or been on some surely purely brutal drives on this latest run, Deleon coming out to meet fans in a casual way was for sure a cherry on top of a night where elder emos thrived. 

In 2026 and in recent years post-COVID, the number of bands returning to touring and reuniting is honestly something we need in these times. And a lot of bands are hearing that call. Be it the return of Warped Tour, even if it’s just a handful of cities, or the amount of reunions we’ve had in these past few years, it’s honestly the medicine. The world has gone through much, and slowly but surely, our little souls are being healed by the return of the music of our youth.

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Photos – The Cab, Paradise Fears at Royale in Boston, MA on June 30th: (All photos by John Hutchings)