Everyone's favorite local melodic-upbeat-hardcore outfit CHOKE UP! are about to return from a three week tour during which drummer Harley Cox turned 21 (which he notes has been "rad but not drastically different than before," except now band mates make him do the beer runs). Other notable tour adventures included cliff jumping at the quarries in Bloomington, IN and "hanging hard with kids from Kalamazoo, Michigan," Cox tells us.