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"America Online"
"America Online"
Single by The Midnight
from the album Monsters
Released	May 13, 2019
Length	5:49
Label	Counter Records
Songwriter(s)	Tim McEwan; Tyler Lyle;
Producer(s)	Tim McEwan
Monsters track listing
	Monsters "1991 (intro)"; "America Online"; "Dance With Somebody"; "Seventeen"; "Dream Away"; "The Search for Ecco"; "Prom Night"; "Fire In The Sky"; "Monsters"; "Helvetica"; "Brooklyn"; "Deep Blue"; "Night Skies"; "City Dreams (interlude)"; "Last Train";
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Fall 2023 North American Tour
Tour by The Midnight
	Tour dates
Start date	September 16, 2023
End date	October 15, 2023
No. of shows	25 in North America;
Supporting acts	Flamingosis; Replicant;
The Midnight concert chronology
	; Change Your Heart Tour; (2022-2023); ; Fall 2023 North American Tour; (2023); ; Summer 2024 EU/UK Tour; (2024);

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Fall 2023 North American Tour

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The Fall 2023 North American Tour was the sixth concert tour by The Midnight.^[1] Announced in April 2023, the tour began on September 16, 2023, in Atlanta, Georgia, and concluded on October 21, 2023, in Monterrey, Mexico. All shows were in the United States except for the final two which were in Mexico.

The Fall 2023 North American Tour featured a diverse array of songs from across all of The Midnight's releases. The tour saw Tim McEwan return to the front of the stage playing synths and pads, having previously performed with a full drum kit since the Fall 2021 and Spring 2022 Tour. During the tour, the band played for the first time at the music festivals Music Midtown in Atlanta and Live Out in Monterrey. Additionally, they opened for ODESZA on their The Last Goodbye Tour on October 19, 2023, The Midnight's first time being a supporting act and their first performance in Mexico since 2019.

25 shows were performed over the span of six weeks, the longest individual run of shows for The Midnight since they began touring in 2018. The band's lineup, unchanged since the spring leg of the Fall 2021 and Spring 2022 Tour, consisted of Tim McEwan on percussion and synths, Tyler Lyle on guitar and vocals, Lelia Broussard on guitar and bass, Royce Whittaker on guitar, and Justin Klunk on saxophone.

America Online

America Online^[2] is a song by The Midnight. It is the first single and second track from their album Monsters. The single was released on May 13, 2019.^[1]

The song was written by band members Tim McEwan and Tyler Lyle and produced by McEwan. It has a running time of five minutes and 49 seconds and is in the key of B minor.

During a tour stop in the Spring 2019 Tour about a month before the single's release, the band talked with NewRetroWave about America Online:^[3]

As a kid you’re sort of [disconnected] from the world… But when you’re in your teenage years, everything is sort of inner-conflict, relationships, all happening at once. The tensions of romantic love, acceptance in groups and things like that. …it’s not a sunset right? It’s more of a sort of blog track. I love going on vaporwave track playlists on youtube. I love the low-grade, low-fi, bitcrushed sound – it’s like that but with a bit more of a cleaner palette, a cleaner mix. So, that one will set the tone. Tyler is definitely on it, but in a bit more of a…vocodery way.

In an interview with Magnetic Magazine after the release of Monsters, The Midnight further stated:^[4]

Tim: This sets the tone for our album. We’re in the era of connectivity. Gone are the days of being a kid, riding around on bikes, exploring the world around you. You’re a teen now and your nights are spent online in your bedroom, logged onto chat rooms, while the door to your parents is shut and you are searching for your own identity.

Tyler: This track was basically done and we’d decided to do it as an instrumental, but at the last minute I decided to try and write something. By that time we knew what the album was about roughly. This became the premise of the record- is love necessarily reciprocal- is hate? What is intimacy without proximity? Are we really connected at the bottom of all of this, especially when “all of this” is mediated by so many layers that seem un-human.

According to McEwan, the synth used in the opening of America Online is Serum with EchoMelt 2 added to get the uneven tape jitter effect.^[5] The vocoder used is a mix of VocalSynth 2 from iZotope and BitSpeek.

The date on the single artwork for America Online is August 6, 1991, which is the day the world's first website was published by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN.^[6]^[7]

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16th January, 2026: Tour - New Constellations is announced as the opener for the North American dates of the Time Machines tour.
14th January, 2026: Music - An official Splice pack of samples and sounds used by The Midnight has been released.
5th January, 2026: Tour - Two shows China have been added to the Time Machines tour. The Midnight will perform in Beijing on January 18, 2026, and Shanghai on January 20, 2026. These are the band's first shows in China.
9th December, 2025: Music - A remix competition for the song Runaways has been launched. The stems are available for download from LabelRadar and participants have until January 15, 2026, to submit their remixes.
5th December, 2025: Music - The instrumental version of Syndicate is released.
6th November, 2025: Tour - During a Reddit AMA, Tyler Lyle announces that Oliver McEwan (Music Director and bass), Rhett Shull (guitar, groove boxes, sound design), and Oblvyn (synths and vocals) have been added to the touring band. They will replace Lelia Broussard and Royce Whittaker.

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↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 "The Midnight - Excited to announce our Fall 2023 North American... | Facebook". Facebook. April 11, 2023. Archived from the original on March 24, 2024. Retrieved May 19, 2023. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":0" defined multiple times with different content
↑ "America Online | The Midnight". Bandcamp. July 10, 2020. Archived from the original on December 15, 2021. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
↑ Zistler, Andrew (April 5, 2019). "The Midnight Talk Tour and Reveal New Single - America Online - NewRetroWave - Stay Retro! | Live The 80's Dream!". NewRetroWave. Archived from the original on April 6, 2022. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
↑ Middleton, Ryan (July 10, 2020). "The Director's Cut: The Midnight - MONSTERS - Magnetic Magazine". Magnetic Magazine. Archived from the original on April 6, 2022. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
↑ "We are The Midnight and we're playing Electric Forest for the first time. Ask us Anything! : ElectricForest". Reddit. May 21, 2019. Archived from the original on April 6, 2022. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
↑ Nix, Elizabeth (August 4, 2016). "The World's First Web Site - HISTORY". HISTORY. Archived from the original on March 28, 2022. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
↑ "info.cern.ch". CERN. August 6, 1991. Archived from the original on April 15, 2022. Retrieved April 15, 2022.

[:0-1] 1.0 ^1.1 "The Midnight - Excited to announce our Fall 2023 North American... | Facebook". Facebook. April 11, 2023. Archived from the original on March 24, 2024. Retrieved May 19, 2023. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":0" defined multiple times with different content

[2] "America Online | The Midnight". Bandcamp. July 10, 2020. Archived from the original on December 15, 2021. Retrieved April 6, 2022.

[3] Zistler, Andrew (April 5, 2019). "The Midnight Talk Tour and Reveal New Single - America Online - NewRetroWave - Stay Retro! | Live The 80's Dream!". NewRetroWave. Archived from the original on April 6, 2022. Retrieved April 6, 2022.

[4] Middleton, Ryan (July 10, 2020). "The Director's Cut: The Midnight - MONSTERS - Magnetic Magazine". Magnetic Magazine. Archived from the original on April 6, 2022. Retrieved April 6, 2022.

[5] "We are The Midnight and we're playing Electric Forest for the first time. Ask us Anything! : ElectricForest". Reddit. May 21, 2019. Archived from the original on April 6, 2022. Retrieved April 6, 2022.

[6] Nix, Elizabeth (August 4, 2016). "The World's First Web Site - HISTORY". HISTORY. Archived from the original on March 28, 2022. Retrieved April 6, 2022.

[7] "info.cern.ch". CERN. August 6, 1991. Archived from the original on April 15, 2022. Retrieved April 15, 2022.

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