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2009 Alternative Press Tour Dates

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Tour dates for the 2009 Alternative Press Tour have been announced. On the bill will be 3OH!3, The Maine, Family Force 5, Hit The Lights, A Rocket To The Moon. Check out the dates below.

March 20 – House of Blues – Dallas, TX
March 21 ““ Emo’s ““ Austin, TX (South By Southwest ““ Free Show)
March 22 – Warehouse Live – Houston, TX
March 24 – Marquee Theatre – Tempe, AZ
March 25 – Rialto Theatre – Tuscon, AZ
March 26 – House of Blues – Las Vegas, NV
March 27 – The Avalon ““ Hollywood, CA
March 28 ““ The Glass House ““ Pomona, CA
March 29 ““ House of Blues – San Diego, CA
March 31 ““ The Dome ““ Bakersfield, CA
April 1 ““ Grand Ballroom – San Francisco, CA
April 2 ““ Senator Theatre ““ Chico, CA
April 3 ““ Wonder Ballroom ““ Portland, OR
April 4 ““ El Corazon ““ Seattle, WA
April 5 ““ Knitting Factory ““ Boise, ID
April 7 ““ In The Venue – Salt Lake City, UT
April 8 ““ Fox Theatre ““ Boulder, CO
April 9 ““ Sokol Auditorium ““ Omaha, NE
April 10 ““ Station 4 – St. Paul, MN
April 11 ““ House of Blues – Chicago, IL
April 12 ““ The Eagles Club – Milwaukee, WI
April 14 ““ Beaumont Club – Kansas City, MO
April 15 ““ Pop’s – St. Louis, MO
April 16 ““ Rocketown ““ Nashville, TN
April 17 ““ The Masquerade – Atlanta, GA
April 18 ““ House of Blues – Orlando, FL
April 19 ““ Culture Room – Ft. Lauderdale, FL
April 20 ““ State Theatre – St. Petersburg, FL
April 21 ““ Freebird Cafe – Jacksonville Beach, FL
April 23 ““ Toad’s Place – Richmond, VA
April 24 ““ 9:30 Club – Washington DC
April 25 ““ Theatre of Living Arts – Philadelphia, PA
April 26 ““ Crocodile Rock – Allentown, PA
April 28 ““ The Fillmore At Irving Plaza – New York, NY
April 30 ““ Toad’s Place – New Haven, CT
May 1 ““ House of Blues – Boston, MA
May 2 ““ The Town Ballroom – Buffalo, NY
May 5 ““ Phoenix Concert Theatre – Toronto, ON, Canada
May 6 ““ The Intersection – Grand Rapids, MI
May 7 ““ The Crofoot Ballroom – Pontiac, MI
May 8 ““ Newport Music Hall – Columbus, OH
May 9 ““ House of Blues – Cleveland, OH

Broadway Calls Signs To Side One Dummy

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Pop Punker’s Broadway Calls have signed to Side One Dummy. A message from the band can be read below.

Hello everyone! Happy new year. We are STOKED to announce our signing to Side One Dummy Records!!!!

Since we got home from our last tour, we’ve been writing songs that will eventually become our 2nd LP. We are very excited that Side One believes in us and we couldn’t be happier.

To share a home with bands like 7Seconds, Flogging Molly, Gaslight Anthem, Bedouin Soundclash, The Briggs, Fake Problems, and of course Chuck Ragan is pretty incredible. The roster they’ve had over the years has always been consistent, and always influential to us.

So yeah, it’s gonna be another fun year for us, and we’ll see you at the shows.

Record details to come soon!!!

“Almost Have A Bus Tour” Dates and Artists

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Automatic Loveletter, A Cursive Memory, The Friday Night Boys and Tickle Me Pink will be heading out on tour together starting in February.

Dates:

February, 3 2009 – Sokol Underground Omaha, Nebraska
February, 4 2009 – Fubar St Louis, Missouri
February, 5 2009 Reggie’s Rock Club Chicago, Illinois
February, 6 2009 Agora Ballroom Cleveland, Ohio
February, 7 2009 Jaggard Umc Altoona, Pennsylvania
February, 8 2009 The Tralf Buffalo, New York
February, 10 2009 – The Dome Watertown, New York
February, 11 2009 – Harper’s Ferry Allston, Massachusetts
February, 12 2009 – Highline Ballroom New York, New York
February, 13 2009 – Webster Underground Hartford, Connecticut
February, 14 2009 – Crocodile Rock Cafe Allentown, Pennsylvania
February, 15 2009 – Trocadero Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
February, 17 2009 – The Casbah Charlotte, North Carolina
February, 18 2009 – The Soapbox Wilmington, North Carolina
February, 19 2009 – The Masquerade Atlanta, Georgia
February, 20 2009 – Backbooth Orlando, Florida
February, 21 2009 – The Orpheum Tampa, Florida
February, 22 2009 – City Limits Delray Beach, Florida – TICKLE ME PINK BEGINS
February, 23 2009 – 1982 Bar Gainesville, Florida
February, 24 2009 – Jack Rabbit’s Jacksonville, Florida
February, 26 2009 – Java Jazz Houston, Texas
February, 27 2009 – Rock Bottom San Antonio, Texas
February, 28 2009 – The Door- Prophet Bar Dallas, Texas
March, 2 2009 – Launchpad Albuquerque, New Mexico
March, 4 2009 – Soma San Diego, California
March, 5 2009 – Chain Reaction Anaheim, California
March, 6 2009 – Knitting Factory Hollywood, California
March, 7 2009 – Bottom Of The Hill San Francisco, California
March, 8 2009 – Satyricon Portland, Oregon
March, 9 2009 – El Corazon Seattle, Washington
March 11, 2009 – Kilby Court Salt Lake City, UT
March, 12 2009 – The Marquis Theater Denver, Colorado
March, 14 2009 – The Conservatory Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
March, 15 2009 – 516 Soundstage Shreveport, Louisiana

Update from The Fall Of Troy

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An update from The Fall Of Troy can be read below.

Hello everyone, we hope your holidays weren’t too stressful and you got to spend as much valuable time with family and friends as we did. We have been very excited about the overwhelmingly positive response to “Phantom”, we worked very hard on it and feel that it’s our most mature work yet. If you haven’t gotten your hands on it yet, we hope you head over to itunes and download it, and we have some plans to release it on vinyl sometime in the near future, so stay tuned for that.

We’ve been kinda doing our own things since returning home from the west coast tour, but finding inspiration in many things in the process. The next record, yet to be titled, is coming together very nicely and very diverse. It has elements of all of our previous ventures, as well as many new directions we’re excited to explore with all of you… We feel as if at this time, it’s more important to write music that will be around for maybe 5 years instead of 5 minutes. With all the 15 minutes of fame bands around capitalizing off of music’s overexposed state it’s pushed us to take a look at what we really want to be for ourselves, and that thing is simply to be true to ourselves and others musically…

In other news, Thomas has begun what may become some form of a solo record in later 09′, but it’s still just some songs with a guitar and we’ll see where they end up…

Anyways, thank you all for your continued support and love, it means the world to us that so many people are so compelling at every show we play, or with every record or t-shirt we sell. We owe you our lives and we’ll continue to make the most authentic and truthful music we possibly can in 2009.

Hope to see you all on the road soon!!!

Love and respect,

The Guys