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Mayday Parade Headline Tour

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Explosions in Your Pants Tour will be heading up the East Cost this spring with Mayday Parade, My American Heart and The Graduate.
 
The Explosions in Your Pants Tour presented by Glamour Kills will be hitting the East Coast this April with headliners Mayday Parade (Fearless Records) and supporting artists My American Heart (Warcon Records) and The Graduate (IconMes).  This tour will begin in Florida, Mayday Parade’s home state, and continue up the coast ending at The Bamboozle Festival in New Jersey.
 
Pre Sale tickets are now available through Ground (CTRL) and can be purchased here. http://tickets.groundctrl.com/collections/mayday.

Explosions In Your Pants Tour Dates
4.10.08 – Gainesville, FL @ Common Grounds
4.11.08 – Tallahassee, FL @ The Beta Bar
4.12.08 – Augusta, GA @ Club Hollywood
4.15.08 – New Orleans, LA @ House of Blues Parish
4.16.08 – Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live
4.17.08 – Lewisville, TX @ Fat Daddy’s Sound Shack
4.18.08 – Lubbock, TX @ Texas Tech University/Student Union Plaza
4.19.08 – Oklahoma City, OK @ Bricktown Ballroom
4.20.08 – Tulsa, OK @ Crush Lounge
4.22.08 – Des Moines, IA @ The House Of Bricks
4.24. 08 – La Crosse, WI @ Warehouse Nightclub
4.25.08 – Rockford, IL @ Forest Hills Lodge
4.27.08 – Grand Rapids, MI @ The Intersection
4.28.08 – Columbus, OH @ The Basement
4.29.08 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Diesel
4.30.08 – Lancaster, PA @ The Chameleon
5.1.08 – Troy, NY @ Revolution Hall
5.2.08 – Poughkeepsie, NY @ The Chance Complex (Pre-Bamboozle Bash) – Mainstage
5.3.08 – Utica, NY @ Moosestock at Utica College (Quad)
5.4.08 – East Rutherford, NJ @ Bamboozle — Meadowlands Sports Complex

Full 2008 Warped Tour Lineup Announced

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The full lineup for the 2008 Warped Tour has been announced. Check out the bands and the dates they will be playing below.

3OH!3 whole tour
A Day to Remember jun 20 – jul 20
Against Me! whole tour
Aggrolites whole tour
Alesana whole tour
All That Remains jul 22 – aug 17
All Time Low jul 22 – aug 17
Anberlin jun 21 – aug 17
Angels and Airwaves whole tour
As I Lay Dying jun 20 – jul 18
August Burns Red jun 20 – july 6
Automatic Love Letter jul 17 – july 27
Beat Union whole tour
Bedouin Soundclash jul 3 – jul 17
Between the Trees jun 20 – jul 8, aug 4 – 12
Bouncing Souls jul 16 – jul 25
Bring Me the Horizon jul 22 – aug 17
Broadway Calls whole tour
Charlotte Sometimes whole tour
Cinematic Sunrise jul 10 – jul 16
Classic Crime jul 27 – aug 17
Cobra Starship whole tour
Confide jul 22 – aug 17
Danger Radio jul 19 – aug 8 / aug 9 – aug 18
Dr. Manhattan jul 22 – aug 17
Evergreen Terrace whole tour
Every Avenue jul 9 – jul 26
Everytime I Die whole tour
Family Force 5 whole tour except 6/19, 6/20, 6/26, 7/2, 7/12, 8/8
Forever the Sickest Kids jun 20 – jul 6 / jul 7 – aug 17
Four Year Strong jul 19 – aug 17
From First to Last whole tour
GBH aug 6 – aug 17
Greeley Estates whole tour
Gym Class Heroes whole tour
Horrorpops whole tour
Jack’s Mannequin jul 1 – jul 20
Just Surrender jul 9 – jul 26
Katy Perry whole tour
Ludo jul 22 – aug 17
Madina Lake jul 9 – jul 25
Mayday Parade whole tour
Maylene and the Sons of Disaster jun 20 – jul 18
MC Chris whole tour
MURS whole tour
Norma Jean whole tour
Oreska whole tour
Paramore jul 1 – jul 6
Pennywise jul 15 – aug 3, jul 15, jul 17- jul 20, jul 24, jul 27, jul 29- aug 3
Pierce the Veil whole tour
Pinkertones whole tour
Protest the Hero whole tour
Reel Big Fish whole tour
Relient K whole tour
Rise Against aug 6 – aug 17
Say Anything whole tour
Set Your Goals whole tour
Shwayze whole tour
Sick City jul 19 – jul 20, aug 6
Sky Eats Airplane jul 27 – aug 17
Stick to Your Guns jun 20 – jul 6
Story of the Year whole tour
Street Dogs whole tour
The Academy Is… whole tour
The All-American Rejects jun 20 – jun 29
The Audition jun 20 – jun 29 / jun 30 – aug 17
The Briggs whole tour
The Bronx whole tour
The Color Fred whole tour
The Devil Wears Prada whole tour
The Dillinger Escape Plan jul 9 – jul 15
The Fabulous Rudies whole tour
The Higher jun 20 – jul 20
The Human Abstract jul 22 – aug 17
The Lordz whole tour
The Maine jun 20 – jul 18 / aug 9 – aug 17
The Morning Light jul 28 – aug 6
The Pink Spiders jun 20 – jul 20
The Saint Alvia Cartel jul 9 – aug 3, aug 13 on
The Secret Handshake jun 30 – jul 9
The Vandals aug 6 – aug 17
We the Kings whole tour

Emery Announce Winter Tour

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Emery has announced a winter headlining tour with Mayday Parade, As Cities Burn, Pierce the Veil, and Cry of the Afflicted starting January 29th in Nashville, TN. The full list of tour dates can be found below.

Tour Dates

01/29/2008 Â   Nashville, TN Â   Rocketown
01/30/2008 Â   Columbus, OH Â   Newport Music Hall
01/31/2008 Â   Chicago, IL Â   Metro
02/01/2008 Â   Cleveland, OH Â   Agora Ballroom
02/02/2008 Â   Detroit, MI Â   Saint Andrew’s Hall
02/04/2008 Â   Madison, WI Â   Majestic Theatre
02/05/2008 Â   Saint Paul, MN Â   Station 4
02/06/2008 Â   Omaha, NE Â   Sokol Underground
02/07/2008 Â   Lawrence, KS Â   Liberty Hall
02/08/2008 Â   Denver, CO Â   Marquis Theatre
02/09/2008 Â   Salt Lake City, UT Â   Avalon Theater
02/11/2008 Â   Seattle, WA Â   Showbox At The Market
02/12/2008 Â   Portland, OR Â   Wonder Ballroom
02/13/2008 Â   Sacramento, CA Â   The Boardwalk
02/14/2008 Â   San Francisco, CA Â   Bottom of the Hill
02/15/2008 Â   Los Angeles, CA Â   Troubadour
02/16/2008 Â   San Diego, CA Â   Soma
02/17/2008 Â   Pomona, CA Â   Glass House
02/18/2008 Â   Las Vegas, NV Â   Jillian’s
02/19/2008 Â   Tempe, AZ Â   Marquee Theatre
02/20/2008 Â   Albuquerque, NM Â   Sunshine Theatre
02/22/2008 Â   San Antonio, TX Â   White Rabbit
02/23/2008 Â   McAllen, TX Â   El Rey Theater
02/24/2008 Â   Houston, TX Â   Meridian – Red Room
02/25/2008 Â   Dallas, TX Â   The Door
02/26/2008 Â   Tulsa, OK Â   Otherside
02/27/2008 Â   Sauget, IL Â   Pop’s
03/01/2008 Â   Buffalo, NY Â   Xtreme Wheels
03/02/2008 Â   Pittsburgh, PA Â   Mr. Smalls Theatre
03/03/2008 Â   New York, NY Â   Blender Theater at Gramercy
03/05/2008 Â   Worcester, MA Â   The Palladium
03/06/2008 Â   Towson, MD Â   Recher Theatre
03/07/2008 Â   Philadelphia, PA Â   Trocadero

Holiday Parade Post New Song Clip

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Holiday Parade posted a clip of a brand new song titled “Make It Count” on their MySpace page. The track was produced by Zack & Kenneth (Cartel, The Fold, Mayday Parade). The band is wrapping up their tour with Asteria and The Morning Light, and then hitting the road with Cartel for about two weeks. Check out a brief statement from the band below.

“holllaaaa!
we just posted a clip of a new song titled ‘Make It Count’ on our Myspace.com profile and we would love to hear some first impression feedback. Whether it be amazing, good, bad, brutal, whatever…we’d love to hear it, so please let us know your thoughts, they mean A LOT to us, probably a lot more than you’d think. We will be announcing some pretty big news soon… stay tunedddddd.
<3 us”