Check out an e-card for the Explosions In Your Pants Tour featuring Mayday Parade, My American Heart, and The Graduate.

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.

The Graduate’s new EP titled The Evergreen EP can now be found on iTunes.

The Graduate will be releasing a new EP titled The Evergreen EP on iTunes and a free version at all FYE stores soon. The Evergreen EP is a collection of songs that the band recently recorded just for their fans. It has a new songs, a holiday cover and some alternate version of songs off of Anhedonia. Check out “Blue Christmas” and “Anhedonia (Alternate Version)” on their MySpace page. You can see the track listing and album art below.

Track Listing

1. Blue Christmas (Elvis Cover)
2. Anhedonia (Alternate Version)
3. The City That Reads (Acoustic Version)
4. Gunslinger (New)

The Graduate recently preformed live on FOX 25 (Boston). Check them out peforming “Anhedonia” and “The City That Reads” here.

The Graduate recently won RedEye’s Battlepalooza competition and are gearing up to play Lollapalooza this weekend. Be sure to catch them out on the road this summer.

The Graduate is going overseas to tour in September in support of Anhedonia, their Brian McTernan (Thrice, Senses Fail, Circa Survive, Moneen) produced full length debut on Icon MES. The band has been a fast rising act in the mid west indie rock scene thanks to memorable songs, an interactive live show and their no B.S. attitude.

The Graduate European Tour Dates

9/1/07 - Konstanz , Germany @ ROCK AM SEE w/ NIN, The Sounds
9/3/07 Cardiff , UK @ Barfly
9/4/07 Liverpool , UK @ Barfly
9/5/07 York , UK @ Barfly (Fibers)
9/6/07 Glasgow , UK @ Barfly
9/7/07 Amsterdamn @ Melweg
9/10/07 London , UK @ Barfly

The Graduate’s video for “Sit & Sink” is up for voting in the MTVu Freshmen Class Competition. Go here to vote for them.

The Graduate recently performed live in the PureVolume studios. Check out the videos of “Sit & Sink” and “Anhedonia” here.

Has 2007 proven to be better then last year? That is the question and we are looking for an answer, but a full year in review will have to wait another 6 months. The second half of the year looks promising with releasing from Paramore, The Rocket Summer, Motion City Soundtrack, Jimmy Eat World and more coming in the next few months. But what has the first half of the year done for our endless music craving? Releases from Anberlin, Relient K, Sherwood, Fall Out Boy and more hit shelves with lots of fanfare, but did they live up to the hype? This year is also filled with lots of sophomore albums from bands like Sullivan, The Fold, Paramore, My American Heart, Circa Survive and many more. Did these releases fall into the sophomore slump or are they destine for greatness.