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Congratulations to Anberlin who sold an impressive 33,525 copies of their album Cities in its first week! It was good enough to make it the second highest CD debut for a Tooth and Nail artist and to snag the #19th spot on the Billboard Top 200!
They are also set to make their late-night television debut when they perform â┚¬Ã…”Godspeedâ┚¬?–the first single off CITIES–on the â┚¬Ã…”Late Late Show with Craig Fergusonâ┚¬? Monday, March 5.
New Year’s Day first full length, My Dear, will be coming out on April 24th.
Below is an update about why Lydia had to cancel their current tour with The Spill Canvas.
hello dear friends
I don’t know what to say right now really. I’m writing this from my sidekick in the middle of nowhere illinois. We are driving home from ohio, halfway through an amazing tour with our friends the spill canvas. Extremely bummed right now to say the least. The last few days leighton has picked up some sort of a stomach virus flu type of sicknessand has been incredibly sick, but manned up and played the shows even thought he was not feeling up to it at all.
Then last night he started to feel a bit worse and went to urgent care before our show, they said it was just an upset stomach and he should take it easy, but he came back to try and play the show anyways. As we took the stage to a sold out crowd, more stoked than ever to play, 20 seconds into the first song he passed out cold on stage and we ended the set there, tried to get him to the hospital again but opted to sleep at the hotel and shake it off.
This morning he woke up feeling even worse and we talked about maybe taking the day off and letting him get better. On his walk out to the van, he passed out cold once again and hit the concrete going into convulsions, we called 911 and got him the hospital immediately to find
out that the “upset stomach” was internal bleeding for the past 3 days and a torn esophagus and if we waited any longer who knows what could have happened. Leighton will spend the next 5 days to a week in the columbus, mt carmel hospital with his parents while the doctors try to
determine how this happened and get him all fixed up and we will be driving 28 hours home over the next day or two.This is definitely Something far more serious than any of us could ever imagine and we are
so incredibly bummed that we won’t be able to make it to these shows. Things have never been better with the band and we have some really amazing things coming up in the future, so please, Please keep leighton in your prayers. And I promise we will be back out on the road and
making new music as soon as possible.So much love from us. Loren.
Evan. Steve. Leighton
Motion City Soundtrack will be playing some shows in Europe this spring. Dates are below.
4/21 Melkweg Amsterdam – Powerfest
4/22 Berlin Germany – Give It A Name
4/24 Paris Elysee Montmarte – Give It A Name
4/27 Meerhout Belgium – Groezrock Festival
4/28 Earls Court London – Give It A Name
4/29 Birmingham NIA – Give It A Name
Get your tickets for the first couple dates of the Hellogoodbye and Boys Like Girls here
April 5th – bakersfield ca @ the dome
April 6th – los angeles ca @ the wiltern
April 7th – san francisco ca @ the warfeild
April 8th – reno nv @ new oasis
Over It will be making an in studio appearance on DJ Rossstar’s Punk Rock Show tonight, Thursday, March 1st 2007 from 7-8pm PST. Asteria will be calling in for a live phone interview as well. You can listen to the show at www.idobiradio.com and can send questions during the interview to the screen name: Staridobi
Pre-order the new Waking Ashland album The Well here and get a signed booklet as well.
Below is message from Paramore about pre-sale tickets to their upcoming tour and fanclub they plan on launching.
Hey Paramore Fans,
There will be a special pre-sale starting today at 3pm local time for our upcoming spring tour.As a special bonus, we are offering the opportunity to pre-order a membership in our new official fan club. If you pre-order the membership with a presale ticket you will get a welcome kit with an exclusive t-shirt, a VIP meet-and-greet pass for the ticketed show and of course membership in our new fan club which we plan on launching in May.
To get pre-sale tickets and to pre-order your fan club membership go to paramore.net/tickets.
And don’t forget that today is the last day to enter The Last Song You’ll Ever Sing Contest to win a trip to New Jersey to sing background vocals on a new Paramore song and possibly appear on the new album!
Takeover Records is having a sale where you can get CD’s for only $5.
List of CDs on sale:
River City High – Not Enough Saturday Nights
HeyMike! – HeyMike!
NearMiss – Testing The Ends Of What They’ll Put Up With
Strike Fire Fall – Still Life
Bracket – Requiem
Oh No Not Stereo
Yellowcard-Where We Stand
Inspection 12-Get Rad
Paramore just released some tour dates in support of their yet to be titled album coming out on June 12th.
APRIL
20 Fort Lauderdale, FL Revolution
21 St. Petersburg, FL State Theatre
23 Orlando, FL The Social
24 Atlanta, GA The Masquerade
26 Norfolk, VA The Norva
27 Towson, MD The Recher Theatre
28 Washington, DC 9:30 Club
30 Philadelphia, PA Theatre of the Living Arts
MAY
1 Boston, MA Avalon Ballroom
3 New York, NY Bowery Ballroom
4 Toronto, ONT Phoenix
5 East Rutherford, NJ Meadowlands – The Bamboozle 2007
7 Cleveland, OH Agora Ballroom
8 Chicago, IL House of Blues
9 Detroit, MI St. Andrew’s Hall
11 Dallas, TX The Door
12 Houston, TX Meridian
14 Phoenix, AZ Marquee
15 Las Vegas, NV House of Blues
17 Los Angeles, CA Avalon
18 Anaheim, CA House of Blues
19 San Francisco, CA Slim’s