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Mae Post “Destination: Beautiful” Five Year Anniversary DVD Trailer

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Mae will be releasing a Five Year Anniversary DVD for Destination: Beautiful. The Destination: Beautiful Five Year Anniversary DVD is a choose your own adventure film, with 3 hours of content, including band interviews, song commentary, tour footage, special never before seen live performances, and much more — packaged inside a DVD sleeve printed on recycled cardboard. This DVD will only be available online at whatismae.com and will ship the week of November 24th. Each pre-order comes with an exclusive download of a new version of “Embers and Envelopes,” recorded and mixed at Earthsound Studios during the fall of 2008. Check out a trailer for the DVD below.

Snow Patrol YouTube Contest

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Snow Patrol are running a contest on their YouTube Channel. People are encouraged to upload videos representing their city to coincide with the first single “Take Back The City”, i.e. what they do, what makes it cool, historical landmarks, why they live there, etc.

Users can create their video and upload it to the Snow Patrol YouTube group page and be entered to win a Apple Macbook, iPod touch’s and a bunch of Snow Patrol gear.

Jimmy Eat World Clarity 10th Anniversary Tour

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Jimmy Eat World will be doing a 10 show tour for the 10th anniversary of Clarity. On the tour the band will be peforming the album in its entirety. Check out the dates for the tour below.

Tour Dates

Feb. 23: New York (Terminal 5)
Feb. 24: Washington, D.C. (9:30 Club)
Feb. 25: Philadelphia (Trocadero)
Feb. 26: Boston (House of Blues)
Feb. 28: Chicago (Metro)
March 2: Denver (Ogden Theatre)
March 4: San Francisco (Fillmore)
March 6: San Diego (House of Blues)
March 7: Tempe, Ariz. (Marquee Theatre)