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Gaslight Anthem fall tour openers assigned to dates

Scott Heisel on 6/8/09 @ 10:34 AM

First, we brought you rumblings of the Gaslight Anthem's fall tour. Then we brought you the exclusive unveiling of the majority of their headlining tour dates. Now, we're stoked to give you a date-by-date breakdown of what bands are opening which shows. Check it out below; remember that Murder By Death are supporting on all shows, and that more dates are still TBA:

w/Murder By Death, the Loved Ones, Ninja Gun
Sept 8: Mr. Small's @ Pittsburgh
Sept 9: Bogart's @ Cincinnati
Sept 10: Pop's @ St. Louis
Sept 11: Sokol Auditorium @ Omaha

w/Murder By Death, the Loved Ones, Frank Turner
Sept 13: Ogden Theater @ Denver
Sept 16: House of Blues @ San Diego
Sept 17: Henry Fonda Theater @ Los Angeles
Sept 20: Fillmore @ San Francisco
Sept 22: Berbati's Pan @ Portland
Sept 23: Showbox @ Seattle
Sept 24: Commodore @ Vancouver BC
Sept 26: Edmonton Arts Ctr @ Edmonton
Sept 27: MacEwan Ballroom @ Calgary
Sept 29: Riddell Centre @ Regina
Oct 1: Garrick Centre @ Winnipeg
Oct 3: Epic @ Minneapolis
Oct 4: Turner Hall @ Milwaukee
Oct 6: St. Andrew's Hall @ Detroit

w/Murder By Death, Jesse Malin, Broadway Calls
Oct 12: Town Ballroom @ Buffalo NY
Oct 13: Kool Haus @ Toronto ON

w/Murder By Death, the Loved Ones, Broadway Calls
Oct 18: Trocadero @ Philadelphia

w/Murder By Death, the Loved Ones
Oct 21: The National @ Richmond VA
Oct 22: 9:30 Club @ Washington DC
Oct 26: Newport Music Hall @ Columbus

Tickets for the majority of these shows go on sale June 13; check with your local venue for specifics.

Darkest Hour Streaming Another New Track

Leah Preble on 6/8/09 @ 10:33 AM

Darkest Hour have uploaded "Devolution of the Flesh" from their new album The Eternal Return to their myspace player. You'll be able to hear the album in its entirety when it hits stores June 23rd.

Rancid on the Tonight Show

Rancid will perform their new single "Last One To Die" for the first time on national TV on June 10 on the Tonight Show With Conan O'Brien on NBC.

"Last One To Die" is the debut single from Let The Dominoes Fall, the band's first album in six years. Rancid are currently on tour with Rise Against.

California's Creatures sign to Eulogy

Laila Hanson on 6/8/09 @ 9:22 AM

Eulogy Recordings have signed their latest band. Creatures, a metal/hardcore act from Southern California, will release their deubt album on the label later this year. You can check out tracks from upcoming, I, Lucifer on their MySpace.

The Cab change EP title

Laila Hanson on 6/8/09 @ 9:16 AM

The Cab is still set to tour later this month on the What Happens In Vegas Tour, but that is no longer the title of the band's upcoming EP. The disc will still hit stores June 24, but is now called The Lady Luck EP.

AltPress Exclusive: Enter Shikari detail new album, touring plans

Scott Heisel on 6/8/09 @ 7:00 AM

Dang-near unclassifiable British techno/punk/trance/screamo outfit Enter Shikari have filled us in on the specifics about their immediate future. The group will release their upcoming full-length, Common Dreads, on June 16 through Ambush Reality in partnership with DGC/Interscope. The album--produced by Andy Gray (U2, Korn) is the follow-up to the band's 2007 release, Take To The Skies. A press release on behalf of the band says that the album will touch upon hot-button topics like economic recession, state control and accelerated capitalism. Frontman Rou Reynolds says:

"Politics are unavoidable. We just can't write sappy music. Our first album was cryptic and metaphor-heavy, this one is more direct. Since we gained popularity, we realized, whether we like it or not, we have the ability to influence people--and with that is a responsibility to speak our minds."

The complete tracklisting for Common Dreads:
1) Common Dreads
2) Solidarity
3) Step Up
4) Juggernauts
5) Wall
6) Zzzonked
7) Havoc A
8) No Sleep Tonight
9) Gap In The Fence
10) Havoc B
11) Antwerpen
12) The Jester
13) Halcyon
14) Hectic
15) Fanfare For The Conscious Man
16) All Eyes On The Saint (* iTunes exclusive track)
17) Enter Shikari-Live version (*Bonus track available only via digital merch store link)

The band's summer touring plans are as follows:

Fri 6/5 Nurburgring, GER - Rock AM Ring Festival
Sat 6/6 Nurnberg, GER - Rock IM Park Festival
Sun 6/28 Glastonbury, ENG - Glastonbury Festival
Headlining U.S. Tour:
Thu 7/2 New York, NY - Blender Theatre at Gramercy
Fri 7/3 Poughkeepsie, NY - The Loft
Sun 7/5 Providence, RI - Club Hell
Mon 7/6 Albany, NY - Valentines
Tue 7/7 S. Hackensack, NJ - School of Rock
Wed 7/8 Allentown, PA - Crocodile Rock

U.S. tour with August Burns Red, Blessthefall, I Wrestled A Bear Once:
Fri 7/10 Towson, MD - Recher Theatre
Sat 7/11 Philadelphia, PA - Starlight Ballroom
Sun 7/12 Buffalo, NY - The Town Ballroom
Mon 7/13 Akron, OH - Musica
Tue 7/14 Detroit, MI - Magic Stick
Wed 7/15 Chicago, IL - House of Blues
Thu 7/16 Madison, WI - The Loft
Sat 7/18 Omaha, NE - Sokol Auditorium
Tue 7/21 San Francisco, CA - Slim's
Wed 7/22 Los Angeles, CA - Key Club
Thu 7/23 San Diego, CA - Soma
Fri 7/24 Pomona, CA - The Glass House
Sat 7/25 Pomona, CA - The Glass House
Sun 7/26 Scottsdale, AZ - Venue of Scottsdale
Mon 7/27 Albuquerque, NM - Sunshine Theater
Wed 7/29 Dallas, TX - The Max

Festivals:
Fri 8/7 Osaka, JAPAN - Summersonic
Sun 8/9 Tokyo, JAPAN - Summersonic
Fri 8/14 Saarland, Germany - Rocko Del Schlako Fest
Sat 8/15 Horb Am Neckar, Germany - Mini Rock Festival
Wed 8/19 Nyírbátor, Hungary - Azfeszt Festival
Thur 8/20 St. Pölten, Austria - Frequency Festival
Fri 8/21 Trutnov, Czech Republic - Trutnov Festival
Sat 8/22 Hasselt, Belgium - Pukkelpop
Sun 8/23 Biddinghuizen, Netherlands - Lowlands Festival
Fri 8/28 Leeds, England - Leeds Festival
Sat 8/29 Reading, England - Reading Festival