Bemis kind of ended Say Anything after their most recent album, but he’s far from done with music. 

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In the upcoming tour, Bemis will perform both solo and with Perma. Museum Mouth will be opening the gigs. 

Bemis announced the tour via Twitter. 

“Very excited to do this solo tour with my other band Perma and the wonderful Museum Mouth, all of whom worked on the last Say Anything record. It’ll be my first tour since that album’s release. Come see us,” he said. 

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As Bemis stated, it’s his first tour since Say Anything dropped Oliver Appropriate in January. You can listen to that down below. 

Tickets are on sale now here. You can check out the full list of dates below. 

Dates:

10/18 — Dallas, TX @ Dada Dallas
10/19 — Austin, TX @ Barracuda
10/21 — Orlando, FL @ The Abbey
10/22 — Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade
10/23 — Nashville, TN @ The Basement
10/25 — Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar
10/26 — Asbury Park, NJ @ House Of Independents
10/28 — Allston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall
10/29 — Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
10/30 — Philadelphia, PA @ Voltage Lounge

11/01 — Cleveland Heights, OH @ The Grog Shop
11/02 — Ferndale, MI @ The Loving Touch
11/03 — Chicago, IL @ The Chop Shop & 1st Ward
11/05 — Denver, CO @ Marquis Theater
11/06 — Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge
11/08 — Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile
11/09 — Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theatre
11/11 — San Francisco, CA @ Slim’s
11/12 — West Hollywood, CA @ Troubadour
11/13 — Anaheim, CA @ Chain Reaction
11/15 — San Diego, CA @ The Irenic
11/16 — Phoenix, AZ @ The Rebel Lounge

As previously stated, Bemis  shared “A Goodbye Summation,” a 10-page document explaining how Oliver Appropriate came together, the story he wanted to tell and why Say Anything aren’t exactly breaking up. 

In his statement, Bemis shares his struggles with drug and alcohol abuse, PTSD and anxiety attacks. He continues to say that, although he can’t actually quit Say Anything, he’s “done being a touring musician.” So, this is just the end of “the first era of Say Anything.”

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“I need a break. We’ll return one day to play festivals and scoff at our career. But I want to say goodbye,” he writes. “Say Anything is retiring in the sense that Jay-Z did. It’s not an indefinite hiatus or a breakup because that’s impossible.”

Say Anything’s upcoming album is a sequel to …Is A Real Boy. It follows a character, who Bemis named Oliver, 14 years after the first story took place.

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“This record is the story of what would happen to the Real Boy many people thought I was. His band did well but then fell off, hard,” he explains. “He’d be my age, of course, but he’d still be living in Brooklyn, struggling with financial woes, single and strung out.”

At the time, Bemis teased there’s more coming from his project Song Shop. Plus, he will focus more on working with comic books.

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From attempted stick-ups to pickpocketing and even cannibalism, Perma show us that “a little light” can go a long way.  

“I'm really proud to have made a music video that is both uplifting and also a bit silly,” shares Bemis. “We had a great time filming it with Max Moore and are so excited to share 'Little Light' with everyone!”

Along with today’s video premiere, the band have announced that they will release a digital deluxe version of Two Of A Crime featuring three new live tracks and a brand new song title “Deluxe” on April 15 via Bemis’ Equal Vision imprint Rory Records.

Tracklisting:
1. Two of a Crime 
2. Little Light 
3. Wishbone 
4. Let’s Start a Band 
5. Remedy 
6. You’re Welcome 
7. She Chose You 
8. The Bat and the Cave 
9. No, Dear 
10. Torch Song 
11. Tangled Up 
12. Deluxe 
13. Little Light (Live at Pandora) 
14. The Bat and the Cave (Live at Pandora) 
15. Two of A Crime (Live at Pandora)

According to a tweet from Bemis, the video will feature “more than one cannibal:”

Shooting a video for Perma's “Little Light” this week. There is more than one cannibal in it.

— Max Bemis (@maxbemis) January 6, 2014

The video's release date has not yet been announced, but it is expected to arrive soon.

Perma recently wrapped an acoustic tour of the eastern U.S., and will next embark on a west coast leg with Matt Pryor, Merriment, and Allison Weiss as support. Max and Sherri will also perform solo sets. Here's a full list of dates:

Jan 18 – Neumos – Seattle, WA
Jan 19 – Doug Fir Lounge – Portland, OR
Jan 21 – Bottom Of The Hill – San Francisco, CA
Jan 22 – Troubadour – Los Angeles, CA
Jan 23 – Constellation Room – Santa Ana, CA
Jan 24 – Irenic – San Diego, CA
Jan 25 – Crescent Ballroom – Phoenix, AZ

In addition, the record can be streamed in its entirety on YouTube.

Click here to watch.

For those who aren’t familiar, Song Shop is a project where fans can buy a personalized Say Anything song written originally for them—about anything they want. There are options to buy a shorter, cheaper song, a regular length song, and even a song featuring Max's wife Sherri Dupree Bemis (Eisley, Perma) on guest vocals.

The band will release their debut album, Two Of A Crime on October 29 via Roy Records (Bemis’ Equal Vision Imprint).

The band have also recently announced their first tour (featuring additional sets from Max and Sherri) with Matt Pryor and Merriment. Check out the dates below:

Dec 04 Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall

Dec 05 Detroit, MI @ The Shelter

Dec 06 Cleveland Heights, OH @ Grog Shop

Dec 07 Millvale, PA @ Mr Smalls Theatre

Dec 08 Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar

Dec 10 Boston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall

Dec 11 Hamden, CT @ The Space

Dec 12 New York, NY @ Studio at Webster Hall

Dec 13 Asbury Park, NJ @ Asbury Lanes

Dec 14 Wilmington, DE @ World Cafe Live

Dec 16 Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506

Dec 17 Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade

Dec 18 Orlando, FL @ The Social

Dec 20 Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live

Dec 21 Austin, TX @ Stubb’s BBQ

Dec 22 Dallas, TX @ Club Dada

CONTRIBUTORS
Matt Crane [MC]
Scott Heisel [SH]
Brian Kraus [BK]
Brittany Moseley [BM]
Jason Pettigrew [JP]
Aime Szymanski [AS]
Cassie Whitt [CW]

AFI – “The Conductor”
As a longtime AFI fan, it is difficult to go into albums like Decemberunderground and Crash Love without wishing they would have maintained their sound from Black Sails. The catchy riffs in “The Conductor” take their genre one step forward, and two steps back. It feels like the band are reimagining their dark roots, accompanied by Havoc’s soul-crushing lyrics. The thumping bass line drive AFI’s train railing straight into listeners’ ears. This song can turn an old fan and into a “new-born believer.” [AS]

ANBERLIN – “City Electric”

For anyone who felt 2012's Vital was too new-wave leaning, Anberlin's new single should be just right. They rekindle the sparky pop-rock anthems from Dark Is The Way, Light Is A Place and New Surrender on “City Electric,” where vocalist Stephen Christian reminds us he's one of the most talented vocalists to rise from our scene, channeling vintage Bono in his peaks as his bandmates maintain an upbeat atmosphere, Killers-esque drum beats and all. This is a band who've been consistent for more than a decade. It's easy to stop keeping tabs on them, but not recommended. [BK]

BALANCE AND COMPOSURE – “Notice Me”

In “Notice Me,” Balance & Composure play gritty alt-rock with the tranquility of a Koi fish pond. But the vibe hits like a wave of mental acetone, and vocalist Jon Simmons steps completely outside of his comfort zone—trading melancholy for masochistic hulkamaniac. Simmons screams, “We both know what I came back for/Won't you let me in? Won't you let me in? Oh God let me in.” She probably shouldn’t let him in. [MC]

KI:THEORY, “Needles”
I get roughly a billion CDs in the mail each week, and while I try to get to all of them eventually, those creatively packaged seem to make their way to the top first. Ki:Theory's Kitty Hawk came to me as a spraypainted CD-R inside of a hollowed-out 5.25-inch floppy disk, with no bio, onesheet or promotional materials of any kind. Intruiged, I put it in to discover a pretty cool mixture of the Album Leaf-esque electro-indie soundscapes with a couple punky outbursts worthy of the first Sleigh Bells record. But then my heart skipped a beat when my iTunes told me two tracks featured Maura Davis, formerly of Denali and Ambulette—”Needles” being one of them. It's a great chillwave track with a slightly off-kilter electro beat, and I never would've even known it was there had my nerd switch not been flicked. Bands, let this be a lesson to you: CD packaging totally matters. [SH]

letlive. – “White America’s Beautiful Black Market”

“With government sucking the dicks of corporations/It looks like Uncle Sam finally put his money where his mouth is,” Jason Butler shrieks. You could try to be more punk than that, but you would not be successful. In this exotic piece of hardcore, letlive. rock against corporate fascism of the vilest nature. But the somber overtone has a sentiment that is less viva-la-rebellion and more an alert that we’ve already lost. [MC]

MELT-BANANA – “The Hive”
Now reduced to a duo of vocalist Yasuko O. and guitarist/gadget inspector Agata, Japan's Melt-Banana have delivered Fetch, their 10th album of glorious grind/thrash/electro polemics laced with oh-so-chipper vocals. The whole disc sounds like you and your friends having a relentless pillow fight while dodging high-arcing sparks from faulty wiring room lighting. But the track that does it for me is  “The Hive,” where Agata clog-dances all over his cockpit-sized pedal board at breakneck speed, only to end up in a weird time-stretched tremolo vortex that sounds like gunfire from an Uzi—only more melodic. Why Melt-Banana haven't appeared on Yo Gabba Gabba! yet is completely beyond my comprehension. [JP]

PANIC! AT THE DISCO – “This Is Gospel”

Upon first listen, I regarded “This Is Gospel” as a mere semi-quiet opener to AP 304 cover artists Panic! At The Disco’s new album, Too Weird To Live, Too Rare To Die! However, it grew on me so much that I’ve listened on an almost daily basis since its release as a single in late August and may or may not have shed a tear when I saw them play it live on the Save Rock And Roll tour. It takes the classic “anthem” to a whole new level, turning it into a sacred plea. Head to APTV to check out the making of the “This Is Gospel” music video today. [CW]

PERMA – “Two Of A Crime”

When I interviewed Max Bemis and Sherri Dupree-Bemis for our “Noise On The Side” special in AP 291, the couple’s new band, Perma, was still in the early stages. Now, almost a year later, Perma have a new album on the way and an upcoming tour with Matt Pryor. Dupree-Bemis told me the goal of Perma is “to celebrate love and relationships and marriages,” and judging from their first single (and the album’s title track) they’ve succeeded. “Two Of A Crime” is the sweetest thing you’ll hear all year. And really, couldn’t all of us use a little more sweetness in our lives? [BM]

THE PRETTY RECKLESS – “Going To Hell”

Taylor Momsen attacks her second album with more confidence than her debut, Light Me Up. Her edgy and rough sound contradicts her blonde exterior in the best possible way. It is the kind of contradiction that one longs for in the rock scene. Dropping confessions and rebutting them with “I’m going to hell,” I feel like I’ve sinned and I want to scream it to the world. I wish more women would escape the female pop stereotype and create more head-banging heavy rock albums like this one. [AS]

SAVES THE DAY – “Ring Pop”

If you’re one of those Saves The Day fans still longing for the band’s early days, you should give their new self-titled album a listen, because it’s the closest you’ll ever get to Stay What You Are part deux. Chris Conley is a lot more positive and Zen-like these days, and his upbeat attitude is on full display on “Ring Pop,” a two-and-a-half minute upbeat sugar rush. We know nothing will come close to classics like “Rocks Tonic Juice Magic” and “Shoulder To The Wheel,” but “Ring Pop”—and the rest of the songs on Saves The Day—are pretty damn good. [BM]

SLEIGH BELLS – “Bitter Rivals” 

The title track of Sleigh Bells’ upcoming album has everything I crave in my SB songs: noise-laden verses that are both catchy and grating enough to make it sound like your speakers are blown when you blast it with a chorus you can memorize within one listen. I like to know that the music I dance to and play at top volume might sound like a melodic buzzsaw to someone else’s ear. Thank you Sleigh Bells, for constantly bringing that. [CW]

STATE CHAMPS – “Nothing's Wrong”

The second single to State Champs' debut album warns of their impending pop-punk takeover on Oct. 8. Why wait for the chorus to hit 'em with a hook? That seems to be their train of thought, as singer Derek Discanio surfs the choppy rhythms like a pro. These capital region New Yorkers set out west to record with Sam Pura (the Story So Far, Man Overboard) and heed production advice from New Found Glory guitarist Steve Klein in sunny California, so just imagine what that dream team helped the band achieve. [BK]

TOUCHÉ AMORÉ – “Social Caterpillar”

The best song off the best album of the year. (Please don't tell Hayley Williams I said that.) What's not to like? [SH]