The wait is over, the highly anticipated Avalon from Circa Survive vocalist Anthony Green is available today. The disk sports a whopping 20 tracks, although over half are demos, re-recordings and remixes from past work. Check out the press release…

Anthony Greens new album “Avalon” is now available everywhere. Avalon can now be purchased at Itunes, Target, Hot Topic, Best Buy, the Photo Finish Records webstore and plenty of great indie retailers. Along with the 13 newly recorded unreleased tracks, Avalon also includes 4 tracks from the High & Driving EP, 5 unreleased demos/remixes and 2 bonus videos. Check out the complete tracklist below…

AVALON CD

She Loves Me So

Dear Child (I’ve Been Trying To Reach You)

Drugdealer

Stonehearted Man

Babygirl

Miracle Sun

Califone

Springtime out the van window

Slowing Down (Long Time Coming)

The First Day of Work at The Microscope Store

Devils Song (This Feels Like a Nightmare)

High & Driving EP

Babygirl

The First Day of Work at The Microscope Store

The Fisherman Will Be Bewildered

Plays Ugly for Daddy

Demos

She Loves Me So

Stonehearted Man

Slowing Down

Devils Song

Dear Child (I’ve Been Dying To Reach You) (good old war version)

Bonus enhanced video content
Making of the Video - 3 minute long behind the scenes look at making Dear Child
Avalon - Making of the Album - 10 minute long documentary

I’m pretty bummed that the ‘Making of the Album’ is only 10 minutes long, but everything else seems really cool.

Add to the sound of panties splashing the sound of a million boners popping up against denim: Circa Survive will be touring with Thrice and PELICAN. Until then you can read Ryan Prado’s Pulitzer-worthy piece with Anthony Green when you download your free issue of Synthesis Digital HERE. Or watch my interview with pelican’s Brian Herweg HERE.

Tour Dates after the jump. (more…)

…is pretty sweet, I must say. Now if you’ve already heard of them/been listening to them then you are ahead of me, so kudos to you. BUT did you know that they are releasing a 3rd album?? And did you know it’s going to be released on Epitaph and not on Equalvision?

…well they are, and now you know. So that’s pretty exciting, yes? YES. They have yet to announce when the album will actually be released, but they just announced this label switch last month, so I would predict the next album to drop in early to mid 2008 and I have high hopes of some summer tour dates*.

*Please note, I really have no inside info on any of this and it’s just my personal prediction–but the release on Epitaph says the record will be released sometime in ‘08.

BACKGROUND INFO: For those of you out of the loop, as I am, and haven’t heard of TSOAF, they’re quite a talented bunch. It’s basically a super-band made up of members of other popular indie bands. If you visit their website or their MySpace you’ll see their members are listed as various animals, the four most prominent of which are the walrus, the lynx, the nightingale, and the skunk–which translates to (according to Wikipedia, so who knows how accurate this actually is, but) Matt Embree  (of the RX Bandits), Chris Tsagakis (also of the RX Bandits), Rich Balling (formerly of the RX Bandits) and Anthony Green (of Circa Survive). But there are tons of other animals making guest appearances on multiple tracks which includes members of Atreyu, The Autumns, Chiodos, Days Away, Finch, The Hippos, Sunn O))) and possibly Portugal the Man. It’s definitely something to check out if your a fan of any of the aforementioned bands.

One of the more tiresome aspects of having any sort of job related to the music industry is the obligatory “MAN ARE YOU LUCKY!!!!! YOU GET PAID TO SIT AROUND AND LISTEN TO MUSIC!!!!111″ conversation that happens 345349 times a week. Though, on it’s face, that statement is more or less false, I have to admit that there are indeed times that, yes, I get paid to sit around and listen to music (like this morning when I drank my coffee and stared longingly out the window listening to the spectacular forthcoming Copeland B-sides and rarities collection Dressed Up & In Line). But this took many years of hard work and sitting around NOT getting paid to listen to music, but rather do other less fun things underneath the people getting paid to listen to music (many of which I still have to do, ie: THIS POST)…

ANYWAY, the point to all of this is that, instead of just whining to me in bars and at shows about how much you hate working at Cingular and totally LOVE MUSIC and BANDS and BLAHBLAH why don’t you get off your ass and get a fucking job in the music industry. “BUT HOW?>??!!!” comes to chorus of helpless fucktards. Well how about this: our friends over at the amazing Equal Vision Records are currently looking to fill not one, but TWO staff positions which you can read about here. Equal Vision is of course home to a litany of amazing bands, such as Circa Survive, The Fall of Troy, etc, etc. NOW’S YOUR CHANCE MAN. I mean, you’ll have to move to Albany, but hey, at least you’ll be able to check out the Tulip Festival.

Well, at least I’m excited for them…so hopefully you will be too!

Amidst not having anything to do the other night, I went searching around to see who was on tour–because seeing music live is just that amazing that I’m willing to shell out my cash to see the magic in action.

Here are the results of my late-night live-music search:

Saves the Day - Acoustic Tour

Last time I saw these guys was Warped ‘06…it was good times, I took a picture of Chris with my phone, it was my phone’s background for a bit. I know, I live an exciting life. The final show of the tour at the Troub WILL be fun. I promise! So LA peeps, get tickets soon–THEY WILL SELL OUT.

October 1 – San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill
October 2 – Anaheim, CA @ Chain Reaction
October 4 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court
October 5 – Denver, CO @ Marquis Theatre
October 6 – Lawrence, KS @ Jackpot Music Hall
October 7 – Chicago, IL @ Subterranean
October 9 – Detroit, MI @ Shelter
October 10 – Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop
October 11 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Diesel
October 12 – Richmond, VA @ Alley Katz
October 13 – Hoboken, NJ @ Maxwell’s
October 14 – Washington, DC @ Rock N Roll Hotel
October 16 – Philadelphia, PA @ North Star
October 17 – Albany, NY @ Valentine’s
October 18 – Allston, MA @ The ICC
October 19 – Rochester, NY @ Water Street Music Hall
October 22 – Atlanta, GA @ Loft
October 23 – Orlando, FL @ The Social
October 25 – Austin, TX @ Emo’s Jr
October 26 – Houston, TX @ Java Jazz
October 28 – Tempe, AZ @ The Sets
October 29 – Los Angeles, CA @ Troubadour

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Circa Survive

FUCK YES. That’s what I have to say about this tour. Circa Survive is by and far my favorite band and if, like me, you missed them on Warped this year, then here’s your chance to make up for it. Bay area peeps–I’ll see you at Slim’s on Nov. 11. Look for me, I’ll be the long-haired girl drinking a gin and tonic and signing every word to every song.

Oct 10: Worcester, MA @ The Palladium
Oct 11: Sayreville, NJ @ Starland Ballroom
Oct 12: New York, NY @ Nokia Theatre
Oct 13: Allentown, PA @ Crocodile Cafe
Oct 14: Philadelphia, PA @ Trocadero Theatre
Oct 16: Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
Oct 17: Buffalo, NY @ Club Infinity
Oct 18: Clifton Park, NJ @ Northern Lights
Oct 19: Lancaster, PA @ Chameleon Club
Oct 20: Richmond, VA @ Canal Club
Oct 21: Charlotte, NC @ Tremont Music Hall
Oct 23: Jacksonville, FL @ Fuel
Oct 24: St. Petersburg, FL @ State Theatre
Oct 25: Ft. Lauderdale, FL @ Culture Room
Oct 26: Orlando, FL @ The Club at Firestone
Oct 27: Atlanta, GA @ Center Stage
Oct 28: New Orleans @ Voodoo Music Festival
Oct 30: Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live
Oct 31: San Antonio, TX @ White Rabbit
Nov 1: Dallas, TX @ The Palladium Ballroom
Nov 3: Tempe, AZ @ Marquee Theatre
Nov 4: San Diego, CA @ The Soma
Nov 6: Las Vegas, NV @ The Joint
Nov 8: Los Angeles, CA @ Mayan Theatre
Nov 9: Pomona, CA @ Glasshouse
Nov 10: Pomona, CA @ Glasshouse
Nov 11: San Francisco, CA @ Slims
Nov 13: Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theatre
Nov 14: Seattle, WA @ The Showbox
Nov 16: Salt Lake City, UT @ Avalon Theatre
Nov 17: Denver, CO @ Bluebird Cafe
Nov 18: Lawrence, KS @ Granada Theatre
Nov 20: Omaha, NE @ Sokol Underground
Nov 21: St. Paul, MN @ Station 4
Nov 23: Royal Oak, MI @ Royal Oak Music Theatre
Nov 24: Chicago, IL @ Metro
Nov 25: Cleveland, OH @ Agora Ballroom

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Cold War Kids

So it’s official, the CWK tour with the White Stripes has in fact been canceled. HAHA! I wanted to get tickets to that, but they were sold out…so lucky I didn’t! They were going for like $200 - $300 on eBay and Craigs List…sucks for those people who bought them off there. Nevertheless, the ‘Kids did schedule a small tour. I’m stoked. I bought tickets the minute they went on sale…I didn’t want to take any chances–these tickets sell out as if they were giving them away. So go to Ticketmaster.com and order yours quick! Once again, LA peeps, I’ll see you at the Wiltern on Nov. 23–woohoo!!

Nov 17: San Francisco, CA @ Warfield Theatre
Nov 23: Los Angeles, CA @ Wiltern Theatre
Nov 27 & 28: Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
Nov 29: Philadelphia, PA @ Theatre of the Living Arts
Nov 30 & Dec 1: New York, NY @ Webster Hall
Dec 4: Boston, MA @ The Roxy
Dec 11: Boulder, CO @ Boulder Theater

Photos by Melissa Welliver
after 10 years of attending warped tour. i can say this was the last year i will ever go. 105 degrees in the sun (yeah, no shade!) and after having the flu the night before, warped tour was the worst thing i’ve experienced in a long time. but some how i took a few rad pictures in between consuming 5 gallons of water. i probably spent some where around $30 on those damn h20 bottles.

Poison the Well

The Almost

Circa Survive

Coheed & Cambria