ALKALINE TRIO “Help Me” first single to be released on 23 June
Love. Alcoholism. Depression. Fire. Drugs. Blasphemy. Death. May 2, 2008, 03:03 PM Views: 4015
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 “Help Me” first single to be released on 23 june from the forthcoming album “Agony and Irony” out 30 june on V2/Cooperative music.
Love. Alcoholism. Depression. Fire. Drugs. Blasphemy. Death.
Those are the usual song topics covered by Alkaline Trio through their previous five albums, starting with 1998’s now-classic Goddamnit on pioneering indie Asian Man Records through 2005’s Crimson, the band’s last album for Vagrant Records.
With Agony and Irony, the band’s debut for V2/Cooperative, produced by Josh Abraham [Linkin Park, Slayer, Atreyu, 30 Seconds to Mars] at his L.A.-based Pulse Recording, singer/guitarist, Matt Skiba, singer/bassist, Dan Andriano and drummer Derek Grant insist they have found a light at the end of the tunnel.
Now relocated from their Chicago home, with Skiba in Los Angeles, Grant in Indianapolis and Andriano in St. Augustine, FL, Alkaline Trio are poised and ready for what they see as two years of non-stop touring.
Each of the band’s last two Vagrant releases, Good Mourning and Crimson, have cracked the UK album charts.
And things are already off to a great start, with the first single, “Help Me,” generating 70k plays in just a single day on MySpace. The album cover is by renowned British designer John Yates, who created memorable sleeves for the Dead Kennedys, among others, during his 10 years at Jello Biafra’s legendary punk label Alternative Tentacles.
Since being formed in 1996 in McHenry County, Illinois, a suburb northwest of Chicago, Alkaline Trio has built a loyal following. The band has sold more than a million records, not by garnering a lot of radio airplay, but by forging an intense relationship with their fan base through relentless touring and, of course, a connection through their music.
Agony & Irony answers that question as only Alkaline Trio can, with 10 rip-roaring punk-rock anthems that take us on a spiritual trip to hell and back.
Catch Alkaline Trio at this years Give It A Name festival in May and Reading and Leeds in August. More UK touring to be unveiled soon.
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