Perhaps one of the hardest hit businesses with the downturn of the economy has been musicians. Art is not immune to the downfall and it’s becoming harder than ever for smaller acts to move forward on their own without the backing of a label. DIYTOURING.COM is here to change things. This network WILL revolutionize the way bands book and tour the states and will push the forefront of the support that so many smaller bands need.

Right now at DIYTOURING.COM, you can gain a quick overview of what the site will entail and what you can do to prepare your band for such an endeavor. The official launch of the site is coming September 1st and you won’t want to miss it as spots will no doubt fill up fast. Touring, website designs and merch designs are just a few of the amenities offered by the site.

Cold calls, searching the net endlessly for contacts in states you’ve never been to, paying a booking agent-all of these things can become a thing of the past for your band by simply utilizing DIYTOURING.COM. With contact information from various venues in each state in the continental US, the site works tirelessly to provide you with the best fit for your band’s popularity and pull in any given scenario. Booking a tour will be easier than ever. Need to keep your merch and website designs up to date? We can cover you there as well!

Head over to DIYTOURING.COM to read a brief overview of the site which launches September 1st. Be ready to claim your spot and begin getting the exposure and road time that your band deserves.

“DIY Touring has been created to bridge the seemingly inevitable gap between new artists and their ability to make the way out into the world of touring. With thousands of contacts nationwide, and a database that is geared to give a plethora of opportunity, DIY stands to revolutionize the industry. Offering a database that grows monthly and is geared to meet your specific needs, DIY will set the stage for your band to grow organically by making strong and reliable connections in cities both small and large.” –DIYTOURING.COM

For further inquiries please contact:

Jameson Ketchum
KTC Publicity
Twitter @KTC116

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Official Press Release:

All That Remains will release For We Are Many, one of the most anticipated metal album on the year, on October 12th through Prosthetic Records / Razor & Tie. The album was recorded this spring at Zing Studios in Massachusetts and produced by Killswitch Engage guitarist Adam Dutkiewicz, who also handled This Darkened Heart and The Fall of Ideals. Vocalist Phil Labonte told Revolver Magazine in their August issue, “Fans of Overcome won’t be disappointed, but the disc will also offer new twists and turns.” 2008′s Overcome, All That Remains’ last studio album, has sold nearly 240,000 copies to date, debuting at #16 on the Billboard 200, and yielding the Top 10 active rock smash “Two Weeks.”

While fans wait for the new album, they fan find several of their favorite songs from the band’s latest album Overcome on the Rock Band Network for the Xbox Marketplace. The songs that are now available for download are “Days Without,” “Undone,” and “Forever In Your Hands.”

The five-piece metal band is Phil Labonte (vocals), Oli Herbert (guitar), Mike Martin (guitar), Jeanne Sagan (bass) and Jason Costa (drums). Prior to For We Are Many, the band has released four albums, selling over 650,000 records to date. All That Remains will be touring with As I Lay Dying and Unearth in September and October. Fans can expect additional headlining dates around the release of For We Are Many. The band will then head to Europe for dates in November and December.

ALL THAT REMAINS TOUR DATES

Sept 14 – El Paso, TX – Club 101*
Sept 14 – El Paso, TX – Club 101 *
Sept 15 – Odessa, TX – Dos Amigos *
Sept 16 – Abilene, TX – Midnight Rodeo *
Sept 18 – Memphis, TN – New Daisy Theater *
Sept 19 – Knoxville, TN – Valarium *
Sept 20 – Convington, KY – Madison Theater *
Sept 21 – Grand Rapids, MI – Orbit Room *
Sept 23 – Buffalo, NY – Town Ballroom *
Sept 24 – Clifton Park, NY – Northern Lights *
Sept 26 – Quebec City, QC – Theater Imperial *
Sept 27 – Montreal, QC – Metropolis *
Sept 28 – Ottawa, ON – Capital Music Hall *
Sept 29 – London, ON – Cowboy’s *
Oct 1 – Winnipeg, MB – Garrick Centre *
Oct 3 – Saskatoon, SK – Odeon Events Centre *
Oct 4 – Calgary, AB – MacEwan Hall Ballroom *
Oct 5 – Edmonton, AB – Edmonton Events Centre *
Oct 7 – Vancouver, BC – Vogue Theater *
Oct 8 – Seattle, WA – El Corazon *
Oct 10 – Portland, OR – Roseland Theater *
Nov 28 – Glasgow, UK – Garage **
Nov 29 – Manchester, UK – Academy **
Nov 30 – London, UK – Electric Ballroom **
Dec 1 – Sheffield, UK – Corporate **
Dec 3 – Hamburg, Germany – Markthalle **
Dec 4 – Gothenborg, Sweden – Brewhouse **
Dec 5 – Stockholm, Sweden – Klubben **
Dec 7 – Helsinki, DK – Tavastia **
Dec 9 – Malmo, Sweden – KB **
Dec 10 – Berlin, Germany – SO 36 **
Dec 11 – Leipzig, Germany – Conne Island **
Dec 12 – Wien, AUT – Arena **
Dec 14 – Milano, Italy – Magazzini Generali **
Dec 15 – Zeurich, CH – Dynamo **
Dec 16 – Munich, Germany – Backstage Werk **
Dec 17 – Karlsruhe, Germany – Substage **
Dec 18 – Munster, Germany – Skaters Palace **
Dec 20 – Cologne, Germany – Essigfabrik **
Dec 21 – Eindhoven, NLD – Effenaar **
Dec 22 – Hasselt, Belgium – Muziek-o-drom **
*with As I Lay Dying and Unearth / ** with Soilwork

If you aren’t familiar with All That Remains, here you go…this is their video for ‘Whispers (I Hear You)’ from The Fall of Ideals:

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August Burns Red, with their unique brand of metalcore, is a favorite on this site. As you may remember, a few months back they played a show in Cleveland, Ohio, with A Day to Remember (A Day To Remember Toursick Concert Review – Cleveland, Ohio).

Check out this live video from that show, and then read the press release below to find out how you can meet Matt Greiner, drummer from August Burns Red, and have him teach you some tricks of the trade.

(Albuquerque, New Mexico. June 21st 2010) Popular New Mexico fashion line Veil Arms Clothing will be hosting The Eminence Conference on August 10th and 11th. The conference itself is designed for aspiring musicians, photographers, graphic designers, writers, actors and entrepreneurs to join with others to learn more about their chosen art and how they can become better educated for when they feel they are ready to move on to the next level, whatever that may be. This series of workshops will teach the average young artist attending what its like to be a professional.

Veil Arms Clothing exists to motivate and encourage their young surrounding art community in hopes of inspiring those with gifts to best develop and cultivate their given talents. The workshops themselves will be taught by the likes of Matt Greiner from heavyweight metal band August Burns Red, Micah Kinard from Oh Sleeper and so much more. Lunch will be provided each day as well as several guest speakers including Colby Engstrom and Jeral Dickinson. The nights will be capped off with performances by Seabird, B. Reith and more.

Registration is currently available for this event. If you choose to register before July 15th your admittance will be FREE!

This is a great opportunity for any aspiring artist out there, no matter what your avenue, to learn, to build community and to network with likeminded individuals as well as professionals.

“These kids will get direct information and one on one workshops with these artists and people that they respect, hopefully equipping them with enough knowledge to pursue their career.” –Shawn Ulmer, Veil Arms Clothing.

For more information on this event please visit www.veilarms.com

To inquire about media exposure for this event or if you’d like to schedule an interview with the owners of Veil Arms Clothing please contact:

Jameson Ketchum
KTCpublicity@gmail.com
Twitter: @ketch116

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Anberlin has just issued a press release regarding their forthcoming new album, entitled Dark is the Way, Light is a Place, due out in September. They are out on tour now, and if you haven’t seen them live I highly recommend you do so. I saw them first at Rock on the Range 2010, but knew that they would be better at a small venue. Because of this, I made sure to see them when they came to town just a few weeks later, at the beginning of this month. To check out a TON of awesome videos that I took at that show, head over to the Outsider Vocals Facebook Page.

Here’s the press release:

ANBERLIN’S DARK IS THE WAY, LIGHT IS A PLACE
SET FOR SEPTEMBER 21st RELEASE BY UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC

RECORDED WITH GRAMMY WINNING PRODUCER
BRENDAN O’ BRIEN, ALBUM FOLLOWS BAND’S
2008 BREAKTHROUGH, NEW SURRENDER

LEAD SINGLE “IMPOSSIBLE” GOES TO RADIO IN MID-JULY

(New York, NY – June 16, 2010) Universal Republic rockers Anberlin will release their much-buzzed about fifth studio album, Dark Is The Way, Light is a Place,on September 21st. The band recorded it at Nashville’s renowned Blackbird Studio with Brendan O’Brien (Pearl Jam, Bruce Springsteen, Rage Against the Machine), who won the GRAMMY� award for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical earlier this year. “Impossible” – the driving lead single that soars with an exhilarating pop Foo Fighters vibe as it captures love’s tug of war – will go to radio in mid-July. “We Owe This To Ourselves,” another track from Dark Is The Way, Light is a Place, will be the main song used on ESPN’s X-Games this summer.

The forthcoming record follows Anberlin’s New Surrender, which was the band’s second album to debut in the Top 20 of The Billboard 200. “Feel Good Drag,” New Surrender’s first single, hit No. 1 on the Modern Rock charts and now holds the record as the longest-charting single in Modern Rock history. Named 2009’s “Rock Song of the Year” by FMQB, it will be a featured song on the in-store version of “Guitar Hero 6,” due out this September. Anberlin’s cover of New Order’s “True Faith” appeared on the subsequently released deluxe version of New Surrender and was tapped for the season finale of The CW’s “The Vampire Diaries.” Anberlin, which formed in Winter Haven, FL in 2002, has sold over 700,000 albums and toured the world, sharing stages with American Rejects, My Chemical Romance, Taking Back Sunday, Paramore and many others.

Dark Is The Way, Light is a Place – which takes its title from a line in Dylan Thomas’ “Poem On His Birthday” – examines the battle implicit in life and in love. “Love is a friction, a chemistry,” says Anberlin’s front man, Stephen Christian. “We need to fight it out in a good way, not with threats of leaving, but to, in love, find an understanding.”

If such an understanding isn’t reached, the consequences can be shattering, as detailed in the hypnotic “The Art of War,” which veers from slow burn to full sonic assault and the heart wrenching “Take Me As You Found Me.”The cathartic “To The Wolves”tackles betrayal head-on while in the gentle, acoustic “Down,” the protagonist puts the blame squarely on himself (“feel like a shell of yesteryear gone by/bad decisions like ghosts that just won’t die”). The way may be dark, but a powerful vision of light permeates the album. The anthemic “We Owe This To Ourselves” is a resounding call to action: “we owe this to ourselves/to fight, to lead/we owe this to ourselves/we just can’t let this go.” This deeply rooted conviction speaks not only to Anberlin’s view of romantic love, but also to the band’s belief that we’re accountable for our relationship with the world at large.

To that end, Anberlin has been involved in numerous humanitarian efforts. They’ve spent time in Africa, working with a local charity to meet the needs of a small community, and traveled to Calcutta, India with Faceless International, where they helped to raise awareness about the dangers of human trafficking. Co-founded by Stephen Christian (lead singer), Faceless International (http://www.facelessinternational.com/)aims to defend the plight of exploited people worldwide who have gone faceless and unknown for far too long. The organization raises awareness about social issues happening throughout the global community, providing first hand experience and education through trips around the world and solution-based opportunities through regional resources.

Anberlin is:

Stephen Christian: Vocals
Joseph Milligan: Lead guitar
Devon Rexroat: Bass
Christian McAlhaney: Rhythm guitar
Nathan Young: Drums

The track listing for Dark Is The Way, Light is a Place is as follows:

1. We Owe This To Ourselves
2. Impossible
3. Take Me As You Found Me
4. Closer
5. You Belong To Me
6. Pray Tell
7. The Art Of War
8. To The Wolves
9. Down
10. Depraved

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