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Against Me! UK Tour

• 24th May 2010

Florida based punk band Against Me! have announced the track-listing and release date for their upcoming new album White Crosses. The album, the band’s second for Sire Records, will be released on June 7th 2010
Against Me! will also release a digital EP titled “I Was a Teenage Anarchist”, which will be available on iTunes beginning May 24th, 2010.

White Crosses will be released in several formats including a standard CD, a limited-edition CD version, as well as a vinyl version, and an EP containing new music.

White Crosses was produced by veteran producer Butch Vig (Green Day, Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins) who also produced Against Me!’s 2007 album New Wave. The decision to work with Vig again was a no-brainer. “He understands our band and brings tons of great ideas to the table,” says frontman Tom Gabel. “Beyond the stature of his past work he is also one of the most genuine people I've ever met.”

Gabel began writing the songs on White Crosses more than a year and a half ago. Pre-production with Vig began in early July and the band, which also includes guitarist James Bowman, bassist Andrew Seward, and new drummer George Rebelo (formerly of Hot Water Music) began tracking in last August.

`As far as the album’s overall direction, “I feel like we are constantly pushing ourselves to better what we did on the previous record,” Gabel says. “New Wave was a great album to make, and now we want to show another side of the band. The new songs feel like a natural progression of where we should be. Our intentions, as always, are to deliver the best record we can possible make.”

Against Me! spent the past two years touring non-stop in support of New Wave, which was released by Sire Records in July 2007. Called “the most invigorating, zeitgeist-capturing rock album in years” by Spin, New Wave was named the magazine’s “Album of the Year,” and also appeared in the Top 10 on Rolling Stone, Big Cheese, Kerrang, Rock Sound and Blender.

The track-listing for White Crosses is as follows:
White Crosses
I Was a Teenage Anarchist
Because of the Shame
Suffocation
We're Breaking Up
High Pressure Low
Ache with Me
Spanish Moss
Rapid Decompression
Bamboo Bones

The track-listing for “I Was A Teenage Anarchist EP” is as follows:
I Was A Teenage Anarchist
Rapid Decompression
One By One
Bitter Divisions

Against Me! Will hit the UK next week! Be sure to catch this electrifying band at one of the following shows:
May
29th Hatfield, Slam Dunk @ Uni of Herts
30th Leeds Slam Dunk Festival
31st Glasgow, Slam Dunk Festival
June
1st London, The Relentless Garage
2nd Manchester, Academy 2
3rd Birmingham, O2 Academy 2