From The DC myspace

So, our new album is out today...but wait, there's more....

On November 30th, John and I will grab our guitars and hit the road. Our friends in New Found Glory will be coming with us and they'll leave the electric instruments at home. That's right....NFG acoustic.

The dates are below, pre-sale starts TODAY at 5PM local time for each venue. The official on sale is Thursday at 1PM local time.

Hope to see you there.

- Chris

Check out the dates in the tour section and to buy pre-sale tickets click here: http://dashboard.ducatking.com/

November 30, 2009 @ Troubadour - West Hollywood, CA
December 1, 2009 @ Glass House - Pomona, CA
December 2, 2009 @ Slim's - San Francisco, CA
December 4, 2009 @ In The Venue - Salt Lake City, UT
December 6, 2009 @ Slowdown - Omaha, NE
December 7, 2009 @ Subterranean - Chicago, IL
December 8, 2009 @ St. Andrews Hall - Detroit, MI
December 10, 2009 @ Middle East - Cambridge, MA
December 11, 2009 @ Highline Ballroom - New York, NY
December 12, 2009 @ The Trocadero - Philadelphia, PA
December 13, 2009 @ Ottobar - Baltimore, MD
December 15, 2009 @ The Social - Orlando, FL

Cool. According to Chad's tweets, this is a first for NFG. Hopefully they will enjoy it so much that they will do a full US accoustic tour. Or maybe even a full world accoustic tour. I can't wait to see video's of this tour. Rock on.

New from AP.net

It was a crazy night of sharing mics, jumping up and down, moshing, stage diving, and having a good time. I talked to Jordan and Steve earlier (the whole interview will be posted next week) and here are some things I wanted to share:

S/T re-release will come with new packaging, liner notes, The Story So Far DVD, and 6-7 bonus songs of demos and b-sides from that era

The Anniversary Tour will begin in January (?) and it will be a month and a half long tour. Saves The Day is on this tour as well as two others bands that still need to be confirmed. Steve also said they will be playing the ENTIRE S/T record at these shows as well as a few extra goodies and songs.

Steve mentioned they will be working on something special for the upcoming anniversary tour in place of the recently-canceled Dashboard tour, I believe he said this would be announced on Monday.

There are no immediate plans for another covers record, sounded like From The Screen To Your Stereo Part 2 will be the last.

They will be touring from January 2010 till the end of summer 2010, including touring in Europe, Australia, Japan, etc. After the summer they will take a few weeks off to regroup and then begin to track and record songs for their next album.

That's all I can remember from the top of my head, it was a pretty good interview and it'll be transcribed and posted within the week. If NFG is coming to your town, you must go because it will be the best show you see all year

Also. I noticed that the NFG twitters were reppin' Weird Al big time yesterday. I am a HUGE weird all fan. I am not ashamed to admit it. Huge fan. UHF is my favorite movie. No lie. I spent 60 dollars on a sealed VHS cassette of UHF. anyway. Feel free to make fun of me.

Some News

Last nights show at Station 4 in St. Paul was awesome. No new news about the Self Titled tour.

Check this out.

Not Without a Fight Test Press

I want it. Bad.

Des Moines and Marvel Comics

Brentlee and I, along with our significant others and a sister-in-law made the 3.5 hour trek from south-central Minnesota to the city of Des Moines, Iowa to attend the show at The People's Court last night. It was a pretty damn good time. Our boys in NFG definitely delivered, playing 21 and 1/2 songs, most of them being played by request. In other news.... I was scoping out the forums over at NewFoundGloryStuff.com and found this interview that xChadballx did with Marvel Comics.

News From Iowa

At last nights show in IA, Chad talked about the tour with Saves The Day coming up next year. He said that it will be happening in February and March. He also revealed that they will be playing straight through all of Self Titled on this tour. Awesome. This is in addition to news from the Milwaukee show where they announced a 10th anniversary reissuing of Self Titled with 7 new tracks.

Chad also said that since the DC tour is cancelled he will be at home for the next few months on Xbox live. So go check him out on there.

Also, last nights show in Iowa was another all request show. It was great. I didn't get the set list written down. Hopefully someone posts it on setlist.com.

I'm tired. 3 hours of sleep is not enough.

No DC tour.

The Dashboard tour has been cancelled.

From the Dashboard Site

"We have some bad news. Due to a family situation that is beyond our control, we have to cancel our upcoming tour with New Found Glory, Never Shout Never, Meg & Dia and Single File (we are still playing with the Louisville Orchestra on November 7th). We don't take this lightly but family has to come first. As this is a last minute development, we are still figuring out what we will do- as soon as we know, you will know. We apologize to everyone who planned on coming to the shows. We will find a way to make it up to you.

--Chris, John, Scott, Mike / Dashboard Confessional "

No info on the matter of the situation, but it really is none of our business anyway. What ever it is, hopefully it goes well.

In the wake of this news, NFG announce that early next year they will be going on the road with Saves the Day on a Self Titled 10th Anniversary Tour.

Who thinks they should play every song on self titled at these shows. It would be awesome. I will keep my fingers crossed for that. No dates for this tour have been announce yet, however Chad did tweet that dates will be announce soon.

P.S. Going to the IA show today at People's Court. It is gonna be awesome. I have never been there, but I did use Google street view so I feel like I have already been there today. If you are gonna be there too, wave at the guy that looks like he is from MN. That will most likely not be me. Ha! Gotcha.