Transit are set to release their first ever entirely acoustic EP, Futures & Sutures, on December 2, 2013 (Cyber Monday).  The EP, produced by member Torre Cioffi’s brother Gary, features a collection of stripped down tracks from the band’s two previous full-length albums.  Transit will also be heading out across the U.S. in January/February 2014 as the headliners of the Acoustic Basement Tour.

Futures & Sutures is now available for pre-order as a 7” vinyl in gold and a CD Digipack.  Pre-order here: http://transitband.com/futuresandsutures/

Futures & Sutures complete tracklisting:

 1. Long Lost Friends

2. So Long, So Long

3. Listen & Forgive

4. Young New England

5. Over Your head

6. Futures & Sutures

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Hopeless Records is pleased to announce that they will be releasing the next full length album by Taking Back Sunday in early 2014. Taking Back Sunday have been working on the album since May with two different producers and have already completed a portion of the record at Rancho Recordo with producer and long-time sound engineer Marc Jacob Hudson (Saves The Day, The Swellers.) They head to Long Island this month to finish up with Mike Sapone (Brand New, O‘Brother) who also worked with them on the Demos for Tell All Your Friends.

Taking Back Sunday will embark on a 23 date tour of US Markets on October 11, following a handful of September one-offs that include supporting Blink-182, making up the missed 2012 TAYF10 shows at Starland Ballroom which was devastated during Hurricane Sandy and a main stage slot at the Chicago stop of Riot Fest. They will likely test out some of their new material live along the way.

9/8 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun (supporting Blink-182)
9/11 Sayreville, NJ Starland Ballroom (with Get Involved!)
9/12 Sayreville, NJ Starland Ballroom (with Bad Rabbits)
9/14 Chicago, IL Riot Fest

Fall 2013 tour (all shows with Polar Bear Club and Transit unless noted)
10/11 Clifton Park, NY Upstate Concert Hall
10/12 Buffalo, NY Town Ballroom
10/13 Rochester, NY Water Street Music Hall
10/14 Stroudsburg, PA Sherman Theater
10/16 Pittsburg, PA Stage AE
10/17 Columbus, OH Newport Music Hall
10/18 Covington, KY Madison Theater
10/19 Bloomington, IL Castle Theatre
10/20 Madison, WI Orpheum Theatre
10/22 Des Moines, IA Wooly’s
10/23 Omaha, NE Sokol Auditorium
10/25 Melbourne, FL FIT Homecoming 2013 / Downtown – Free Show (Support TBA)
10/26 Nashville, TN Marathon Music Hall
10/27 Birmingham, AL Iron City
10/29 San Antonio, TX White Rabbit
10/30 Tulsa, OK Cain’s Ballroom
10/31 St. Louis, MO The Pageant
11/1 Louisville, KY Expo Five
11/2 Myrtle Beach, SC House of Blues (with The Maine, Anberlin and Polar Bear Club)
11/3 Charlotte, NC The Fillmore (with Anberlin, The Maine and Transit)
11/5 Norfolk, VA The Norva
11/6 Baltimore, MD Rams Head Live
11/7 Long Island, NY Emporium

Perth punk outfit Monuments are excited to announce their debut full-length, Existence, will see a release on August 9th, through Hindsight Records.
The band travelled to Boston, Massachusetts earlier this year to record the album with producer Jay Maas (TransitTitle FightNo Trigger) at his Getaway Group Studios, with Maas also responsible for mixing and mastering the album.
A range of different Existence pre-order bundles are available here now at the label’s webstore. 

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Indie/Alternative-pop band Long Lost has announced plans to release their debut full-length album, Save Yourself, Start Again, on August 6th via No Sleep Records.  The band, which is fronted by vocalist Joe Boynton of beloved indie/pop punk band Transit, has premiered the first new track, “Want,” from the album today at AltPress.com.  Fans are invited to pre-order the new album from No Sleep now at https://store.nosleeprecords.com/product/6645.

 

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Pop punk seems to be one of the newer genre bandwagons that bands tend to jump on nowadays. But now you can start your own pop punk band with these easy tips!

1. Write about how bad it sucks to be in the friend zone

As one of the comments said, “they should’ve recorded this in a key a half step down from this. he’d have hit the notes much better. he just yelling most of the time now to hit his notes and it doesn’t fit this song too well.”

2. Take your band name from a better and bigger pop punk band

Clearly, they borrowed their name from the New Found Glory song of the same name. Which brings me to my next point..

Man Overboard; the only studio track on blink-182’s live album, The Mark, Tom, and Travis Show. Obviously, other bands have taken their names from songs titles/lyrics of popular bands, but it seems to be more prevalent in the tr00 pop punk scene.

3. Describe your personal life in a song; where you live, what you eat, etc.

The Wonder Years do a damn good job at it as evident in the above song. The lyrics speak for themselves:

The casino seemed like a bad idea but Denny’s seemed like a worse one and I don’t think that we’d ever let that stop us. We ended up busted, broken and choking down a Grand Slam. I can’t think of a better way for the night to end cause we’re this generation’s Outsiders but we’ve got worse intentions and they’ve got better haircuts

4. If you love your friends, by all means, tell the world

Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! (who got their name from The Goonies) REALLY love their bro’s. So much, that they wrote a song about it. They also have a songs about MILF’s, but we’ll save that for another time. Did I mention they’re French?!

5. Plaid shirts and V-Necks are a necessity!

You wanna be dressed your Sunday best when your friend borrows his dad’s expensive camera to film your band’s first music video. It also helps if you can find some nice shirts at the thrift store or borrow some from a friend.

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Boston group Transit will release their long-awaited new LP, “Young New England” on April 2nd via Rise Records. The band has also revealed the cover art and track listing for the album, which was recorded with Ted Hutt (The Gaslight Anthem, Flogging Molly) and Gary Cioffi (“Listen & Forgive”) in MA.

 Pre-orders for “Young New England” are live at: www.transitband.com/youngnewengland.

Young New England Track Listing

 01. Nothing Lasts Forever

02. Second to Right

03. Young New England

04. Sleep

05. So Long, So Long

06. Weathered Souls

07. Hang It Up

08. Don’t Go, Don’t Stray

09. Thanks For Nothing

10. Summer, Me

11. Hazy

12. Bright Lights, Dark Shadows

13. Lake Q

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Transit will be performing their albums in their entirety at select shows with support from The American Scene.

Hello all,

I was looking at some old show flyers the other day, and I realized that it has been close to six years since Transit began our musical endeavors. We’ve toured the United States over ten times, traveled across the pond to the UK and Europe three times, went up to Canada three times, and we just took our first trip to Australia. We’ve released three records, three Eps, three 7” records, and a split. It’s been a long run.

After a little nostalgia, we decided we wanted to do something to celebrate the existence of the music we’ve been creating.

We are doing five shows in which we play our newest record “Listen & Forgive” in its entirety, as well as our “Stay Home” EP. These shows will be in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts.

On the weekend of October 26-27th we will be doing something very special. When we started our band, we played countless shows every weekend in VFW halls, churches, and basements all across the North-shore. We want this weekend to feel like when we first started playing songs off of “This Will Not Define Us” and covering Kid Dynamite and Saves the Day in our friends living rooms. We will do two shows at the TUMC in Tewksbury, MA- a venue we used to play all the time in our teenage years. On the first of these two nights, we will play our records “This Will Not Define Us” and “Keep This To Yourself.” On the second, we will play “Listen & Forgive” and “Stay Home.” An amazing band from CA, The American Scene, will join us for all of these shows. We have repressed “This Will Not Define Us,” “Stay Home,” and “Keep This To Yourself” for these shows. This is a very special situation for us, and we would love for you to be a part of it.

Tickets for the 26-27th @ TUMC in Tewksbury, MA will go on sale Monday, September 24th.

Sincerely,

Tim, Joe B, Torre, PJ, and Daniel.

Transit

Taking Back Sunday have announced dates for their "Tell All Your Friends" 10th anniversary tour. Support will come from Bayside, Transit, Mansions, Man Overboard on select dates which are below.

TBS, Bayside, Mansions
Oct 04 House of Blues Cleveland, OH
Oct 06 Riviera Theater Chicago, IL
Oct 07 The Fillmore Detroit, MI
Oct 08 Beat Kitchen Chicago, IL
Oct 10 Turner Hall Ballroom Milwaukee, WI Tickets
Oct 11 First Avenue Minneapolis, MN
Oct 12 Bourbon Theatre Lincoln, NE
Oct 13 Granada Lawrence, KS

TBS, Bayside, Man Overboard
Oct 14 Ogden Theatre Denver, CO
Oct 16 In the Venue Salt Lake City, UT
Oct 18 The Showbox Seattle, WA
Oct 19 Crystal Ballroom Portland, OR
Oct 20 The Catalyst Santa Cruz, CA
Oct 21 The Regency Ballroom San Francisco, CA
Oct 24 Fox Theater Pomona, CA
Oct 25 Club Nokia Los Angeles, CA
Oct 26 House of Blues Las Vegas Las Vegas, NV

TBS, Motion City Soundtrack, Bayside, Jukebox the Ghost, Now Now
Oct 27 Marquee Theatre Phoenix, AZ

TBS, Bayside, Gabriel the Marine
Oct 28 Rialto Theatre Tucson, AZ
Oct 31 Diamond Ballroom Oklahoma City, OK
Nov 01 House of Blues Dallas, TX
Nov 02 Emo’s Austin, TX
Nov 03 House of Blues Houston, TX
Nov 04 House of Blues New Orleans, LA

TBS, Bayside, Transit
Nov 06 House of Blues Orlando, FL
Nov 07 Revolution Live Fort Lauderdale, FL
Nov 08 Jannus Landing St Petersburg, FL
Nov 09 Center Stage Atlanta, GA
Nov 10 The Norva Norfolk, VA
Nov 11 9:30 Club Washington, DC
Nov 14 The Electric Factory Philadelphia, PA

TBS, Transit
Nov 15 First Unitarian Church Philadelphia, PA

TBS, Bayside
Nov 16 Starland Ballroom Sayreville, NJ

TBS, Bayside, The Menzingers
Nov 17 House of Blues Boston, MA
Nov 18 State Theatre Portland, ME
Nov 20 Lupo’s Providence, RI

TBS, Bayside
Nov 23 Terminal 5 New York, NY