ALEXISONFIRE TO STREAM THEIR NEW ALBUM ‘OLD CROWS / YOUNG CARDINALS’ TODAY VIA THE VAGRANT RECORDS SITE

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DT:     JUNE 15, 2009

FR:     LIBBY COFFEY/CHELSI SCHRIVER/MITCH SCHNEIDER

ALEXISONFIRE have announced they’ll stream their new album OLD CROWS / YOUNG CARDINALS in its entirety today directly via the Vagrant Records site: http://aof.vagrant.com. The album premiere will be available to U.S. residents only.
For their new album– out on June 23 on Vagrant Records (U.S.A.) and on Dine Alone and RoadRunner in the rest of the world–ALEXISONFIRE re-teamed with Julius Butty who also produced the group’s Crisis and Watch Out! discs.
OLD CROWS / YOUNG CARDINALS–the group’s fourth studio album and first in almost three years–is beginning to receive early acclaim.
Check out a few critical soundbites here:
“Alexisonfire’s Old Crows/Young Cardinals marks a major policy shift… …Pettit has traded his trademark shrieking for a gargling-with-gravel punk attack. It sounds like all those summers hanging at the cottage with Lemmy Kilmister and Lars Frederiksen finally made him realize there’s more than one way to blow out your vocal cords. That makes Old Crows/Young Cardinals a welcome reinvention, no matter how much you loved to shred your larynx by singing along to ‘Pulmonary Archery.’ “

“Hardcore punk, post-hardcore, hardcore metal… On their fourth full length overall, 2009's Old Crows/Young Cardinals, you get a bit of all three aforementioned styles, with a healthy dose of melody stirred into the sonic blender to boot. And this hodgepodge approach should certainly bring Alexisonfire some U.S. rock radio airplay (they already scored their breakthrough hit back home on their previous album, 2006's Crisis), especially such standout tracks as the leadoff single, ‘Young Cardinals,’ as well as the album-opening ‘Old Crows,’ ‘The Northern,’ and the surprisingly tranquil and sweetly sung album closer, Burial.’”

“Old Crows/Young Cardinals is really good. It's fast and intense, Dallas sounds great, and it's just an in-your-face type of album. AOF fans will love…”

“Alexisonfire have clearly finally reached the place they have been driving to for so long: the perfect blending of hardcore, hard rock and the myriad influences that the quintet draw on–from Nick Drake and Jeff Buckley to Johnny Cash, Sigur Ros, Mogwai, At The Drive In, Radiohead…So much more than a good genre band: they truly own their sound. Two thirds of the way in, the track [‘Midnight Regulation’] is really going for it with Dallas/George interplay and a gorgeously distorted guitar-line ripping through.”

“OLD CROWS / YOUNG CARDINALS is their best work yet. It would have been easy to fall back and rehash Crisis… Instead the band have stuck the knife into a dying genre and breathed life into a new one. 'Old Crows' is rapidly becoming my new favorite AOF track as the guitars rumble in the build up and Dallas Green takes us into one of the album's catchier moments. The lead-in to the energetic and assertive 'Young Cardinals' is seamless and perfect. 'No Rest' and 'Emerald Street' continue the up-tempo, quicker tracks. But this album is certainly diverse and even the slower tracks fail to ruin the album's flow. 'The Northern' and 'Burial' both work brilliantly and come in at the perfect time. Screamo is dead. Bring on a new musical revolution.”

“As soon as the first track 'Old Crows' kicks in, and especially at the next track which is not very surprisingly called 'Young Cardinals,’ I noticed the more punk rock direction the band is going in. From the typical Crisis-like post-hardcore tracks like 'Heading for the Sun' and 'Born and Raised' to the faster punk-like tracks like 'Accept Crime' and the extremely catchy 'Sons of Privilege' to the slower, more emotional 'The Northern' and final track 'Burial.' In an interview lead singer George Pettit stated the band wanted to ‘put a knife’ into screamo rather than saving it, and they definitely did it. This album has the most guts Alexisonfire has had to date. OLD CROWS / YOUNG CARDINALS is a damn good album once again and may be one of their best yet.”

In touring news, ALEXISONFIRE will bring their explosive live show to the entire summer run of the Vans Warped Tour 2009 (June 26-August 23), joining NOFX, 3Oh!3, Bad Religion, Flogging Molly, TSOL, Underoath and many more on the annual punk rock extravaganza which celebrates its 15th anniversary this year.  Post Warped, the group are confirmed for the main stage of both the Reading and Leeds U.K. festivals performing alongside Kings of Leon, Kaiser Chiefs and Placebo, to name a few. In October, the group will head back overseas for a European trek with Anti-Flag, The Fall of Troy and Ghost of a Thousand. Expect ALEXISONFIRE to tour throughout 2009 and beyond.
Catch ALEXISONFIRE on tour in the following cities:

 

DATE			CITY	VENUE
Festival date:
Sat	20-Jun		Toronto, ONT
Vans Warped Tour 2009 (entire summer run):
Fri	26-Jun		Pomona, CA	Pomona Fairplex
Sat	27-Jun		San Francisco, CA
Sun	28-Jun		Ventura, CA	Seaside Park
Tue	30-Jun		Phoenix, AZ	Cricket Pavilion
Wed	1-Jul		Las Cruces, NM
Thu	2-Jul		San Antonio, TX
Fri	3-Jul		Houston, TX
Sun	5-Jul		Dallas, TX	Superpages.com Center
Tue	7-Jul		Indianapolis, IN
Wed	8-Jul		Pittsburgh, PA	Post Gazette Pavilion
Thu	9-Jul		Cleveland, OH	Time Warner Cable Amphitheatre
Sat	11-Jul		Montreal, QC	Parc Jean Drapeau
Sun	12-Jul		Hartford, CT	New England Dodge Music Center
Tue	14-Jul		Washington, DC
Wed	15-Jul		Scranton, PA	Toyota Pavilion
Thu	16-Jul		Buffalo, NY	Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
Fri	17-Jul		Camden, NJ	Susquehanna Bank Center
Sat	18-Jul		Uniondale, NY
Sun	19-Jul		Oceanport, NJ	Monmouth Park Racetrack
Tue	21-Jul		Boston, MA
Wed	22-Jul		Virginia Beach, VA
Thu	23-Jul		Charlotte, NC	Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
Fri	24-Jul		Orlando, FL	Central Florida Fairgrounds
Sat	25-Jul		Miami, FL	Cruzan Amphitheatre
Sun	26-Jul		Tampa, FL	Vinoy Park
Tue	28-Jul		Atlanta, GA	Lakewood Amphitheatre
Wed	29-Jul		Cincinnati, OH	Riverbend Music Center
Thu	30-Jul		Milwaukee, WI	Marcus Amphitheatre
Fri	31-Jul		Detroit, MI	Comerica Park
Sat	1-Aug		Chicago, IL	First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre
Sun	2-Aug		Minneapolis, MN
Mon	3-Aug		St. Louis, MO	Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
Tue	4-Aug		Kansas City, MO
Fri	7-Aug		Boise, ID	Idaho Center Amphitheatre
Sat	8-Aug		Salt Lake City, UT
Sun	9-Aug		Denver, CO	Invesco Field
Wed	12-Aug		Calgary, AB	Race City Speedway
Fri	14-Aug		Vancouver, BC
Sat	15-Aug		Seattle, WA	Gorge Amphitheatre
Sun	16-Aug		Portland, OR	Washington County Fairgrounds
Wed	19-Aug		Fresno, CA	Save Mart Center
Thu	20-Aug		Mountain View, CA
Fri	21-Aug		Sacramento, CA
Sat	22-Aug		San Diego, CA
Sun	23-Aug		Los Angeles, CA
Reading Festival main stage:
Fri	28-Aug		Reading, UK	Reading Festival
Leeds Festival main stage:
Sun	30-Aug		Leeds, UK	Leeds Festival
European trek with Anti-Flag, The Fall of Troy and Ghost of a Thousand:
Wed	7-Oct		Cambridge, UK
Thu	8-Oct		Norwich, UK	UEA
Fri	9-Oct		Oxford, UK	Academy 1
Sat	10-Oct		Nottingham, UK
Sun	11-Oct		Bristol, UK	Anson Rooms
Wed	14-Oct		London, UK	Forum
Fri	16-Oct		Glasgow, UK	ABC
Sat	17-Oct		Leeds, UK	University Refectory
Sun	18-Oct		Manchester, UK
Tue	20-Oct		Birmingham, UK
Wed	21-Oct		Portsmouth, UK
Fri	23-Oct		Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Sat	24-Oct		Berlin, Germany
Sun	25-Oct		Prague, Czech Republic
Tue	27-Oct		Leipzig, Germany
Wed	28-Oct		Stuttgart, Germany
Thu	29-Oct		Munich, Germany
Fri	30-Oct		Pratteln, Switzerland
Mon	2-Nov		Milan, Italy	Musicdrome
Mon	9-Nov		Paris, France	Elysee Monmarte
Tue	10-Nov		Wiesbaden, Germany
Thu	12-Nov		Antwerp, Belgium
Fri	13-Nov		Koln, Germany
Sat	14-Nov		Amsterdam, Holland
Sun	15-Nov		Hamburg, Germany
Tue	17-Nov		Gothenburg, Sweden
Wed	18-Nov		Stockholm, Sweden

 

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ALEXISONFIRE TO STREAM THEIR NEW ALBUM ‘OLD CROWS / YOUNG CARDINALS’ TODAY VIA THE VAGRANT RECORDS SITE; BAND GEARING UP FOR VANS WARPED TOUR ALL SUMMER LONG; CONFIRMED FOR MAIN STAGE PERFORMANCES AT READING AND LEEDS FESTIVALS ON AUGUST 28 AND AUGUST 30; BAND TO JOIN ANTI-FLAG FOR EUROPEAN TREK BEGINNING OCTOBER 7