Circa Survive

We’re so happy to announce we will be performing at this year’s Bonnaroo Festival! Be there or be square y’all.

-Love Circa-

Wow. I couldn’t be more excited to announce this! All of us here at circa survive are very interested in artwork and posters and screen printing and basically any visual situation that kicks you in the brain when you look at it.
Well, we are happy to announce that from now until eternity we are going to do our best to have a limited edition screen printed poster at all of our headlining shows. (That’s not exactly a promise, we may miss one, but it’s a hell of a goal.) Now you can have something personalized to remember the show by and at the same time you’ll know that you are part of something much bigger. Also, we will soon have a section of our website dedicated to all of the artwork that has been done for these posters along with links to the artists.
Our friend Mitch Putnam at http://www.omgposters.com will be curating this artwork for us which means that we will have some of the best artists out there offering up interpretations of our band and our shows. If you’ve never been to http://www.omgposters.com or http://www.omgvinyl.com you should check it out. I peep these websites pretty much every day.
Here are a couple of examples of some of the great posters you’re going to see on this next tour.
Can’t wait to see you out there.
Brendan + Circa

You’ve seen the cover art for Blue Sky Noise but now you can see how it was created. Check out the video to see the masterful Esao Andrews paint our album cover. Below, you will also find the official track listing for the album. Dig.

1. Strange Terrain
2. Get Out
3. Glass Arrows
4. I Felt Free
5. Imaginary Enemy
6. Through the Desert Alone
7. Frozen Creek
8. Fever Dreams
9. Spirit of The Stairwell
10. The Longest Mile
11. Compendium
12. Dyed in the Wool

We’d like to proudly announce that as of today, our 3rd full length album is officially complete. “Blue Sky Noise” will be released on 4/20/10. Once again we’ve teamed up with our visual soulmate Esao Andrews and he’s created yet another beautiful album cover (above) for us. As if all that wasn’t exciting enough we want to share a track off of it with all of you today! The song is called “Get Out” and it’s streaming at our website, MySpace, Purevolume, Facebook, etc. Go check it out.

Get Out by  circasurvive

If you wanna own the song now, you can pre-order the album today (click here) and receive it immediately.



In touring news, we get to announce today that we will be going on tour with two amazing bands starting April 22nd, Torche and the almighty Coheed & Cambria! Tour dates are up now (and below).

Headline Dates:
3/11 – Cats Cradle , Carrboro, NC
3/12 – Exit In – Nashville, TN
3/13 – Workplay Theatre – Birmingham, AL
3/14 – The Village – Little Rock, AR
3/16 – White Rabbit – San Antonio, TX
3/17- 3/21 – Austin, TX (SXSW festival) @ TBD
3/22 – Firebird – St Louis, Mo
3/23 – Emerson Theater – Indianapolis, IN
3/24 – Grog Shop – Cleveland, OH
3/26 – Hoodwink – Anaheim, CA @ Grove of Anaheim
3/27 – The Bamboozle – Anaheim, CA @ The Festival Grounds at Angels Stadium


Coheed & Cambria Dates:
4/22 – The Fillmore Charlotte – Charlotte, NC
4/23 – Tabernacle – Atlanta, GA
4/24 – House of Blues – Lake Buena Vista, FL
4/25 – Revolution – Fort Lauderdale, FL
4/27 – Warehouse Live – Houston, TX
4/28 – Stubb’s Waller Creek Outdoor Amphitheater – Austin, TX
4/29 – Palladium Ballroom – Dallas, TX
4/30 – Cain’s Ballroom – Tulsa, OK
5/01 – Diamond Ballroom – Oklahoma City, OK
5/03 – Marquee Theatre – Tempe, AZ
5/04 – Fox Theatre – Pomona, CA
5/05 – The Warfield Theatre – San Francisco, CA
5/07 – Roseland Theater – Portland, OR
5/08 – Showbox SoDo – Seattle, WA
5/10 – Murray Theater – Salt Lake City, UT
5/11 – Ogden Theatre – Denver, CO
5/13 – First Avenue – Minneapolis, MN
5/14 – Congress Theater – Chicago, IL
5/15 – Royal Oak Music Theatre – Royal Oak, MI
5/17 – House of Blues – Boston, MA
5/18 – Metropolis – Montreal, QC
5/19 – Sound Academy – Toronto, ON
5/22 – Electric Factory – Philadelphia, PA
5/26 – Rumsey Playfield – New York, NY
5/27 – 9:30 Club – Washington, D.C.


Thank you for all of your patience and support throughout this journey. Infinite Love.
Circa

Howdy Creatures,

Now things are getting interesting! Check out this contest we came up with….

If you make this image (above) your default picture on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Tumblr, your blog … wherever you can think of, you can win a signed 12″ vinyl of our new album when it comes out as well as a phone call from us.

As a bonus, anyone that is coming to a show has a chance to win a personal listening party with us. You will get to listen to our new record with one guest of your choice on show day.

The instructions are simple: make this your default image on your social network of choice and then post a message on our Facebook an MySpace pages as proof. If you are going to one of these shows then tell us which one in your message!

Winners will be picked and announced every week.

And while posting more than once won’t increase your chances of winning, feel free to post once a day.

(this does not include bamboozle or hoodwink, sorry)

love,

circa

Greetings all,

Over the past week or so we’ve been going through the mixing process for our new album and things are sounding amazing. (we’ll talk more about that soon) In other news we’ve been rehearsing everyday and with that said are so excited to announce our first shows of 2010. In addition to what’s already familiar we’ll be playing a few new songs, so this should be a blast…can’t wait to dance and sing with all of you, its been far too long.

Tickets are on sale now.
join us.
-circa-

3/11 – @ Cats Cradle, Carrboro, NC w/ Good Old War, The Christmas Lights
3/12 – @ Exit In – Nashville, TN w/ Good Old War, The Christmas Lights
3/13 – @ Workplay Theatre – Birmingham, AL w/ Good Old War, The Christmas Lights
3/14 – @ The village – Little Rock, AR w/ Good Old War, The Christmas Lights
3/16 – @ White Rabbit – San Antonio, TX w/ Steel Train, Good Old War and Snake Sustaine
3/17- 3/21 – @ Austin, TX (SXSW festival) @ TBD
3/22 – @ Firebird – St Louis, Mo w/ Good Old War, The Christmas Lights, The Firebird Suite
3/23 – @ Emerson Theater – Indianapolis, IN w/ Good Old War, The Christmas Lights
3/24 – @ Grog Shop – Cleveland, OH w/ Good Old War, The Christmas Lights
3/26 – Hoodwink – Anaheim, CA @ Grove of Anaheim
3/27 – The Bamboozle – Anaheim, CA @ The Festival Grounds at Angels Stadium

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Check out our good friends who will be joining us on these shows.
http://www.myspace.com/goodoldwar
http://www.myspace.com/thechristmaslights
http://www.myspace.com/snakesslashpit
http://www.myspace.com/thefirebirdsuite

We have some great new vinyl available at http://www.merchnow.com Get it quick before it goes. There will be more coming soon so keep an eye out.

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thanks everyone.

welcome to 2010. we’re happy to announce that Rich Costey is currently mixing our forth coming album. cheers to that!
- love circa

Hello ladies and gentleman, fish and dogs, Parrots, fruitbats and other fans of Circa Survive. It is the end of a decade and yet it is the beginning of a decade. As I write this, it’s somewhere in between the two and just in time for this splendid event we are proud to announce the release of our first 7″. Click the photo above to check it our or purchase it.
The record, with artwork by Esao Andrews, features two previously released b-sides from On Letting Go which we have used to raise money for various causes over the past two years. In keeping with that spirit, we will be giving all of the proceeds from this 7″ directly to our friend Trent Jacobi who suffered some terrible injuries recently. We hope this will help to put a dent in his hospital bills. You can read more about his accident here. Http://www.fearbefore.net Thankfully, Trent was able to make it back to the U.S.A before the doctors expected and was able to spend the holidays at home. We wish him well.
There is something about a 7″ that oddly enough makes me feel as though we’ve “made it”. When I started playing in punk rock and hardcore bands 12 years ago my friends and I always had the goal of putting out that little piece of black vinyl to tout at shows. It seemed something pure and solid in our basement culture that we could hold onto proudly, a sign that we’d made our mark. Somehow, due to various bands splitting up, material not being recorded, or more commonly the lack of cash, this seemingly simple goal has eluded me for years. The guys at Equal Vision have done a great job of designing this with a DIY feel. In fact, I just talked to my buddy at EVR and he is folding the cardboard cases together right now. Is it fair to say it’s DIY if my buddy is doing it for me? and it’s on a record label? Maybe not but the 12 years or so of work that I and the other members of Circa Survive have put in on the roads and the couches and vans and planes… Well, it doesn’t get much more DIY than that.
Here’s to the guys in my band and to every other musician out their that has a goal, whether it’s a pressing of 100 pieces of vinyl or it’s a platinum record. Keep up the hard work and it will come through to you.
Happy New Year!

Brendan,
+ Colin + Steve + Anthony + Nick

An Afterthought….
I have to wonder aloud before I disappear back into the real world… When we look back on this decade how will we see the music it produced. As we were swimming through this shitstorm of bad pop and bad rock that flooded the mainstream media outlets, I have to admit there were times I saw this as the worst decade of music since rock and roll was invented. But already, looking back I see Coldplay, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tool, Radiohead, My Chemical Romance, bands with true intent and purpose that were able to make an impact on the masses. And that was just to name a few. Perhaps it’s just easier to see all the horrible shit that’s happening when it’s happening. Hopefully, when it’s all said and done and we look back on these ten years we will only remember the good. The bad will slowly trickle away as a fad and we will never have to hear Puddle of Mudd again.
So I ask you, what will the next decade be like for music? What’s coming? A revival? Something brilliant and new? How do you see this past decade? good or bad? and how does it compare to other decades of music?