Drew Shirley: What is your #ViceVerses?

Week three of the #ViceVerses Twitter Campaign has begun. Tweet what your #ViceVerses is!

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Chad Butler: What is your #ViceVerses?

Week two of the #ViceVerses Twitter Campaign has begun. Tweet what your #ViceVerses is!

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"Dark Horses" Billboard Chart News (Week of August 27, 2011)

NOTE: The "Dark Horses" music video is being shot as we speak.

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"Dark Horses" is beginning to make significant inroads on the Billboard Charts.

- This week, it jumps up three spots to reach No. 28 on Alternative Songs/Modern Rock.



- It also hits the Rock Songs chart at No. 50 this week.

- But most significantly, it's No. 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 Bubbling Under songs. What this means is, it is just outside of the Billboard Hot 100 charts, the holy grail of singles charts, which combines radio airplay across the entire nation, sales data from iTunes/Amazon/etc., and streaming activity from online music sources.

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If we can push "Dark Horses" into the Hot 100, it will be the first time that a Switchfoot song made that chart since "Stars" back in 2005. This is HUGE, folks.

So for the rest of this week and next, let's make a push on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+! Post a link to iTunes, Amazon, or wherever else and tell your friends to go get the brand new Switchfoot single. Links below:

iTunes
Amazon

What are your #ViceVerses?

The new announcement is here! We're holding a contest and Switchfoot will be giving away copies of "Vice Verses" to fans a week early! These cd's will then be used for those lucky winners to host listening parties for the record and to build up buzz before release week!

For more details, check out this video of Jon Foreman explaining what's going on.



Specific instructions:

1. Log on to Twitter
2. Tell us what your Vice Verses Is
3. Hashtag #viceverses

The Top responses will win a copy of Vice Verses before it comes out, and the winners will be encouraged to host a listening with the advance copy of "Vice Verses."

Also, make sure to take footage of your listening party and upload it to Youtube, and you could win the mysterious grand prize! (we don't even know what it is yet).

The contest will run for 5 weeks. Winners will be selected each week.

Here is Jon's #ViceVerses



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Any more questions? Just comment below or hit us up on Facebook and Twitter.

"Dark Horses" and "Restless" hit Billboard

Both of Switchfoot's lead singles have hit their respective Billboard chats. "Dark Horses" debuts on Alternative Songs at No. 32, while "Restless" is No. 44 on Christian Songs.



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PRESS RELEASE: Switchfoot Debut New Single “Dark Horses” on Jimmy Kimmel September 19, New Album ‘Vice Verses’ Out September 27

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SWITCHFOOT will perform on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” on Monday, September 19th. The GRAMMY®-winning band will give “Dark Horses,” the lead single from its upcoming album, Vice Verses, its television debut. The track is climbing at Modern Rock radio, where it’s already been added by KTBZ (Houston), San Diego’s 91X and KBZT, CIMX (Detroit),KPNT (St. Louis), WXDX (Pittsburgh), KXRK (Salt Lake City) and numerous other stations.

Atlantic Records will release Vice Verses, the eighth studio record from the multi-platinum rock band, on September 27th. Working with producer Neal Avron (Sara Bareilles, Weezer), SWITCHFOOT recorded most of the album in their San Diego, CA home studio. Mike Elizondo (Eminem, Dr. Dre, Pink) who produced 2009′s Hello Hurricane, served as executive producer. Hello Hurricane entered The Billboard 200 at No. 13 and contained the Modern Rock hits “The Sound (John M. Perkins’ Blues)” and “Mess of Me.” The band won “Artist of the Year” honors at the San Diego Music Awards earlier this week.

On September 22nd, SWITCHFOOT will launch a co-headlining tour with ANBERLIN in Wilmington, NC. A pre-sale for fan club members is underway now at http://switchfoot.artistarena.com/.Tickets will go on sale to the general public this Friday, August 12th,at http://www.switchfoot.com/switchfoot/c/tourdates. See below for itinerary.

SWITCHFOOT and ANBERLIN have also teamed up with Eventful http://eventful.com to give their fans in the cities where the tour is routed the opportunity to bring an exclusive VIP acoustic performance to their city. Fans have until September 15 to cast a vote for their city at http://eventful.com/switchfootandamberlintour. The tour city with the most Demands will host the VIP performance prior to the regularly scheduled show. Eventful’s “Demand it!”™ service is used by over 100,000 performers who engage with millions of their fans to find out where they are in demand, and then utilize this essential data to optimize future tour routing.
Local chapters of StandUp for Kids (www.standupforkids.org), a national nonprofit volunteer outreach organization dedicated to making a difference in the lives of at-risk, homeless and street kids, will be collecting new and used backpacks at the concerts. The backpacks will be used to distribute food and essentials to kids served by the organization.
SWITCHFOOT has raised more than $500,000 for San Diego-based children’s charities, including StandUp for Kids, with its annual concert/surf contest/silent auction, theSwitchfoot Bro-Am Presented By Hurley (http://www.switchfoot.com/c/bro-am). The seventh annual Bro-Am took place in June at Moonlight Beach in Encinitas, CA.

ESPN college football will host an exclusive stream of Vice Verses on September 17th and the album will provide the soundtrack to the NCAA games airing that day on ESPN. SWITCHFOOT will perform at the San Diego Padres-Arizona Diamondbacks baseball game on September 18th at PETCO Park in San Diego.

SWITCHFOOT – comprising Jon Foreman (vocals/guitar), Tim Foreman (bass), Chad Butler (drums), Jerome Fontamillas (keys/guitar) and Drew Shirley (guitar) – expands its sonic palette on Vice Verses. Songs like “Afterlife” and “The War Inside” take the harder-edged approach of Hello Hurricane a step further, creating what Billboard has called “powerful, anthemic rockers.” Tracks such as the groove-oriented “The Original” and “Blinding Light” benefit from a hip-hop backbeat as does “Selling the News,” a Beck-like song that finds Foreman performing spoken word. “The War Inside” really puts the rhythm section up front while the snappy “Rise Above It” recalls the Chili Peppers punk-funk.

With its play on words, the new album’s title suggests its theme: everything has two sides. “Every blessing comes with a set of curses,” singer-guitarist Jon Foreman sings on the title track, all the while wondering if “there’s a meaning to it all.”
“The whole thing is about polarity,” says Foreman. “We wanted to write about the polarity of what it means to be human, the lights and darks. I’m always intrigued by the tension that exists between life and death. When making Hello Hurricane, there was a graveyard right by the hotel we were staying at while we were mixing it, and I spent a little bit of time there each morning walking through and sorting it out…really Vice Verses started there. This record is as much about loss as it is about what we still have while we’re living.”

The pre-order for Vice Verses is currently underway at www.switchfoot.com.

SWITCHFOOT/ANBERLIN FALL 2011 U.S. TOUR
9/22 – Wilmington, NC @ UNC-Wilmington
9/25 – New York, NY @ Best Buy
9/26 – Philadelphia, PA @ Trocadero
9/27 – Oneonta, NY @SUNY College
9/29 – Grand Rapids, MI @ Hoogenboom Center – Calvin College
9/30 – Columbus, OH @ Newport Music Hall
10/1 – Bourbonnais, IL @ Olivet Nazarene University-Centennial
10/2 – Dekalb, IL @ Northern Illinois University
10/5 – Bowling Green, OH @ Bowling Green State University – Stroh Center
10/7 – Boulder, CO @ Boulder Theatre
10/8 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Gallivan Center – X96 concert
10/10 – San Francisco, CA @ The Warfield Theatre
10/11 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern
10/13 – Amarillo, TX @ Azteca Music Hall
10/14 – Siloam Springs, AR @ John Brown University – Bill George Arena
10/15 – Longview, TX @ Le Tourneau University – Belcher Center
10/17 – Dallas, TX @ House of Blues
10/18 – Austin, TX @ Stubbs Waller Creek
10/20 – Albuquerque, NM @ Kiva Auditorium
10/21 – Phoenix, AZ @ Grand Canyon University Arena (SWITCHFOOT ONLY)

"Dark Horses" debuts on Billboard Alternative at No. 32!

Hey friends.

It's been a fantastic past few weeks thus far for Switchfoot's new single, "Dark Horses." Alternative radio has been giving it a ton of love, and accordingly, it's made it's debut at No. 32 on Billboard's Alternative chart. "Mess of Me," in comparison, made it's debut at No. 40.

This is fantastic.



Be sure to keep requesting it and get the momentum rolling! We have our request list here. Be sure to follow the Twitter feed to get up-to-date info and quick, urgent missions to complete.

Pre-order Deluxe Edition of "Vice Verses" on iTunes NOW!

Hey soldiers. The time is getting nearer... it's all coming in clear! "Vice Verses" is now open for pre-orders on iTunes.

This pre-order is really sweet; it will include the bonus track "Fading West," the live "Hello Hurricane" tracks, as well as a demo version of "Dark Horses" available EXCLUSIVELY on iTunes pre-order. The only way to get that one is to pre-order it now.

Once you pre-order, the "Dark Horses" single will download instantly.

Be sure to get your copy and support the single! Let's get it up the charts. This is our first real test, foot soldiers!

DOWNLOAD LINK