Momentum is building towards the March 24th release of the new studio album by Blue October, Approaching Normal, and the follow-up to the band’s 2006 platinum plus-certified Foiled. The Steve Lillywhite produced Approaching Normal features the first single, "Dirt Room", which is already Top 15 (in four weeks) on the Mediabase Alternative Chart and makes its debut this week on the Active Rock chart. The video for "Dirt Room," is also making a big splash. Not only was it added to MTV2 and MTVU but the video premiered on Yahoo.com which currently averages 24 million in audience. Check out exclusive video about the filming process for "Dirt Room" at Ultimate-Guitar.TV.
Although the sound of "
Dirt Room" is sonically harder and edgier than
Blue October’s previous hits, "
Hate Me" and "
Into The Ocean," its lyric continues along the same emotionally charged and vivid visual path as both of those Modern Rock hits. Lead singer,
Justin Furstenfeld explains when asked about the lyrics of the song "
it's too dark and personal, I don't think you can print that", but adds, "
It's about fighting back...to put an End to those who think they can hurt the ones you love."
Another song from Approaching Normal, "Kangaroo Cry," will reach audiences via one of the most popular television shows in America, CBS TV’s NCIS. Blue October will join the company of heavy hitting superstars, all of which have contributed brand new songs, like Bob Dylan, Oasis, Seether, Dashboard Confessional and Perry Farrell, on the NCIS: The Official TV Soundtrack.
Due out on February 10th, the soundtrack is the first for the hit show now in its sixth season and continually ranked in the Nielsen Media Rated Top 10 reaching 20 million viewers every week. "Kangaroo Cry" was also the inspiration for the storyline of an upcoming episode of the show.
Coming off of a successful run of sold out dates in Europe last month, US fans can catch the band play their new material, including "Dirt Room" and "Kangaroo Cry" as well as fan favorites this spring.
Tour dates are:
Mar, 18th San Diego House of Blues
Mar, 19th Las Vegas House of Blues
Mar, 21st Los Angeles Club Nokia
Mar, 22nd Anaheim House of Blues
Mar, 24th Approaching Normal Street Date
Mar, 25th San Francisco Fillmore
Mar, 26th Portland Crystal Ballroom
Mar, 27th Seattle Showbox
Mar, 28th Spokane Knitting Factory
Mar, 31st Salt Lake City The Depot
Apr, 01st Denver Ogden Theater
Apr, 03rd Omaha Sokol Hall
Apr, 04th TBA
Apr, 05th St Louis Pageant
Apr, 06th Lawrence Liberty Hall
Apr, 10th Austin Stubbs
Apr, 11th Austin Stubbs
Apr, 20th New Orleans House of Blues
Apr, 22nd Tampa Janus Landing
Apr, 23rd Orlando House of Blues
Apr, 24th Myrtle Beach House of Blues
Apr, 25th Charlotte Amos
Apr, 27th Washington DC 930 Club
Apr, 29th Philadelphia Theater of Living Arts
May, 01st New York Webster Hall
May, 02nd Providence Lupo's
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