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A Skylit Drive Now With Fearless RecordsYesterday

A Skylit Drive has announced that they have joined Fearless Records.

So We’ve joined the Fearless Records family! Make sure to check out their incredible roster, that we’re so glad to be apart of! Make sure you check out our Tour Dates, some dates have been announced with DANCE GAVIN DANCE, and you can expect a NEW! RECORD in 2009 & See you on Vans Warped Tour!

Jimmie Deeghan To Release Solo RecordYesterday

Jimmie Deeghan (Every Avenue) has started recording his record and recently updated his MySpace with a new video update featuring singers/friends from Just Surrender, Every Avenue, The Morning Light, Holiday Parade, That Was Something, and The Maine.

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Acoustic Tour for The Academy Is…Yesterday

The Academy Is…will be doing a short acoustic tour starting January 12th.

Below is a message from the band and tour dates.

Hello, my name is… acoustic tour Next week Adam and I are going out on a small tour, on which I will be playing short acoustic sets inside Hot Topic stores. Our friends Ian and Alex from The Cab will be joining us as well. I’m trying to see if we can play some small coffee shops on some of the days off as well… Malls, coffee shops, bowling allies, plus Adam turns 21… This is looking and feeling like the OLD old days. The All-Or-Nothing days. Adam on I on the open road with an acoustic and some friends. I hope to see you there, and I’ll let you know when more dates are added.

1/12 – Portland, ME – Maine Mall
1/13 – Providence, RI – Providence Place Mall
1/14 – Poughkeepsie, NY – Poughkeepsie Galleria
1/15 – Wilkes Barre, PA – Wyoming Valley Mall
1/16 – Wilmington, DE – Concord Mall
1/19 – Richmond, VA – Chesterfield Towne Center
1/21 – Charlotte, NC – Northlake Mall
1/22 – Columbia, SC – Columbiana Centre
1/26 – Daytona Beach, FL – Volusia Mall
1/31 – Metarie, LA (New Orleans) – Lakeside Mall

what songs do you want to hear? any covers?

Silverstein Talks About Punk Goes Pop 2, Premieres SongJanuary 7

Silverstein’s cover of “Apologize” by One Republic is now posted to the Punk Goes Pop 2 MySpace! The next song premiere from Punk Goes Pop 2 will be on January 27th. Check out what vocalist Shane Told had to say about being on the compilation:

“We are super excited to be a part of Punk Goes Pop 2.  We had a blast recording “Red Light Pledge” for the Punk Goes Acoustic  2 so we jumped at the chance to record a song for this one.

The interesting thing is that even though we’ve been a band for 9 years, we’ve never really done any covers.  The only one we did was a cover of Lifetime’s “Rodeo Clown” for a tribute album that never came out.  Most bands start out doing some covers before they write their own songs, but we jumped right into originals.

When we had to choose a song, there was a million we talked about doing, but we all agreed that “Apologize” would be rad.  It was a song we all secretly rocked out to, a total guilty pleasure.  It’s super catchy, it’s the kind of song you hear once and it’s instantly stuck in your head.  I also met One Republic one time and they were really nice.  I hope they don’t think we ruined their song :).

I’m super excited to hear what our friends bands have done, especially Bayside and A Day To Remember.  I can’t wait to get this CD in my hands.

We had so much fun recording this that we decided to do

DFO On TwitterJanuary 6

We have joined the popular Twitter where you can get updates as we post them on the site. If you use twitter follow us at twitter.com/drivenfaroff and stay updated!