Boys Like Girls Ready to Rock the Hellogoodbye Tour in April-May and Van's Warped Tour 2007 From June-August
Rising Boston Pop/Rock Band Wins Spin.com's "Artist Of The Year"
PRNewswire
NEW YORK
04/02/2007
The rapidly-rising young Boston pop/rock band Boys Like Girls -- Martin Johnson (vocals, guitar), Bryan Donahue (bass), John Keefe (drums), and Paul DiGiovanni (guitar) -- will open shows on the upcoming Hellogoodbye Tour beginning April 5 in Bakersfield, California, and wrapping up on May 4 in Hampton, New Hampshire.
Following the slots opening for Hellogoodbye, Boys Like Girls will perform shows during the entire Van's Warped Tour 2007 running from June 28 through August 25 (see full itinerary following).
The announcement of Boys Like Girls' upcoming concert itinerary comes hot on the heels of the group's recent win -- with more than 68% of the votes -- of Spin.com's coveted "Artist of the Year" honors. Boys Like Girls, one of Alternative Press's "100 Bands You Need To Know in 2007," has also been chosen for AOL "Breakers," with voting to begin on April 1.
"The Great Escape," the first single from Boys Like Girls' self-titled debut album, was one of America's Top 5 Most Added records at Top 40 during its first week at radio. The track has been added to more than 25 Top 40 stations coast-to-coast.
A spell-binding video for "The Great Escape," lensed by director Alan Ferguson (Fall Out Boy), premiered online on Yahoo! on February 27 and received 757,138 views within a month of being posted on YouTube. The groundbreaking video has been added to broadcast television and may be seen on the FUSE Network as well as MTV Hits, where it has been receiving between 15- 20 spins a week.
Produced by Matt Squire (Panic! At The Disco, Northstar, Hit The Lights), Boys Like Girls has spent 31 weeks on both the Billboard Heatseekers Top New Artist chart (peaking at #9) and the SoundScan Alternative New Artist Sales chart (peaking at #4).
Boys Like Girls has also been enjoying some incredible exposure online with more than 6.1 million total plays on the group's My Space page (myspace.com/boyslikegirls) where the band has logged nearly 2.9 million profile views and has been the site's #3 top-rated indie emo band. In addition, the band has been a Top 10 mainstay on Purevolume's Emo (currently #5) and Alternative (currently #10) artist charts since the album's release on August 22 on Red Ink/Columbia Records.
The Boys Like Girls homegrown video for "Hero/Heroine" has been viewed more than 3 million times during its six months on YouTube.
Boys Like Girls Spring - Summer 2007 Concerts
DATE CITY VENUE
04/05/07 Bakersfield, CA The Dome
04/06/07 Los Angeles, CA The Wiltern Theatre
04/07/07 San Francisco, CA The Warfield Theatre
04/08/07 Sparks, NV New Oasis
04/20/07 Old Dominion, VA Webb Center
04/22/07 New York, NY Roseland Ballroom
04/23/07 Hartford, CT Webster Theatre
04/26/07 New River A2, FL The Revolution
05/02/07 Poughkeepsie, NY The Chance Theatre
05/03/07 Hadley, MA Chapin Hall
05/04/07 Hampton, NH Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom
05/05/07 E. Rutherford, NJ Bamboozle
05/06/07 Boston, MA Avalon Ballroom
05/08/07 Newark, DE Bob Carpenter Center,
University Of Delaware
05/09/07 Baltimore, MD Baltimore Ram's Head Live
05/10/07 Cincinnati, OH Bogarts
05/11/07 Cleveland, OH House Of Blues
05/12/07 Detroit, MI Detroit State Theatre
05/13/07 Chicago, IL Congress Theatre
05/15/07 Minneapolis-
St. Paul, MN Trocaderos
05/16/07 Fargo, ND Playmakers
05/17/07 Omaha, NE Sokol Auditorium
05/18/07 Columbia, MO Blue Note
05/19/07 Green Val, NV Henderson Amphitheatre
05/22/07 Atlanta, GA Roxy Theatre
05/23/07 Murray Hill, FL Fuel Coffeehouse
05/24/07 Lake Buena Vista, FL House Of Blues
05/25/07 Tallahassee, FL The Beta Bar
05/26/07 New Orleans, LA House Of Blues
05/27/07 Houston, TX Meridian
05/29/07 Dallas-Ft. Worth, TX House Of Blues
05/30/07 Oklahoma City, OK Diamond Ballroom
06/01/07 Tempe, AZ The Marquee
06/02/07 Anaheim, CA House Of Blues
06/03/07 Anaheim, CA House Of Blues
06/04/07 Anaheim, CA House Of Blues
06/29/07 Pomona, CA Pomona Fairplex
06/30/07 Ventura, CA Seaside Park
07/01/07 Mountain View, CA Shoreline Amphitheatre
07/03/07 Vancouver, BC Thunderbird Stadium
07/05/07 Calgary, AB Race City Speedway
07/07/07 Salt Lake City, UT Utah State Fairgrounds
07/08/07 Denver, CO Invesco Field
07/11/07 Phoenix, AZ Cricket Pavilion
07/12/07 El Paso, NM NMSU Practice Field
07/13/07 San Antonio, TX San Antonio Amphitheater
07/14/07 Dallas, TX Smirnoff Amphitheater
07/15/07 Houston, TX Reliant Center
07/18/07 Atlanta, GA Hi Fi Amphitheatre
07/19/07 Jacksonville, FL Metropolitan Park
07/20/07 St. Petersburg, FL Vinoy Park
07/21/07 Miami, FL Bayfront Park Amphitheatre
07/22/07 Orlando-
Daytona Beach, FL Tinker Field
07/23/07 Charlotte, NC Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
07/24/07 Virginia Beach, VA Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
07/25/07 Washington, DC Merriweather Post Pavilion
07/26/07 Scranton, PA Montage Mountain
07/27/07 Detroit, MI Co America Park
07/28/07 Tinley Park, IL First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre
07/29/07 Minneapolis, MN HHH Metrodome
07/31/07 Milwaukee, WI Marcus Amphitheatre
08/01/07 Cincinnati, OH Riverbend Music Center
08/02/07 Cleveland, OH Tower City Amphitheatre
08/03/07 Philadelphia, PA Tweeter Waterfront Center
08/04/07 Uniondale, NY Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum,
Arena
08/05/07 Englishtown, NJ Raceway Park
08/07/07 Indianapolis, IN Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
08/08/07 Pittsburgh, OH Post Gazette Pavilion
08/09/07 Boston, MA Tweeter Center For The Performing Arts
08/10/07 Buffalo, NY Darien Lakes
08/11/07 Toronto, ON Park Place
08/12/07 Montreal, ON Park Jean Drapeau
08/14/07 St. Louis, MO UMB Bank Pavilion
08/15/07 Kansas City, KS Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
08/17/07 Boise, ID Idaho Center
08/18/07 Seattle, WA The Gorge Amphitheatre
08/19/07 Portland, OR Columbia Meadows
08/22/07 Fresno, CA Selland Arena
08/23/07 Sacramento, CA Sleep Train Amphitheatre
08/24/07 San Diego, CA Coors Amphitheatre Lot
08/25/07 Carson, CA Home Depot Center
boyslikegirls.com
myspace.com/boyslikegirls
columbiarecords.com
First Call Analyst:
FCMN Contact:
SOURCE: Red Ink/Columbia Records
CONTACT: Maggie Wang of Columbia Records, New York, +1-212-833-8208,
Maggie.Wang@sonybmg.com
Web site: http://www.boyslikegirls.com/
http://www.myspace.com/boyslikegirls
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