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Featured Band: Sky Eats Airplane. Interview with Lee Duck.

Music By: Portugal, The Man. Dear and the Headlights. Take the Crown. Emarosa. They Mean Us. Cineplexx. Oxford Collapse. Sky Eats Airplane. Death Vessel. Soldiers.

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Equal Vision and Rise Records have teamed up to offer a split CD sampler showcasing six bands from each label. For the last few weeks, the sampler was only available at Warped Tour dates, but now they’re giving it away as a free download!

Tracklisting:

1. Chiodos - “I Didn’t Say I Was Powerful, I Said I Was A Wizard”

2. The Devil Wears Prada - “HTML Rulez D00d”

3. Damiera - “Quiet Mouth Loud Hands”

4. Dance Gavin Dance - “The Robot With Human Hair Pt. 3″

5. Sky Eats Airplane - “Long Walks on Short Bridges”

6. Emarosa - “Heads or Tails Real or Not”

7. The Color Fred - “Minnesota”

8. Take The Crown - “Ride Or Die”

9. Pierce The Veil - “Yeah Boy and Doll Face”

10. Breathe Carolina - “Gossip”

11. Cinematic Sunrise - “Pulling A Piano From A Pond”

12. Oceana - “The Tide”

Download 12-Song Sampler (70.8mb)

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 IndieUprising #51: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (477)

Music By: Scream Hello. Sky Eats Airplane. Greeley Estates. Used For Glue. Quincy Mumford. Ace Enders. Unwed Sailor. The Wedding. Lydia. Progress In Color. Stepsonday. Baumer. Followed By Ghosts. One Small Step For Landmines.

Show Notes:

• Get Baumer’s FREE album HERE
• Upcoming Featured Bands: The Lives of Famous Men, Sky Eats Airplane, Rediscover, The Wedding, Deas Vail.  I’m really looking forward to interviewing these bands!

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SKY EATS AIRPLANE have posted the single track, “Numbers”, from their self-titled full length in stores TOMORROW (July 22nd). Physical copies of the CD come with a unique code with access to a members-only site. By purchasing the CD, you’ll get exclusive video messages from the band, behind the scenes footage from their recent video shoot, contests, and more!

Speaking of numbers… the band is giving out their phone number: 817-271-5626
Leave messages telling the band what you think about the new album, a show you attended, or whatever you want to say. The band will be updating their voice mail from the road and calling a few lucky fans back while they’re on tour.

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• THE COLOR FRED, PIERCE THE VEIL ON ENTIRE TOUR

• SKY EATS AIRPLANE, CINEMATIC SUNRISE JOIN LATER

• CHIODOS TO PERFORM AT DETROIT DATE

JUN 6 – Equal Vision Records is proud to present THE COLOR FRED, PIERCE THE VEIL, SKY EATS AIRPLANE, CINEMATIC SUNRISE, and CHIODOS on the 2008 Vans Warped Tour, kicking off in two weeks!

THE COLOR FRED - the brainchild of Fred Mascherino, known for his work as lead guitarist and co-songwriter for Taking Back Sunday - will appear on the entire summer tour for their first time. Mascherino made his Warped Tour debut with his former band in 2003. “Warped’s connection to the punk and skateboarding culture, going back to the first tour, put it ahead of it’s time,” Mascherino recently told Alternative Press Magazine. “For my band and I, playing Warped Tour will be the highlight of the year.”

In agreement with Mascherino that this will be the highlight of the year, PIERCE THE VEIL is also making their Warped Tour debut on the Hurley Stage for the summer. Although brothers Vic and Mike Fuentes played a short stint of Warped as BEFORE TODAY, the band is ready for the full experience. “I am so excited to play and to see all of our friends play too,” says frontman Vic Fuentes. “It will be the most energetic and fun performances we’ve ever put together.” The band is currently supporting their 2007 release, A Flair For The Dramatic, but plans to write new material immediately after Warped Tour. PIERCE THE VEIL is also playing 2 off-dates during the summer in Las Vegas, NV on June 24^th and Syracuse, NY on July 21^st.

Equal Vision’s latest signees, SKY EATS AIRPLANE have had a busy year already and will add a 3 week stint on Warped Tour to their schedule. Fresh off of a 6 week tour with Alesana, the band is hitting the road on a 4 week co-headlining tour with A Skylit Drive in late June-July in support of their Equal Vision self-titled debut set for a July 24^th release. SEA then head straight into Warped beginning July 27^th in Scranton, PA. Additional tour plans find the band on the road through November.

Just off of their first-ever headlining tour, CINEMATIC SUNRISE - featuring Craig Owens and Bradley Bell of CHIODOS - will join a weeks worth of dates on Warped Tour beginning July 10th in Orlando, FL. The band will be playing songs from the just-released debut EP, A Coloring Storybook And Long Playing Record, as well as new songs from the forthcoming full length that is scheduled for a Spring 2009 release.

CHIODOS will make an appearance in their hometown of Detroit on July 18^th. Earlier this year, the band opened for Linkin Park and saw their first single “Lexington (Joey Pea-Pot With A Monkey Face)” hit radio airwaves. After headlining the Warped Tour last year, the band is spending this summer overseas at Download Festival in London, Rock AM Ring in Germany, and other dates in the UK and Europe.

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MAY 20 - Fort Worth, TX natives, SKY EATS AIRPLANE, and Equal Vision Records have set a July 22, 2008 release date for their self-titled full length album. The 11-track set was recorded at the beginning of the year with producer, Brian McTernan (Circa Survive, Hot Water Music) at his studio in Baltimore.

“Brian helped us out with a lot of great vocal ideas and definitely opened up new pathways we can take,” says guitarist, Lee Duck, of the experience. “We are still a very new band - our first show as a full band was March 2007. It was amazing to work with someone who could help us find our sound without trying to make us someone we weren’t.”

The band also had some assistance in designing artwork for the self-titled release: Evan Leake of Palebird Studios (The Academy Is Almost Here, Classic Case Losing At Life). “He specializes in incorporating real pictures with complex artwork,” explains Duck on the decision to have Leake design the artwork for the forthcoming full-length. “We were having a hard time thinking of what album art would fit for an album self titled as ”Sky Eats Airplane”. And of course, the obvious imagery comes to mind of a cheesy sky eating an airplane, or something that makes this album seem more of a square children’s book than an actual record,” Duck adds. “We have always been talking about a concept idea for our album with essentially something organic evolving into something mechanical, but we didn’t realize how much that fits for this release.”

The band will on the road in the month surrounding the album release. As previously announced, the band will join the final three weeks of the 2008 Vans Warped Tour and has now also added a co-headliner to their schedule with A Skylit Drive (Tragic Hero) kicking off June 26 in Las Vegas, NC. The tour will keep the band on the road through the end of July and features Breathe Carolina (Rise) and Memphis May Fire (Trustkill) for support.

This past March marked the one year anniversary of the band as a five-piece. In discussing the band’s progression over the past year Duck states, “Music wise, we were a band who came from heavily mechanical roots, and to come from that to now, it is almost as if something born one thing has turned into a totally different animal. Most bands will say they have matured, but we have been born.”

Track List

1. Introduction

2. Long Walks on Short Bridges

3. Transparent

4. Numbers

5. World Between Us

6. Photographic Memory

7. In Retrospect

8. The Artificial

9. Disconnected

10. Machines

11. Alias

Tour Dates

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MAR 11 2008 – Albany, NY based EQUAL VISION RECORDS is proud to welcome Fort Worth, TX electronic-hardcore act, SKY EATS AIRPLANE to its roster!

The band – Jerry Roush, vocals; Lee Duck, guitar and electronica; Zack Ordway, guitar, Johno Erickson, bass; Kenny Schick, drums – have already received an incredible amount of recognition in the press as an unsigned act, including an appearance in Alternative Press’ AP&R section in November 2007. Countless blogs and webzines listed SKY EATS AIRPLANE as one of the top unsigned acts of last year. It’s no wonder why there’s such a buzz. To date, the band’s Myspace has received over 4.5 million plays.

The five-piece recently recorded a 10-track set with producer Brian McTernan (Circa Survive, Senses Fail, Hot Water Music) at his studio in Baltimore, MD. “We’ve matured a lot – and for the best – since the last record,” says guitarist Lee Duck, comparing the current sound to that of their self-produced E.P., Everything Perfect On The Wrong Day. “It’s more technical. You’ll hear a lot of polyrhythm’s and odd time signatures with many dynamic changes but overall, we are modest with our ‘heaviness’,” describes guitarist Zack Ordway. On working with McTernan, Ordway says “it was really easy working with Brian. I felt like he and I were on the same page most of the time.” Duck continues, “it was amazing to work with someone who could help us find our sound without trying to make us someone weren’t. Three demos from the forthcoming release are currently posted on the band’s Myspace. An album title and release date are TBA.

SKY EATS AIRPLANE also gained some buzz with their rigorous touring in 2007, including support for Misery Signals and The Human Abstract. Showing no signs of slowing down in 2008, they’ll join Alesana (Fearless Records) this spring for an eight-week tour, making stops at both Bamboozle Left in Irvine, CA on April 5^th and the Bamboozle festival in E. Rutherford, NJ on May 3^rd. In the summer, the Texas natives will sign on to the last 3 weeks of Vans Warped Tour playing the Smart Punk stage beginning July 27^th in Scranton, PA.

What can the music world expect from SKY EATS AIRPLANE in the future? “What you will be hearing from us will truly be music straight from the source – unaltered from any corporate businessmen worrying about the sales figures more than the quality of music,” answers Duck. “One of our main concerns with choosing a record label was having the creative freedom only a label such as EQUAL VISION RECORDS could give us. We couldn’t be any happier with our choice to team up with EQUAL VISION RECORDS.”

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