Posted on Oct 02, 2009 under AFI, Album, LIVE, Performance, song |
To celebrate the release of their eighth studio album, Crash Love, AFI took to the stage at the world famous Roxy on Sunset thanks to local Los Angeles radio station KROQ. In front of an intimate crowd of hundred’s, rather than thousands that typically fill AFI shows, the band played a thrashing 14 song set filled with classics of the past, and a handful of Crash Love gems that are soon to be just that. Highlights of the night were too many to capsulize, but front man Davey Havok’s front flip into the waiting crowd on “Kill Caustic” and the stunning rendition of The Cure’s classic “Just Like Heaven” marked just a few of the moments that lit up the night. Reminiscent of 1995, AFI welcomed Nick 13 (Tiger Army) and Geoff Kresge (ex AFI/Tiger Army) to the stage to sing “Nyquil,” a track from the band’s first album, Answer That and Stay Fashionable. Electric performances of AFI’s radio singles “Miss Murder” and Crash Love’s “Medicate” put a cap on a night that will not soon be forgotten by the fan’s lucky enough to be present that night.
Fans of AFI who could not be at the show now have the chance to watch a handful of videos from the epic evening on KROQ.com. To find out when and where you can see AFI live, visit www.AFireInside.net/events. Crash Love is in-stores now and available everywhere good music is sold.
Posted on Sep 25, 2009 under AFI, Album, Concert, New album, Tour Dates |
CRASH LOVE will be released September 29 on DGC/Interscope. First single
“Medicate,” for which the band is currently shooting a video, is already
available on iTunes both as a single download and as part of an 18-song CRASH
LOVE deluxe edition featuring multiple bonus tracks both from the CRASH LOVE
sessions and the AFI vaults.
AFI recently added another leg of dates to its first series of live shows in
the U.S. since its July 7, 2007 Live Earth appearance. The tour commences
October 2 in Minneapolis with additional dates running up through a November
22 appearance at Stubbs Amphitheater in Austin, TX.
Produced by Joe McGrath and Jacknife Lee, CRASH LOVE is AFI’s eighth album and
arguably the band’s most focused, direct and ambitious effort to date. CRASH
LOVE follows up two consecutive platinum AFI albums, 2006’s
DECEMBERUNDERGROUND which entered the U.S. chart at #1 and 2003’s SING THE
SORROW. AFI’s discography also includes the full lengths THE ART OF DROWNING
(2000), BLACK SAILS IN THE SUNSET (1999), SHUT YOUR MOUTH & OPEN YOUR EYES
(1997), VERY PROUD OF YA (1996) and ANSWER THAT AND STAY FASHIONABLE (1995).
AFI FALL 2009 U.S. DATES:
10/02/09 – Minneapolis, MN – Epic
10/04/09 – Columbus, OH – Newport Music Hall
10/05/09 – Cincinnati, OH – Bogart’s
10/07/09 – Buffalo, NY – Town Ballroom
10/08/09 – Clifton Park, NY – Northern Lights
10/10/09 – Sayreville, NJ – Starland Ballroom
10/11/09 – Pittsburgh, PA – Club Zoo
10/13/09 – Hartford, CT – The Webster
10/14/09 – Providence, RI – Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel
10/16/09 – Rochester, NY – Water Street Music Hall
10/17/09 – Hampton Beach, NH – Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom
10/19/09 – Richmond, VA – The National
10/21/09 – Scranton, PA – Scranton Cultural Center
10/23/09 – Columbia, MD – Merriweather Post Pavilion
10/25/09 – Boston, MA – House of Blues
11/03/09 – Tulsa, OK – Cain’s Ballroom
11/04/09 – St. Louis, MO – The Pageant
11/06/09 – Kansas City, MO – Uptown Theater
11/07/09 – Chicago, IL – Riviera Theater
11/09/09 – Detroit, MI – The Fillmore Detroit
11/10/09 – Toronto, Canada – The Sound Academy
11/12/09 – Philadelphia, PA – Electric Factory
11/13/09 – New York, NY – Roseland Ballroom
11/15/09 – North Myrtle Beach, SC – House of Blues
11/16/09 – Atlanta, GA – Tabernacle
11/18/09 – West Palm Beach, FL – Pompano Beach Amphitheater
11/19/09 – Lake Buena Vista, FL – House of Blues
11/21/09 – Houston, TX – Verizon Wireless Theater
11/22/09 – Austin, TX – Stubbs Amphitheater