Meg and Dia's New Album, Here, Here and Here, Due Out April 21st, 2009 on Warner Bros. Records
Style News Wire | 4/16/2009, 6:18 p.m.
Meg & Dia are gearing up to release their second album, entitled Here, here and here, on April 21st on Warner Bros. Records. MTV premiered the album's lead-off single, "Black wedding," on MTV, MTVU, MTV Hits and MTV.com April 14th. The video was shot and directed by Aaron Platt (One Republic, Queens of The Stone Age) and can be seen here: http://www.mtv.com/videos/meg-dia/372955/black-wedding.jhtml.
MySpace Music is holding an online album listening party today, April 16th, where fans can listen to the entire album before release at MySpace.com/megdia. Fans have until next Monday to pre-order the album from the band's website, www.MegAndDia.com, and receive an autographed copy of the album insert along with an early download of "Agree to disagree" (GarageBand demo). A special CD/DVD package of Here, here and here, which includes a 30-minute video of Meg & Dia behind-the-scenes while writing and recording the album over the summer in Los Angeles, will also be available for pre-order until next week. Upon release, the special CD/DVD package will exclusively be sold through the band's website.
Here, here and here was written and recorded with producer Howard Benson (My Chemical Romance, All American Rejects). Over the course of its 13 brand-new studio tracks (written entirely by sisters Meg and Dia Frampton), the album chronicles the past few years in the life of this hardworking band, which is made up of Meg (guitar, vocals), Dia (lead vocal), Nick Price (drums), Carlo Gimenez (guitar), and Jonathan Snyder (bass). Here, here and here also showcases Meg & Dia's growing ability to express themselves musically by incorporating new instrument arrangements and a new pool of lyrical influences, as well as honing in on their distinctive brand of pop-rock.
Meg & Dia will once again join the Vans Warped Tour this summer for their third year. Beginning and wrapping up in California, Meg & Dia will perform on the two-month nationwide tour on the Hurley Stage. The band will perform songs from Here, here and here, as well as old favorites from their debut album Something Real, including the singles "Monster" and "Roses."
Meg & Dia's full list of tour dates on VWT below:
6/26 Pomona, CA Pomona Fairplex
6/27 San Francisco, CA Pier 30/32
6/28 Ventura, CA Seaside Park
6/30 Phoenix, AZ Cricket Pavilion
7/01 Las Cruces, NM NMSU Practice Field
7/02 San Antonio, TX AT&T Center
7/03 Houston, TX The Showgrounds @ Sam Houston Race Park
7/05 Dallas, TX Superpages.com Center
7/07 Indianapolis, IN Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
7/08 Pittsburgh, PA Post Gazette Pavilion
7/09 Cleveland, OH Time Warner Cable Amphitheatre
7/10 Toronto, ON Arrow Hall
7/11 Montreal, QC Parc Jean Drapeau
7/12 Hartford, CT New England Dodge Music Center
7/14 Washington, DC Merriweather Post Pavilion
7/15 Scranton, PA Toyota Pavilion
7/16 Buffalo, NY Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
7/17 Camden, NJ Susquehanna Bank Center
7/18 Uniondale, NY Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum
7/19 Oceanport, NJ Monmouth Park Racetrack
7/21 Boston, MA Tweeter Center for the Performing Arts
7/22 Virginia Beach, VA Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
7/23 Charlotte, NC Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
7/24 Orlando, FL Central Florida Fairgrounds
7/25 Miami, FL Cruzan Amphitheatre
7/26 Tampa, FL Vinoy Park
7/28 Atlanta, GA Lakewood Amphitheatre
7/29 Cincinnati, OH Riverbend Music Center
7/30 Milwaukee, WI Marcus Amphitheatre
7/31 Detroit, MI Comerica Park
8/01 Chicago, IL First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre
8/02 Minneapolis, MN Canterbury Park
8/03 St. Louis, MO Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
8/04 Kansas City, MO Sandstone Amphitheatre
8/07 Boise, ID Idaho Center Amphitheatre
8/08 Salt Lake City, UT Utah State Fairgrounds
8/09 Denver, CO Invesco Field
8/12 Calgary, AB Race City Speedway
8/14 Vancouver, BC Thunderbird Stadium
8/15 Seattle, WA Gorge Amphitheatre
8/16 Portland, OR Washington County Fairgrounds
8/19 Fresno, CA Save Mart Center
8/20 Mountain View, CA Shoreline Amphitheatre
8/21 Sacramento, CA Sleep Train Amphitheatre
8/22 San Diego, CA Cricket Amphitheatre
8/23 Los Angeles, CA Home Depot Center
For more info, visit: www.meganddia.com