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01.15

Album Announcement & Samples

Long time, eh?

So this is the time when we should be shipping out all the pre-orders for “The Hands That Thieve” and “The Hand That Thieves” but as most of you who have been posted next to your mailboxes have figured out – it hasn’t shipped yet.  ”Streetlight, is there a silver lining amongst all this placating?” you ask – and the answer is – YES.

The album has been mastered and as proof – today we proudly provide you with the first of many samples of the new Streetlight Manifesto record.  Here are two, minute-long clips of two songs that you’ll hear on “The Hands That Thieve”.

The release date is currently up in the air, though.  When we hear from Victory Records about when they’ll be releasing the album, we will be right there to let you know.   We hope to know the release date within a week or so.

We understand patience has been worn thin but we stand by this record and the work that has gone into it with such unwavering aplomb that our excitement should match yours when you hear the samples.  But at the same time, we understand that you’ve all been very understanding with us and our delays, and deadlines that have come and gone, that we would like to compensate you accordingly.  With every single pre-order (from the RISC Store) of the new album of any size (from the CD by itself to the Mega Bundle) we will be including a free live EP CD that we recorded on the “Hands That Thieve Tour” last fall.  The free live EP will be an exclusive RISC Store gift and is the only professional live Streetlight Manifesto recording to date.

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12.01

Dan P Hits the Road December/January!

Performer extraordinaire, Dan P (MU330 / The Bricks / The Stitch Up), is hitting the road.  First he is trekking through Florida for five shows in December before he joins the Reel Big Fish / Pilfers tour for all of January.  Make sure you check out the tour section to see when you can catch Dan P live – if you’ve seen him before I’m sure you’re already alerting your friends about this.  Thanks for that.  Enjoy.

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10.23

Album Release(s) Postponed

Hello all,
So there are two ways to say this, and here they are, one after the other:

The Short Version.
Both the Streetlight Manifesto album “The Hands That Thieve” and the Toh Kay companion album “The Hand That Thieves” are being pushed back to a later release date, presumably sometime in January, 2013.

The Long Version:
So, first off, I’d like to apologize to everyone who has been waiting for this record to come out as originally announced, on Nov 6th. I’d normally say “on behalf of everyone in Streetlight” but that’d be misleading. I am entirely and solely at fault for the delay of these records and I take full responsibilty for it. I simply put too much on my plate and lined up too many deadlines and tours, and I just couldn’t finish everything in time, between writing, recording, planning and my now notorious but unavoidable tendency to remix, rewrite and, in general, redo everything a few times before it’s “just right”. We announced the album prematurely and in a rush because of a number of factors that lined up in August, and since then I was unable to meet some critical deadlines in order to get the records handed in in time for a Nov 6th release. As the time continued to tick by, I tried to line up a slightly later release date, but I failed in meeting the deadlines for that date as well. I was waiting to announce the delay until we had a certain, solid release date but that just hasn’t happened yet for a number of reasons, so it’s time to let the cat out of the bag: We’re looking at January of 2013 as of now. As soon as I know anything, we’ll be announcing it on our site and to try to make it up to you guys as best we can, all preorders will ship with a special gift, one that will hopefully ease the frustration of the prolonged wait.
In the meantime, we are on tour, playing a number of new songs from the album, and we’ll be sharing live versions of the songs soon, as well as (finally) some proper samples from the record(s).
Once again, I humbly and whole heartedly apologize for the delay. I’ve let down our fans, and I’ve let down the other members of Streetlight, with my constant remixing, rewriting, starting again from scratch and making promises i end up unable to meet. I am sorry.

Thanks
Tomas

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09.20

Warped Tour Pictures!

Remember Warped Tour? Sure. Well if you went, or want to see how went, we have posted a page with a crowd shot from almost every date of Warped Tour in most cities (some photos didn’t exactly turn out). So if you happened to be wearing that 30 gallon hat that day – you’re in luck. Enjoy

Warped Tour 2k12 Pictures

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09.10

Empty Orchestra feature in Performer Mag

Performer Magazine has ran an exclusive feature of the making of Empty Orchestra’s new music video for their song “The Audience”. The video was shot in their hometown of Flint, Michigan at the historic Capitol Theater.