‘Working’ is available now!
After a long wait our debut album is finally available in stores across Canada as well as worldwide on iTunes, EMusic, Amazon, etc. The word on the street is that the album is available at HMV for $14.99, and on iTunes for $9.99 (without DRM). If you can’t seem to find a copy in your local record store, they can order it in through our distributor Fontana North / Universal Music Canada. We’ve also been fortunate to be listed in a bunch of sections of iTunes Canada this week: Fabulous New Indies, Rock > New and Noteworthy. Thanks iTunes!
Hitting All The Local Press
It looks like a little hard work playing local shows over the past few years is finally paying off with a ton of local coverage for our new album and cross Canada tour… Times Colonisthttp://www.timescolonist.com/Acres+Lions+ready+expand+territory/1256142/story.html Victoria Newshttp://www.bclocalnews.com/vancouver_island_south/victorianews/entertainment/38868914.html Monday Magazinehttp://mondaymag.com/articles/entry/working-for-the-band/ Jeff and Dan also did an interview with Shaw Cable’s – The Daily that will be airing all day Friday; and Jeff will be doing an acoustic performance and interview on the Zone 91.3 FM on Friday at 3:30 PM.
Working CD Release Party!
In just over a week our debut album hits the streets and that same day (Feb 10th) we leave on our first ever cross Canada tour! The tour will take us across five provinces for a total of 35 shows, and to kick it all off we’re playing a CD Release Party at Lucky Bar in Victoria on Friday, February 6th. We’ve got a couple great bands opening up: A Trophy Life, Conversation, and Beat Kids so it should be a really fun night! Also note: the show is $12 at the door, but we’re highly recommending that people buy advance tickets because the show will most likely sell out. Advance tickets are available from West 49 (in Mayfair Mall) for $10, as well as from Ditch Records (downtown) for
UVIC SUBurban Videos / Covers For A Cause
We’ve got a couple new videos up on our YouTube site from our performance at last weekend’s UVIC SUBurban Party…. Also tonight you can catch us playing cover songs down at Lucky Bar as part of their semi-annual Covers For a Cause series. Our set list will include songs by: Hot Water Music, Saves The Day, Attack In Black, Fall Out Boy, Jimmy Eat World, Kings Of Leon, and The Hold Steady. Cover charge is only $5 and it goes to support cancer research.
New Myspace Look + Starting To Get Noticed
For those of you who follow the Canadian music scene closely, you’ll undoubtedly be familiar with Chart Magazine’s online editorial cleverly named ChartAttack.com. For a brief period today, the debut Acres Of Lions album and our cross Canada tour to support it were considered front page news. While that might be common place for many bands, it’s a first for Acres Of Lions and as our album’s February 10th release date grows nearer it’s really starting to feel like the planets might truly be aligning in our favor! In celebration, we finally took the time to update the look of our myspace page to fit in with web 2009. It’s not quite as fancy as I plan on making it over the coming weeks, but I think it’s a definite
Radio Play and Album Pre-Ordering
The first run of our new album, entitled ‘Working’, has just arrived at our label’s head office here in Victoria so that means pre-ordering the CD is available now from the Cordova Bay Records website. The official release date for the album is February 10th, but pre-orders are all getting shipped out on February 1st, so you’ll be the first one of your friends to get their hands on a copy! Now that the CDs have arrived we’ve also started working the album hard to radio this week, and so far the response has been really positive! Rob Robson, programmer for the Galaxie ‘Rock’ Station, just added ‘Closer’ to Heavy rotation. New Vancouver rock station, The Peak 100.5 FM, also just added us to their playlist today, and we’ve seen
New Acres Of Lions Single ‘Closer’
‘Closer’, the first single from our new album, is out now on iTunes and other digital retailers! It is also being given its first radio exposure tomorrow on Victoria rock radio station The Zone 91.3 FM as part of their “Modern Rock Inbox”! Start emailing and calling in your requests so we can convince them to add us to regular rotation! Request line: 1-888-414-0913 Our friend and local artist Joey MacDonald did a wonderful job of turning us into fun cartoon characters for the cover of the digital single, and he did an amazing job on the full artwork for our album. As far as the rest of Canada goes… a full cross Canada radio push for the single will be building up over the next couple weeks thanks to
Merry Christmas / 12:51 Magazine Interview
Hope everyone had themselves a Merry Christmas! The snow is slowly melting here in Victoria, but it’s pretty amazing that it’s stayed on the ground this long because it’s been more than 10 years since we had snow on Christmas. If you’re feeling lazy from all the excessive feasting, and just sitting around the house in your underwear killing time, you should check out a new interview that I did with staff writer Brandon Shaw from 12:51 Magazine. It’s up on their blog today as their Featured Artist Interview, and we talk about some of the band’s upcoming plans for releasing our new record and touring across the country in the new year. Here’s the link:http://www.1251mag.com/blog
Tour Update / Van Troubles!
Hey friends, Just a little update for you since we’ve got a few hours to kill. The tour has been awesome so far. We played a couple great shows with our friends in Melody Unwinding. Kamloops was a small and sweaty all-ages show at the Loft, and Doc Willoughby’s in Kelowna was a super fun bar show party last night. Unfortunately our van decided it needs a new fuel pump so after we loaded our gear in last night we realized our van was dead in the water. Thankfully our bro ‘Shaner’ helped us out and pulled our trailer with his truck, and my magic BCAA card got the van towed away to the shop so we could continue partying. We’re stranded in Kelowna for a few more hours while
Free Download Of ‘Closer’
Hey friends, Some exciting news….as a little extra incentive for people to come out to our shows over the next couple weeks we’re going to be giving away little download cards that contain special codes that will allow you to download the first single from our upcoming album! The single is a brand new track called “Closer”, and it won’t be available to the general public until January 6th when it will come out digitally on iTunes. The full album, entitled “working”, comes out February 10th; so this is your chance to get a sneak peak at the new album a full two months in advance! If you’ve already gotten your hands on a download card, simply enter the access code on the back, and follow the directions at: www.acresoflions.com/downloadmanager
