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. >> read more

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 >> read more

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. >> read more

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 >> read more

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 >> read more