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Exclusive: Listen To Blue October's New Album, Approaching Normal
Blue October's highly anticipated new album, Approaching Normal, hits stores tomorrow (March 24), but you can here it now right here on First Play.
Momentum has been building towards the March 24th release of the new studio album, Approaching Normal, and the follow-up to the band’s 2006 platinum plus-certified Foiled. The Steve Lillywhite produced Approaching Normal features the first single, “Dirt Room,” which is already Top 15 (in four weeks) on the Mediabase Alternative Chart and makes its debut this week on the Active Rock chart. The video for “Dirt Room,” is also making a big splash. Not only was it added to MTV2 and MTVU but the video premiered on Yahoo.com which currently averages 24 million in audience.
Although the sound of “Dirt Room” is sonically harder and edgier than Blue October’s previous hits, “Hate Me” and “Into the Ocean,” its lyric continues along the same emotionally charged and vivid visual path as both of those Modern Rock hits. Lead singer, Justin Furstenfeld explains when asked about the lyrics of the song “it's too dark and personal, I don't think you can print that”, but adds, "It's about fighting back...to put an END to those who think they can hurt the ones you love.”
Another song from Approaching Normal, “Kangaroo Cry,” will reach audiences via one of the most popular television shows in America, CBS TV’s NCIS. Blue October will join the company of heavy hitting superstars, all of which have contributed brand new songs, like Bob Dylan, Oasis, Seether, Dashboard Confessional and Perry Farrell, on the NCIS: The Official TV Soundtrack.
Due out on February 10th, the soundtrack is the first for the hit show now in its sixth season and continually ranked in the Nielsen Media Rated Top 10 reaching 20 million viewers every week. “Kangaroo Cry” was also the inspiration for the storyline of an upcoming episode of the show.
Coming off of a successful run of sold out dates in Europe last month, US fans can catch the band play their new material, including “Dirt Room” and “Kangaroo Cry” as well as fan favorites this spring. Tour dates are:
Mar, 25th Jimmy Kimmel Live
Mar, 26th Portland Crystal Ballroom
Mar, 27th Seattle Showbox
Mar, 28th Spokane Knitting Factory
Mar, 31st Salt Lake City The Depot
Apr, 1st Denver Ogden Theater
Apr, 3rd Omaha Sokol Hall
Apr, 4th Omaha Sokol Hall
Apr, 5th St Louis Pageant
Apr, 6th Lawrence, KS Liberty Hall
Apr, 10th Austin Stubbs
Apr, 11th Austin Stubbs
Apr, 20th New Orleans House of Blues
Apr, 22nd St. Petersburg Janus Landing
Apr, 23rd Lake Buena Vista House of Blues
Apr, 24th Myrtle Beach House of Blues
Apr, 25th Charlotte Amos
Apr, 27th Washington DC 930 Club
Apr, 29th Philadelphia Theater of Living Arts
May, 1st New York Webster Hall
May, 2nd Providence Lupo's
May, 3rd Boston House of Blue
May, 4th New Haven Toad’s Place
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