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ALEXISONFIRE
have come back from 2006’s breakout album Crisis with their
highest single sales week ever in the U.S.  The Canadian rockers’ new
disc OLD CROWS / YOUNG CARDINALS
debuted on the Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart this week at #81
and #9 in the independent album chart, selling over 5,700 copies--an increase
of 35% from first week sales of Crisis. In their native Canada,
ALEXISONFIRE landed at #2, selling an impressive 15,400 copies, coming in
behind the Black Eyed Peas by less than 1500 units.  In the U.K., the album
charted at #70, marking a 17% increase from their previous album.

For the new album--released June 23 on Vagrant Records (U.S.A.) and on
Dine Alone and RoadRunner in the rest of the world--ALEXISONFIRE re-teamed with
Julius Butty who also produced the group’s Crisis and Watch Out!
discs.  OLD CROWS / YOUNG CARDINALS is the first album from the group in
almost three years and continues to receive critical praise (see quotes below).

The band is currently touring the U.S with the 2009 Vans Warped Tour joining
NOFX, 3Oh!3, Bad Religion, Flogging Molly, TSOL, Underoath and many more on the annual punk rock
extravaganza which celebrates its 15th anniversary this year.  The
group was also recently added to the Toronto
stop on July 10. In a live review from the kick-off show in Pomona, CA
on June 26, Los Angeles Times writer August
Brown said, “The thick-necked and unexpectedly catchy
stomp of Alexisonfire was a rewarding late afternoon pick-me-up…”
(6/29/09). Post Warped, the group are confirmed to play both the main stage and
Lock Up stages of both the Reading and Leeds U.K. festivals (with two sets per
day) performing alongside Kings of Leon, Kaiser Chiefs and Placebo, to name a
few.

It still sucks.