Seattle, WA. (Top40 Charts/ Tooth & Nail) - Seattle natives and Tooth & Nail's BEST selling debut artist The Classic Crime gear up for this year's Tooth & Nail Tour featuring MXPX, Hawk Nelson, The Fold, and Sullivan. Their current album Albatross has sold over 30,000 copies strictly on the strength of touring and on-line marketing, TCC have already set the table for success in 2007.
The Classic Crime is ready to impact radio again with their second single "The Fight". Early believers at Chicago's WIIL, Seattle's KFNK, XM Radio's Squizz, Sirius' Octane, are among the dozen stations jumping on the single early.
The band has already proven their popularity with first week scans reaching 3,700 copies, making The Classic Crime the No 1 Best Selling Debut for a Tooth & Nail artist in the label's history. With streaming plays on Purevolume.com over 1.1million, The Classic Crime cemented their reputation to the masses last year on the sold out 2006 Tooth & Nail Tour and their Fall tour with A Static Lullaby, I Am Ghost and So They Say, and their current Spring 2007 tour with A Change of Pace and Quietdrive. And now they're gearing up for this year's Tooth & Nail tour featuring MXPX, Hawk Nelson, The Fold, and Sullivan.
Having played together since high school where they searched for a medium between their parents favorite music like Jimi Hendrix, Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin, but playing close attention to their surroundings including the likes of Pearl Jam and Gatsby's American Dream, The Classic Crime have developed their own style best described as a new take on old rock 'n' roll sound. Partnering with producer Michael "Elvis" Baskette (Iggy Pop, Chevelle, Cold) in the studio couldn't have worked out any better for The Classic Crime to embrace all of their different influences and fuse them all into Albatross. PunkBands.com says of the band, "The Classic Crime deliver delectable songs on Albatross while healing us all with a little bit of their pain. I suppose that's what music is about, right?" While the seminal Punknews.org says, "Albatross could easily launch the band to the front of the scene. Not only is their album a solid mix of catchy rock songs with some pop-punk influence, but Matt MacDonald manages to find a vocal approach in between fan favorites Patrick Stump and Brendon Urie... So someone turn up the volume and let's have a party."
TOOTH & NAIL TOUR DATES:
May 08 Marquee Theater Tempe, Arizona
May 09 Rialto Theater Tucson, Arizona
May 10 Sunshine Theater Albuquerque, New Mexico
May 11 Cain's Ballroom Tulsa, Oklahoma
May 13 Palladium Ballroom Dallas, Texas
May 14 Meridian Houston, Texas
May 17 Jannus Landing St. Petersburg, Florida
May 18 Murray Hill Theater Jacksonville, Florida
May 19 The Masquerade Atlanta, Georgia
May 21 The Recher Theater Towson, Maryland
May 22 Axis Boston, Massachusetts
May 23 Trocadero Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
May 25 Irving Plaza New York, New York
May 26 Mr. Small's Theater Millvale, Pennsylvania
May 27 House of Blues Cleveland, Ohio
May 28 Newport Music Hall Columbus, Ohio
May 29 Headliner's Music Hall Louisville, Kentucky
May 30 Rocketown Nashville, Tennessee
May 31 The Irving Theater Indianapolis, Indiana
Jun 01 St. Andrew's Hall Detroit, Michigan
Jun 22 The Underground Cinncinnati, Ohio
Jun 03 The Pageant St. Louis, Missouri
Jun 05 House of Blues Chicago, Illinois
Jun 06 People's Des Moines, Iowa
Jun 07 Club 3 Degrees Minneapolis, Minnesota
Jun 08 Sokol Auditorium Omaha, Nebraska
Jun 09 Granada Lawrence, Kansas
Jun 10 Gothic Theater Englewood, Colorado
Jun 11 In the Venue Salt Lake City, Utah
