Alternative Press Magazine wasn’t kidding when they named mewithoutYou a “Band You Need to Know in 2005.” Not only did the year ring in a new-found appreciation for the group’s 2004 sophomore release, “Catch For Us The Foxes,” but mewithoutYou also joined national tours with the likes of Coheed and Cambria and The Blood Brothers, along with being featured on MTV’s Advance Warning, garnering their first ever mtvU Woodie Award for “Most Original Artist,” and ending the year with sold-out performances opening for Thursday and The Starting Line.

With plans already taking shape for 2006, mewithoutYou are positioning themselves to even eclipse 2005. The band will join Island Records’ artists, Thursday for the second leg of Thursday’s national headlining tour. Running from April 25th through May 21st, the tour will coincide with Thursday’s album release May 2nd.

Prior to the tour, mewithoutYou plan to enter the studio with Brad Wood (Liz Phair, Smashing Pumpkins), who so successfully captured mewithoutYou’s sound and passion on, “Catch For Us The Foxes” in 2004.

“When something is working well, you should develop it further and invest in it,” explains mewithoutYou guitarist Mike Weiss on choosing Brad Wood for a follow-up album. “I hope to see this album expand on the ideas behind our favorite current songs as well as move into some new territory yet uncharted by mewithoutYou – more singing, new bass player, some organ, electric piano and maybe a little harp, stronger music arrangements, stuff like that. We’ve finally found ‘our sound’ with these new songs, but we couldn’t have done it without making ‘Catch For Us The Foxes.’ I believe this album will be more cohesive than our past releases and will continue to sound unique, so it’s an exciting time.”

With plans to release their yet-to-be-titled third full-length on Tooth & Nail this fall, mewithoutYou continue to wow audiences with their eccentric live performances, transfix them with their unrestricted, personable demeanor (see pot-luck dinners preceding their shows), and confound them with their renovated vegetable oil guzzling bus.

Tentative Tour Dates with Thursday, Minus the Bear, We’re All Broken

(more to come)

4/25 Boston, MA Axis
4/26 Burlington, VA Higher Ground
4/27 New Haven, CT Toad’s Place
4/28 Providence, RI Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel
5/01 Allentown, PA Crocodile Rock
5/02 New York, NY Irving Plaza
5/08 Baltimore, MD Sonar
5/10 Detroit, MI St. Andrews Hall
5/11 Chicago, IL House of Blues
5/12 Grand Rapids, MI Orbit Room
5/13 Toledo, OH Headliners
5/15 Louisville, KY Jillian’s
5/16 Atlanta, GA The Loft
5/17 St. Petersburg, FL The State Theatre
5/19 N. Myrtle Beach, SC House of Blues
5/20 Winston-Salem, NC Ziggy’s
5/21 Nashville, TN Rockettown

Mewithoutyou have managed to carve out their own little niche on the indie scene, and have achieved a level of success that most bands in their position would kill for.
- MTV News

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