With the release of Albatross, Tooth & Nail’s freshest face, The Classic Crime have proven their popularity with first week scans reaching 3,700 copies, making The Classic Crime the #1 Best Selling Debut for a Tooth & Nail artist in the label’s history. And with over 500,000 plays on Purevolume.com, The Classic Crime displayed their reputation to the masses as they joined Anberlin and Emery on the widely acclaimed Tooth & Nail Tour playing in sold out venues across the nation.

“I'm extremely excited on how well The Classic Crime are doing, they're an awesome bunch of guys and the success we've seen at retail this week has been without question a team effort,” explains Tooth & Nail A&R Rep, Chad Johnson. “These guys are motivated, hard working and write songs that catch your ear on first listen. Albatross appeals to a wide audience and kids get it! It's always a blessing to work on an album where the fans help US do the work. One scroll through the comments on the band's myspace page and it's obvious that they're spreading the word on this band.”

Further expanding their online buzz, The Classic Crime’s video for “The Coldest Heart” is set to debut June 1st on Yahoo.com (http://music.yahoo.com/premieres) as a premiere and will additionally play after each on-demand video of its genre. A mere five days later the band will be converting their sizable online and retail buzz to radio adds at the modern rock and alternative formats.

To continue their relentless tour schedule, The Classic Crime have plans to finish out their current run with A Change of Pace, Spoken, and Run Kid Run and follow-up with Action Action and The Matches for a June - July stint. The band will also be joining Warped Tour for their second consecutive year on a two week outing in July.

Catch The Classic Crime on the following dates, with many more to be announced soon:

May 31, 2006 The Revolution Ashland, OR 7:00PM
June 1, 2006 Rock N Roll Pizza Portland, OR 7:00PM
June 2, 2006 WOW Hall Eugene, OR 7:00PM
June 3, 2006 El Corazon Seattle, WA 7:00PM
June 4, 2006 The Venue Boise, ID 7:00PM
June 6, 2006 The Avalon Salt Lake City, UT 7:00PM
June 7, 2006 The Boondocks Cedar City, UT 7:00PM
June 8, 2006 CCV Peoria, AZ 7:00PM

Albatross sounds like the work of a band in mid-career fighting shape 4/5 – Alternative Press

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