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SECTION BY TEAM RETAIL [email protected] POINTS OF IMPACT KILLERS EIGHTEEN VISIONS BOBBY BARE JR. HANGAR 18 Hot Fuss Obsessions From The End Of Your Leash The Multi-Platinum Island (UMVD) Trustkill-Epic (RED) Bloodshot (ADA) Debut Album Catalog No. 246802 Catalog No. 245828 Catalog No. 110 Definitive Jux (Caroline) Catalog No. 88 Release Date: June 15 Release Date: June 15 Release Date: June 22 ARTIST Release Date: June 15 Shipping 75k. Two pre-sale campaigns have run Shipping over 50k. Limited edition version con- Shipping 6k. Programs: A.I.M.S., CIMS, Homer’s, Shipping 5k out of the box—monstrous for a featuring U.K. import singles and 7-inches (for tains value-add DVD. Giveaway T-shirts available Transworld (San Francisco). Advertising with debut. Expecting buzz to build quickly, hoping to “Mr. Brightside” and “Somebody Told Me”) as for promotions. Listening stations confirmed Norwalk and AEC. Sperry Media promotion. reach 10k within the first few months. Cool value-adds. Programs with Music Monitor Network across the country. In-stores: Uncle Sam’s (Ft. Borders advertising with Paste and Harp. Working value-adds (see notes). In-store performance at (HellCar), A.I.M.S. and CIMS (listening stations), Lauderdale), Vinyl Fever (Tampa and Tallahassee), key indies along tour with counter displays and Fat Beats (New York) on street date, the Cop and CMJ New Music Mobile (voted in by retailers). Daddy Kool.com (St. Petersburg) and Park Avenue Bloodshot samplers for value-add promotions. In- Shop (Long Island) on June 19—in-stores sure to CDs (Winter Park, FL). store at Amoeba Los Angeles, working on Grimey's be a debacle. RETAIL in Nashville. Breakout markets: Seattle, L.A., Minneapolis. “Somebody Told Me” is in the Top 40 on both Focus tracks: “Waiting For The Heavens,” “I Let Single “Valentine” shipping to commercial Triple Goes for adds on July 1. “Barhoppin’” 12-inch Modern Rock Monitor and R&R’s Alternative charts. Go” and “This Time.” Impacting college and A. On-air appearances with KEXP/Seattle sched- (featuring El-P, Camutao, Murs, Rob Sonic and New spins at: WHFS/Baltimore, KUCD/Honolulu, metal formats June 15. Commercial uled for early July. “Visit Me In Music City” also Cryptic from the Atoms Family) coming soon. KRAX/Birmingham, more. Currently No. 165 on alternative/active rock campaign begins in the fall. being pumped for Americana radio. Special editions serviced to radio. Definitive Jux CMJ Radio 200. comp with tons of Hangar fun hit No. 7 on CMJ Hip-Hop. RADIO Fuse spins “Somebody Told Me” 20 times a week; “Waiting For The Heavens,” directed by Chris No video. Online-only video for “Where We At” now avail- rotation building on MTV2. Killers featured on Sims, is available for download at able. Peep it: definitivejux.net/av/hangar_18/ MTV’s You Hear It First. eighteenvisions.com or trustkill.com. VIDEO Appearances on Last Call With Carson Daly and Press handled by Epic’s publicity department. Press being worked by Girlie Action. Features in Confirmed press: CMJ New Music Monthly, Jimmy Kimmel Live (June 15). Coverage: Spin, Early confirmed press includes Revolver, Magnet, Harp, Paste, No Depression and playboy.com, Wire, Spin, Alarm, Yellow Rat Rolling Stone, Interview, Blender, Stuff, Nylon, Alternative Press and Outburn. Amplifier. Tour press to follow in Boston, NYC, Bastard, Switch, Lo-Fi, Impact, Grooves, GQ, Esquire, Alternative Press, Gotham, Teen Philadelphia, Chicago, Minneapolis, Seattle. Rockpile, XLR8R, Magnet, Urb. People and Filter. PRESS\TV Handpicked by Morrissey to open his sold out L.A. Co-headlining with Under Oath in June, followed Tour begins June 22. Hitting Louisville, Nashville, Dates announced soon. shows. Recently finished a tour with Stellastarr. by a two-week stint on the Warped Tour. Hoboken, Boston, Philadelphia, New York, Cleveland, Stateside June tour with radio shows and some Supporting Lostprophets in mid-July, after which Indianapolis, Chicago, Minneapolis, Portland, Seattle headline dates planned. they will embark on a six-week tour with Killswitch and more. Looking to do ticket giveaways with TOUR Engage. More dates in the works. A.I.M.S. and CIMS stores along the way. Coverage in Filter and Tripwire email blasts. Artist site: eighteenvisions.com. Label site: Sperry Media promotion including email blasts Official site is hangareighteen.net. Full-disc listening party featured on VH1’s “You trustkill.com. and promo page. Go to artist site (barejr.net) and Exclusive DJ Wiz Vs. Hangar 18 mixtape to be Oughta Know…” Featured on iTunes celebrity label site (bloodshotrecords.com) for free down- available online soon. playlist. Label-generated E-card distributed for loads. Single and exclusive track on iTunes.com. grassroots online marketing. “Somebody Told Me” featured on MTV.com’s “Advance Warning” feature in March. INTERNET Described by Magnetic Fields’ Stephin Merritt as Spearheading the cleancut screamo movement in The son of outlaw country legend Bobby Bare, Def Jux’s newest hot shots Hangar 18 are a “retro new-wave Brit-poppers from Las Vegas with 1996, OC-based Eighteen Visions fuse melodic the latest from BB Jr. and his Young Criminals trio of motor-mouth smart-asses—spitting genuine fake British accents,” Killers pay homage to punk with hardcore (more melodic than metalcore, Starvation League is a genre-bending dollop of pop-culture-addled high-velocity syllable early Cure, Talking Heads, New Order and Oasis. less fistbanging than Converge). Following up melancholy, traversing gutter-punk bombast, streams… when not passed out under the Killers layer Hot Fuss in reverberated, catchy synths 2002’s successful Vanity, Eighteen Visions shares sunny country-rock, Staxy horns and indie-country table. Hangar’s beats (courtesy of DJ paWL) and poppy melodies with strong hooks, produced/ members with up-and-comers Throwdown, Death hipness. Contact Steve or Scott at Bloodshot are as heavy as the Megadeth song that shares recorded by Jeff Saltzman (Stephen Malkmus, By Stereo and Bleeding Through. These blistering Records for promo copies and posters: their name. Hangar 18 beer openers and beer Death Cab For Cutie). For posters, pins, 1’x1’s, chugmeisters have enough radio-ready choruses to 773.604.5019. cozies available—yep, these guys love the NOTES imports, in-store play copies, etc., contact your local perk both underground and overground ears. hooch! In-store play copies and clean copies UMVD/Island rep. 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