Here's Blue October's brand new video: it's for the song "Angels In Everything", the European single off the Texans new record "Sway".

The album was released last August 20 and debuted at number one on the Billboard's Alternative chart.

Blue October is currently on tour in USA. An European tour will follow, starting November 7 in Moscow and closing November 19 in London. See complete schedule at the band's website.

This is the most important week of the year for Blue October: tomorrow they will release their much anticipated seventh studio album "Sway" (Up/Down Records), while today the Texan band premieres the video for the first single off the new record, "Bleed Out".
The video was filmed in Dallas, Texas on June 15 with director Norry Niven and you can watch it now clicking on the image on the left.

"Sway" was produced by Justin Furstenfeld and David Castell (who also produced the band's "History For Sale" and co-produced "Foiled"), and was recorded at the Fire Station Studios in San Marcos, TX in February and March 2013, while additional recording sessions for strings and vocal overdubs took place at Test Tube Audio in Austin, TX in April 2013. Tim Palmer, who produced "Any Man In America" and mixed "History For Sale", mixed "Sway" at Studio 62 in Austin in May 2013.

You can preview "Sway" thanks to 97X radio following this link.

As reported earlier, Austin, Texas based alternative poprockers Courrier released last March their sophomore album "Cathedrals Of Color".

The album, produced by famed knob-twiddler Tim Palmer (Blue October, Goo Goo Dolls, U2, Pearl Jam) is now available FOR FREE for 1 week only at Noisetrade; so, if you still haven't, do yourself a favour and download this beautiful release (click on the image on the left and follow instructions).

In more exciting news, Courrier have been chosen as opening band for Blue October's Fall tour: check the dates out here.

Time for a Blue October update. As you should know by now, the magic Texans will release their seventh studio album "Sway" next August 20 on Up/Down Records.

The record was produced by Justin Furstenfeld and David Castell (who also produced the band's "History For Sale" and co-produced "Foiled"), and was recorded at the Fire Station Studios in San Marcos, TX in February and March 2013, while additional recording sessions for strings and vocal overdubs took place at Test Tube Audio in Austin, TX in April 2013.
Tim Palmer, who produced "Any Man In America" and mixed "History For Sale", mixed "Sway" at Studio 62 in Austin in May 2013.

The first single off the new album is "Bleed Out": the song impacted radio on June 6 and became available for sale at digital outlets on June 25. The band has just released a lyric video for "Bleed Out": watch it now clicking on the image above.
Also, a music video for the single was filmed in Dallas, Texas on June 15 with director Norry Niven and will premiere soon. Stay tuned!

An important update on the Blue October front: the release date of the new studio album is planned for August 20. Songs expected to be on the new record are "Angels In Everything", "Bleed Out", "Debris", "Fear", "Hard Candy", "Light You Up", "Not Broken Anymore", "Put It In", "Snow Globe", "Still Broken", "Sway", "Things We Do At Night" and "Things We Don't Know". The song "Still Broken" was originally released as a The Last Wish song on their 1995 album "The First Of February". Another song, "Sorry Hearts", will be released as an iTunes exclusive bonus track.

As you may know, the new album is funded by an extremely successful PledgeMusic campaign: it took only four days to reach the 100% of the goal!

In other important news, guitar player C.B. Hudson had officially rejoined the band. C.B. left Blue October in December 2010 to build a recording studio in Austin. At the moment is not sure if he will play the European shows next November. It may be possible that Julian Mandrake or Steve Schiltz will accompany the Texan band on these gigs. Stay tuned. (Thanks to Joelle for the infos!)

weChameleon's favourites Blue October have launched a PledgeMusic campaign to help fund their new album:

"As many of you may know, we have already begun work on our new album. You may also know that a couple years ago we left the "major label system" in the music industry and are now a fully independent band, working for ourselves and investing in ourselves.

That investment takes a good deal of time, effort and teamwork to make the album we want to make for you and release it globally. That’s why we’ve partnered with PledgeMusic to allow us all to work together in making and promoting our new album."

Read more about this campaign at the project's page clicking on the image above. And don't forget to make your pledge!