05 August 2010 - 0 Comments

"Sometimes you have to get the hell out just to find your way back in."

Over the past 12 years, the frontman for Against Me! – Tom Gabel - has risen from being an acoustic folk-punk gunslinger in the dives of Gainesville, Florida; to releasing Against Me!’s four searing, blood-smeared slices of scrappy punk.

The last of which, 2007’s NEW WAVE, was the major label debut, one thatSpin magazine anointed as their ‘Album Of The Year’.

And while Gainesville was home, Gabel felt the walls closing in when touring for NEW WAVE came to an end. So he split.

He left behind the “didja-hear-about-so-and-so” insular Gainesville world for the sleepy beach town of St. Augustine and started wandering the streets and driving dusty back roads: Searching, pining, and hoping for inspiration.

He, and the rest of the band - guitarist James Bowman, bassist Andrew Seward and new drummer George Rebelo - found it in spades.
The result is WHITE CROSSES - as powerful and as bold a rock record as one can imagine. 

Against Me! New Zealand Tour October 2010

Oct 1 San Francisco Bathhouse, Wellington
Tickets from Moshtix outlets and www.moshtix.co.nz

Oct 2 Kings Arms, Auckland
Tickets from Moshtix outlets and www.moshtix.co.nz

Tickets on sale NOW!!

Against Me! WHITE CROSSES out now on Sire.

Thanks to www.againstme.net for this story.

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