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THE ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS are featured on the cover of the latest Amped new release magazine from Alliance.

CD copies of “Sandbox” (the fifth studio album) will be in stores on July 3. Retailers: please hit up .distribution and/or to secure your copies for release day.

The LP is TBA and we have not assigned a street date just yet. There was an issue with the original lacquers that needed to be worked through which inherently caused unforeseen delays. It will be well worth the wait. :)

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Happy 25th Anniversary to MAJORITY RULE’s “Interviews With David Frost” LP. This album and this band are rare things in the sense that, while both were ahead of their time musically, production-wise, and politically, virtually every facet ended up being widely adopted not just across the subculture, but in very much above-ground albums, presentations, and even in the mouths of talking heads across the media landscape. A lot of us who worked on and/or listened to the album and believe in its messaging still get whiplash when hearing the same sentiments now casually being expressed in any given conversation you could overhear in your neighborhood dog park.

I’d attribute that to Majority Rule always having it dialed in on all fronts from this record on. Sonically, while most of us in their orbit would just turn up as loud as we could in any given room, Pat, Kevin, and Matt could always override those primal tendencies and quickly calibrate a sonic balance that was ultimately optimal for their unique dynamic range and the room itself. I can’t count how often our friends and mutuals would express loving jealousy as we all stood and watched the band play night in and night out.

Just as impressively, the messaging and ethos of the album and the band just continued on for the past two decades and a half, both in subsequent Majority Rule albums and in , the band they’ve been doing with almost ever since.

It’s an honor to be a custodian to such a tremendously special album. Every time a new pressing is in order, a unique sensation overwhelms… perhaps a deep appreciation that new generations of people who, in a general sense, *demand more* still find potency in a musical work that was truly always calibrated right on target.

Thank you to / / and for deeply inspiring then and now… and constantly blowing minds. ♥️

(Pictured: the first Magic Bullet pressing on white vinyl)

March 9, 2001: bleeding out at BRYCC house in Louisville, Kentucky (likely set up by the Patterson brothers and/or Chris Owens) on a spring tour with Waifle + some of the dates with .

Louisville was the first stop where joined up with the caravan. Given the tight quarters and enthusiastic turnout at BRYCC, it didn’t take long for Cory’s head to clip the edge of a cabinet and start gushing.

Fellow bassist was so kind as to to take Cory to the hospital and stay with him throughout the night. The rest of the touring party used the incident to stage an elaborate prank (involving real cops and EMT’s who were in on it) on for missing load out and other arbitrary metrics. Either way, the prank worked and we’re all grateful that Cory was ultimately okay.

Pageninetynine plays Nashville, TN at . Some tickets may be available at the door.

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