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From Paramore.net:

It’s official. Paramore is hitting the road in the US from April 26th to May 16th!

Stay tuned to paramore.net for more updates and to buy your tickets!

Sounds like a great tour. West Coast, don’t forget to get your tickets when they go on sale.

Also, for other big news, congrats to Ethan for coming in first for the Wired Magazine Contest! Your pictures were stellar. Thanks to everyone who voted.

From the Relient K Twitter:

Looks like we’re touring with Paramore this year. We win.

From Jonathan Schneck’s Twitter:

If you haven’t heard, “bird” is the word. Also, Our late spring is filling up. First, Japan. Second, a tour with Paramore.

From Tyler’s Twitter:

Now that it’s official enough to share – my boys in Relient K will be touring with Paramore in May. You’re silly if you don’t get tickets.

Looks like the Paramore/Relient K/Fun tour is a go! Hope tour dates pop up soon.

Also, don’t forget to Click HERE and vote for Ethan. The contest ends in two days. Keep voting!

Cale Glendening posted some outtake clips from when he filmed the Relient K Podcasts and Documentary, so here you go!

Relient K Teaser 1 from Cale Glendening on Vimeo.

Relient K Teaser 2 from Cale Glendening on Vimeo.

From AbsolutePunk.net:

On the Kidd Kraddick Radio show this morning, Hayley announced that Paramore will be touring with fun. and Relient K this year.

Exciting! Can’t wait for this.. It seems like it will be only a U.S. tour though.

From Ethan’s Site:

The top 10 finalists in Wired Magazine’s photo contest were posted today! I made it to the top 10! You can vote once a day over the next 9 days so if you are on facebook and have a second, please vote for me! Click HERE to cast your vote! Thanks again to everyone who voted before and got me to the top ten!

Here are the two photos Ethan entered:

Click HERE and vote for Ethan. Aren’t the pictures awesome?

From Jon Schneck’s Twitter:

Got a test press of F&NSD on vinyl tonight… looks really really special

Vinyl for F&NSD is coming soon. I, for one, love vinyls. They just look so awesome.

Also, for those of you who are interested, check out Ethan’s site to see his top 10 albums of the last decade, and more..

Here’s a quick look at it:

I decided to put together a top 10 list of my favorite records that came out in the last decade. I think it’s a fun way to see people’s taste and it’s also a great way to discover new music. Some albums in my list may not be from my favorite artists, but I’m trying to narrow it down to records I could not stop listening to over the last 10 years. These are in no particular order.

U2 – All You Can’t Leave Behind
Social Distortion – Sex, Love & Rock and Roll
Metallica – Death Magnetic
Switchfoot – The Beautiful Letdown
Coldplay – A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Sorry that this is a bit late, I’ve been busy and haven’t had much time to do anything. Check out this blog post from Ethan about 2009/2010.

From EthanLuck.com:

Hey folks,
Things have been a bit slow in the blog world over the holidays. Sorry about that. Well, 2009 is done and a ton of rad things happened last year. I toured a ton, recorded on some albums, photographed a ton of people, had photos in a good number of albums, went to Australia…etc. I hope 2010 is just as good, if not better, than 2009. I have a TON of time off right now and we (RK) should be picking things up sometime in March. So far, I am most excited about our trip to Japan this April! We are playing the 3 Punkspring festivals in Tokyo, Osaka & Nagoya. There are a bunch of bands playing but I am most excited about playing with my buds in New Found Glory. My Wife and I are gonna try to stay there a bit longer to enjoy Tokyo. I can’t wait to see all the sweet gadgets the Japanese have that we don’t!

On a side note. I have been getting a lot of questions regarding the Supertones reunion this summer. I wanted to clear some things up for all who have sent me confused emails and twitter messages. First off, it is happening sometime this summer…thats all I really know. Second, Dan Spencer and I were asked to be a part of the reunion and declined. Aside from being too busy with Relient K, I had no desire to be a part of it. In my opinion…I think it’s way to soon for something like this and I can’t imagine doing it any better than the last show we did in 2005. If you were there, you know what I’m talking about. There are some more personal reasons for me but I won’t get into that. I hope this answers some questions and clears things up as to why I am not doing it.

First and foremost, a tweet from the Relient K twitter.

Thanks for 09 everyone! Lots of 2010 news on the way.
^ Sounds good to me!

Anyways, I was looking through some of the old Relient K interviews and came across a good – and long – one that we’ve never posted on here. It came out way before F&NSD so there’s still some stuff about the album release and all, but take a look at it, it’s one of the better innerviews. Enjoy!

Check out Jon Schneck’s site to see his favorite photos from 2009!

Here’s a couple:

With 2009 coming to a close, I decided to highlight some of the big events from the Relient K camp this year.

First and foremost, Relient K released their cd, Forget and Not Slow Down, on the label Mono Vs Stereo, which they now also oversee. They also signed the first band to Mono Vs Stereo under their management – which was Deas Vail.

Forget and Not Slow Down was started in early 2009. Fans were invited to watch and be part of the live chats that went on every so often during the recording process, watch the webisodes made by Cale Glendening, and leave and check for messages up on the Say Now site. After a almost year long journey, Relient K produced Forget and Not Slow Down.

Forget and Not Slow Down, released on October 6th, had a great response, debuting at #15 on the Billboard 200, #1 in Christian Albums, #2 in Digital Albums, #4 in Alternative Albums, and #5 in Rock Albums. Overall album chart selling was more than 33,000 units. The single itself was released to radio on September 21, 2009 and debuted at #11 on the iTunes single rock charts.
This album has been described as a new, mature sound, catchy and ambi­tious, unique and solid, and overall -very enjoyable. This album shows much maturity for Relient K, and you can feel the emotion on each track of the album.

Some live performances from songs from F&NSD:

– Forget and Not Slow Down
– I Don’t Need A Soul (To Hold)
– Therapy
– Part Of It

Forget and Not Slow Down wasn’t all that 2009 brought. Schneck also learned how to solve the rubix cube, which ended up with the podcast that gave us all some good laughs.

Thiessen also collaborated with different artists such as Deas Vail and Owl City – helping to write and sing guest vocals on the chart topping single Fireflies.

Touring wise, Relient K’s been around this year as well. They had a whole bunch of dates all across the US, but also made it up to Canada twice, and played a couple shows in the land down under.

Relient K also joined the crazy wave of Tweeters, making their own Twitter account, and also taking control of the Twitter account that our very own Kara set up and got the unofficially official stamp of approval from Jon Schneck. The rest of the band soon got their own individual Twitter accounts as well.

Last, but not least, for the first time in the band’s history, they were minus the two Matts. Matt Hoopes had to leave the lineup for a family matter, while Matt Thiessen had a family emergency when his mom had a heart attack. The rest of the band (Jon, Ethan, and John) still did a great job, pulling off amazing shows, and for the last four shows – got Tim Skipper to fill in as lead singer. They also hosted a contest for fans to try to get on stage to lead the performance of Sadie Hawkins.

2009 has been a great year for Relient K, with the release of F&NSD, and everything in between. Next year will defininitly be bringing in even better things, and hopefully more Woodland Forest episodes? Someone’s got to talk to Warne about bringing them back.