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THE DEBUT IS THE BAND’S HIGHEST YET
Relient K Performs On “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” April 12th;
Headlining Tour Underway

Five Score And Seven Years Ago – the fifth album in seven years from Relient K – has debuted at #6 on The Billboard 200, and was #3 on iTunes’ Top Albums chart for the week ending March 12. This is Relient K’s highest debut in both chart number and sales to date.

Relient K will perform on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” on April 12th. The band launched a 39-date North American tour with a sold-out show in New York City last Friday and performed on “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” earlier this month. The Marc Webb-lensed video for lead single “Must Have Done Something Right” is in rotation on mtvU, MTV Hits, FUSE’s “Steven’s Untitled Rock Show,” Nickelodeon’s The N, IMF and Music Choice. Relient K was one of the artists that VIRB (http://virb.com/music) launched with, and is currently #4 on VIRB’s Top Artists list.

Five Score And Seven Years Ago, produced by Howard Benson (Less Than Jake, My Chemical Romance, the All-American Rejects) and the band’s longtime producer, Mark Townsend, is the follow-up to mmhmm, Relient K’s third consecutive Gold album. mmhmm, which contained the Top 20 singles “Be My Escape” and “Who I Am Hates Who I’ve Been,” debuted at #15 on The Billboard 200 and at #1 on the internet chart in 2004.

Relient K is comprised of lead singer/guitarist/pianist Matt Thiessen, lead guitarist Matt Hoopes, drummer Dave Douglas, bassist John Warne and Jon Schneck (guitar, banjo, and bells). Upcoming tour dates are as follows:

RELIENT K TOUR DATES

3/14 Toronto, ON The Opera House
3/16 Detroit, MI State Theater
3/17 Columbus, OH LC Pavilion
3/18 Indianapolis, IN Egyptian Room
3/19 Milwaukee, WI The Eagles Club
3/21 Minneapolis, MN The Myth
3/23 Chicago, IL House Of Blues
3/24 St. Louis, MO Pageant
3/25 Nashville, TN Rocketown
4/4 Tulsa, OK Cain’s
4/5 Oklahoma City, OK Bricktown Events Center
4/6 Arlington, TX Six Flags Over Texas
4/7 Houston, TX Club V @Verizon Theater
4/10 Tempe, AZ Marquee Theater
4/11 San Diego, CA House Of Blues
4/12 Anaheim, CA The Grove
4/13 Los Angeles, CA Avalon
4/14 San Francisco, CA Fillmore
4/16 Seattle, WA Showbox
4/17 Vancouver, BC Croatian Cultural Center
4/18 Portland, OR Crystal Ballroom
4/20 Salt Lake City, UT In The Venue
4/21 Denver, CO Fillmore
4/23 Kansas City, MO Beaumont
5/4 Rochester, NY Water Street
5/5 Albany, NY Northen Lights
5/6 E. Rutherford, NJ Meadowlands (Bamboozle)
5/7 Washington, DC 9:30 Club
5/8 Baltimore, MD Sonar
5/11 Charlotte, NC Amos’ Southend
5/12 Jacksonville, FL Free Bird Live
5/14 Orlando, FL House Of Blues
5/15 Ft. Lauderdale, FL Revolution
5/16 St. Petersburg, FL Janus Landing
5/18 Atlanta, GA The Tabernacle
5/20 Cleveland, OH House Of Blues