Saturday, September 29, 2007

hellogoodbye: history makers

Website Portal, MySpace.com, Premieres First Nationwide Music Concert Tour

Los Angeles, California - (Website Hosting Directory) - September 7, 2007 - Social networking and lifestyle portal, MySpace.com, has officially launched its new series of produced and branded concert events. The first MySpace Music Tour, presented by Extreme Style by VO5, will kick off Oct. 16 in Seattle, Washington, and will be co-headlined by artists Hellogoodbye and Say Anything.

Other bands will include MySpace Records artist, Polysics, and to-be-announced special guests. The Tour will include more than 30 shows across the United States throughout October and November 2007.

Tom Anderson, President and Co-Founder of MySpace remarked, ''MySpace has served as a platform for countless bands and musicians around the world to showcase and promote their music to millions of fans online. With the new MySpace Music Tour concert series we are able to bring people face-to-face with the bands and artists they've come to know and love on the site. The kick-off tour has an amazing line-up of bands and I know the MySpace community will be psyched to see them live.''

Presented by Extreme Style by VO5, the MySpace Music Tour will have a dedicated online community on MySpace, where fans can find all tour information and purchase tickets. The profile will also feature exclusive content, including band blogs from the road, photo galleries and exclusive offers and sweepstakes for MySpace users to win a chance to hang out backstage with the bands.

Rob Keen, Marketing Director for VO5 offered, ''Extreme Style by VO5 is all about individuality and self-expression, making MySpace a great partner and the MySpace Music Tour an ideal venue. Music and style are the main vehicles for self-expression, and we're helping provide both with amazing music and styling stations for men and women to achieve their personal looks.''

Co-headliners Hellogoodbye and Say Anything have made their names as popular MySpace Music artists. Hellogoodbye's first full-length album, Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs! was released in 2006 featuring the platinum single, ''Here in your arms.'' Alternative rock band Say Anything will release its second album In Defense of the Genre, in October 2007. Japan's Polysics (www.myspace.com/polysics) are touring in support of their first album for MySpace Records, Polysics or Die: VISTA!!!, which comes out Oct. 9. Widely known for their hyper-kinetic live shows, Polysics perform new wave punk in Japanese, English and even their own space-language.

Forrest Kline, lead singer and guitarist of Hellogoodbye remarked, ''Hellogoodbye are big fans of MySpace, and I don't want to brag or anything, but I am a pretty good blogger. MySpace has allowed me to develop my blogging skills and I am thrilled to be on the first ever MySpace tour and further refine those skills by posting post-show blogs.''

Max Bemis of Say Anything added, ''We are stoked as beans to be on the first MySpace tour with Hellogoodbye. It's going to rock.'' The MySpace Music Tour will kick off Oct. 16 in Seattle, WA and will wrap in Las Vegas Thanksgiving weekend. Ticket sales for the general public will begin on Sept. 6. Full details about the first ever MySpace Music Tour, including dates and tour stops, will be available on MySpace. The next concert tour in the 'MySpace Music Tour' series will take place in Spring 2008, with additional details to be announced in the coming months.

To date, MySpace has more than eight million bands using the site. MySpace music has allowed bands to share music and videos, announce tour dates and communicate with fans and others in the MySpace community, seamlessly integrating the web into shared online and offline experiences. MySpace Music has been the launch pad for exclusive, high-profile album releases from artists such as Gnarls Barkley, Panic! At the Disco, Lily Allen, Fall Out Boy, Timbaland, Modest Mouse, The Used, and many more. Exclusive album releases recently featured on MySpace include T-Pain (#1 Debut on Billboard), The Used (#5 Debut on Billboard), Timbaland (#2 Debut on Billboard), Modest Mouse (#1 Debut on Billboard), and The Shins (#2 Debut on Billboard).

Since MySpace's official launch in January 2004, music has been a cornerstone of MySpace's success with more than eight million bands offering fans exclusive access to their profiles and music projects. With the local launch of Secret Shows in February 2006, MySpace members have the opportunity to hear about upcoming shows happening in their area. Past Secret Shows in the have included diverse acts such as Franz Ferdinand, Gnarls Barkley, The Killers, James Blunt, and Tenacious D amongst others.

MySpace, a unit of Fox Interactive Media Inc., is a lifestyle portal for connecting with friends and discovering popular culture. By integrating web profiles, blogs, instant messaging, e-mail, music streaming, music videos, photo galleries, classified listings, events, groups, college communities and member forums, MySpace has created a connected community. As the second ranked web domain in terms of page views, MySpace.com is the most widely-

For more information about MySpace, please visit: www.myspace.com.

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