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ACT III: THIS CITY MADE US IS NOW AVAILABLE IN RECORD STORES ON EXCLUSIVE BLUE VINYL ACROSS THE US, CANADA, EUROPE, AND JAPAN!

This is a relatively worldwide distribution, so if you live in US, Canada, Europe, or Japan, ask your record stores to order it (tell them it’s distributed through Alliance). We might run out of this blue color really fast… but there is another skywalker… 

Also, are any of you interested in a sweet Act III album-cover poster for your wall (18”x12”)? If so, check the list below of stores where you can pick one of them up with purchase of the album. Also available are double-sided record store flats (12”x12”). Store list below the poster/flat examples:

Grimey’s – Nashville, TN
Music Millennium – Portland, OR
Graywhale – Taylorsville, UT
1-2-3-4 Go! Records – Oakland, CA
Plaid Room Records – Loveland, OH
Mother Skye Music – Bowling Green, KY
Dig It! Record Barn – Joplin, MO
Joe’s Records – St. Louis, MO
Joe’s Records – Springfield, MO
Joe’s Records – Memphis, TN
Used Kids Records – Columbus, OH
Yellow Dog Discs – Wilmington, NC
Sig’s Lagoon – Houston, TX
Boulevard Trash Entertainment – Tulsa, OK
Variety Record Shop – Columbia, TN
Angry Young & Pour – Columbia, PA
Sell Your Soul Records – Mooresville, NC
Record Connection – Waterville, ME

* this is not a complete list of stores with records, it is the list of stores that ordered the promo posters – if your local record stores aren’t listed here, ask them to request posters/flats/records/cds through their Alliance distro system. 

** and don’t freak out if you aren’t near a place that has the posters, we’ll eventually get them into our online store for purchase. This is just a good way to get one for free if you’re buying a record – and a great way to support local record stores that support us.

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THIS CITY MADE US – T-Shirts

We’ve also got a rad new T-shirt/s to commemorate our first time in record stores – This City Made Us design on a T-shirt and Long Sleeve T-shirt to go along with it. This is a rad looking shirt, if I do say so myself, and I do happen to say so myself. But listen, I’m gonna need you to vote with your wallets here on this long sleeve shirt with the writing on the sleeve. I’m not the type of dude that usually likes writing on sleeves (unless it’s a BMX team race shirt from RAD), but I know a lot of people do, and I respect that action. Let us know if you like that kind of thing and we can either do more of it in the future… or less.

We’ve also restocked some things in the store (like the Proto Logo Mugs), so gander that if you like stuff. And we’re looking to restock some of the other stuff that’s running low/out in the next couple of weeks, so stay tuned.

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DECIBEL MAGAZINE ACT III ADS

Since it’s a real special occasion for us to have our albums in record stores for the first time ever, we decided to celebrate by taking out some ads in Decibel Magazine to try to spread the word. Go check it out wherever magazines are and see it in real life… and maybe grab a copy for your archives! But in the mean time, this is what the current issue’s ad looks like in picture form over a computer network:

And that’s not all… the next issue will have a different variant ad (different art, etc), so hold on to every one of the butts you’ve ever owned. We’re also gonna be running some digital ads on their website soon, so keep an eye out for those if you just reeeaally love ads or something. 

More very soon,

-Commander

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MAVS SCORES ONSLAUGHT

In case you haven’t heard, Matt Pusti (MAVS), scored his first major motion picture movie film from Hollywood USA recently, and it’s real good! The movie is Onslaught, directed by Adam Wingard (You’re Next, The Guest, Godzilla vs Kong 1+2), and if you love 80’s era Cannon films, you’ll love it. So get to the movies asap and watch it with your own eyes and/or ears. As expected, the score is super rad (with notes of Carpenter and Tangerine Dream), and you can go ahead and gander the soundtrack on streaming platforms on your way to the movie (or while you’re on the toilet. just don’t sit there too long listening or you’ll get the hemorrhoids). And, from what I hear, a crazy awesome record is coming soon. The record is a saw blade. 

And don’t forget about his Heart Of Batman documentary score – it’s pretty awesome and has some pretty intense packaging going on. Sound Machine Records put it out a few years ago and it’s still available on our old store.

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SPEAKING OF RECORDS…
We’ve got a distribution company now and they’ve started “canvasing” to gauge interest for Protomen records and CDs in record shops. They’re currently collecting data on where to focus the distribution effort, with the pre-order period for those stores to “buy-in” starting October 12th. So if you want to see our stuff in record shops, now’s the time to start giving them a gentle nudge on carrying our stuff. The more they hear our name, the more likely they are to carry our stuff in their shop. So if you happen to be in a store (or on the phone), just say something along the lines of… “I heard Protomen’s new Act III album is about to be in stores and I’m just wondering if you have it already or if you’re going to get it anytime soon?” 

And then October 12th would be a great time to really ramp up the call-a-thon or even the walk-in-a-record-store-and-ask-about-protomen-a-thon, because that’s when they’ll be able to look it up on their computators and order the records for the store on the spot. 

And if you’re feeling extra froggy, maybe ask them if they’re gonna have any T-shirts or Posters to go along with it. We’d love to get some record store exclusive designs going, but they have to want to stock it.  

So… the condensed version… Act III: This City Made Us (really rad Blue Vinyl Edition) will show up on record stores lists for pre-order starting October 12th with an official release date of November 13th. And if you’re in the calling mood and want to have Protomen stuff at your local record stores (or even non-local record stores), get to bothering them —> but for best results really focus the effort after October 12th!

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NEW DALLAS MERCH AVAILABLE ON THE STORE NOW
If you didn’t make it to Dallas, but really want some of that new stuff, it’s all live now on our new store right now! 

WILY INDUSTRIES 2000 MUG

Accept your fate and get the mug that shows you “happily” work for Wily like everyone else in The City. I know, I know… he probably should have given you one as your yearly bonus, but bonuses didn’t happen this year because of financial resiliency. Do you really think your bonus is more important than that super secret project his research team is working on in the basement of his compound? … but maybe you’ll get a company mug next year? In the mean time, grab one of these before they’re gone.

DALLAS POSTER

This is the award winning poster for the Dallas edition of the 3 Nights • 3 Acts shows that happened across three nights at Granada Theater in late August 2026. It was truly a weekend (… plus a Thursday) to remember, so grab a poster so you can remember it every day by seeing the poster on your wall. 

Has all bands from all three days listed: Protomen, Nate Bergman, Descendants Of Erdrick, and Urizen

dimensions: 12”x18”

PATCH – ACT III LOGO

Get a sweet Act III logo iron-on patch for your rad denim jacket to show everybody how tough you are. Don’t worry if you don’t have a denim jacket, you can iron it onto pretty much anything, just don’t try ironing it onto your face. 

approximately 5”x1.5”

LIGHT UP THE NIGHT PINS

Grab a pretty sweet Light Up The Night Video-era pin pack to go along with your 6 bags of Protomen Coffee!

We’ve also got some other stuff, like the individual night T-shirts from the shows and then some signed posters that will pop up here and there on our Bandcamp for Bandcamp Fridays for the remainder of the year, so you’ll have a few more shots at those. Those dates are – October 2nd, November 6th, and December 4th.

Now that Dallas is done, we’ve got work to do.

-Commander

Bandcamp Friday is upon us, and with it brings a brand new (and very limited) translucent red variant of Act III: This City Made Us. If you think red is a color, then you should grab one of these before they’re gone for all eternity. These are exclusive to Bandcamp Friday, so even if we have some left over at the end of the day (2am CST), they’ll disappear until the next Bandcamp Friday rolls around, sort of like a fireworks stand, or those Christmas stores that appear out of nowhere as soon as it hits Nov 1st.

We even got Joey Ciccoline to make a nice little video to post on our YouTube channel with a Youtube appropriate thumbnail and title for ultimate clickbaitability! Gander it below, and remember to like and subscribe so the Youtube robots will think about occasionally showing you the videos we post!:

We had some other things from the shows like signed posters and signed tickets, but those sold out before I could get this mailer out. But we do have a few of the 3-day event shirts left, if you’re into shirts about 3-day events. We also have some of the unsigned show posters if you want to make a bundle with your red record?

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THREE NIGHTS + THREE ACTS – DALLAS EDITION

We’ve got our support for the shows locked down and it’s gonna be one hell of a time. Nate Bergman is gonna start the whole thing up on the Act II night. We met Nate in the trenches of Warped Tour ‘14 and his humor is the only thing that kept us alive. We’ve known Descendants Of Erdrick longer than we remember, and we knew they’d hold down the Act I night like the illustrious champs they are. And then there’s Urizen… we’d marry them if we could. 

Still some tickets left for these shows, so grab a few for you and your friends and come be a part of history!

I’ll tell you that if you live relatively close and are on the fence about it because you’re hoping we might come to your town with these three night events… don’t count on that. We want to bring these shows to as many places as possible, but we’ll likely only be able to hit big markets in certain parts of the country because of the time/cost/scale of them. We have to play bigger rooms and sell those out in order for it to be fiscally responsible for us to be on the road with as many people as we have to bring to make these 3 night events work.

AUGUST – Act III Release Event
27th – Dallas, TX – Granada Theater – Act II
28th – Dallas, TX – Granada Theater – Act I
29th – Dallas, TX – Granada Theater – Act III

More soon,

-Commander