I’m gonna be honest here, this year is off to a pretty rough start. Losing Lemmy, Bowie, and Rickman in about two weeks is really hard to swallow. Every one of those dudes influenced us in a big way. Lemmy and Bowie are obvious, but without Die Hard… none of us would have made it to our 20’s.

Thanks for everything, guys. You’ll be sorely missed.

JANUARY – FEBRUARY SHOWS
Now, on to some better news. We’ve got some rad southern shows starting on Friday, with our good friends, Bit Brigade. If we don’t see you there, we probably won’t see you for a long time. Check below for the details and ticket links.

JANUARY
22nd – Memphis, TN – Hi Tone
23rd – Little Rock, AR – Vino’s
24th – Dallas, TX – Gas Monkey
25th – Houston – Walter’s Downtown
26th –  Austin, TX – Sidewinder
29th – San Antonio, TX – PAX (Show day)
30th – San Antonio, TX – PAX (Hang-out/Meet-n-Greet day)
31st – San Antonio, TX – The Korova 

FEBRUARY
01st – New Orleans, LA – Southport Music Hall

And to stay up to date between mailers, don’t forget these fellas: Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.

THIS CITY MADE US
After the excruciating wait, you should be enjoying your This City Made Us 10″ Act III record single by now. However, it sounds like a few people that bought the pre-order on the last tour haven’t sent updated mailing addresses, so if you know you bought it at a show and haven’t received it yet, send a message here with some info.

That’s all for now.

By Grabthar’s hammer,  you shall be avenged,

-Commander

Why, hello there.

I just wanted to give you a quick recap before I catch you up on all the goings on. The west coast tour was absolutely amazing. If you came to one or five of the shows on this past tour, and are reading this right now, I just want you to go ahead and give yourself a nice pat on the back. I don’t care if you’re at your cubicle and your boss is watching. Your boss needs to know. And if he or she gets weird about it, just say you thought you might have a little dandruff… or a little lice. And if he or she gets weird about that, just say you were just joking about the dandruff and lice stuff, and that you were really just reading band newsletters while you were supposed to be working. Bosses love it when people do that.

Either way, I just wanted to say that you did a good job. Probably the best tour we’ve ever been on, so a big “attaboy” and “attagirl” to everyone that made it out. And then an extra special “attaboy” and “attagirl” to everyone in Dallas. You people were pure rock and roll in a rainstorm.

Now, on to the new stuff.

OCTOBER 3rd
Surprise Nashville show on Oct 3rd! It’s a big day of music at East Park in Nashville called East Side Social. We’re gonna close out the night, but don’t be late because there’s all kinds of great bands that day. For instance, The Features will be playing right before us, and Alanna Royale, Reno Bo, The Future, Justin and the Cosmics, Smoking Flowers, and Lilly Hiatt will be dropping their respective hammers before that. Don’t miss it.

03rd – Nashville, TN – East Side Social at East Park

ROCK BAND
In case you haven’t already heard the swell news, “Light Up The Night” is going to be in Rock Band 4 (releases October 6th)!  We got to test it out at PAX a few weeks ago, and it was surreal… and fun as shit (we generally sucked at it, though). I’d suggest getting RB4, and then I’d go on to suggest bugging the shit out of them for more of our songs as DLC, especially “This City Made Us.” You know what to do.

MEGA MAN LEGACY COLLECTION
Speaking of games and Rocktober… we aren’t in this one, but our friends at Capcom have done a mighty good thing by releasing a rad collection of the most essential Mega Man games ever made in the absolute history of all mankind, 1-6. You can get The Mega Man Legacy Collection on PS4, XBOX, and Steam (and 3DS is coming next year)! Not only does it have all 6 NES originals, it comes with challenge modes, a museum of concept art, and all manner of fancy suches. If you don’t support this one, how can you expect them to make any other MM games?

THIS CITY MADE US
No real updates yet on when the records will be done at the plant, unfortunately. We’ll let you know the moment we hear anything. In the mean time, get your pre-order on (comes with instant MP3 download of the two songs). And maybe go to our YouTube page and check out the songs there.

As for the show-exlusive clear records, we sold almost all of them on the last tour, so we won’t be posting any online. We have a few left over that we’ll be selling at the October 3rd show, so get-em while you can.

WARPED TOUR LAMINATE DISCOUNT
One more thing. This is an official LAST CALL to use your Warped Tour/Cover Up laminate 5-dollar-discount-code for the Cover Up album (cassette or record). If you still have that sweet laminate floating around, and haven’t already gotten your Cover Up album, go here to use that code before it’s too late! The codes will be deactivated at the very end of OCTOBER 6th.

Lookout weekend,

-Commander

The Act III record single, This City Made Us, is now available for pre-order HERE. An instant MP3 download (320kpbs) of the two new tracks comes along with your pre-order of the 10-inch, so you can listen immediately. The record also includes a download card for higher-res formats, such as FLAC.

A. This City Made Us
B. Hold Back The Night

If you’re planning on making it out to a show on this next short tour, we’ll have fancy album art pre-order/download cards with us, so be sure to come by and get one or fifty. You’ll be able to choose from the regular black vinyl or super limited edition tour-exclusive clear vinyl.

That being said, if you’re one of those that wants one of the clear ones, you’ll need to get to one of the shows that are coming up, or have a friend pick one up for you. There are only about 400 clears left, so pickens are slim. However, if any survive the tour, we’ll post them online the moment we get home, at the first of September (we’ll let you know on the Twitters, Facebooks, and Instagrams).

On top of all that, you can now download the single digitally from PROTOMEN.COM. However… I’d still suggest getting the record even if you don’t have a player, because you can do all sorts of things with it. You can hang it on your wall as a beautiful piece of art, throw it like a frisbee, use it as a huge drink coaster, eat it (don’t eat it), and/or sell it on ebay for 100 times the original price when we’re all sold out of them!

And I’d like to take a minute to have a big round of applause for everyone that came out and helped sell out the Exit/In show on Friday. It was a hell of a time. A lot of you made seriously long trips, and we thank you all.

WEST COAST SHOWS… and Dallas and Birmingham.
As I mentioned above, don’t forget that we’re heading out west for a couple weeks starting Wednesday. Look down below for all the very clickable ticket links. And I know I don’t have to say it, but I’m going to anyway… This will be the last time we’re out that way for a long time, so be sure to come out and party like it’s the last time we’ll be out that way for a long time!

AUGUST
19th – Dallas, TX – Gas Monkey *+16
22nd – Los Angeles, CA – The Roxy *ALL AGES
23rd – Pomona, CA – The Glass House *ALL AGES
25th – San Francisco, CA – Slim’s *ALL AGES
26th – Portland, OR – Hawthorne Theater *ALL AGES
27th – Vancouver, BC – Biltmore Cabaret *19+
28th – Seattle, WA – PAX (Hanging Out)
29th – Seattle, WA – PAX (Hanging Out)
30th – Seattle, WA – PAX (Show Day) *ALL AGES
31st – Seattle, WA – El Corazon

SEPTEMBER
12th – Birmingham, AL – Saturn

This is the end of this mailer. Go back to work,

-Commander