This Summer Streetlight Manifesto will be playing every date of the Vans Warped Tour.  Every day.  In the heat.  On the main stage.

Toh Kay (Tomas of Streetlight Manifesto) is setting out on the first US tour in support of his first full length album, Streetlight Lullabies.  Over the course of ten shows, Toh Kay will be playing old and brand new material along with fellow Pentimento Music Co. artists, Dan P and Sycamore Smith.  All dates and ticket links are posted in the Tour section.  Let it be known – some of these dates will sell out quickly.  Pick up your tickets and leave your ear plugs at home.

For the sake of keeping things emotion-free and legal, we’ll cut straight to the chase and forgo the insults and accusations:

It is and has been for quite some time our position that Victory Records is an artist-hostile, morally corrupt and generally dishonest company, with whom we have had the displeasure of being associated due to a contract that was signed years ago. We’re not writing this today to air grievances, of which there are many; numerous bands’ struggles with Victory are well-documented (and many more are sealed by a court of law), so we figured we’re going to skip the allegations and try to solve the problem, as we see it.

We’re writing today to ask you to please boycott all Streetlight related items by not purchasing any of our records or merchandise from Victory’s website, any traditional CD stores, online third party retailers or any digital distribution service (iTunes, Amazon etc). Victory has a long-time reputation of pocketing all of the proceeds from a band’s music and merch, with shady accounting and generally bully-ish behavior. If you want to support Streetlight, our music and our ability to tour and continue to release music, please make all SM related purchases from our own webstore, The RISC Store (www.riscstore.com), or come out to a show and buy a shirt or cd from us directly. In regards to getting the music we make, you can buy directly from us, or, alternately, we’re sure you can find a way to get the tunes onto your computer that may not be, ahem, traditional… Speaking a Bit metaphorically, there is a Torrent of methods to accomplish this, and Google is your always loyal friend…

As many of you know, we are in the final stages of recording our new album. It will be out and available this summer, whether via Victory, or some other method. We refuse to let our constant battles with our own record label hold back the album’s release (we can take nearly forever to finish an album on our own, thank you very much) and we look forward to being free from Victory’s clutches once our contract with them ends this summer.

We wish Victory Records no ill will or harm. Ok, that’s not entirely true. But what we want more than seeing the bad guy get his comeuppance, to see the villain get bitch-slapped by karma, is freedom from a company we abhor. We want the money made by our record and merch sales to help fund the band, not a company we’re ashamed to be associated with. We don’t care about SoundScans, or charts, or success as it’s measured by an industry we can’t stand; we just want our hard work to go towards something better than the record labels that destroy the spirit of independent music.

Thanks for your time and support and we’ll see you soon.

With the help of all of the generous Streetlight Manifesto fans, the band continuing its Good Will Guest List project managed to raise over 1,300 dollars for the Pennsylvania based charity, Alex’s Lemonade Stand. The funds will be used to benefit children’s cancer research. Good Will Guest List is a project that sells guest list spots in each city of a bands tour and donates all the money to a different charity each tour. Before Alex’s Lemonade Stand, Streetlight Manifesto and Good Will Guest List raised over 1,700 dollars for Project Night Night. And once again “Thank You” to everyone who participated and donated.

Be the first person on your computer to download the first single off of Toh Kay’s new CD “Streetlight Lullabies”.  All you have to do is “Like” the Pentimento Music Co. page on Facebook and you will be given access to the download.  Once you’ve liked it and downloaded the song, use the BandPage app on the page to enjoy some new music.  Click HERE TO “LIKE” THE PMC PAGE. 

Streetlight Manifesto is happy to announce that they are continuing their Good Will Guest List project: selling their guest list spots on tour- with every penny going to charity. This tour’s charity is Alex’s Lemonade Stand which helps raise money for children’s cancer research. The guest list spots are essentially the same as tickets to the show but they cost a flat amount of $20 and help a good cause. There are only four for each show so first come first served. To inquire about helping by purchasing a guest list spot please send an email to StreetlightInfo@riscmail.com with the subject including: Your Name / The City and Venue / Date Of The Show. These spots do not get you back stage or access to the band – but you get an amazing live show and the knowledge that your money went to helping Alex’s Lemonade Stand. Thank you for making these projects so successful.

Toh Kay (Tomas Kalnoky of Streetlight Manifesto) has unveiled his new album “Streetlight Lullabies” – a collection of 10 Streetlight Manifesto songs recorded acoustically. These recordings came during downtime from the new Streetlight Manifesto recording sessions and after Toh Kay’s run of solo shows.
The album is available as a CD and as a vinyl LP. To go along with this release there is also a Toh Kay shirt, a poster, and a 7″ vinyl single of “We Will Fall Together” with a Bad Religion cover by Toh Kay on the B Side. Included in some of the bundles is a screen printed poster that is hand signed and numbered by Toh Kay.
All packages and products can be purchased through - The Risc Store. All orders will ship a few days before the actual album release of November 22nd through - Pentimento Music Co. 
Enjoy.

Because it was such a grand time – Streetlight Manifesto is teaming back up with Reel Big Fish to co-headline another tour around these fine United States (and a bit of Canada). This time, though, they are taking out labelmates Lionize and Rodeo Ruby Love as support. More dates will be posted soon.

Unfortunately Sublime With Rome has had to cancel their September tour with Streetlight Manifesto.