Online, On-Site & On-Wireless Devices, the 7th Annual Honda Civic Tour & Fall Out Boy Go Full-On Digital

Online, On-Site & On-Wireless Devices, the 7th Annual Honda Civic Tour & Fall Out Boy Go Full-On Digital

Nationwide Tour Kicked Off May 11th in Denver, CO

LOS ANGELES, May 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Honda Civic Tour is making sure Fall Out Boy fans are wired to this year's headliner by giving them access to exclusive interactive content on HondaCivicTour.com while also allowing fans to interact on-site with text and photo-to-screen capabilities in-between bands. Fans will also get access to behind-the-scenes footage of Fall Out Boy on tour, exclusive opportunities to interact with FOB and get the low down on all the latest tour news.

On-site, Honda Civic Tour is providing an interactive concert experience dubbed Honda Civic Tour Fall Out Boy TV, which features music videos hand picked by the band and text and photo-to-screen capabilities, sponsored by XM Satellite Radio. This feature allows fans attending the concerts to post messages and pictures that will be displayed on video screens between each of the five bands. Fans can also get a free trial of XM Radio Online by visiting the link on hondacivictour.com. XM Radio Online gives fans unlimited access to over 80 channels of programming.

Online at HondaCivicTour.com, Honda is putting fans front and center by giving them the personal opportunity to ask Fall Out Boy their deepest darkest questions. Fans can submit questions to the band online and Fall Out Boy will post and share video answers to some of the lucky fans' questions on the website for all to see. Additionally, HondaCivicTour.com will be showcasing the very best Thnks Fr Th Mmrs Contest Lip synch video submissions. Fans have the opportunity to upload videos, through the FriendsorEnemies.com, Honda Civic Tour community page (http://www.buzznet.com/web/foe/tours/civic ), performing renditions of Fall Out Boy's smash single, "Thnks Fr Th Mmrs" which is currently the #1 most added song at Top 40 radio. Each week the top five entries will be featured on HondaCivicTour.com. As if that wasn't enough, in the Long Song Title Showcase, fans will be able to submit their very own "Long Song Title" to be showcased on HondaCivicTour.com.

"We like to find cool ways to interact with our fans because without them we wouldn't be here so it's cool that we have a way to do that through HondaCivicTour.com and our FriendsorEnemies.com community page," said Pete Wentz of Fall Out Boy.

Not only will Fall Out Boy be interacting with their fans through HondaCivicTour.com, 19 lucky bands will have the opportunity to open for Fall Out Boy in various cities along the Honda Civic Tour. The winning bands will be determined through fan voting on MySpace.com (http://www.mylocalbands.com/promos/fobcivic/), voting has already begun and will conclude at 12 a.m. on June 22, 2007. Fans can vote online for their favorites and the winners will be selected five days before the date of each concert at which the band would perform.

Fans can also log onto HondaCivicTour.com for a chance to win the customized, one-of-a-kind, eco-friendly Honda Civic Hybrid car with Fall Out Boy inspired designs and, band autographs. The "tricked- out" ride comes equipped with XM Satellite Radio, and a free one year subscription for listening to more than 170 channels of music, news, talk and sports. The car will be showcased at each venue along the tour where an electronic kiosk will also be available for on-site registration. No purchase is necessary to enter and entry is limited to legal residents of the 48 contiguous United States and the District of Columbia who are 18 years of age or older.

XM is available as a factory-installed feature on Civic EX, Civic Si and Civic Hybrid models. XM is also available for 2007 Accord, CR-V, Element, Odyssey, Pilot, Ridgeline and S2000 models.

Information about this year's unbelievable line-up of support acts, including +44 (featuring Mark Hoppus & Travis Barker formerly of blink 182), The Academy Is ... , Paul Wall and Cobra Starship, can be found on the Honda Civic Tour website.

Honda, the most fuel efficient car company in America, began operations in the U.S. in 1959 with the establishment of American Honda Motor Co., Inc., Honda's first overseas subsidiary. Honda now employs more than 30,000 associates in North America. Honda currently has 12 manufacturing plants in North America, producing automobiles, light trucks, motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles, personal watercraft, engines, transmissions and other components. Nearly 8 of 10 Honda and Acura cars and light trucks sold in America are assembled in North America as well. Many of these products are now designed and developed at one of Honda's U.S. R&D centers. Honda annually purchases more than $12 billion in parts and materials from suppliers in North America.

Produced by Marketing Factory of Venice, CA, the Honda Civic Tour brings innovation and environmental consciousness to the masses by combining the hottest in automotive technology with the hottest in music.

About XM Satellite Radio

XM is America's number one satellite radio service with more than 8 million subscribers. Broadcasting live daily from studios in Washington, DC, New York City, Chicago and Nashville at the Country Music Hall of Fame, XM offers 170 digital channels of choice from coast to coast: commercial-free music channels, premier sports, talk, comedy, children's and entertainment programming; and the most advanced traffic and weather information.

XM, the leader in satellite-delivered entertainment and data services for the automobile market, with partnerships with leading car manufacturers like Honda. XM's industry-leading products are available at consumer electronics retailers nationwide. For more information about XM hardware, programming and partnerships, please visit http://www.xmradio.com/.

For more updated information, visit the official 2007 Honda Civic Tour site at http://www.hondacivictour.com/.

First Call Analyst:
FCMN Contact: pconfrey@rogersandcowan.com

Source: Honda Civic Tour

CONTACT: Fran Curtis, +1-212-445-8423, or fcurtis@rogersandcowan.com, or
Lauren Ceradini, +1-212-445-8418, or lceradini@rogersandcowan.com, or Heather
Lewandoski, +1-310-854-8147, or hlewandoski@rogersandcowan.com, all of ROGERS
& COWAN for Honda Civic Tour; or Karen Wiessen for Fall Out Boy, +1-212-603-
3950, or karen.wiessen@umusic.com; or Chris Martin of American Honda Motor
Co., Inc., +1-310-783-3164, or chris_martin@ahm.honda.com

Web site:

http://www.hondacivictour.com/
http://www.xmradio.com/
http://www.mylocalbands.com/promos/fobcivic
http://www.friendsorenemies.com/
http://www.buzznet.com/web/foe/tours/civic

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