Boys Like Girls To Release Love Drunk Sept. 8

Boys Like Girls To Release Love Drunk Sept. 8

"LOVE DRUNK" SINGLE SELLS MORE THAN 400,000 UNITS, TOP 20 AT BOTH iTUNES AND RADIO Frontman Martin Johnson to Perform National Anthem on Monday Night Football's Opening Game Sept. 14 Fall Headline Tour Presented by OP Kicks Off in October

NEW YORK, Aug. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- As Boys Like Girls continues to gain momentum for the Sept. 8 release of their sophomore album Love Drunk, the Boston band is gearing up for a busy fall.

After appearing on ABC television's Jimmy Kimmel Live on the night of the album's release, Boys Like Girls will help the New England Patriots kick off their 2009 season with a free concert Sept. 13, outside Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, MA. The following night, frontman Martin Johnson will open the 40th season of Monday Night Football by singing the National Anthem live before his hometown Patriots host the Buffalo Bills.

Billboard magazine calls "Love Drunk" "an unstoppable hit," and the album's title track has already sold more than 400,000 units. It is a smash at Pop radio, where it just cracked the top 20 on the Top 40 chart and is currently in rotation at more than 100 pop stations. "Love Drunk" is also a Top 20 overall single at iTunes.

Love Drunk will be released Sept. 8, but is now available for pre-order on www.boyslikegirls.com, where fans can select from three different exclusive packages, and the first few hundred fans who order will have their names printed in a limited edition "Love Drunk" journal. The album is produced by Brian Howes [Puddle of Mudd, Chris Cornell, Hinder] and S*A*M and Sluggo [Metro Station, Cobra Starship, Gym Class Heroes], and is the highly-anticipated follow-up to Boys Like Girls' self-titled debut, which has been certified gold by the RIAA and sold more than 700,000 units. Combined digital single sales ("The Great Escape," "Hero/Heroine," and "Thunder") are near 4 million.

Boys Like Girls - Martin Johnson (vocals, guitar), Paul DiGiovanni (lead guitar, vocals), Brian Donahue (bass guitar, vocals) and John Keefe (drums) - will start a headline tour presented by Op with Cobra Starship supporting on October 14, in Buffalo, NY. Op is an authentic, surf inspired California lifestyle brand for all seasons. The Op collection is available exclusively at Walmart in the United States, Canada and Mexico. The complete itinerary for the tour follows, and can also be found on the band's website and on www.op.com.

OCTOBER

14 Buffalo, NY Rapid Theatre
15 Columbus, OH LC Pavilion
16 Kalamazoo, MI Western Michigan University
17 Milwaukee, WI Eagles Ballroom
18 Chicago, IL Riviera
20 Denver, CO Ogden Theatre
21 Pocatello, ID El Rey
23 San Francisco, CA Warfield Theatre
24 San Diego, CA SOMA
25 Las Vegas, NV Henderson Pavilion
27 Los Angeles, CA Club Nokia
28 Phoenix, AZ Mesa Amphitheatre
30 McAllen, TX Las Palmas Racetrack
31 Dallas, TX Nokia Theatre (with All Time Low)

NOVEMBER

1 Houston, TX Warehouse
3 Nashville, TN Rocketown
5 Fort Lauderdale, FL Revolution
6 Jacksonville, FL Bourbon Street Station
7 Orlando, FL House of Blues
8 Atlanta, GA Tabernacle
10 Charlotte, NC Amos
11 Norfolk, VA Norva
12 Louisville, KY Expo Five
13 St. Louis, MO Pageant
14 Detroit, MI Clutch Cargos
15 Toronto, ON Kool Haus
18 Albany, NY Northern Lights
19 Allentown, PA Crocodile Rock
20 Sayreville, NJ Starland Ballroom
21 Philadelphia, PA Electric Factory
24 New York, NY Nokia Theatre
27-28 Boston, MA Showcase Live

LOVE DRUNK Track Listing

1. Heart Heart Heartbreak
2. Love Drunk
3. She's Got A Boyfriend Now
4. Two Is Better Than One
5. Contagious
6. Real Thing
7. Someone Like You
8. The Shot Heard Round The World
9. The First One
10. Chemicals Collide

11. Go

Visit Boys Like Girls online at www.boyslikegirls.com and www.myspace.com/boyslikegirls.

Source: Sony Columbia Records

CONTACT: Cat De Felice, Sr. Director of Publicity, +1-310-272-2702,
cat.defelice@sonymusic.com, or for tour press interview requests and review
tickets, Winnie Lam, +1-212-833-8092, Winnie.lam@sonymusic.com, both of
Columbia Records

Web Site: http://www.columbiarecords.com/
http://www.boyslikegirls.com/

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