THE AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT ANNOUNCES WORLD TOUR

Second Single "Wishing Well" Makes First Foray Up Modern Rock Charts
While First Single "Sometime Around Midnight" Begins Climb Up Hot AC Chart

Los Angeles' The Airborne Toxic Event announces a world tour today starting June 28 at Summerfest in Milwaukee, WI. The band will bring the music from their eponymous debut throughout the world, playing in 11 countries and on 4 continents. The album, which features the Top 5 single "Sometime Around Midnight," was released August of 2008 on an indie label, and after a slow yet steady ascension has topped Billboard's Heatseekers chart the last two weeks, bringing the total number of times the album has been #1 on this chart to three. The band also passed the 100k threshold in albums sold.

The band's second single, "Wishing Well," has made a strong entry onto the Modern Rock chart while the first single, the haunting "Sometime Around Midnight" has now entered the top 40 of the Hot AC Chart after being a Top 5 hit at Modern Rock for 6 weeks.
A recently-made video for "Midnight" by filmmaker DJ Caruso (Disturbia, Eagle Eye) has helped the band secure support on the ever-influential VH1 program "You Oughta Know." The song had been named the #1 Alternative Track by iTunes last December, and was a Top 5 Modern Rock smash.

The band has had major success overseas, getting extra attention for their ambitious tour of the UK which included 30 shows in 30 consecutive days. Q raved in a 4 out of 5 review that the album contained "lyrics full of the best fiction's emotional resonance... tracing a historical line from The Strokes to The Killers, yet also marking this band's own great leap forward." Uncut, also in a 4 out of 5 review, said "TATE's debut touches on Stooges garage rock, sultry blues, Strokesian pop all swaddled in opulent Americana." The best endorsement came from the NME in a live review: "Firmly on the right side of dramatic, their engaging stage presence and mawkish violin justifies the Arcade Fire comparisons. There's a beautiful yet deftly macabre spine to their songs, and 'Sometime Around Midnight' is a stirring demonstration of their power. ...if you haven't seen TATE, you should."

Below are the dates for The Airborne Toxic Event's World Tour:

Sun Jun 28 - Milwaukee, WI - Summerfest

Europe:
Sat Jul 11 - Dublin, Ireland - Oxygen Festival
Sun Jul 12 - Balado, Kinross-Shire, Scotland - T in The Park
Tue Jul 14 - Sheffield, UK - Leadmill - Make Up From Power Outage of May 6
Fri Jul 17 - Letisko Trenčín, Slovakia - Pohoda Festival
Sat Jul 18 - Suffolk, UK - Latitude Festival

Asia:
Sat Jul 25 - Seoul, Korea - Valley Rock Festival
Sun Jul 26 - Niigata, Japan - Fuji Rock Festival

US:
Tue Aug 4 - Cleveland, OH - House Of Blues
Wed Aug 5 - Cincinnati, OH - Mad Hatter
Sun Aug 9 - Chicago, IL - Lollapalooza

Europe:
Fri Aug 14 - Gampel, Switzerland - OpenAir Gampel
Sat Aug 15 - Leicester, UK - Summer Sundae
Wed Aug 19 - Munich, Germany - 59:1
Fri Aug 21 - Hasselt, Belgium - Pukkelpop Festival
Sat Aug 22 - Biddinghuizen, Netherlands - Lowlands Festival
Mon Aug 24 - Koln, Germany - Gebaeude 9
Tue Aug 25 - Berlin, Germany - Frannz
Wed Aug 26 - Hamburg, Germany - Knust
Fri Aug 28 - Reading, UK - Reading Festival
Sun Aug 30 - Leeds, UK - Leeds Festival

Australia:
(Full Tour To Be Announced Soon in Australia & New Zealand)
Sat Sep 12 - Gosford, Australia - Coaster Festival

North American Fall Tour:
Thu Sep 17 - Pomona, CA - The Fox Theatre
Sun Sep 20 - Tempe, AZ - Tempe Beach Park - Arizona Fall Frenzy
Thu Sep 24 - Boulder, CO - Boulder Theatre
Fri Sep 25 - Omaha, NB - The Slowdown
Sat Sep 26 - Des Moines, IA - People's Court
Mon Sep 28 - Lawrence, KS - Granada
Tue Sep 29 - Tulsa, OK - Cain's
Wed Sep 30 - Dallas, TX - House Of Blues
Thu Oct 1 - Houston, TX - House Of Blues
Sat Oct 3 - Austin, TX - Zilker Park - Austin City Limits
Tue Oct 6 - St. Petersburg, FL - State Theatre
Wed Oct 7 - Atlanta, GA - Variety Loft
Thu Oct 8 - Columbia, SC - Headliners
Fri Oct 9 - Norfolk, VA - Norva
Sat Oct 10 - Philadelphia, PA - Trocadero
Mon Oct 12 - Washington, DC - 930 Club
Thu Oct 15 - New York, NY - Webster
Sat Oct 17 - Albany, NY - Northern Lights
Sun Oct 18 - Montreal, QC - Le Tulipe
Mon Oct 19 - Toronto, ON - Phoenix
Wed Oct 21 - Columbus, OH - Newport Music Hall
Thu Oct 22 - Detroit MI - Crofoot
Sat Oct 24 - Minneapolis, MN - Fine Line
Wed Oct 28 - Vancouver, BC - Commodore
Thu Oct 29 - Seattle, WA - Showbox Market
Fri Oct 30 - Boise, ID - Knitting Factory
Sat Oct 31 - Portland, OR - Roseland
Mon Nov 2 - San Francisco, CA - Fillmore

European Fall Tour:
Fri Nov 6 - London, UK - Shepherds Bush Empire
Sat Nov 7 - Birmingham, UK - Academy
Sun Nov 8 - Bristol, UK - Anson Rooms
Tue Nov 10 - Glasgow, SCO - ABC
Wed Nov 11 - Dublin, IRE - Olympia
Thu Nov 12 - Manchester, UK - Ritz
Sat Nov 14 - Oxford, UK - Academy
(Main Land Europe will be announced soon)

Other shows will be announced soon including New Zealand, Australia, more North American and European dates and a VERY SPECIAL SHOW IN LOS ANGLES IN DECEMBER.