[fun.] debut with expansive pop numbers that make you bounce without even trying…a great album to hold onto the end of summer.” – Entertainment Weekly “Must List”
AIM AND IGNITE (Nettwerk), the debut album from Nate Ruess (The Format), Andrew Dost (Anathallo) and Jack Antonoff (Steel Train)—who are fun., breaks onto the Billboard Top 200 today at #71 with over 8,000 albums sold in its first week. AIM AND IGNITE also earns the #3 spot on the Internet Album Chart, #20 spot on the Alternative Album Chart, and #24 spot on the Top Digital Album Chart. Additionally, the album debuted at #46 on the CMJ Top 200.
With AIM AND IGNITE, fun. have crafted something special; a contemporary rethinking of classic 70s pop, where ornate arrangements and inspired orchestrations meet present-day rock 'n' roll. Buzzbands.la founder and former LA Times music critic Kevin Bronson described the trio as a “complex hybrid of jaunty pop, glam and white soul,” while USA Today called fun. “a band that lives up to its name, in a very Electric Orchestra sort of way.” Alternative Press, who features the band over two pages in the current issue, says fun. is “destined to make you smile.”
This irresistible collection of freewheeling pop songcraft has been met with an extraordinary amount of excitement from both new and old fans of these three remarkably talented musicians. The tremendous amount of online exchange has brought the band’s MySpace page to over 1 million plays in just over a month. fun. will embark on their first national headlining tour of North America beginning September 8th in Salt Lake City, UT.
AIM AND IGNITE is currently available at all retails stores, digital outlets and through the band’s website.
www.myspace.com/fun
www.twitter.com/ournameisfun
www.facebook.com/ournameisfun
www.last.fm/music/fun.
HEADLINE TOUR DATES
September 8th Kilby Court Salt Lake City, UT
September 9th Club 156 Boulder, CO
September 11th Shelter Detroit, MI
September 12th Intersection Grand Rapids, MI
September 13th Water St. Rochester, NY
September 15th Northstar Philadelphia, PA
September 16th Great Scott Boston, MA
September 17th Mercury Lounge New York, NY
September 18th Jammin Java Vienna, VA
September 20th Drunken Unicorn Atlanta, GA
September 22nd Rocketown Nashville, TN
September 23rd Firebird St. Louis, MO
September 24th Schuba's Chicago, IL
September 25th Triple Rock Minneapolis, MN
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