Bleachers To Release Debut Album 'Strange Desire' In The Us On July 15th 2014

Bleachers will release debut album 'Strange Desire' on July 15th, 2014 on RCA Records. The highly anticipated album was written and produced by Grammy Award winning musician Jack Antonoff with co-producer John Hill (MIA, Jay Z, Empire of the Sun) as well as Vince Clarke (Depeche Mode, Yaz, Erasure) and others.
 
Bleachers first single "I Wanna Get Better" has already streamed over 1.5 million times, was deemed "the song of the summer in February" by the Huffington Post and quickly skyrocketed into the top 10 at Alt radio. 

Since the Bleachers launch in February critics have been nothing but excited and eager to hear more. Rolling Stone exclaimed "We'll be shocked if it's not all over the radio by spring", TIME raved "...it's exciting to imagine what else Antonoff has up his sleeve" and Hilly Dilly proclaimed "...this is the kind of music that can't get big enough."
 
Bleachers will kick off their summer festival tour dates in early June at New York's Governor's Ball:
 
June 8                          Governor's Ball (New York)
June 19-22                    Firefly Music Festival (Dover, Delaware)
June 25                         Glastonbury Festival (Pilton, UK)
June 27                         Summerfest (Milwaukee, WI)
July 5-6                        Wireless Festival (United Kingdom)
August 1                       Osheaga Festival (Montreal, QC)
August 3                       Lollapalooza (Chicago, IL)
August 8                       Outside Lands Music Festival (San Francisco, CA)
September 5                 Boston Calling Music Festival (Boston, MA)
September 6                 Boston City Hall Plaza (Boston, MA)
September 7                  City Hall Plaza (Boston MA)
October 3                     ACL Music Festival (Austin, TX)
October 10                    ACL Music Festival (Austin, TX)
 
Hailing from New Jersey, 29 year old Jack Antonoff has been in the music scene for over a decade.  In 2002, with Jack as the lead singer, the success of New Jersey born indie rock band Steel Train was well underway. Steel Train's cult following lead them to make their national television debut on Late Night With Conan O'Brien and later appeared on Late Show With David Letterman. In 2008, Jack joined Nate Ruess and Andrew Dost to form the Grammy award winning fun.
 
In addition to being a multi-talented musician, Jack is a critically acclaimed songwriter and producer.  His achievements include fun. being honored with the Vanguard Award at the 2014 ASCAP Pop Music Awards and co-writing fun.'s Grammy award winning song "We Are Young"  and Grammy nominated album Some Nights. He also received a Golden Globe nomination for his collaboration with Taylor Swift on her song "Sweeter Than Fiction." Jack has also worked with Sara Bareilles, co-writing her Grammy nominated hit "Brave", and Canadian Indie icons Tegan and Sara.

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