Friday Night Boys 'Off The Deep End' album

The Friday Night Boys have revealed details of their eagerly awaited full-length debut. "OFF THE DEEP END" arrives in stores and at all online retailers on June 9th and is available for pre-order now at http://store.fueledbyramen.com.

"Permanent Heartbreak" -- the premiere track from "OFF THE DEEP END" -- has just debuted on the Fairfax, Virginia-based punk pop combo's popular MySpace page, located at www.myspace.com/thefridaynightboys.

The Friday Night Boys will herald the album's release with a nearly non-stop tour schedule. The band is currently wrapping up a stint supporting Sing It Loud on their "Guys Guys Guys" tour (see itinerary below). The Friday Night Boys will then join forces with Forever The Sickest Kids, beginning May 5th at Portland, Maine's The Station and continuing through the month. May 2nd will see the group rocking The Bamboozle 2009, the annual extravaganza held at the Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford, New Jersey and an upcoming tour alongside Hey Monday is slated to kick off June 10th at The Club House in Phoenix, AZ.

Produced by Emanuel Kiriakou (Jesse McCartney, David Archuleta), "OFF THE DEEP END" shows The Friday Night Boys to be more than just the raucous pop rock outfit suggested by their earlier work. The album shows a remarkable breadth of ambition, spanning instantly accessible power ballads such as "She's Finding Me Out" and energetic pop-punk rockers like "Suicide Sunday" to dance-floor anthems including "Stupid Loveletter"(co-produced by Benny Blanco) and everything in between.

"I don't really worry about where we fit in or how people want to categorize our music," says frontman Andrew Goldstein. "I love songs that are catchy and fun to listen to and that's how I can relate to music."

The Friday Night Boys made a spectacular debut last year with their self-released EP, "THE SKETCH PROCESS." The band followed it up last October with "THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID," released by Fueled By Ramen in partnership with Photo Finish Records and Alex Gaskarth of All Time Low's new imprint, The Party Scene. The five-track EP was highlighted by "Chasing A Rock Star," which The Friday Night Boys had previously performed live on MTV's "Total Request Live's On Your Radar" segment for unsigned bands. MTV continues to show its support, recently including The Friday Night Boys in its '2009 Rock Rookies' feature.

The Friday Night Boys have spent much of their time together on the road, touring on their own and alongside such like-minded bands as All Time Low, Hit The Lights, Mayday Parade, A Rocket To The Moon, Automatic Loveletter, and A Cursive Memory.

Friday Night Boys tour dates

4/28-5/3 w/ Sing It Loud, The Morning Light, and Artists vs. Poet
5/5-23 w/ Forever The Sickest Kids
6/10-7/24 w/ Hey Monday, This Providence, Stereo Skyline, and The Bigger Lights

APRIL
28 Raleigh, NC Lincoln Theater
29 Baltimore, MD Fletcher's
30 Altoona, PA The Eldolyn Terrace

MAY
1 Hartford, CT Webster Underground
2 East Rutherford, NJ The Bamboozle
3 Cambridge, MA The Middle East
5 Portland, ME The Station
6 Cliffton Park, NY Northern Lights
7 Rochester, NY Water Street Music Hall
8 Allentown, PA Crocodile Rock
9 Baltimore, MD White Marsh Mall
10 Grand Rapids, MI The Orbit Room
12 Columbus, OH Newport Music Hall
13 Covington, KY Mad Hatter
14 Madison, WI Majestic Theatre
15 Des Moines, IA Peoples Court
16 St. Paul, MN Station 4
17 Omaha, NE Sokol Underground
19 Columbia, MO The Blue Note
20 Little Rock, AR The Village
21 Springfield, MO Outland Ballroom
22 Memphis, TN New Daisy Theatre
23 Oklahoma City, OK Bricktown Events Center

JUNE
5 Baltimore, MD The Quarter
6 Springfield, VA Jaxx
7 Vienna, VA Jammin' Java
10 Phoenix, AZ The Clubhouse
11 Los Angeles, CA Knitting Factory
12 Anaheim, CA Chain Reaction
13 Sacramento, CA Boardwalk
14 Modesto, CA Empire Theatre
16 Seattle, WA El Corazon
17 Portland, OR Hawthorne Theater
19 Salt Lake City, UT Avalon
20 Denver, CO Bluebird
21 Omaha, NE Waiting Room
28 Cleveland, OH Grog Shop
30 Pittsburgh, PA Diesel

JULY
1 Allentown, PA Crocodile Rock
7 Hartford, CT Webster Underground
8 Boston, MA Harper's Ferry
10 Poughkeepsie, NY The Chance
12 Baltimore, MD Ottobar
14 Springfield, VA Jaxx
15 Greensboro, NC Greene Street
16 Atlanta, GA Masquerade
17 Jacksonville, FL Jack Rabbits
18 Tampa, FL State Theatre
19 Ft. Lauderdale, FL Culture Room
21 San Antonio, TX White Rabbit
22 McAllen, TX Incubator
23 Dallas, TX The Max
24 Houston, TX Java Jazz

Friday Night Boys biography
It may seem like Fairfax, Virginia’s The Friday Night Boys have led a charmed life thus far, but to say they don’t deserve everything that’s come their way would be an out-and-out lie. Like many of today’s breakthrough musical acts, The Friday Night Boys—which features frontman Andrew Goldstein, bassist Robby Dallas Reider, guitarist Mike Toohey and drummer Chris Barrett—got their start on the Internet. However where their story goes from there is where things really get interesting.

Just one year after this group of tight-knit high-school acquaintances formed The Friday Night Boys, they decided to self-record The Sketch Process EP and distribute it online—but even The Friday Night Boys themselves were surprised by the way it took off considering that they only played regional shows at that point. “I put it on iTunes and the first month we had a decent amount of hits, but second month we had a whole lot of hits and it just kept increasing,” Goldstein explains. The EP would go on to be the catalyst for the band’s appearance on MTV’s Total Request Live’s “On Your Radar” segment for unsigned bands.

As you can probably guess, The Friday Night Boys didn’t stay unsigned for long—and they were introduced to Fueled By Ramen by one of the band’s early supporters: All Time Low’s Alex Gaskarth, who also decided to make The Friday Night Boys the first signing to his brand new imprint, The Party Scene. “We had played some local shows with All Time Low when they were in high school and Alex always used to tell us how much he liked our band,” Goldstein explains when asked how this relationship formed. “Alex worked so hard to promote us and help us out with recording,” Goldstein continues. “We feel honored to have him on our side.” The band also had the support of Photo Finish Records who have been longtime supporters of the band and have grown alongside the act.

To hold over their fans until the full album debut, The Friday Night Boys released the five-song EP That’s What She Said in October of 2008, which was the perfect introduction to the band’s raucous band of pop-rock. However, once you hear the band’s debut full-length Off The Deep End, it will be no surprise why MTV still supports the band and recently christened The Friday Night Boys “guaranteed to rock in 2009.” Produced by Emanuel Kiriakou, the album shows how much the band has grown in the past year and features everything from instantly accessible power ballads (“She’s Finding Me Out”) to energetic pop-punk rockers (“Suicide Sunday”) and everything in between. In fact, it’s not hard to picture songs like the electronica-tinged “Stupid Loveletter” as a dance floor anthem that’s will instantly get people moving—and the band wouldn’t have it any other way.

While The Friday Night Boys have toured with popular pop punk acts like All Time Low and Mayday Parade, they are in no way ashamed of their addiction to pop music. “I don’t really worry about where we fit in or how people want to categorize our music,” Goldstein explains. “I love pop and it’s my favorite genre of music,” he continues, adding that his favorite bands include everyone from Oasis to Avril Lavigne. “I love songs that are catchy and fun to listen to and that’s how I can relate to music,” he says. “Personally, I tend to gravitate toward songs that I can connect to on an emotional level.” In other words despite their fun-loving façade, not everything is one huge party for The Friday Night Boys. “We all love partying, but we also have a serious side as well; we’ve all gone through relationship issues with girls and heartbreak so it’s a two-way street,” Goldstein says when asked about some of the lyrical themes.

Ultimately The Friday Night Boys are just excited to get on the road and bring their music to their fans and soon-to-be followers. “We all feel so lucky and incredibly blessed to be working with the people we are working with,” Goldstein explains adding that the band grew up listening to artists on Fueled By Ramen. “We’ve all toured the country multiple times in other unsigned bands, so finally doing it in this band means our work has paid off—but we’re also extremely excited to work hard in this band and tour year round,” he summarizes. “We’re willing to do whatever it takes.”

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