Hawthorne Heights 'Fragile Future' album

Four subsidiaries of Wind-up Entertainment and Hawthorne Heights have entered into agreements for this broad-based relationship. The band's future recordings will be released by Wind-up Records. Additionally, the sale of all Hawthorne Heights merchandise at on-line, retail, and touring points of sale will be handled by Wind-up Entertainment's Pronto Merch. The band's publishing will be administered by the company's Sakyamuni Music Publishing, LLC. Hawthorne Heights has also entered in to an agreement with Wind-up Artist Development Corporation, regarding touring and appearances.

Hawthorne Heights formed in Dayton, Ohio in 2001, building a strong following across the U.S. via repeated self-booked tours. The band was one of the first visionary acts to embrace social networking as a powerful tool in building an audience, and to this day continue to maintain a level of accessibility to the fans via these platforms. Their debut album The Silence In Black And White was certified platinum for sales of 1,000,000 copies by the RIAA. The follow-up, If Only You Were Lonely, had an impressive debut at #3 on the Billboard 200 in 2006, going on to sell over a half-million copies and receiving gold certification. Hawthorne Heights recorded a third, and final album for Victory Records in August, 2008 titled Fragile Future. The band's Wind-up Records debut is due later this year.

Wind-up Entertainment President Ed Vetri shared, "We are very pleased to be in partnership with Hawthorne Heights. They have been able to develop a special connection to their fans on a true grass roots basis. They have been intensely committed to touring and building a strong, dedicated core following in true DIY fashion. Within Wind-up's partnership structure, we plan to broaden that base, commit even further to touring and production, build out extensive merchandise product lines, while the band can focus and concentrate on their most important contribution to this partnership, the music. It is their deep passion to better themselves, and continue to hone their craft, that will result in the finest Hawthorne Heights collection of music to date."

Hawthorne Heights J.T. Woodruff offered, "We are extremely happy to be a member of the Wind-up Records stable of artists. It was very important for us to choose a label that has maintained a consistent staff and who understands who we want to be as Hawthorne Heights. We are thankful for everyone we have worked with in the past, and are incredibly excited about our future. As musicians it is crucial to be inspired by your surroundings, and right now we feel exactly that. Inspired...."

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The surviving members of platinum selling rock band Hawthorne Heights dropped, in its entirety, their August 2006 lawsuit against Victory Records. Victory Records will release Hawthorne Heights' third studio album titled 'Fragile Future' on August 5th.

'Fragile Future' follows two highly successful albums with Victory Records. 'The Silence in Black and White' (2004), followed up in 2006 with 'If Only You Were Lonely'.

Victory Records Owner Tony Brummel commented, "Everyone at Victory is ecstatic about the forthcoming album from Hawthorne Heights. It is by far their best material to date. When Victory and Hawthorne started our relationship in 2003 it was always about beating the odds ...We have lived in a reality of petty disputes, unresolved misunderstandings, unhealthy friction and negative sensationalism for too long.

"Forgiveness and the ability to reunite are powerful gifts. They create a spirit. Couple that spirit with great music and you have something that is extraordinary and transcendental. You cannot change the past but you can affect the future. There is a bigger lesson and story here than just releasing a new album. Victory, and I know Hawthorne Heights, are thankful to be a part of that."

Hawthorne Heights' Drummer Eron Bucciarelli reflects, "We now regret having begun the lawsuit and should not have listened to those, who, for whatever reasons, were then advising us to pursue this strategy. We are sorry for having put Victory Records and Tony Brummel through this ordeal, and regret any negative publicity that may have resulted. Many false, hurtful and incorrect statements were made, especially on the Internet, none of which were true. Tony Brummel and Victory gave us our start, and did an unprecedented job with our first two albums. We hope they can repeat that success with our third studio album. Unfortunately, we cannot change the past, but we're now taking steps to heal the wounds and start fresh."

Singer JT Woodruff offered, "We are so excited to release our third album. It feels absolutely amazing to finally have a release date in sight. Over the past year or so we have written a lot of songs, thrown away a lot of songs, and over the last month wrote a lot more songs. This last batch totally sums up where we are as a band, what we have been through and most importantly...where we want to be. Through all of the smoke and fire, we feel these songs are the best material we have ever released".

Hawthorne Heights will be on the road as part of Linkin Park's Projekt Revolution tour this summer.

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