The Faint’s upcoming album “Fasciinatiion” is up for pre-order at Newbury Comics. The first 500 will recieve signed copies. Fasciination will be released August 5th 2008 on their own label “Blank.wav“.

A new song from The Faint’s upcoming album “Fasciinatiion” (coming out on August 5th 2008) has been posted on their Myspace page. It is titled “The Geeks Were Right“.

Please check out their site, thefaint.com for more information, tour dates, and a newsletter signup.

The Faint have a new album called “Fasciinatiion” coming out on August 5th 2008. They’re no longer on their starting label, Saddle-Creek Records and have sinceformed their own titled “Blank.wav“.

Please check out their site, thefaint.com for more information, tour dates, and a newsletter signup.

Todd Fink and Joel Peterson give some insight on the upcoming “The Faint” album. Hopefully due out in 2007. There’s still no word which label they’re on.

Expect it: “As soon as Possible” (Label TBA)

Faint Frontman Todd Fink knows hard it is to try to describe music to people when the stuff hasn’t been recorded yet. So when AP asked him to choose two songs he’d flank his band’s new music between in a DJ set, he picked “You Make me Like Charity” by Swedish dark-techno unit the Knife and anything by quirky Berlin electro-punks Mediengruppe Telekommander, “But that’s still vague,” Fink says, laughing.

“[Our music] is always a series of pop experiments, some more pop than others. The sounds that we’re using [now] are more interesting and developed, but the songs themselves will be a bit more austere. Stripping the music down is probably a reaction from writing and touring behind “Wet From Birth”, which we all felt might have been a little too ornamental and too decorated.”

Bassist Joel Petersen will be overseeing the production of the Nebraska electro-rockers’ fifth studio album, as soon as the band finishes building a studio for his gear, in addition, they will road-test new material on a three-week tour commencing before the end of 2006. And maybe by then, they’ll figure out who’s going to release the album. “We’re not organized to license it to each individual country,” admits Fink. “But really, people worry about that stuff too much.” [JP]

Below is the scan from Alternative Press

As previously reported, The Faint have played new songs on the start of this mini-tour.

At WWU tonight The Faint played 4 new songs called “Get Seduced“, “The Geeks Were Right“, “Fish In A Womb“, and “Metal Hawks“. They also said they should be finished building their new studio and able to start recording in February.

Hopefully someone will bootleg these on the upcoming shows.

If you don’t know, The Faint are planning a small tour this Winter to “not get rusty“. Over the summer they have been recording a new album which has no definitive release date.

I asked Joel from The Faint asking if there will be any new songs played on the tour. He confirmed that they are. Great news.

Also, there is still no official word if The Faint have changed record labels from Saddle-Creek to American Recordings.

Stay tuned for more info on that.

One of my favorite bands The Faint are going to do a small tour this Winter. Here’s what they had to say…

We’ve booked a few shows so we don’t get rusty. Check the tour dates to see if you can make it to out. Unfortunately we’re only going to the west coast and back this time around.

Great news… here are the dates below.
TUE 11.28 Denver, CO Ogden Theater
WED 11.29 Salt Lake City, UT In The Venue
THU 11.30 TBA
FRI 12.01 Vancouver, BC Richards on Richards
SAT 12.02 Seattle, WA Showbox
SUN 12.03 Portland, OR Roseland
TUE 12.05 San Francisco, CA Mezzanine
WED 12.06 San Diego, CA 4th and B
THU 12.07 Los Angeles, CA Palladium
FRI 12.08 Long Beach, CA The Vault
SAT 12.09 Pomona, CA Glass House
SUN 12.10 Tempe, AZ Marquee Theatre
TUE 12.12 Austin, TX La Zona Rosa
WED 12.13 Houston, TX Warehouse Live
THU 12.14 TBA
FRI 12.15 Lawrence, KS Granada
SAT 12.16 Omaha, NE Sokol Auditorium
SUN 12.17 Omaha, NE Sokol Auditorium

If you get a chance, please check them out. They’re amazing live.

Such a beauty!

Here’s a scan of the cover (since their isnt a decent on online that I’ve seen)