Motion City Soundtrack is officially an indie band again, but it looks like it can still nab major media attention. RollingStone.com just posted the exclusive stream of the Minneapolis-reared rockers' new single, "True Romance," the first track released off their upcoming fifth album, "Go." The record will arrive June 12 via the group's old label, Epitaph Records, which is issuing it under the imprint of the group's own new in-house label, the Boombox Generation. It follows their one and only release for Columbia Records, 2010's "My Dinosaur Life."
Talking to Joshua Cain and Justin Pierre two weeks ago at the press conference for St. Paul's River's Edge Music Fest – they're performing at the event on June 23, aka Tool Day – the MCS co-founders sounded excited about the disc, which they made locally with Ed Ackerson and without the usual clock-watching in the studio.
To help get fans excited about it, they once again plan on performing their four previous records in their entirety in a few cities this year. They won't be doing it in Minneapolis anytime soon, though (as is always the case with festivals, River's Edge contractually limits them from playing other local gigs). The rest of their summer gigs will include stops at New Jersey's Bamboozle Fest and Milwaukee's Summerfest, plus a month of dates with the Henry Clay People (a punky lo-fi band I enjoyed quite a lot at SXSW last month).
