Heck yeah, Switchfoot!

A celebration of the awesome San Diego rock band called Switchfoot. With bonus fun stuff about Jon Foreman's side projects!
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Switchfoot - Selling the News
from “Vice Verses”

Welcome to the holy city
A silver screen built with the lens of low self-esteem
A teenager’s plea for meaning and memes
We’re selling the news

See opinions are easier to swallow than facts
The greys instead of the whites and the blacks
If you shoot it too straight they won’t come back
We’re selling the news

But see money speaks volumes louder than words
Or virtues with wings, maybe not quite at first
But salaries are paid with the ads not the verbs
We’re selling the news

See all men are equal, all is for sale
A powerful dog has been chasing his tail
The lowest common denominator prevails
We’re selling the news

I wanna believe you, I wanna believe
But everything is in between
The fact is fiction
The fact is fiction

I wanna believe you, I wanna believe
But everything is in between
The fact is fiction
Suspicion is the new religion

America listens, the story is told
With an eye on the truth as the story unfolds
But the ratings determine if the story was sold
We’re selling the news

Begging the question, mongering fears
Stroking the eyes and tickling ears
The truth is seldom just as it appears
We’re selling the news

I wanna believe you, I wanna believe
But everything is in between
The fact is fiction
The fact is fiction
[x2]

I can see your talking heads
On the television set
On the internet they said
The fact is fiction
Suspicion is the new religion

Substance, oh substance, where’ve you been
You’ve been replaced by the masters of spin
Who make good-looking books and write history in
We’re selling the news

The lines start to blur, I get so confused
I get shiny new models mixed up with the blues
I get binary code mixed up with abuse
The facts are simply one option to choose

When nothing is sacred, there’s nothing to lose
When nothing is sacred, all is consumed
We’re still on the air, it must be the truth
We’re selling the news

I wanna believe you, I wanna believe
But everything is in between
The fact is fiction
The fact is fiction
[x2]

I wanna believe you, I wanna believe
But everything I see is greed
The fact is fiction
Suspicion is the new religion

Listen to all but one track of Vice Verses @ ESPN from now until Sept 27th 

Switchfoot’s new album, “Vice Verses” (iTunes | Amazon), doesn’t come out until Sept. 27, but you can get an early preview of nearly all of it by listening to ESPN Music’s stream below.

The Grammy-winning, million-selling band formed in 1996 in San Diego, Calif., and has put out seven previous albums. Switchfoot consists of Jon Foreman (lead vocals, guitar), Tim Foreman (bass), Jerome Earl Fontamillas (keyboards, guitar), Chad Butler (drums) and Drew Shirley (guitar).

Switchfoot’s 2004 song “Dare You To Move” peaked at No. 17 on Billboard’s Hot 100 Songs chart, the album “Nothing Is Sound” reached No. 3 on the Billboard 200 chart in 2005 and “Hello Hurricane” hit No. 4 on the Rock Albums chart in 2009.

You can try to win a trip for two to the 2012 Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., by entering the “Switchfoot Flyway Sweepstakes” here. Five of the songs from “Vice Verses” will also be used on ESPN’s college football coverage this season.

Switchfoot is currently on a U.S. tour, so you can check here to see when the band is playing near you.

Listen to every track from the album, except “Where I Belong,” below through Sept. 27.

NOTE: I found that if I was in Firefox it wouldn’t work, but I can verify that it works in Internet Explorer and/or an IE tab within Firefox (if you have the IE Tab extension), and I have seen people saying that it works in Chrome.

I am LOVING the album and several of the tracks made me weep openly, so I highly recommend checking out the stream!

Also remember, you can still pre-order the album (and a couple levels of deluxe editions) at Switchfoot.com and be entered to win some nifty prizes. Also be sure to check out the list of tour dates to see if there’s any in your area!

Tune in tomorrow (August 18th) at 11 AM PST (2 PM EST) for a live chat with the guys! 

Amigos!! Tune in tomorrow to the link below for a live Ustream chat! At 11am PST / 2pm EST we will be talking about Vice Verses, all of the exciting things going on in our lives and might even play a new song for you. Check it out!

Be there or be square! I’m particularly excited about the “might even play a new song” part :D

Switchfoot - “Restless”

“Restless” is the first single off of Vice Verses that was released to CCM stations (whereas “Dark Horses” was released to mainstream radio). It doesn’t look like it’ll be available to purchase as a single, but here’s an HQ recording of the song being played on a radio station. Bring tissues!

Lyrics:

I am the sea on a moonless night
Calling falling, slipping tides
I am the leaky, dripping pipes
The endless, aching drops of lights

I am the raindrop falling down
Always longing for the deeper ground
I am the broken, breaking seas
Even my blood finds ways to bleed

Even the rivers ways to run
Even the rain to reach the sun
Even my thirsty streams
Even in my dreams

I am restless
I am restless
I am restless
I’m looking for you

I am restless
I run like the ocean to find your shore
I’m looking for you

I am the thorn stuck in your side
I am the one that you left behind
I am the dried up doubting eyes
Looking for the well that won’t run dry

Running for the other side
The world that I’ve always been denied
Running hard for the infinite
With the tears of saints and hypocrites

Oh, blood of black and white and grey
Oh, death in life and night in day
One by one by one
We let our rivers run

I am restless
I am restless
I’m looking for you

I am restless
I run like the ocean to find your shore
I’m looking for you

I can hear you breathing
I can feel you leading
More than just a feeling

I can feel you reaching
Pushing through the ceiling
Till the final healing
I’m looking for you

Until the sea of glass we meet
At last completed and complete
Where tide and tear and pain subside
And laughter drinks them dry

I’ll be waiting
Anticipating
All that I aim for
What I was made for

With every heartbeat
All of my blood bleeds
Running inside me
I’m looking for you

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Switchfoot - “Dark Horses”

“Our first single, “Dark Horses,” is heavily inspired by the homeless kids in our hometown of San Diego. We do an event every year called the Bro-Am. It’s a surf contest and concert on the beach. And it benefits Stand Up For Kids, which is an organization that works with these homeless kids. They are the true dark horses. In [nearby] Seattle there’s a huge culture of homelessness amongst kids on the streets. These aren’t kids who chose homelessness. They’ve been thrust into an adult world as children – from broken homes, from being kicked out of homes, from dysfunctional parents, a variety of situations. They’re the dark horses this society has written off. And you can’t count them out.”

Tim Foreman

Vice Verses Pre-Order Info is up! 

In addition to digital downloads and the standard CD ($10.99 - $14.99), there are two other levels of ~deluxe~ packages available to pre-order:

Deluxe Package ($20.00)

Includes:
  • Digi-Pack Deluxe Case
  • Vice Verses CD
  • Hello Hurricane LIVE CD
  • Liner Notes
  • Immediate download of the track ‘Dark Horses’

Super-Deluxe Package ($60.00)

Includes:

  • 8 1/2” x 10 1/2” Custom box
  • Vice Verses CD
  • Hello Hurricane LIVE CD
  • Handwritten Lyrics Liner Notes
  • Vice Verses Day in the Life/Story of… DVD
  • Switchfoot Star Vinyl Window Decal
  • Envelope for each band member with high Quality Photos of band member with “What Vice Verses means to them”
  • Fan Envelope and Pencil to chronicle fan experiences with Vice Verses
  • Immediate download of the track ‘Dark Horses’

There’s also some (really freaking cool) prizes you could win if you pre-order, so go check it out!

I don’t know about you guys, but I AM EXCITED.

“ The new record really wrestles with the already-but-not-yet concept. As a believer, I think we’re really cognizant of the idea that we live in a broken, hurting world, yet there’s a bright and shining light of hope that’s transcending everything that we do. And we’re all trying to come to terms with that. I think hope is not simply looking around and saying that everything’s great – that’s just ridiculous. For hope to have substance, it has to acknowledge the pain. But hope is saying that’s not the final story. It’s not saying pain doesn’t exist, but it’s saying there’s not a period at the end of that sentence. It’s still being written. ”

Tim Foreman, on Vice Verses {x}

Vice Verses Listening Session
the boys sit down to listen to the record for the first time

Jon in the crowd; Philadelphia, PAOctober 2010(source)

Jon in the crowd; Philadelphia, PA
October 2010
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“ The concept of Hello Hurricane, the idea that there will be storms in your life, you will face – whether it’s relational or environmental, you know, the things that happened in Japan – you’re going to be able to face all that stuff. And the idea of Hello Hurricane is to be able to not run away from it but to face your hurricane. Those are the things God has been teaching me in the past few years. ”

Jerome Fontamillas

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