Rise Against the Charts

10/16/2008
. (PR) When was the last time a punk band debuted at the top of the charts? Change has come, Rise Against's Appeal To Reason debuts at #3 on the Billboard Top 200 chart this week with 64,701 units sold. The album also debuts at #1 on the Billboard Digital Album chart. This marks the bands highest and biggest debut of its career

Appeal To Reason was released on DGC/Interscope Records October 7th and immediately spent close to a week at #1 on the iTunes album chart. First single "Re-Education (Through Labor)" is currently # 4 on the Modern Rock radio charts.

For their fifth studio album the band teamed up with Bill Stevenson (Black Flag, Descendants) and Jason Livermore to record at the Blasting Room in Ft. Collins, CO-- the same production team and studio used for The Sufferer & the Witness and Revolutions Per Minute.

Remaining headlining tour dates for Rise Against with Alkaline Trio, Thrice and The Gaslight Anthem are listed below:

October 16 Philadelphia, PA Electric Factory
October 17 Philadelphia, PA Electric Factory
October 19 Myrtle Beach, SC House of Blues
October 20 Atlanta, GA Tabernacle
October 21 Tampa, FL Jannus Landing
October 22 Pompano Bch, FL Pompano Beach Amphitheater
October 23 Orlando, FL House of Blues
October 26 Austin, TX Austin City Music Hall
October 27 Houston, TX Verizon Wireless Theatre
October 30 San Diego, CA Cox Arena
October 31 Los Angeles, CA The Palladium
November 1 Los Angeles, CA The Palladium
November 2 Los Angeles, CA The Palladium
November 4 Las Vegas, NV House of Blues
November 5 Las Vegas, NV House of Blues
November 7 San Jose, CA San Jose University
November 8 Portland, OR Roseland Ballroom
November 9 Vancouver, BC Thunderbird Arena
November 11 Salt Lake City, UT Salt Air
November 12 Denver, CO The Fillmore
November 13 Denver, CO The Fillmore
November 14 Kansas City, MO Uptown Theatre
November 16 St. Louis, MO The Pageant
November 17 Milwaukee, WI The Rave
November 18 Minneapolis, MN The Myth
November 20 Chicago, IL The Congress Theatre
November 21 Chicago, IL The Congress Theatre
November 22 Grand Rapids, MI Orbit Room
November 23 Detroit, MI The Fillmore

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