Geoff Rickly (ex-Thursday) and Vinnie Caruana (I Am The Avalanche) have announced a run of West Coast co-headlining dates leading them into Warped Tour.

Here's the schedule:

Jun 22 Portland, OR @ Backspace Café
Jun 23 Seattle, WA @ The Vera Project
Jun 25 San Francisco, CA @ Thee Parkside
Jun 27 Canoga Park, CA @ Cobalt Café
Jun 28 Upland, CA @ The Wire
Jun 29 Las Vegas, CA @ Backstage Bar

Former Thursday frontman Geoff Rickly posted an interesting blog yesterday about his experiences on last year's Warped Tour.

The following is an excerpt from the post, which can be read in full here.

"Blood on the Dance Floor makes me feel old and irrelevant.  Why? Because I don't know what the fuck it is.  It's electro-pop-scream-metal-violence in goth drag that celebrates "cumming" on the audience with giant foam canons and has one of the most positive, inspirational record inserts that I've ever read.  It's either horrible nonsense or next-level art.  But it's truly made me realize, I don't know the difference.  So the singer with red hair and scary make-up told me that Thursday's song, 'You know,' he says, 'the car crash one' changed his life.  Luckily I was wasted and said, 'How can I change it back?' Rimshot, dad... Am I right?"

Get Involved! (ex-Glassjaw, From Autumn To Ashes, Thursday) have successfully raised enough money to fund their upcoming debut EP.

The band launched a Kickstarter campaign last month in hopes to raise $18,000 to record with producer Ross Robinson (Glassjaw, At The Drive-In). At the time of this posting the band crowdfunded $18,477.

They'll enter the studio later this month to begin tracking the effort.

Get Involved!, featuring ex-members of Glassjaw, From Autumn To Ashes, and Thursday, have almost met the goal for their Kickstarter campaign to fund their debut EP.

Since launching the campaign last month the band have raised over $17,000 to go towards recording -- the goal is $18,000. Pledging ends on Sunday night.

Those interested in contributing can do so here. If the goal is met the band will begin recording later this month with producer Ross Robinson (Glassjaw, At The Drive-In).

Get Involved!, featuring former members of Glassjaw, From Autumn To Ashes, and Thursday, have premiered a new song.

Stream their demo for the track “Scars Make The Man” over at Kickstarter. The band launched the fundraising campaign to fund their debut EP, which is set to be recorded with producer Ross Robinson (Glassjaw, At The Drive-In) later this month.

Thursday frontman Geoff Rickly and Taking Back Sunday's John Nolan will hit the road for a solo tour in May. Gabriel the Marine have been tapped as support.

Here are the dates:

May 10 Brooklyn, NY @ Saint Vitus
May 11 Philadelphia, PA @ North Star Bar
May 12 Lakewood, OH @ Mahall's
May 13 Chicago, IL @ Beat Kitchen
May 14 Indianapolis, IN @ Hoosier Dome
May 15 Pittsburgh, PA @ The Smiling Moose
May 16 Charlotte, NC @ Casbah at Tremont Music Hall
May 17 Richmond, VA @ Kingdom
May 18 West Springfield, VA @ Empire

A video of a new demo track from Get Involved!, featuring former members of Glassjaw, From Autumn To Ashes, and Thursday, has premiered online.

Watch the clip for “Serenity Now” at Altpress.com.

The band will enter the studio later this month to record their debut EP with producer Ross Robinson. A Kickstarter campaign has been launched for help fund the effort.

Former members of Glassjaw, From Autumn To Ashes, Thursday, and Judge have formed a new band called Get Involved!.

A new project featuring Todd Weinstock (ex-Glassjaw), guitarist Brian Deneeve (ex-From Autumn To Ashes), Tucker Rule (ex-Thursday) and Lars Weiss (ex-Judge), the band are set to enter the studio in late April with legendary producer Ross Robinson to record their debut EP. Robinson, of course, produced Glassjaw's Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence and Worship and Tribute; he also did At The Drive In's Relationship of Command.

The band launched a Kickstarter campaign to help fund their EP. For the top pledge of $3000, a lucky fan gets to intern for Robinson for two days while the band records.

United Nations (Thursday, Converge, Pianos Become the Teeth) have announced a Philadelphia show later this month in addition to their stop in Washington, DC. The band's itinerary follows:

Jan 20 Washington, DC @ DC9
Jan 21 Philadelphia, PA @ The Barbary

United Nations (Thursday, Glassjaw, Converge) have confirmed a show in Washington, DC in January.

Set to take place at DC9 on January 20th, the show will see the band performing some new material, and will feature "two of the latest additions to the UN cabinet who you may or may not recognize from Pianos Become The Teeth."

Old Lines and Black Clouds are also on the bill.