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VALENCIA PREPARE FOR WARPED TOUR WITH WEEK OF HEADLINING DATES New album We All Need A Reason To Believe to be released August 26 on Columbia Records

VALENCIA PREPARE FOR WARPED TOUR WITH WEEK OF HEADLINING DATES New album We All Need A Reason To Believe to be released August 26 on Columbia Records

Philadelphia, PA – Valencia return to the road with a week of headlining warm-up dates before embarking on this summer’s annual Vans Warped Tour, which kicks off June 20 in Southern California.

The band – frontman Shane Henderson, guitarists JD Perry and Brendan Walter, bassist George Ciukurescu and drummer Max Soria – return to the road with a renewed vigor, refreshing optimism, and their sophomore release and major label debut for Columbia Records, We All Need A Reason To Believe, which is set to street August 26.

Produced by Ariel Rechtshaid [Plain White T’s, We Are Scientists, Say Anything], the new album charts the band’s musical path from adolescence to adulthood with spirited pop-punk hooks and heartfelt and inspired lyrics. It’s the type of upbeat and optimistic album Valencia needed to make, and America needs to hear. “So much of the music out there now is negative, it’s all about someone complaining about their life,” says Henderson. “That’s why we wrote this record. We wanted to write about how you should be happy and you shouldn’t let what happens in your life upset you.”

Valencia’s initial summer tour dates are listed below, and will also be available online at the bands MySpace page, www.myspace.com/valencia:

The following dates are Valencia headlining shows:

June

12 Pittsburgh, PA Stratus Nite Club

13 Lansing, MI Mac’s Bar

14 DeKalb, IL House Cafe

15 Des Moines, IA House of Bricks

17 Colorado Springs, CO Black Sheep

The following dates feature Valencia on the 2008 Vans Warped Tour:

June 20 Pomona, CA Pomona Fairgrounds

21 San Francisco, CA Pier 30/31

22 Ventura, CA Seaside Park

25 Phoenix, AZ Cricket Wireless Pavilion

26 Las Cruces, NM N.M.S.U. Practice Field

28 Salt Lake City, UT Utah State Fairgrounds

29 Denver, CO Invesco Field

July 1 Maryland Heights, MO Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre

2 Bonner Springs, KS Sandstone Amphitheater

3 Dallas, TX Superpages.com Center

5 Selma, TX Verizon Wireless Amphitheater

6 Houston, TX Sam Houston Race Park

9 Atlanta, GA Lakewood Amphitheater

10 Orlando, FL Central Florida Fairgrounds

We All Need A Reason To Believe Track Listing:

1. Better Be Prepared
2. Holiday
3. Where Did You Go?
4. Head In Hands
5. Carry On
6. All At Once
7. Safe To Say
8. Listen Up
9. I Can’t See Myself
10. The Good Life
11. Free