The Rocket Summer's album out today

With the February 23rd release of The Rocket Summer’s second major label album on Island Records, OF MEN AND ANGELS, already got off to a brilliant start with an exclusive premiere on MySpace that can still be heard at
www.myspace.com/therocketsummer.

Video for track “Hills and Valleys” will premier today on
www.Ustream.com
at 4pm EST with a live chat with Bryce, as lead single “Walls” impacts Hot AC.

TRS is already confirmed for the 16th annual Vans Warped Tour 2010 this summer, opening in California the last weekend of June, running through August 15th.

Before the roadwork begins for The Rocket Summer however, fans are awaiting the announcement of the winning band in a contest held this month. The winning band will open for TRS at their hometown album release party for OF MEN AND ANGELS next Friday night, February 26th, at the Granada Theatre in Dallas. The day before (February 25th) the Rocket Summer will perform on local FOX-TV morning show, Good Day Dallas. Then March 4th , TRS will perform on FOX’s Good Day Austin.

On March 20th, the closing Saturday of this year’s 10-day SXSW (South By Southwest) Music + Film + Interactive Conference in Austin – the Rocket Summer will play an acoustic set as part of the AP (Alternative Press) all-day “100 Bands (You Need To Know)” concert. TRS will join 18 other bands (“in no particular order,” AP advises) who will play on three stages at Emo’s beginning at noon. The AP website
http://www.alternativepress.com/news/8509.htm
is also streaming OF MEN AND ANGELS.

OF MEN AND ANGELS follows-up Do You Feel, The Rocket Summer’s Island debut, released July 2007. After the release of “So Much Love,” as an advance track, the album’s title tune single “Do You Feel” broke through at Alternative and Modern Rock radio in the summer of 2008. Meanwhile TRS headlined the sold-out AP tour and graced the cover of AP’s magazine. TRS then played a successful six-week North American tour with Phantom Planet, Secret Handshake, and the Morning Light, plus two sold out headline tours in the UK. .

For further information go to www.TheRocketSummer.com.