Metro Station Ready to Launch ‘Disco Balls & Blow Up Dolls,’ the Group’s First Ever North American Headline Tour Beginning in October

   'Shake It,' Breaking Band's First Top 5 Pop Radio Single Achieves RIAA

     Platinum Status While Reaching Nationwide Audience of 38.5 Million

                                 Listeners



    NEW YORK, Aug. 19 /EMWNews/ -- The rapidly rising young

Hollywood-based electro-pop/rock quartet Metro Station will headline a

major North American tour -- dubbed Disco Balls & Blow Up Dolls -- this

fall beginning October 15 in Nashville, Tennessee and finishing November 29

in Anaheim, California (please see full itinerary following).



    Metro Station's Disco Balls & Blow Up Dolls tour will showcase sets

from stellar support acts including the alternative hip-hop duo Shwayze,

pop rapper Tyga, and emergent New Jersey popsters Cash Cash.



    Currently winding up a series of shows as one of the featured

attractions on the Soundtrack Of Your Summer Tour 2008 with Columbia

Records labelmates Boys Like Girls and Good Charlotte, Metro Station will

preface its North American headline tour with a string of Canadian dates

running through September 13 as support act for Simple Plan.



    Among the band's upcoming television appearances, Metro Station has

been confirmed to appear on ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" on September 4.

Metro Station made its national television debut on Wednesday, August 13,

performing the group's current Top 10 single, "Shake It," on "Good Morning

America."



    "Shake It," the latest single from the band's debut album "Metro

Station", has been awarded RIAA Gold and Platinum certifications while

becoming the first Metro Station record to break into the Top 10 of the

U.S. Hot 100 chart. The first Metro Station single to reach Top 5 -- it

peaked at #4 -- on America's Top 40 Pop Radio (BDS) charts, "Shake It"

remains in the Top 10 -- it's currently #7 -- of the Billboard Pop 100

Airplay chart after 20 weeks on that chart.



    "Shake It," which has sold more than 1.2 million copies in the U.S.

to-date, rocketed into Billboard's Pop 100 (#7), Pop 100 Airplay (#5), Hot

Digital Songs (#3), and Top 40 Mainstream (#11) charts.



    The "Shake It" video, which has been viewed more than 9 million times

on YouTube, is in rotation at The N, FUSE and MTV's TRL, where it has

achieved Top 10 status.



    "Shake It," which may be heard in TV spots for the "What Happens In

Vegas ... " campaign, was chosen as the official theme song for the 2008

Teen Choice Awards, which aired on August 4 on FOX.



    "Seventeen Forever," the upcoming new single from Metro Station, is a

featured track on the soundtrack for the new film "The Sisterhood Of The

Traveling Pants 2," which opened nationwide on August 6.



    In addition to the band's more than 15.2 million plays and nearly 17

million profile views on its MySpace page, Metro Station may be heard on

more than 100 American Pop radio stations coast-to-coast.



    Metro Station is currently enjoying the success of the band's

self-titled debut album, which has achieved Top 40 status on the Billboard

200 best-selling albums chart while reaching #1 on the Billboard Top

Electronic Albums chart and #2 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart for

emerging new bands.



    Since the band's inception in late 2006, the nation's music press has

been incredibly responsive to the fresh young sound and attitude of Metro

Station. Rolling Stone picked Metro Station for a "Breaking Artist" feature

in the magazine's August 7, 2008 while USA Today (July 13, 2008) made Metro

Station the subject of a major "On The Verge" feature. Early press

champions of Metro Station included Alternative Press (July 2007), Teen

Vogue ("Best New Unsigned Artist" in April 2007), and URB magazine, among

many others.



    Metro Station is Trace Cyrus (vocals, guitar), Mason Musso (vocals,

guitar), Blake Healy (keyboards, synthesizer), and Anthony Improgo

(percussion).






    METRO STATION -- Tour Itinerary



    Soundtrack Of Your Summer Tour

    8/19   Baltimore, MD          Six Flags (MtvU VMA Tour)

    8/20   Philadelphia, PA       Pier @ Penn's Landing

    8/21   Jackson, NJ            Northern Star Arena

    8/22   Providence, RI         Lupo's



    Metro Station -- "Disco Balls & Blow Up Dolls" North American Fall

    Headline Tour

    10/15  Nashville, TN          Rocketown

    10/16  Cincinnati, OH         (Radio Show - WKRQ)

    10/17  Sauget, IL             Pops

    10/18  Las Vegas, NV          KMXB - Bite of Vegas (Metro Station w/

                                  support TBD)

    10/19  Milwaukee, WI          Eagles Club

    10/20  Minneapolis, MN        Epic

    10/22  Cleveland, OH          House Of Blues

    10/24  Chicago, IL            House Of Blues

    10/25  Pontiac, MI            Clutch Cargos

    10/28  Foxborough, MA         Showcase Live

    10/29  New York, NY           Nokia Theater

    10/30  Sayreville, NJ         Starland Ballroom

    10/31  Baltimore, MD          Sonar

    11/2   Philadelphia, PA       Electric Factory

    11/4   N Myrtle Beach, SC     House Of Blues

    11/5   Jacksonville, FL       Plush

    11/6   St Petersburg, FL      Jannus Landing

    11/7   Ft Lauderdale, FL      Revolution

    11/8   Lake Buena Vista, FL   House Of Blues

    11/9   Atlanta, GA            Masquerade

    11/11  Houston, TX            House Of Blues

    11/12  Dallas, TX             House Of Blues

    11/13  Austin, TX             La Zona Rosa

    11/14  Tulsa, OK              Cains Ballroom

    11/15  Omaha, NE              Sokol Underground

    11/16  Englewood, CO          Gothic Theater

    11/18  Salt Lake City, UT     In The Venue

    11/20  Seattle, WA            Showbox

    11/21  Portland, OR           Roseland

    11/22  San Francisco, CA      The Warfield

    11/23  Chico, CA              Senator Theatre

    11/25  Tucson, AZ             Rialto Theatre

    11/26  San Diego, CA          Soma

    11/28  Los Angeles, CA        Club Nokia L.A. Live

    11/29  Anaheim, CA            The Grove



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