SWITCHFOOT Says "Hello Hurricane" This November

     MUSIC NEWS -  San Diego, CA alt rockers, SWITCHFOOT will unlease, Hello Hurricane, the seventh full-length album (out via Atlantic Records) on November 10, it was announced today.   Hello Hurricane is the group's first album on the label and their first studio album since 2006's Oh! Gravity,  and follows their 2008 "Best Of" compilation release.

Switchfoot had been working hard on Hello Hurricane, tracking more than 80 songs at their self-built home studio and selecting the very best tunes for the record. The band recorded the album with producer/bassist Mike Elizondo (Dr. Dre, Rilo Kiley, Eminem, and Pink). The edgy, driving lead single "Mess of Me" goes should start getting some airtime this week on radio.

The back-to-basics approach on the new set has yielded what's said to be a career-defining album that lead singer Jon Foreman views as "a new beginning." Elizondo's unique background facilitated a departure for the band, allowing it to build on SWITCHFOOT's foundation, punctuated by hard-hitting instrumentation and soaring choruses, and elevating the music to a new level.  

"Hello Hurricane acknowledges the storms that tear through our lives," said Foreman recently.  "This album is an attempt to respond to those storms with an element of hope, trying to understand what it means to be hopeful in a world that keeps on spinning."

The band recently kicked off the co-headlining Crazy Making Summer Tour with Blue October and featuring special guests Ours and Longwave.  This week, SWITCHFOOT will open for Dave Matthews Band, on two So Cal shows (September 12th & 13th). See  itinerary below.  

Switchfoot's Hello Hurricane track list:

1.    Needle and Haystack Life
2.    Mess of Me
3.    Your Love is a Song
4.    The Sound (John M Perkins' Blues)
5.    Enough To Let Me Go
6.    Free
7.    Hello Hurricane
8.    Always
9.    Bullet Soul
10.  Yet
11.   Sing It Out
12.   Red Eyes

SWITCHFOOT Itineray (with DAVE MATTHEWS BAND) :
Sept 12    Cricket Wireless Amphitheater        Chula Vista, California
Sept 13    Verizon Wireless Amphitheater     Irvine, California