Never Shout Never to Release Exclusive EP Through Clothing Retailer Hot Topic on December 8th Band Currently on Tour before Launching Support Tour with Dashboard Confessional in November

BURBANK, Calif., Oct 29, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Never Shout Never, the brainchild of 18-year-old singer-songwriter and guitarist Christofer Drew, will release a new physical EP exclusively through clothing retailer Hot Topic on December 8th. The EP features two songs from Never Shout Never's upcoming eight-song mini-album for Loveway Records/Sire ("Jane Doe" and "What is Love?"), a live track ("Big City Dreams" from 2008's The Yippee EP), and a b-side ("She's Got Style"), plus two music videos ("On the Brightside" from 2009's The Summer EP and a live video of "Trouble" -- a song from 2009's Me & My Uke EP -- that was shot in Grand Rapids, MI, in July).

Physical copies of the new EP will be available for purchase exclusively at Hot Topic stores nationwide. The digital version will be available for purchase from all digital service providers on December 15th, as well as through www.shockhound.com and www.nevershoutnever.com.

Drew has recently put the finishing touches on his eight-song mini-album, entitled What Is Love? with noted producer Butch Walker (Weezer, Katy Perry, Pete Yorn). Recorded in both Los Angeles and London (at the world-famous Abbey Road Studio). It will be released by Loveway Records/Sire in 2010.

Drew is on the road, with Meg and Dia as main support, performing a series of headlining dates and culling tunes for his set from What Is Love?, as well as from the three EP's he released on his own Loveway Records, including The Summer EP, which broke into the iTunes Top 10 Album chart in June. Carter Hulsey and Now Now Every Children are providing support on the bill. In November, Drew will hit the road with Dashboard Confessional for a nationwide support tour. Please see below for all dates.

Drew was born in San Diego but spent most of his life in Joplin, MO, where he resides when not touring. In 2008, he began writing and recording songs in his basement and self-released The Yippee EP, which has sold more than 30,000 copies and hundreds of thousands of individual tracks. As an unsigned artist, Never Shout Never quickly built a grassroots following via MySpace, where it has been one of the site's top artists for more than a year, averaging more than 100,000 plays a day and racking up more than 77 million total plays.

In October and November 2008, Never Shout Never hit the road with Hellogoodbye, during which time he befriended lead singer Forrest Kline, who produced The Summer EP at his home studio in Long Beach, CA. Never Shout Never then released a second EP, Me & My Uke EP in January 2009 and embarked on a U.S. headlining tour with The Scene Aesthetic, The Honorary Title, and The Bigger Lights with bassist Taylor McFee and drummer Nathan Ellison, followed by the Bamboozle Road Show Tour with We The Kings and Forever The Sickest, among others. Never Shout Never has been on the road all summer including a week on the Vans Warped Tour and on tour with Boys Like Girls and The Ready Set.

Never Shout Never HEADLINING TOUR DATES

10/29 Scranton, PA Eleanor Rigby's 10/30 Lancaster, PA Chameleon 10/31 Columbus, OH Newport Music Hall 11/01 Cleveland, OH Grog Shop 11/04 Milwaukee, WI The Rave 11/05 St. Paul, MN Station 4 11/06 Madison, WI The New Loft

WITH DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL

10/23 Syracuse, NY Le Moyne College 11/07 Poplar Grove, IL Chubby Rain - House of Tunes 11/08 Kansas City, MO Uptown Theatre 11/09 Denver CO Fillmore Auditorium 11/11 Orem, UT McKay Events Center 11/13 San Jose, CA San Jose Civic Auditorium 11/14 Irvine, CA Bren Events Center 11/15 Los Angeles, CA Hollywood Palladium 11/17 San Diego, CA SOMA 11/18 Tempe, AZ The Marquee 11/20 Oklahoma City, OK Bricktown Ballroom 11/21 San Antonio, TX Sunset Station Lonestar Pavilion 11/22 Dallas, TX Palladium Ballroom 11/24 Houston, TX Warehouse Live 11/27 Pompano Beach, FL Pompano Beach Amphitheatre 11/28 Orlando, FL House Of Blues 11/29 Orlando, FL House Of Blues 12/03 Lowell, MA Tsongas Arena 12/04 Camden, NJ Susquehanna Bank Center 12/05 Rostraver, PA Ice Garden 12/07 New York, NY Nokia Theatre 12/08 New York, NY Nokia Theatre 12/09 New York, NY Nokia Theatre 12/11 Chicago, IL Aragon Ballroom 12/12 Detroit, MI The Fillmore Detroit 12/13 Toronto, ONT Kool House 12/14 Toronto, ONT Kool House 12/16 Richmond, VA The National 12/17 Charlotte, NC Fillmore 12/18 Atlanta, GA The Tabernacle www.nevershoutnever.com Documents and/or Photos available for this release: Photo Credit snakebit photography To view supporting documents and/or photos, go to www.enr-corp.com/pressroom and enter Release ID: 229032 SOURCE: Sire Records CONTACT: Sire Records Publicity: Brian Bumbery, 818-953-3203 [e-mail] or TJ Tauriello, 818-953-3311 [e-mail] Copyright Business Wire 2009 -0- KEYWORD: United States

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