Japan Tickets and Rockline Appearance Reminders

A few reminders: Tickets for Osaka Club Quattro and Tokyo Club Quattro go on sale Sunday, December 6. (AFI posted on the official website that tickets go on sale Saturday Dec 6. However, December 6 is on a Sunday.)

AFI will also be on nationally syndicated radio show Rockline Monday, December 7 at 8:30 p.m. PST and 11:30 EST. You can call in at 1-800-344-ROCK.

EXCLUSIVE: Beautiful Thieves officially next single

In an interview conducted by AFI News Headquarters with AFI members, Adam Carson confirmed that Beautiful Thieves will be the next single. This is what he said:

AFINHQ: Beautiful Thieves is rumored to be the next single. Is this true, and do you expect you'll film a video for the song?

AC: It's true. Beautiful Thieves will be the next single and we plan to shoot a video in the next few weeks. We haven't chosen a director yet and we're still in the process of brainstorming ideas and soliciting treatments. It's a very cinematic song so I expect we have our work cut out to make the video look as grand as the song is.

The rest of the interview will be posted once we have all of the replies to our questions. That should be this weekend or early next week. You can share your vision for the Beautiful Thieves video in last weekend's Weekend Discussion here.

UPDATE: KROQ has just played Beautiful Thieves. Go HERE to keep requesting!

Sing With AFI In Salt Lake City Contest

The local radio station in Salt Lake City, X96, is having a contest in which you can sing the chorus to Medicate on stage with the band at their show on December 8th. You must record a video of yourself singing the song and upload it to YouTube. From the X96 Facebook page:

"Would you like to sing on stage with AFI? Well Check this out... 1 grand prize winner will get to sing the chorus of Medicate on stage with AFI and wins new Ipod nano so their friend can film it. All you need to do is to record a 30 second clip of you singing medicate and send us the Youtube link. Log on to X96.com for all details and to submit your video! Get us those entries ASAP!"

'In Transmission' Buzznet Web Series

Mark (known as PanasonicYouth on the OMB) has posted a teaser video for an AFI web series feature on Buzznet.com, in which he interviewed the band. Here is an excerpt from the In Transmission interview with Jade, recently posted to Buzznet. The first episode will premiere on December 10th at 4:00 pm PST.

"All of the videos, once completed, will provide commentary from all four members of AFI on every song on Crash Love."

Update: you can now download the videos. Right click the links below and select "Save Media As" to download.

Teaser video: click to download

Jade video: click to download

MySpace Holiday Collection Includes AFI Shirt

The new MySpace Music Holiday Collection includes a new Crash Love t-shirt for $15.00. The first 150 people to order will receive a free Crash Love lithograph. The first 600 people to order will receive a free mp3 player case.

Exclusive: New Zu Boutique Update

I spoke to Danny (Davey's Zu Boutique business partner) today and he gave us some insider information on the upcoming Zu Boutique designs. He told us:

• We can expect new designs by the middle of next week.
• It will be another ultra-exclusive, hand numbers/hand signed edition. It will be a memorial tee for some one very near and dear to Danny amd Davey's hearts.
• There will be a set of tees of similar design concept following quickly after the memorial shirt.
• They are planning on doing something a little different early in the new year with a special version of a "sample sale" which will feature not only a new design, but some old designs as well.
• The Macbeth Spring 2010 lines should be dropping very soon, and with that will be the release of the Zu Boutique shoes.

Custom Love Contest Winner: Kaci

It's time to announce the winner of the AFI News HQ "Custom Love" contest. We were beyond amazed by the creativity of your submissions. We received 32 in all (CLICK HERE for a complete gallery of all of the entries), and there were all sorts of different color schemes and concepts. The mediums were varied as well, everything from hand-drawn sketches to elaborate inkwashings to immaculate digital art. But in the end, only one could win...

Congratulations to Kaci Richandfamous! She will now receive a copy of Crash Love signed by the entire band. Here is Kaci's amazing, HAND-DRAWN submission:

GRAND PRIZE WINNER: KACI


1ST HONORABLE MENTION: LEIGH

2ND HONORABLE MENTION: DREW

3RD HONORABLE MENTION: FLATLINE SURGERY

St. Louis, MO Photos

Todd Owyoung from iShootshows.com posted some photos of the performance at the St.Louis Pageant along with some of the his notes:

Spastic lighting and huge changes in the dynamic range of the exposures from one minute to the next were the principle obstacles. On top of this, there was a ton of movement by AFI on stage, especially front frontman Davey Havok.

View complete notes and photos Here