Iration Announce U.S Tour in Support of 'Automatic'

To celebrate the release of their new full-length album Automatic, reggae, pop, rock heavyweights Iration will be bringing their music to the masses this summer. Kicking things off with select dates supporting Sublime With Rome, a show with reggae legends Steel Pulse at the OC Fair in Orange County, CA and a massive headlining show at the Del Mar Racetrack's annual Summer Concert Series in San Diego, Iration will then head out on their own "Automatic Tour" crisscrossing the country. Tickets are on sale tomorrow, Friday, June 14 with VIP bundle options available as well. For more information or to purchase tickets, visithttp://irationmusic.com.

The "Automatic Tour"-also featuring special guests Through the Roots, Fortunate Youth and Micah Brown-will officially kick off August 5 in Portland before making its way east, stopping in Salt Lake City, Omaha, St. Louis, Detroit, Chicago and Boston. The 30-date tour will then hit New York City Thursday, August 22 for a show at Highline Ballroom before heading to Philadelphia, Washington, DC, Myrtle Beach, Jacksonville, Fort Lauderdale, Orlando and Atlanta. As they travel back west, IRATION will make numerous stops throughout Texas in Houston, Corpus Christi, Austin and Dallas and visit Tulsa, Albuquerque, Tempe, Sacramento and San Francisco before wrapping in Los Angeles Saturday, September 21 at The Wiltern. See below for full list of dates and venues.

The Hawaiian-bred, Santa Barbara, CA-based band will release their third album Automatic on Tuesday, July 2 via their own 3 Prong Records with distribution through MRI/RED. The album pre-sale is currently available via iTunes. With Automatic, Iration--Micah Pueschel (Guitar/Vocals), Joe Dickens (Drums), Adam Taylor (Bass) and Cayson Peterson (Keyboards)--is further pushing their musical boundaries while staying true to the sound they helped bring to the mainstream. The band collaborated with Cage The Elephant guitarist Lincoln Parish who is featured on several tracks and helped co-produce select songs on the album along with long term studio partner JP Hesser of Castaway 7 Studios in Ventura, CA. A video for title track "Automatic," featuring personal footage shot by the band while on the road, can be seen here:http://youtu.be/dQsQtuEM7Oo.

The full track listing for AUTOMATIC is:

1. Automatic
2. Show Me (featuring Lincoln Parish)
3. One Way Track
4. Back Around
5. Go That Road
6. Burn
7. This Old Song
8. Home (featuring Lincoln Parish)
9. Mr. Operator
10. Runaway
11. Uptown
12. Splintered Heart
13. High Flying
14. Milk and Honey (featuring Lincoln Parish)
15. Undertow
16. No Time

IRATION's last full-length album Time Bomb was released in March 2010 and quickly hit #1 on the iTunes Reggae Albums chart, #40 on iTunes' overall music chart, #2 on Billboard's Reggae Albums chart and #30 on Billboard's Heatseekers Albums chart. "Falling," the massive hit single from Time Bomb and first released on their 2008 EP titled Sample This, has gone on to sell over 83,000 copies, received over 4.8 million Myspace plays and over 3.4 million combined YouTube plays, not to mention the countless cover videos posted. The band's last release, 2011's Fresh Grounds EP, also debuted impressively on multiple charts, coming in at #1 on the Billboard Heatseekers Albums chart and breaking into the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart.

Catch IRATION on the road in the following cities:

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