NATIVE TONGUE TOUR KICKS OFF FEBRUARY 14
WITH STOPS IN TORONTO AND VANCOUVER

Toronto, ON – January 18, 2019 – GRAMMY® Award-winning rock band, Switchfoot, releases their 11^th full-length album, Native Tongue, today via Fantasy Records. Throughout 2019, Switchfoot will take the project's message of love and hope to their multitude of fans on the North American leg of their Native Tongue Tour, which kicks off February 14^th in Asheville, N.C., with stops in Toronto and Vancouver (see full list of dates below). Get Native Tongue here, and watch the album trailer here.

“These are polarizing times, where the loudest voice is often the voice of anger or fear. This album is an attempt to sing that hope into life. To bring a group of diverse songs under one common banner.   Hatred is not your native language.  Love is your Native Tongue,” says Jon Foreman.

Switchfoot celebrated release week with Billboard and TMZ Live sessions, and an intimate album release party at the Microsoft Lounge in Culver City, California. The band also taped an episode of The Good Life Podcast with Stevie & Sazan ,as well as a performance for the nationally-televised daytime talk show, Home & Family that airs today at 10a/9c on The Hallmark Channel (repeats January 21 at 12m/11 CT).

Reviews are rolling in for the 14-song project, recorded primarily at Melody League Studios in the band's hometown of San Diego, with critics raving:

 “For album No. 11, SWITCHFOOT has moved away from their native tongue of California-styled hard rock to explore more musical languages, in terms of sounds and sub-genres.”
- Timothy Yap, Hallels

"From the jamboree in “Dig New Streams” to the angsty “Take My Fire,” Native Tongue is music for the thinkers. With complex layers that almost sound like film scores and the diversity of sound throughout, this record takes it back to how it all began for the band."- Tara Shea, Cryptic Rock

“It’s remarkable just how universal and well understood Native Tongue is. Two decades plus and boasting 11 studio albums, the long and short of it is SWITCHFOOT are criminally underrated.”
- Anna Rose, Hysteria Mag

“Native Tongue (Fantasy Records) features Switchfoot trying on a few rarely utilized musical flavors."
- Dan MacIntosh, California Rocker

“This album feels like a triumph in the face of the adversity that life often presents, a treat to the ears that is delivered sweetly but with the just amount to avoid it becoming sickly.”
- Brad Biddlecombe, Alt Corner

In a Paste Magazine exclusive, the multi-platinum selling rock band put an end to their brief 2017 hiatus with the announcement of Native Tongue and the Native Tongue Tour, with supporting acts Colony House and Tyson Motsenbocker. The announcement also revealed the release of the album's title track, which "delivers strong, raspy vocals; pulsing drums; and a bass-bending beat that sounds contemporary and classic all at once" (PluggedIn/Kristin Smith) and accompanying music video. 

Throughout the months leading up to the album's highly-anticipated street date, Switchfoot released additional instant grat tracks and YouTube Premieres for Voices and All I Need. The music video for the final instant grat track, Let It Happen, which “celebrates the brotherhood of the GRAMMY® award-winning rock band with footage from their 20-plus year career,” premiered in a Billboard feature with Jon Foreman. 

NATIVE TONGUE TOUR DATES:
February 14 The Orange Peel - Asheville, North Carolina
February 15 The Mill & Mine - Knoxville, Tennessee
February 16 Tabernacle - Atlanta, Georgia
February 17 Ryman Auditorium - Nashville, Tennessee
February 19 The Fillmore Silver Spring - Silver Spring, Maryland
February 20 The Fillmore - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
February 22 Wellmont Theater - Montclair, New Jersey
February 23 The Paramount - Huntington, New Jersey
February 24 House of Blues - Boston, Massachusetts
February 27 Carnegie Music Hall - Munhall, Pennsylvania
February 28 Danforth Music Hall - Toronto, Ontario
March 1 House of Blues - Cleveland, Ohio
March 2 20 Monroe Live - Grand Rapids, Michigan
March 3 The Fillmore Detroit - Detroit, Michigan
March 5 The Pageant - Saint Louis, Missouri
March 6 Egyptian Room at Old National Centre - Indianapolis, Indiana
March 8 Park West - Chicago, Illinois
March 9 Park West - Chicago, Illinois
March 10 The Sylvee - Madison, Wisconsin
March 13 New Daisy Theatre - Memphis, Tennessee
March 14 Club Brady - Tulsa, Oklahoma
March 15 House of Blues - Dallas, Texas
March 16 House of Blues - Houston, Texas
March 18 Stubb's Waller Creek Amphitheater - Austin, Texas
March 19 Aztec Theatre - San Antonio, Texas
March 21 Iron City - Birmingham, Alabama
March 22 The RITZ Ybor - Tampa, Florida
March 23 House of Blues - Orlando, Florida
March 24 Revolution - Fort Lauderdale, Florida
March 27 State Theatre - Minneapolis, Minnesota
March 28 Sokol Auditorium - Omaha, Nebraska
March 29 Uptown Theater - Kansas City, Missouri
March 30 Fillmore Auditorium - Denver, Colorado
March 31 The Depot - Salt Lake City, Utah
April 3 Rialto Theatre - Tucson, Arizona
April 4 The Van Buren - Phoenix, Arizona
April 5 The Wiltern - Los Angeles, California
April 6 Arlington Theatre - Santa Barbara, California
April 7 Warfield Theater - San Francisco, California
April 9 McDonald Theatre - Eugene, Oregon
April 10 Crystal Ballroom - Portland, Oregon
April 11 Neptune Theatre - Seattle, Washington
April 12 Neptune Theatre - Seattle, Washington
April 13 Queen Elizabeth Theatre - Vancouver, British Columbia

ABOUT SWITCHFOOT:
Switchfoot has been unearthing all manner of musical gems since their 1997 debut The Legend of Chin, steadily expanding their global fan base and critical reputation through such releases as New Way to Be Human (1999), Learning to Breathe (2000), the multi-platinum breakthrough The Beautiful Letdown (2003), Nothing Is Sound (2005), Oh! Gravity (2006), the Grammy award-winning Hello Hurricane (2009), Vice Verses (2011), Fading West (2014) and Where The Light Shines Through (2016).  Fading West doubled as the soundtrack to the band's documentary of the same name. Along the way, Switchfoot established itself as a world-class live act with a series of sold-out world tours, while racking up a string of radio hits, including Meant to Live, Dare You to Move, Stars and Mess of Me. Beyond their career achievements, Switchfoot has been active in a variety of philanthropic efforts, raising over two million dollars to aid kids in their community through the band’s own Bro-Am foundation and their annual Bro-Am Beach Fest, a benefit surf contest and concert that’s held every summer in Encinitas, California They've also maintained a deep commitment to a variety of humanitarian causes, lending their support to such worthy organizations as DATA, the ONE Campaign, Habitat for Humanity, Invisible Children, Food for the Hungry, CURE and To Write Love on Her Arms. Switchfoot’s new album Native Tongue will be released January 18, 2019 on Fantasy Records.  

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