In December 2009, it was announced that Manuel Carrero and Durijah Lang left Saves the Day in order to focus entirely on Glassjaw. This made it clear that both Carrero and Lang are not just hired touring musicians and are full-time members.
In the fall of 2009, Glassjaw supported Brand New on their headline tour. Around the same time, Glassjaw parted ways with Warner Bros. Records due to large corporate shakeups in the company, as well as Palumbo’s creative differences with the label regarding Head Automatica’s still-unreleased third album, Swan Damage .…
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The album was reissued on vinyl in 2009, limited to 10,000 copies.
The album was not produced by Ross Robinson, as with previous releases; instead, Beck co-produced the album with his friend Jonathan Florencio , the latter of whom also engineered the album. By June 2008, drums, bass, and guitar parts of thirteen songs had been tracked, but vocal tracking was incomplete…
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In 2008, Glassjaw returned to the UK, playing at the two-day festival Give It A Name in Sheffield on May 10, and in London on May 11. They also did shows in Cardiff , Wales , and Dublin , Ireland .
In November 2007, Beck revealed the band had written “about eleven good songs — seven [that] I love, and four to six half-baked ideas we need to finish.” In an interview with Kerrang! , Palumbo stated that the new album would hopefully be released somewhere between late 2008 and early…
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Glassjaw’s official site homepage showed “7.7.7.” in large bold text, referring to a one-off show at the Carling Academy Brixton in England. It was then announced on a fan site that they would be playing a warm-up show at the Camden Barfly on June 7th. These shows were the first…
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In an interview with Palumbo in the July 2006 issue of Alternative Press , he stated that Glassjaw were in the process of writing and recording new material for the next album, which they hoped to release in 2007, hinting it could be a concept album.
In October 2005 the band released a B-side EP of songs not used on Worship and Tribute , titled El Mark . Their official website became active once again in November 2006. The band would go on to tour in December of that year as a supporting act for Deftones…
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After a two-year hiatus, the band played three shows in 2005; two at The Downtown in Farmingdale, New York , with proceeds going to charity, and a spot on The Used ‘s tour at the Hammerstein Ballroom . They were initially meant to be main tour support for The Used,…
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