after being debuted at House of Blues in Chicago on September 16.
On September 14, 2017, Against the Current collaborated with Riot Games to create the single ” Legends Never Die ” for the 2017 League of Legends World Championship , published on Riot Games’ YouTube channel.
” The Last of the Real Ones “, released on September 14, 2017, in North America and worldwide the following day, was the third single from Mania to be released
On September 13, 2017, Kevin Devine announced via Facebook that he would be taking time off of his own project, Kevin Devine and the Goddamn Band, to join Brand New on their Science Fiction tour as an additional guitarist and vocalist.
In mid-September 2017, the band played a living room concert at the home of Los Angeles–based comic Chet Wild following a nearly year-long Twitter campaign (#FastballAtChets). The concert raised $12,500 via Indiegogo to assist with Hurricane Harvey relief efforts. Several attendees at the concert took part in the filming of…
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The tour for the album, simply titled “Freedom Child Tour”, took place between September 2017 and June 2018.
On 1 September 2017, the band headlined the annual Pilton Party Held at Pilton Worthy Farm, home of Glastonbury Festival .
Prior to the album’s release, two promotional singles were released to further promote the album. On 25 August 2017, “Written in the Scars” was released as the first promotional single from the album. A few days later, on 30 August 2017, ” Love Not Lovers ” was released as the…
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On August 25, 2017, the band released We Don’t Need to Whisper – Acoustic EP , which contained acoustic renditions of the first four songs from their first album. DeLonge stated that he “wanted to give the fans something while the band works on the soundtrack to the upcoming Strange…
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Two days later on August 17, many people who had pre-ordered the vinyl edition of the album received a CD (limited to 500) in the post that contained an album in its entirety, named Science Fiction , compressed into one 61-minute long track.