This week The New Frontiers will celebrate their recent signing with High Road Touring (Wilco, Drive By Truckers, Yo La Tengo, Old 97s), by hitting the road on a coast-to-coast national tour in support of ‘Mending’, their debut record released earlier this year via The Millitia Group.

While the Dallas based quintet has already spent all of 2007 touring alongside some of the country’s hottest buzz bands (Manchester Orchestra, Colour Revolt, and Annuals), and earlier this year with label mate Denison Witmer, this time around the tour will allow them to explore a bigger-louder live sound playing larger venues with The Honorary Title and Paper Rival. Check out the full tour dates below.

Earlier this year, the group won critical praise on their debut album from tastemakers such as Under The Radar, Paste, Absolute Punk, All Music, Yahoo! Music, and they recently made Amazon’s “MP3 Downloads Bestsellers”, debuting at #4, where they shared the list with Radiohead, Led Zeppelin, The Magnetic Fields, and the Juno movie soundtrack.

Download their cover of Gillian Welch’s “Look At Miss Ohio” MP3

Download “Man Down” MP3

The New Frontiers visited Indie Rock Reviews’s Bionic Ear studios while passing through Southern California on their spring tour earlier this year. As part of their manifesto, Bionic Ear sessions are a great setting for bands to rework a song off of their latest record, strip it down, and show its raw state on analog tape.

For a taste of what’s to come in the next two months, watch the video IRR recorded of The New Frontiers’s alternate version of “Man Down” (video):

July/August 2008 tour dates:

Dates and information could change! Go to The New Frontiers Official Website for the latest tour dates and information.

07/25 Chicago, IL @ Reggie’s Live 8 PM
07/26 St. Louis, MO @ 2 Cents Plain 8 PM
07/27 Lawrence, KS @ The Bottleneck 8 PM
07/28 Denver, CO @ Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom 8 PM
07/29 Provo, UT @ Velour 8 PM
07/31 Portland, OR @ Satyricon 8 PM
08/01 Reno, NV @ The Underground 8 PM
08/02 San Francisco, CA @ 12 Galaxies 8 PM
08/03 West Hollywood, CA @ The Troubadour 8 PM
08/04 Phoenix, AZ @ The Brickhouse 8 PM
08/05 Tucson, AZ @ Club Congress 8 PM
08/06 Albuquerque, NM @ Launchpad 8 PM
08/08 Lubbock, TX @ Bash Riprocks 2 8 PM
08/09 Austin, TX @ Emo’s 8 PM
08/10 Dallas, TX @ Granada Theatre 8 PM
08/11 New Orleans, LA @ The Parish @ House Of Blues 8 PM
08/12 Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade - Hell Stage 8 PM
08/13 Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle 8 PM
08/14 Baltimore, MD @ The Ottobar 8 PM
08/16 New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom 8 PM
08/17 Philadelphia, PA @ North Star Bar 8 PM
08/18 Providence, RI @ The Living Room 8 PM
08/19 Cambridge, MA @ The Middle East 8 PM

“The debut album by this Texas quintet is a calm pleasure. There is nothing extravagant in the simple piano- and guitar-led songs herein, just understated but satisfying melodies wrapped up in a mature songcraft. Never resorting to melodrama or grandiosity, The New Frontiers have instead created an album that engages without gimmick or shtick. Just good songs.” - Under The Radar

“The record is well-paced and beautiful, all with an attention to detail and maturity that is staggering for a debut effort - a warm companion piece to chilly January nights… With its gorgeous vocals, thoughtful lyrics, and skillful musicianship, Mending is the most exciting thing The Militia Group has put out since Copeland’s Beneath Medicine Tree. (9.4 out of 10 stars)” - Absolute Punk

“The band’s Mending is an affair that takes quiet truths and findings seriously and with every ounce of wonderment they can muster.” - Daytrotter

For more music and information, go to:

MySpace
The New Frontiers Official Website