Thrice and Manchester Orchestra will be heading out on a co-headlining run in April with O’Brother as support. Dates for the trek can be found below:

April 14th Atlanta, GA – Variety Playhouse
April 15th Atlanta, GA – Variety Playhouse
April 16th New Orleans, LA – The Howlin Wolf
April 17th Oxford, MS – The Lyric Oxford
April 18th Birmingham, AL – WorkPlay Theatre
April 20th Cleveland, OH – House of Blues
April 21st Cincinnati, OH – Bogart’s
April 22nd Columbus, OH – Newport Music Hall
April 23rd St. Louis, MO – The Pageant
April 24th Milwaukee, WI – The Rave
April 25th Des Moines, IA – People’s Court
April 27th Vermillion, SD – Eagle’s Club Room
April 29th Billings, MT – The Railyard
May 01st Eugene, OR – McDonald Theater
May 03rd Reno, NV – Knitting Factory
May 04th Santa Cruz, CA – The Catalyst
May 07th Las Vegas, NV – House of Blues
May 09th Albuquerque, NM – Sunshine Theatre

Thrice guitarist/keyboardist Teppei Teranishi will be missing the bands impending UK tour. He will be temporarily replaced by Nate Patterson of The Dear Hunter on the trek. Teranishi offered the following statement about his recent absence from the band in a live capacity:

“Hey people,
I regretfully won’t be able to make it to the UK with the rest of the band for this upcoming run. As most of you who keep up with us know, I had to fly home for a few days during our last headline run due to a “family emergency”. I guess I never actually explained what was going on…my mom was diagnosed with stage IV cancer in September and her condition took a turn for the worse during the tail end of that tour.

Since then, her condition continued to decline and she had been living in our house with my wife and two kids, receiving hospice care for the last month or so. She finally passed away several days ago which is why I won’t be able to leave for the tour. There’s a whole lot of things involved in wrapping up a person’s life, not to mention I really need to be here for my family, especially my kids, who lost their beloved “baba”.

It has been an absolutely insane couple months for my family and I, but I’m glad that we were able to be there 100% for my mother and that she was able to leave this world surrounded by security and love. She was the single most important person of my life and played an integral role in my kids’ lives as well. It’s incredibly unfortunate that our time with her in this life has been cut short, but I know that she is in a much better place now and I take great comfort in that.

Thank you all very much for showing your love and support when I had to step out of the tour a couple months ago. I showed my mom all the prayers and well wishes left on the comments and it actually made her well up. I’ll be back with the guys after this tour. Oh, and our good friend Nate from The Dear Hunter will be stepping in (again) for me, this time for the whole set. A HUGE thanks to him for stepping up to the plate again. What a guy! Thanks again everyone, and I’ll see you all again soon.

I love you mom.
Teppei“

A video for Thrice vocalist/guitarist Dustin Kensrue’s solo track “This Is War” has been posted online and can be seen below.

Thrice’s new video for their track “In Exile” has premiered online and can be seen below. The video was shot with director Josh Stern (Autopilot Off).

Thrice guitarist/keyboardist Teppei Teranishi has been forced to temporarily step down from the band to attend to a family emergency. The band offered the following statement on the matter:

“Teppei had to leave the tour last night due to a family emergency, and will not be playing with us for the next few shows (and possibly the rest of the tour.) We fully understand and support his decision to do so, and hope that you’ll be understanding as well.

He started this tour knowing that this would be a possibility, and toughed it out for as long as he possibly could. Please send as many positive thoughts as you can muster in his, and his family’s direction.

The good news is that we have a few friends out here on tour who have stepped up, learned a few songs a piece, and will be joining us on stage to enable us to get through a full set, and help us get through this difficult time. The tour will continue as planned. It’ll just be a little different.

Thanks for your understanding and support during this time. We appreciate it.”

Thrice frontman Dustin Kensrue will be teaming up with the frontmen of The Get Up Kids, Saves The Day and Bayside for the “Where’s The Band? Tour” early next year. The trek, which will hit the west coast in early January, will see solo acoustic performances from each individual frontman. Dates run as follows:

January 07th West Hollywood, CA – The Troubadour
January 08th San Diego, CA – House Of Blues
January 09th Anaheim, CA – House Of Blues
January 10th San Francisco, CA – Bottom Of The Hill

An mp3 of Thrice’s cover of the Beatles‘ “Helter Skelter” has been made available online here. The song is one of the five downloadable bonus tracks available as a free download with purchase of the groups newly released effort, “Beggars“.