New York, NY - After ten years, over a million records sold, and an infinite string of acclaimed tours, Chicago's genre breaking Alkaline Trio have joined the Epic Records family and plan to release an album of new material. Alkaline Trio will launch a run of Warped Tour dates on July 28 starting in their hometown of Chicago, reconnecting with fans and reigniting the fires they started with Crimson, their last full-length album (released on Vagrant, May 2005).

Emerging from Chicago's working class suburbs in 1996, Alkaline Trio is Matt Skiba (guitar/vocals), Derek Grant (drums), and Dan Andriano (bass/vocals).

This signing marks the first major label for Alkaline Trio, something the band sees as a natural progression. So says lead singer and guitarist, Matt Skiba, "We are thrilled to be a part of the Epic family and to join a great musical lineage that has hugely influenced our lives over the years. Andy Gershon is someone we've grown to trust and admire, and who is truly an Alkaline Trio fan. We look forward to a long and prosperous relationship with Epic."

At the completion of their Warped Tour run, the band will head in to the studio to complete their eighth full-length release.

Their Warped Tour dates are as follows:
7/28 Chicago, IL First Midwest Bank Amphitheater
7/29 Minneapolis, MN Metrodome Parking Lot
7/31 Milwaukee, WI Marcus Amphitheater
8/01 Cincinnati, OH Riverbend Music Center
8/02 Cleveland, OH Tower City Amphitheater
8/03 Philadelphia, PA Tweeter Center at the Waterfront
8/04 New York, NY Nassau Coliseum
8/05 Englishtown, NJ Raceway Park
8/07 Indianapolis, IN Verizon Wireless Music Center