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IT’S HAPPENING 🔥 Did you miss us? All 4 boys playing Sound of Fire. This is going to be one for the books… Get your tickets while you still can and let’s have some fun!

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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Sean Silverman On This Century’s Legacy

We had the opportunity to interview This Century’s guitarist, Sean Silverman this month. The band recently released their new album, Soul Sucker, and played a handful of farewell shows in California and Arizona. We spoke with Silverman about This Century’s milestones, favorite memories abroad, and the members’ future musical endeavors. Read the interview below and check out photo coverage from This Century’s final San Francisco show here. Many thanks to Sean Silverman and 8123 for their time!

Which song or opportunity (tour, etc.) do you believe jumpstart your career?

Sean Silverman: “To Love and Back” was probably the first song that allowed us to gain the exposure necessary to actually be a touring band.  You always dream of traveling the country and performing music but it's quite another thing to see it fully realized and that song allowed us the opportunity to jumpstart that.  

What has been your experience on an independent label? Has it allowed you more creativity or different opportunities than you would have on a different label?

SS: The experience has been incredibly unique.  It's allowed us the creative freedom to make art in the way that we've always dreamed of.  It's also given us the support and nurturing environment necessary to create great things.  That's really the recipe for keeping a band together as long as we had been.  This still continues to be the case as our journey as part of an artist collective continues.  

You have had so many opportunities to go abroad! Are there any highlights?

SS: Manila always stands out in our minds as an experience that we'll never forget just because we were so shocked to see the response in person after only really comprehending it on the internet.  Our Europe run with The Maine boys was really special too.  Pretty much got to check forty items off of my bucket list after that tour.  

If you had to pick, which song would you like fans to remember you by?

SS: I'm particularly fond of “Sound of Fire” simply because it was the first song we ever wrote for the first record that everyone rallied behind. It felt like this central piece to a puzzle that we had been trying to crack for the longest time and once we knew that we had it, everything started to come together.  

How can dedicated fans support your future efforts? What’s in store for life after This Century? We noticed you has been part of the Technicolors’ live show and Joel mentioned continuing songwriting.

SS: We're all very much continuing to pursue music in a myriad of ways.  Alex and I are continuing to write and produce for other artists, Joel is working on solo stuff and Ryan is continuing his Stop Dead project amongst many other pursuits.  Music is part of our existence and there's no way that all of us could stop creating.   

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To be honest the new This Century's album is so fuCKING AMAZING I'M SO PROUD OF THEM BUT ALSO I'M REALLY SAD 'CAUSE IT'S THEIR LAST ALBUM, I love them so much. 

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Our new album #SoulSucker comes out in just one week and I honestly have a hard time believing that the moment has finally come. A year and a half in the making. What a crazy period of time in all three of our lives. Difficult, taxing, frustrating...invaluable, alluring, fruitful. This record is such a strange synthesis of emotions plucked from all across the spectrum of the human experience. Life took the three of us on quite the roller coaster ride. This album is the souvenir we've been given after stepping off. One of my favorite things about doing music is reminding you, the "fans", that we're in this together with you; that we deal with the same messy, everyday life stuff that you do (this album should make that very clear haha) and we're here, not as much to teach you some lesson, as we are to just be here and hopefully help you through whatever you're going through. I'm really praying this album will be a blessing to you, whether it's just something nice to listen to or something that resonates with you at a much deeper, personal level. You'll have to let us know what it is to you once it's out next week, we love to hear your stories. Thanks for doing life with us! -Joel You can pre-order the album now at http://81twentythree.com or on iTunes! (Photo by @noemipossible)

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THIS CENTURY ANNOUNCE BREAK UP

This Century is calling it a day. They will release their final album on June 2nd and will be playing some farewell shows. Read a statement from the band below. Frowny face.

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The past eight years of our lives have been the craziest, most incredible ride. When this band started, most of us were still finishing up high school. We can still remember playing our very first local show, having no idea what we were doing. We just knew we wanted to perform music and hoped that it would somehow have a positive effect on people. Never in our wildest dreams did we think that we’d be fortunate enough to travel the world and perform for so many. As we toured, something much bigger than us started to take shape–something we ended up calling the TC Family; people all around the world that genuinely cared about us and what we were doing. We made some pretty amazing friends too. Over the years we became a part of and formed incredible relationships with everyone in the 8123 family. Having everyone’s support has brought the best out of us and made this whole thing much more special and exciting.

We have decided as a band that after eight amazing and fulfilling years, we will be closing this chapter of our lives and stepping out into the next. This band has allowed us to grow and learn more about each other than we ever thought we would, and we all feel like we’re better people because of that and because of you guys. We love each other like brothers, we always have and we always will, so we’re happy to say this isn’t a result of anything negative. This Century has been an amazing experience, but we unanimously agreed while we were making this new album that it was time to move on to pursue each of our passions and musical projects. We wanted to see this album through, however, and make it a great final record for ourselves, but more importantly, for the people who have supported us for so long. We’d like to think of this album as a celebration of the music we’ve been able to create with each other against all the odds and circumstances we’ve faced. None of this would even be possible if it wasn’t for the constant dedication and support from our fans, friends and family. We can’t thank all of you enough for making This Century such a lovely journey…we love and appreciate you more than you could ever know.

We will be releasing our new album Soul Sucker on June 2nd and following that up with some final shows throughout 2015. We’re going to be trying our hardest to get more shows booked both in the US and internationally so we can come and say thank you in person to as many of you as possible. We will also be playing these last shows as our original lineup, so we’re happy to tell you that Alex will be coming along with us! Despite This Century coming to a close, each of one of us is continuing to do music in some way shape or form. Joel is already working on music for a solo career and plans to tour and see all of you in the future. Sean will continue to do work on music production/songwriting and also plans to do touring as well. Ryan will be releasing music from time to time with his music project Stop Dead.

Again, we want to thank each and every one of you from the bottom of our hearts for what has been an amazing eight years, your love and support has never gone unrecognized. Each of us looks forward to continuing to make music for you! We will try to be as available as possible on our personal social accounts if any of you have a question or just want to tell us something.

We love you!

-This Century