New Video: AFI - Beautiful Thieves

Behind The Scenes: AFI Music Video

AFI takes you behind the scenes of their video for "Medicate" in this newly released making of video clip. Full of performance, gold blood, humor, voyeurism, and pie filling this short video allows fans a chance to catch the rock quartet at their best.

You can check out the behind the scenes video HERE

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AFI Perform "Beautiful Thieves"

AFI have just released a video performance from this Weekend's Ulalume Festival in Columbia, Maryland. The video showcases an energetic performance of "Beautiful Thieves" to thousands of adoring fans. "Beautiful Thieves" is a new track off of the critically acclaimed album Crash Love, which is available everywhere now.

New Video: AFI - Medicate

AFI just made the video for their single "Medicate" available for free on iTunes. Fans can download the video for free for one week only on iTunes.



"Medicate" was also included on the new Guitar Hero 5 game as well as on the iPhone application Tap Tap Revenge. Crash Love is in stores and on iTunes now. For all the latest news from AFI visit www.afireinside.net

AFI To Co-Headline mtvU's Ulalume Fest

AFI have announced that they will co-headline mtvU's innagural Ulalume Festival on Friday, October 23rd at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland. Davey, Jade, Adam and Hunter, collectively known as AFI, will join co-headliners Paramore along with special guests Kid Cudi and Chester Benninton's side band, Death By Sunrise. The show, which takes its name from the Edgar Allen Poe poem of the same name, will be sure to celebrate all things spooky and this year's Halloween. Under a gray autumn sky with withering leaves, the festival grounds will transform into a ghoul haunted woodland featuring a costume contest and more tricks set to unfold throughout the night. Performances straight from “Ulalume” will air during a Halloween-themed week on MTV, MTV.com, mtvU, and mtvU.com, with more details to be announced.

Don't forget AFI's upcoming album CRASH LOVE is set for release September 29.

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New Music: AFI - Medicate

"Medicate," is the first single from AFI's upcoming album, CRASH LOVE, has just premiered on radio and the internet. The song, which will also be featured on Guitar Hero 5! In a radio interview frontman Davey spoke of the meaning of the song, "speaking of the mutability of elation that's based in really powerful, yet fleeting, experiences and those experiences being referred to in a sort of metaphoric way such as medication."

You can pre order Crash Love on iTunes today. The iTunes version of CRASH LOVE will also feature bonus tracks "Breathing Towers To Heaven," an unreleased demo, and "Too Late For Gods," an unreleased studio track, both from the CRASH LOVE sessions. The album is set for release September 29.

AFI Fall Tour Dates & New Album News

AFI will release their eighth studio album, Crash Love, September 29. The album was produced by Joe McGrath (Alkaline Trio, Green Day) and Jacknife Lee (U2, Weezer). Front man Davey Havok expressed, "I am so proud of this record. I really believe it's the best AFI record. It honestly feels like we've made our first truly timeless record. We didn't set out to do that--you can't set out to do something like that--but it definitely feels like that's what we've achieved: created the album by which we'll be remembered."

Fans can get a taste of whats to come on the album with their first single "Medicate" which premieres August 25th.

Check out the tour dates below to see when AFI will be in your state.
10/02 - Minneapolis, MN - Epic w/ Gallows
10/04 - Columbus, OH - Newport Music Hall w/ Gallows
10/05 - Cincinnati, OH - Bogart's w/ Gallows
10/07 - Buffalo, NY - Town Ballroom w/ Gallows
10/08 - Clifton Park, NJ - Northern Lights w/ Gallows
10/10 - Sayreville, NJ - Starland Ballroom w/ Gallows
10/11 - Pittsburgh - Club Zoo w/ Gallows
10/13 - Hartford, CT - The Webster w/ Gallows
10/14 - Providence, RI - Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel w/ Gallows
10/19 Richmond, VA - The National w/ Gallows
10/21 Scranton, PA - Scranton Cultural Center
10/25 Boston, MA - House of Blues
11/03 Tulsa, OK - Cain's Ballroom
11/04 St. Louis, MO - The Pageant
11/06 Kansas, MO - Uptown Theatre
11/07 Chicago, IL - Riviera Theatre

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