We've been holed up here in Seattle with Casey Bates (Chiodos, Pierce The Veil, Portugal The Man, Fear Before) for the past week working on our new EP.  The songs sound unreal and we're stoked for you guys to hear them.

We'll be wrapping everything up in the next few days, so if you aren't already, follow our Twitter to get exclusive updates from the studio.

You can follow the rest of us on Twitter, too.

Adam on Twitter
Matt on Twitter
Dennis on Twitter

-TIAE

Casey Bates' Official Website

Hey guys,

It's been a little while since we updated our blog, so we thought we'd bring you some good news.

We're very stoked to announce that later this month we'll be entering Johnny Cab Studio in Seattle, WA with engineer Casey Bates (Chiodos, Pierce The Veil, Portugal The Man) to begin work on our forthcoming EP.  The record will be out late this year.

We'll be spending our last couple weeks at home working on a ton of new material.  We definitely can't wait for you to hear the new songs!

Keep up on our Twitter and Buzznet for daily studio updates.

Keep it real.
-Adam, Jay, Matt & Dennis

Greetings from Buffalo. We thought it's time to update you on a few things.

Exciting things in the next few months.

We're releasing our next mixtape on Monday, December 2nd. It's going to be a completely FREE download with a ton of new remixes and some new tracks from yours truly. Look for it.

Come see us headline in the new year! We're throwing our holiday show on Friday, January 2nd at Xtreme Wheelz in Buffalo with some awesome bands. Respect!

Keep it real.
-TIAE

We're posting a new song on Monday.  Think of it as a late Halloween goodie.

-TIAE

I hope you will check out/ have checked out the Millionaires remix we just posted.  A free pair of tickets to the first person who can message us the other 3 voices we sampled! (you must also be able to make it to the show, its August 9^th in Buffalo, NY)
            There are also a ton of remixes to look forward to that Jay (or just call him L-ion) has been cooking up in the lab (Protest The Hero, Edreys, MIA, Ultraviolet Sound, Spark Is A Diamond, Tyga, just to name a few). 

What you need to know:

Thursday July 17th - Um, you should know already, Breathe Carolina, Sky Eats Airplane, A Skylit Drive and Emarosa are playing at Extreme Wheels.  We will be spinning DJ sets in between the bands sets.  So its like 4 mini dance parties in one night.  This is a very special event, as the last 15 minute set will be all originals and remixes that Jay has been working on.

Friday July 25^th – Dazzle Me Formal and This Is An Empire are bringing you quite thee party.  My man Craig will be the resident DJ of the night, and I'm sure we will be controlling the dance floor for a DJ set as well. THIS IS A PARTY THAT IS NOT TO BE MISSED!!!  Dazzle CEO Seabass said it best: "I would like to cordially welcome everyone and their friends to this event."

Sunday July 27^th – Our Neighbors Beware The Bear are having a tour kick off at Xtreme Wheels.  We may be spinning between the bands again.  Regardless, go to this show!

Tuesday July 29^th – We are hitting the road, first stop, the L3 in St. Catharines, Ontario and will be playing with Fear Before The March of Flames and good friends No Orphans.

Friday August 8^th – Beware The Bear are making a tour stop to their hometown of Batavia, NY.  We are joining them!  Lets pack this out and pre-game for...

SATURDAY AUGUST 9TH!!! Millionaires, Hypercrush, Broken Cyde, and The Arrival, and yours truely THIS IS AN EMPIRE at Xtreme Wheels.  We are on first and have lots of tickets for sale for the low price of $10, so get there right at 6, and get going for the party like nothing you have ever experienced.  We will deliver tickets to you, and we will have lots of new merch and songs for this show.

So much more in the works, look for a new song and video in the next month.  I will give another update soon!

Thanks for listening

CLICK HERE FOR FREE DOWNLOAD!!!

01. Crystal Castles - Courtship Date (intro)
02. This Is An Empire - It Will Be Dirty
03. Teenage Bad Girl - USB Dick
04. Millionaires - Want You In My Bed (This Is An Empire remix) (Produced by L-ION)
05. CSS - Lets Make Love and Listen to Death From Above (snippet)
06. SebastiAn - Dog
07. This Is An Empire - Répondez S'il Vous Play     
08. The Presets - My People (snippet)
09. Goose - British Mode
10. This Is An Empire - On The Kill (snippet)
11. Klaxons - Golden Skans (SebastiAn remix) (snippet)
12. Does It Offend You Yeah - Lets Make Out
13. Chae Hawk  ft.Adam Curtin - Beauty Bar (DJ D-Star remix) (snippet)
14. Boy 8-Bit - Fog Bank (Acid Jacks remix) (snippet)
15. Nalepa - Monday (The Glitch Mob Remix) (snippet)
16. MSTRKRFT  ft.N.O.R.E. - Bounce (snippet)
17. Buck 65 - Kennedy Killed the Hat (MSTRKRFT rock remix)  
18. Tokyo Police Club - Sixties Remake
19. Metro Station - Shake It
20. This Is An Empire - Her Little Finger        
21. Chae Hawk  ft.Keith Buckley - Pretty Boy Stomp (Produced by L-ION)(snippet) 
22. Santogold  ft.Spank Rock - Shove It
23.  MIA - Paper Planes (This Is An Empire remix) (Produced by L-ION)
24. Spank Rock ft. Santogold - Bump (This Is An Empire remix) (Produced by L-ION)
25. Cut Copy - Going Nowhere (Digitalism remix)
26. The Kills - Sour Cherry
27. MGMT - Electric Feel  
28. Ghostface  ft.Jadakiss & Comp - Run (Ratatat Remix) (outro)

Artwork is now included in the download!

I have a quick update for you:

New demo It "Will Be Dirty" is up now.

There are some video shoots going on this week in Toronto.  More on that later…

This Friday May 23^rd, we will be releasing our mixtape with over an hour of our new songs, remixes of our songs, remixes of other peoples songs, other people remixing our songs, some of our friends songs, and songs you need to hear.  You can download this for free and can get a free copy at any of our shows for the next month.  Now you can listen anytime anywhere.  A new remix track will be debuted at the Shock and Awe party this night at Soundlab.

This Saturday May 24^th, we bring our DJ set to Soundlab.  I cannot stress how good of a time this night is going to be.  A copy of our mixtape and Chae Hawk's new ep Nickel City Varsity (That Jay recorded and produced!) will be gifts to everyone who goes.  I think Keith Buckley is going to be in the building to perform "Pretty Boy Stomp" live.

Monday June 2^nd another new demo will be posted here.

And you know June 7^th is the BIG show!  This show is going to be a blast, and if you miss it, it is going to be your loss.  If you message me, I will deliver you tickets for the sale price of $9, and get you the free mixtape in CD format.

BIG things happening in June...

Thanks for reading, and thanks for your support, and tell all your friends!

-ADAM

 

P.S. some pictures of the secret party DJ set last Saturday!

Well, sorry we couldn't visit with those of you in Pennsylvania or Canada last weekend.  Gravity, moth, rust, and international pieces of paper were all against us.  Thanks to anyone in NYC who cheered us up.  But, we are alive, so lets try and make it up to you with a new song called "Keep Us".  We recorded this a while ago, but its not the direction our sound is going, so we sat on it till now.  We will probably have this up for a month or so, and then NEW SONGS IN APRIL.   That is right, we will be entering the studio in a few weeks, and cannot wait to share these new songs with you.  Looks for new page layout, pictures, and more soon as well.

If any of you are going to be in Austin March 12-15th, some of us will be in town for SXSW and would love to meet you.

keep in touch and keep shaking,
-THIS IS AN EMPIRE

 

Hey everyone. Just reminding all of you in the western New York and southern Ontario area that we will be playing Soundlab tomorrow (Friday) at 9pm. This is our first show in Buffalo since arriving home from tour and we are extremely stoked to be here for it.

We'll be playing a ton of new songs, debuting some new merch, and best of all, playing with incredible bands. Come out and see us, it will rule.



-This Is An Empire