Iwrestledabearonce Enters Studio, Announces Tour

Iwrestledabearonce is currently working on their follow-up to their debut album, It’s All Happening. The band themselves will be handling the production duties and have already kicked off drum tracking for the album. Assisting in the production and also mixing the LP will be Ryan Boesch (Foo Fighters, Melvins, Andrew WK). The band has also launched their own Tumblr account to document the experience; you can see that here. Guitarist Steven Bradley talked about the last two years since recording their debut saying:

“Well it’s been exactly two years since we were in the studio recording ‘It’s All Happening’ and.. well… a shit ton has happened! We have made more friends/fans than I ever thought possible and seen the world in the process! And now, after two years of almost non-stop traveling, we have spent the past few weeks writing and are ready to begin tracking our second full length! This time around, we decided to just buy some new recording gear and I will be producing/engineering/mixing the album with some help from our ‘sixth Beatle’ and co-producer on the last album Ryan Boesch. If you liked our first EP and ‘It’s All Happening’, then chances are you will enjoy this album too. We try to continuously evolve and push the envelope further in every direction, but we definitely still sound like us. Thanks for the support over the past few years and we’re beyond stoked to see you back on tour in 2011 with some new songs in our set!”

Iwrestledabearonce have also announced their first tour in support of the new record alongside Dance Gavin Dance, In Fear and Faith, Close to Home and Just Like Vinyl from March 10th to April 9th; the dates are below.

3/10 – Los Angeles, CA @ El Rey Theatre
3/11 – San Diego, CA @ Soma
3/12 – Anaheim, CA @ House of Blues
3/14 – Lubbock, TX @ Cactus Courtyard
3/15 – Mission, TX @ Las Palmas Race Park
3/16 – San Antonio, TX @ White Rabbit
3/19 – Fort Worth, TX @ Palladium Ballroom
3/20 – Tulsa, OK @ ACM – UCO
3/22 – Louisville, KY @ Expo Five
3/23 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Altar Bar
3/24 – Baltimore, MD @ Rams Head Live!
3/25 – Allentown, PA @ Crocodile Rock
3/26 – Worcester, MA @ The Palladium
3/27 – New York, NY @ Irving Plaza
3/28 – Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church
3/30 – Cleveland, OH @ Peabody’s Downunder
3/31 – Detroit, MI @ St. Andrews Hall
4/01 – Chicago, IL @ Metro
4/02 – St. Paul, MN @ Station 4
4/03 – Omaha, NE @ Sokol Underground
4/04 – Denver, CO @ Summit Music Hall
4/05 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Club Sound
4/07 – Reno, NV @ Knitting Factory
4/08 – Sacramento, CA @ Ace of Spades
4/09 – Oakland, CA @ Oakland Metro