Welcome to Land of
Broken Hearts, your #1 source for Switchfoot for two years. Here you will find the very latest news, along with media,
photos, lyrics, bios, fun facts, rare songs, and all kinds of Switchfoot-y info! Enjoy your stay!
- Jeanna, Nicole & Stacee
Contact - Need to
send us a message? A letter? A question? Just want to talk? Send us an e-mail at landofbrokenhearts@hotmail.com!
Submit News - Do you have some Switchfoot news to share with us? Click here to send it in!
Mailing List -
Join our Mailing list and get instantly notified every time we update the site! You'll never miss out on a LOBH update again!
Click here to join our mailing
list.
NEW RELEASES - ALBUMS, MUSIC VIDEOS, PROJECTS
All the latest details, rumors, facts, speculation and info on upcoming Switchfoot, Jon Foreman, and Fiction Family releases.
TITLE: FICTION FAMILY ARTIST: Fiction Family RELEASE DATE: January 20th, 2009 PRICE: $13.99
LABEL: ATO Records COVER: TRACKLISTING:
1. "When She’s Near"
2. "Out of Order"
3. "Not Sure"
4. "Betrayal"
5. "Elements Combined"
6. "War in My Blood"
7. "Throw It Away"
8. "Closer Than You Think"
9. "Please Don’t Call It Love"
10. "Mostly Prove Me Wrong"
11. "We Ride"
12. "Look For My Baby" INFO: Fiction Family is the side project of Sean Watkins and Jon Foreman. They previously went by the name The Real SeanJon. The two started writing and collaborating together in 2005 and the first song they ever worked on on together was "Betrayal." It was rumoured that Starbucks would release the album, as stated by Drew in a conversation with the LOBH staff and Jon in a blog. "We’re doing the final song right now, and there’s a rumor that there’s a large company that produces caffeinated beverages that might put it out in a few months. So, we’ll see," said Jon. Billboard.com reported that "[Jon] and Nickel Creek's Sean Watkins are putting the finishing touches on the first album by their side project, Fiction Family, which they hope to get out before the end of the year in front of an early 2009 tour." The release date for the album was later announced, along with the information that a full tour will follow. In October, Spin.com released an article on the band that included information and the tracklisting for the album.
"Call it Pop-Grass: Fiction Family is a new cross-genre collaboration between religious power-pop rock band Switchfoot's Jon Foreman and bluegrass-tinged acoustic act Nickel Creek's Sean Watkins," wrote Spin. "The project's self-titled debut album, written and recorded by Watkins and Foreman at their homes in San Diego, is set to arrive via ATO Records January 20. The two musicians, who met when their bands shared a bill a few years ago, trade lead vocals on the new set, which also features an eclectic array of instrumentation, including baritone ukulele, piano, organ, mandolin, and steel guitar. Nickel Creek fiddle player Sara Watkins adds her expertise to a few tracks.
"The album was recorded and written in parts," Foreman tells SPIN.com. "Because Nickel Creek and Switchfoot are both hard working, touring acts, we were rarely home from tour at the same time. Consequently the tracks were passed back and forth between Sean and I. Whoever was home from tour would chip away at the songs with no real expectations at all, mainly just for ourselves and for the love of the song I suppose. We came up with a few cowboy rules for the project: No double tracking. No pussyfooting. No tuning of vocals."
On November 29th, EMI CMG posted that there would be a "national headlining Fiction Family tour scheduled Jan. 15-Feb. 10 hitting over 15 cities." They also gave fans info on promotion efforts, saying that "targeted press and online promotions to Mainstream & Christian music sites, publications and blogs." A new song preview for the song Elements Combined was also shared. That can be listened to HERE.
TITLE: WHEN SHE'S NEAR - Music Video ARTIST: Fiction Family RELEASE DATE: 2008/2009 INFO: On October 20th, Jon Foreman announced at a solo show that Fiction Family had filmed a music video for their song "When She's Near." He gave very little details, revealing only that there was a whistling bird in the video.
Later, Sean Watkins posted a blog about the video, saying "So last wednesday, we made a Fiction Family music video. It's for the song When She's Near. I wont say too much about it cause i dont want to spoil the plot and ruin it for you but i will say it involved me taped to and pushed around in a dolly and jon being carried around like some Biblical king in transit for hours on end. It also involved some very stealthy gorilla video shooting on the part of our director....oh and a pizza party at the end of the day! Not sure when it'll be done and up for you folks to see but in the meantime i'll put up some pics that our good buddy and photog took at the shoot. wheeeee!" IMAGES:
TITLE: TITLE TBA - New studio album ARTIST: Switchfoot RELEASE DATE: SUMMER 2009 LABEL: lowercase people COVER: N/A. POSSIBLE TRACKLISTING:
Songs that MIGHT appear on the album: + Above the Roar
+ Always Yours
+ Anymore
+ As Wide As the Grave
+ Baby, Please Don't Cry
+ Blood is Soul
+ Bluebird
+ Bullet Soul
+ Contradiction
+ Dirty Streets of Gold
+ Dontcha Know
+ Fading
+ Fluorescent
+ Halfway
+ Hello Hurricane
+ Holding On (CROSSED OUT)
+ I Can't Let It Go This Time
+ I Dug Myself
+ I Saw Satan Fall
+ Light and Heavy
+ Meantime
+ Moving Lips
+ Mr. Hyde
+ Needle + Haystack
+ New Streams
+ People, Put Your Hands Up
+ Promise
+ Push (The Human Race)
+ Red Eyes
+ Running From Me
+ Selling the News
+ Sleepwalking
+ Sing It Out
+ Someday
+ Souvenirs
+ Sun In Your Eyes
+ Sunrise to Sunset
+ The Weight of the World
+ There's Still Time
+ These Missing Things
+ We Walk Alone
+ Weapon
+ Whatcha Gonna Do For Deal?
+ Wide Open Spaces
+ Wolves
+ Wound Up
+ Yet
+ You Were Made For Love
+ Your Body Follows INFO: Switchfoot started recording their new album in August of 2007. By early August they had enlisted Charlie
Peacock as their producer and tracked 13 songs. "In other news, tracking for the new SF record went really well- the most fun we've had making music in a long time. Very much like making a mess. Charlie Peacock, our longtime cohort from the east has been a welcome addition to the scene... The first tracks 13 tracks were cut this week!" The band began construction on their studio in October and then in early November, Jon announced that "anyhoo, the new SF recahhd is coming along swimmingly as well. these three are currently the frontrunners:
running from me
people put your hands up
blood is soil"
On December, Jon posted on his blog that "We have over a hundred songs to choose from right now, it really could go in a lot of directions. Right now, it's shaping up to be more acoustic AND more electronic."
In March, in response to a question about the progress of the new album, Jon said that, "It’s good. Tim and I have just been writing. You know, it’s one of those things where you get to a point where you kind of want to shock yourself again. The reason why you started playing music in the first place is because it’s shocking, and it felt like you were somehow defying gravity or something like that. So you kind of want to find that place again. You can’t go to the same well. That’s all dry; you got to find a new place."
In May, Tim told fans that,"There are a lot of songs right now. Honestly, over 100 in various stages of demo and we’re going to try to narrow it down from there. We wanted to make a big mess for ourselves. We even went into the studio way back in August and tracked 15 songs and kind of just cast in a wide net to catch a lot of fish and then throw the best, tastiest ones on the record... We want to do something different. As far as what that is, that’s kind of what this stage is still
about. Kind of experimenting."
June finds Switchfoot moved into their new studio and working full-time on recording their album. Switchfoot has been
recording all throughout June and July, and via the webcam chat, they revealed a few more song titles for us, such as Always Yours, Anymore and Above the Roar. In August, Billboard.com reported the following:
"Amid a flurry of group and individual projects, Switchfoot is eyeballing a spring 2009 release for its next album -- the San Diego rockers first since 2006's "Oh! Gravity" and since leaving Columbia to start its own label, the ATO-distributed Lowercase People Records.
Switchfoot has been working in a studio it constructed in San Diego, chronicling some of the sessions via webcam on its Web site. "There are so many different directions we can go in," frontman Jon Foreman tells Billboard.com. "One of the songs has a (Led) Zeppelin feel. One of them has more of a Devo feel. So it's Led Devo, or something along those lines. I feel like the headspace we're in now, the glass ceiling's been shattered. We're excited to see how far we can take this thing."
Foreman says Switchfoot has tried working with several producers, including Failure's Ken Andrews and Charlie Peacock, but ultimately decided to produce the album itself. "I feel like we've got a fairly firm grip on what we want do," Foreman says, "and I feel like we can get there on our own." In August, the guys showed fans their list of possible song choices for the new album via the webcam, sparking curiosity and excitment, and givings fans a taste of what was to come.
In October, producer and engineer Darrell Thorp joined the team as the producer of the album.
In November, the guys announced that the album would come out in Summer of '09. "We've been in the studio for the past few weeks working on our new record, and it's sounding really great," the guys wrote in an e-mail to their fans. "We can't wait for everyone to hear these new tunes, and we are planning on releasing the album in summer 09." SOURCES:
BLOGS: + TODAY HAS SPRUNG + IT'S OFFICIAL + A NEW BEGINNING IN STEREO + PENCIL-VEIN-YEAH + AND WITH KIWI MUSIC STUCK IN MY HEAD + NEW SWITCHFOOT E-MAIL
Welcome to Land of
Broken Hearts, your #1 source for Switchfoot for two years. Here you will find the very latest news, along with media,
photos, lyrics, bios, fun facts, rare songs, and all kinds of Switchfoot-y info! Enjoy your stay! 
