We’re extremely thrilled to announce the start of our US tour with indie rock legends Cursive and the mighty UME from Austin, TX. The tour will cover the entire western half of the US with and will end in Omaha, NE. The home of Ernie Chambers. We couldn’t be more excited. Come out to the shows early and bang your head to some Virgin Islands!

Tour dates are below:
02/17/2012 – Seattle, WA / Neumo’s – with Cursive and Ume – BUY TICKETS

02/18/2012 – Vancouver, BC / Media Club – with Cursive and Ume – BUY TICKETS

02/19/2012 – Portland, OR / Bunk Bar – with Cursive and Ume – BUY TICKETS

02/24/2012 – Los Angeles, CA / Troubadour – with Cursive and Ume – BUY TICKETS

02/25/2012 – Pomona, CA / Glasshouse – with Cursive and Ume – BUY TICKETS

02/26/2012 – San Diego, CA / Casbah – with Cursive and Ume – BUY TICKETS

02/27/2012 – Tempe, AZ / Crescent Ballroom – with Cursive and Ume – BUY TICKETS

02/28/2012 – Albuquerque, NM / Launchpad – with Cursive and Ume – BUY TICKETS

03/02/2012 – Kansas City, MO / Record Bar – with Cursive and Ume – BUY TICKETS

03/03/2012 – Omaha, NE / Slowdown – with Cursive and Ume – BUY TICKETS

03/04/2012 – Denver, CO – Larimer Lounge (not with Cursive or Ume)

We are extremely thrilled to announce that we’re playing the 2012 Noise Pop Festival in San Francisco this February, as a part of our tour with Cursive and Ume. We’re playing Wednesday February 22nd at the Great American Music Hall. Advance tickets can be purchased here. The line-up for the 2012 looks incredible and we hope to see you out! Well worth the trip for those outside the Bay Area!

We are extremely excited to announce an upcoming tour supporting Cursive this February and March! We’ll be opening shows along this tour and the mighty Ume are playing main support. We cannot wait and we’re looking forward to seeing our friends along the way. Cursive will be supporting a brand new record and these shows are sure to sell out. Make sure to buy advance tickets! We’ll be adding a few dates along the way and will keep you posted here. All confirmed dates are listed below:

02/17/2012 – Seattle, WA / Neumo’s – with Cursive and Ume – BUY TICKETS

02/18/2012 – Vancouver, BC / Media Club – with Cursive and Ume – BUY TICKETS

02/19/2012 – Portland, OR / Bunk Bar – with Cursive and Ume – BUY TICKETS

02/24/2012 – Los Angeles, CA / Troubadour – with Cursive and Ume – BUY TICKETS

02/25/2012 – Pomona, CA / Glasshouse – with Cursive and Ume – BUY TICKETS

02/26/2012 – San Diego, CA / Casbah – with Cursive and Ume – BUY TICKETS

02/27/2012 – Tempe, AZ / Crescent Ballroom – with Cursive and Ume – BUY TICKETS

02/28/2012 – Albuquerque, NM / Launchpad – with Cursive and Ume – BUY TICKETS

03/02/2012 – Kansas City, MO / Record Bar – with Cursive and Ume – BUY TICKETS

03/03/2012 – Omaha, NE / Slowdown – with Cursive and Ume – BUY TICKETS

Our song “No Doctor” is NPR’s Song of the Day today! Do you think the Supreme Court will listen? Check out the review and song through this link!

We apologize for the extended radio silence from VI HQ. We’ve had a busy summer promoting our new record Ernie Chambers v. God and are winding down the live biz with a few more shows in the Northwest this fall to round out the year. We’d like to extend a warm thank you to everyone who’s bought the new record and caught a show over the summer. For those of you in Seattle and Bellingham, there are a few opportunities to see us live this fall, all on some really amazing shows. Check us out here, if you can:

Saturday October 15th – The Shakedown (Bellingham, WA) with Police Teeth and Victory & Associates
Saturday October 22nd – Chop Suey (Seattle, WA) City Arts Fest with Male Bonding, Unnatural Helpers and The Fucking Eagles
Friday November 18th – The Comet (Seattle, WA) Mikey’s birthday bash with Police Teeth, Strong Killings and Wow & Flutter

These shows will be our last for awhile, as we will be taking the next several months off from live performances while we work on completing our second full length. If all goes as planned, we’ll be back in the studio in March of 2012 with a release planned for later in the year.

Thanks again for all of you support. Take care of each other and see you soon.
Love,
Virgin Islands

Our new record “Ernie Chambers v. God” is out TODAY! You should be able to find it in your local record store, or you can order it online through any of the options below. If you live in Seattle, we hope can join us in celebrating the release at our show this Friday, May 13th at the Columbia City Theater. Advance tickets for that show can be purchased HERE. Thank you to everyone who helped make this record happen and thank YOU for the support. Happy record release week to us!

Purchase the LP (with free download code) from us directly for $12.99 (plus shipping and handling) HERE
Purchase the full length CD from us directly for $9.99 (plus shipping and handling) HERE

Follow these links below to purchase the new record at a retailer of your choice
iTunes (digital)
Amazon (LP / CD / Digital)
Insound (LP / CD / Digital)
Control Group (LP / CD)
eMusic (Digital)
Sonic Boom Records (LP / CD)
Easy Street Records (LP / CD)

We’re super excited about the video for our song “No Doctor” from our upcoming record “Ernie Chambers v. God” which is due out May 10th on the Control Group. Consequence of Sound premiered the video last week, and now the video is permanently hosted on both YouTube and Vimeo through our label, The Control Group. Here are the videos at both sites (same video, your preference). Enjoy!

Virgin Islands “No Doctor” official video from The Control Group on Vimeo.

The video for our song “No Doctor” is up today and being premiered through THIS LINK at Consequence of Sound! You’ll want to watch all the way to the end to catch the gasp-worthy and catastrophic climax! Only one trip to the ER room was required in the making of this video. Oh, the irony… A special thanks to our director Ryan McMackin, editor Andy Seaver and World Famous!

Seattle folks, don’t forget to buy advance tickets to our record release show on May 13th at Columbia City Theater. Advance tickets for the show can be purchased HERE.

We’ve also started taking pre-orders for the new record right here on our SHOP page. Buying from this site is direct from the band and all pre-order will ship before the release date.

There’s also a great pre-order special on Insound.com right now where a pre-order gets you a free poster from the band (while supplies last).
Pre-order the LP from Insound.com HERE
Pre-order the CD from Insound.com HERE

If Amazon.com is your thing, pre-order the LP HERE and the CD HERE.

We’ll put links up to buy on iTunes and from our favorite record stores soon. In the meantime, we hope you enjoy the video!

Love,
Virgin Islands

Virgin Islands is excited to announce shows in the NW surrounding the May 10th release of our new record “Ernie Chambers v. God.” We have a handful of shows planned, and a full west coast tour scheduled for the month of June. All confirmed tour dates are listed on the shows page. Here’s are details for the shows surrounding the initial release date.

Friday May 6th – The Shakedown (Bellingham, WA) with Sugar Sugar Sugar Sugar and guests
Friday May 13th – Columbia City Theater (Seattle, WA) with The Fucking Eagles, Hounds of the Wild Hunt and Sugar Sugar Sugar – $8 / 9pm / Buy tickets HERE
Saturday May 14th – Sonic Boom Records Ballard (Seattle, WA) FREE all-ages in store at 3pm
Saturday May 14th – KEXP Audioasis Live on-air performance at 6pm. Live online streaming at www.kexp.org
Saturday May 14th – McCoy’s (Olympia, WA) with Western Hymn

Here’s a poster image for our upcoming Seattle release. We hope to see you out!