Welcome to the Blacklist Club
| Welcome to the Blacklist Club | |
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| Studio album by Evan Taubenfeld | |
| Released | May 18, 2010 |
| Recorded | 2008/2009 |
| Genre | Pop rock |
| Label | Sire/Reprise |
| Producer | John Fields |
| Singles from Welcome to the Blacklist Club | |
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Welcome to the Blacklist Club (originally titled With a Wink and a Smile) is the debut album by American singer/songwriter Evan Taubenfeld, ex-guitarist of Avril Lavigne. The album was expected to be released on September 15, 2009, but was rescheduled to a later date. During Taubenfeld's UStream chat on March 28, 2010, he confirmed that the album would be released on iTunes worldwide on May 18, 2010. On February 24, a promotional single, "Cheater of the Year" was released on iTunes, and a lyric video was made available on MySpace. The first official single, "Boy Meets Girl" was released on March 31.
On The Black List Club official site Evan Taubenfeld describes his album in the biography section. "[Welcome to the Blacklist Club] is about being a hopeless romantic trapped under a cinnamon-coated shell that is L.A., I think your outside hardens when you live out here. Most people don’t express how much they want to fall in love. For me, half the album is about being able to expose that. The other half...is more about having fun."
Evan Taubenfeld released an image of a demo CD with an original track list for Welcome to the Blacklist Club, however, since doing this, he has adjusted the track list somewhat. 'Love/Hate' and 'Waiting' were cut from the album, although they were given away to fans on his weekly live uStream. Two new songs, 'Starbucks Girl' and 'Best Years of Our Lives' have been added, the demo version of the latter had been available for several years beforehand though, one of the tracks from his previous project. The song 'I Love the Both of You' may be added to the final track listing. The songs cut will be saved to be released as b-sides or bonus tracks.
Prior to the release of the album, around Spring 2009, Evan toured with This Providence and The Academy Is... on the Snakes and Suits acoustic tour in promotion of the current single, Boy Meets Girl, and his debut album and career. He played a set of five songs on most tour dates.
In summer/fall of 2009, he is touring in North America with Metro Station.
In various videos, Evan has suggested that he has plans to go on a world tour after the release of Welcome to the Blacklist Club, probably either Winter or Spring 2010.
Evan played as an opening act for Avril Lavigne on the North American Leg of her 2011 Black Star World Tour.
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