Freed from such obligations, Reel Big Fish is finally releasing its first independent studio album since leaving its former label. The self-produced Monkeys For Nothin' And The Chimps For Free finds the members of Reel Big Fish doing things their way. In fact, it features material done their way, from quite a long ways back. "We decided we were going to do a B-sides and rarities thing, but we didn't have anything to release, so we were going to re-record some things that we were going to call B-sides and rarities," explains Barrett. "But then we realized that most of that stuff no one had ever heard, so it wasn't really B-sides and rarities, it was just new songs. But those weren't good enough, so we wrote some new songs that were actually new, and suddenly we're making a new album."
Monkeys For Nothin and the Chimps For Free Hits stores on 7/10. See the band on the road with Less Than Jake at the following dates:
7/3 Kansas City, MO Uptown Theatre
7/4 Milwaukee, WI Milwaukee Summerfest
7/5 Royal Oak, MI Royal Oake Music Theatre
7/6 Grand Rapids, MI The Intersection
7/7 Buffalo, NY The Town Ballroom
7/8 Quebec City, QU Festival D'Ete-d'Youville Square
7/10 Clifton Park, NY Northern Lights
7/11 Providence, RI Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel
7/12 Hampton Beach, NH Hampton Beach Casino
7/13 Philadelphia, PA Electric Factory
7/14 Baltimore, MD Rams Head Live
7/15 Sayreville, NJ Starland Lot
7/17 Allentown, PA Crocodile Rock
7/18 Boston, MA Avalon Ballroom
7/19 New York, NY Roseland Ballroom
7/20 Norfolk, VA The Norva
7/21 Richmond, VA Toad's Place Richmond
7/23 Ft Lauderdale, FL Revolution
7/24 Saint Petersburg, FL Jannus Landing
7/25 Orlando, FL Hard Rock Live
7/27 Houston, TX Meridian
7/28 Corpus Christi, TX The Pavilion @ Concrete Street
7/29 Dallas, TX The Palladium Ballroom
7/31 Anaheim, CA The Grove of Anaheim
8/2 Los Angeles, CA Wiltern Theatre
8/3 San Diego, CA House of Blues
8/4 Tempe, AZ Marquee Theatre
8/5 Las Vegas, NV House of Blues
8/6 Salt Lake City, UT The Great Salt Air
8/7 Denver, CO Ogden Theatre
8/9 Tulsa, OK Cain's Ballroom
8/10 St Louis, MO The Pageant
8/11 Omaha, NE Sokol Auditorium
8/12 Sioux Falls, SD Rankota Exhibit Hall
8/14 Minneapolis, MN The Myth
8/15 Chicago, IL Congress Theatre
8/16 Cleveland, OH Agora Theatre
8/17 Cincinnati, OH Bogarts
8/18 Columbus, OH Newport Music Hall
8/19 Rochester, NY Water Street Music Hall
8/21 Pittsburgh, PA Club Zoo
8/22 Scranton, PA Tink's
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