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With an impressive first week, legendary rock band MÖTLEY CRÜE earned themselves an impressive top 5 debut on the Billboard chart with Saints Of Los Angeles, their first new album featuring the original lineup in over a decade and their highest since 1997s Generation Swine.

The single, 'Saints of Los Angeles', which remains a top ten rock track was released simultaneously via the video game Rock Band (a Crüe Fest partner) and to traditional retailers and sold over five times the number of downloads on Rock Band as it did on iTunes in its first week.

The band has also pioneered digital initiatives including online pre-sales (they were one of the first bands to sell tickets online), simulcasting their press conference on therockvine.com and offering fans exclusive content on their website, www.motley.com for years. Plans include continued digital initiatives and special ring tone availability.

Saints of Los Angeles features Nikki Sixx, Mick Mars, Tommy Lee and Vince Neil and is their ninth studio album in a 27 year career which has seen the most notorious band in rock & roll sell over 80 million albums worldwide so far.

The oft-imitated rockers were also very visible in the past week appearing on The Late Show with David Letterman, on a classic episode of Larry King Live (Larry plays with the band), On The Record with Greta Van Susteren, and in a special tribute celebrating their career in the June 21st issue of Billboard magazine.

In pure Mötley form, the band arrived at David Letterman’s show in a Presidential Procession as a troop of bikers led their 1960’s Cadillac convertible complete with skull and cross-bones flags waving through the streets of New York City to celebrate the release of the new CD.

Saints of Los Angeles is loosely based on the band’s bestselling book, The Dirt, which is a must-read rock and roll tome of which Ray Hogan, San Antonio Express-News said, “The Dirt might be the wildest rock ‘n’ roll story ever told. It’s not only remarkable that the group’s four members are alive to recount -and actually remember- their sordid history, but disturbingly appropriate that they do so unrelentingly... For a band that wore their vices like a badge of honor, there’s still enough uncovered dirt to make this hard to put down.”

The CD takes these tales and puts them to classic Mötley music. The book is also scheduled to become a much-anticipated movie but has been held up in the process.

The CD is released on Mötley Records/Eleven Seven Music, returning control to the band who also received the rights to all of their master recordings.

The inaugural season of the Crüe Fest tour began July 1st in West Palm Beach, FL, and features Mötley Crüe, Buckcherry, Papa Roach, Sixx:A.M., and Trapt. Tickets, band profiles and exclusive content from all of the Crüe Fest bands will consistently be uploaded at www.therockvine.com. In conjunction with the tour, Best Buy is exclusively selling a Crüe Fest Compilation featuring all five tour headliners as well as The Exies, Marion Raven, Drowning Pool and Chosen Son. The set was almost sold out of its limited pressing before the tour even began.

Crüe Fest US/Canada tour dates:

July

1 - West Palm Beach, FL - Cruzan Amphitheatre
3 - Tampa, FL - Ford Amphitheatre
5 - Charlotte, NC - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre Charlotte
6 - Virginia Beach, VA - Verizon Wireless Virginia Beach Amphitheater
8 - Wantagh, NY - Nikon at Jones Beach Theater
9 - Buffalo, NY - Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
10 - Sarnia, ONT - Bayfest
12 - Philadelphia, PA - Susquehanna Bank Center
13 - Washington, DC - Nissan Pavilion
15 - Detroit, MI - DTE Energy Music Theatre
16 - Chicago, IL - First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre
18 - Indianapolis, IN - Verizon Wireless Music Center Indianapolis
19 - Milwaukee, WI - Marcus Amphitheater
20 - St. Louis, MO - Verizon Wireless Amphitheater St. Louis
22 - Houston, TX - Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
23 - San Antonio, TX - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
24 - Dallas, TX - Superpages.com Center
26 - Albuquerque, NM - Journal Pavilion
27 - Denver, CO - Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre
29 - Salt Lake City, UT - USANA Amphitheatre
31 - Phoenix, AZ - Cricket Wireless Pavilion

August

1 - Las Vegas, NV - Mandalay Bay Events Center
2 - Los Angeles, CA - Glen Helen Pavilion
5 - Sacramento, CA - Sleep Train Pavilion
6 - Mountain View, CA - Shoreline Amphitheatre at Mountain View
8 - Seattle, WA - White River Amphitheatre
9 - Portland, OR - Rose Garden
11 - Vancouver, BC - General Motors Place
13 - Edmonton, AB - Rexall Place
14 - Calgary, AB - Pengrowth Saddledome
15 - Saskatoon, SK - Credit Union Centre
17 - Winnipeg, MB - MTS Centre
19 - Cincinnati, OH - Riverbend Amphitheatre
20 - Cleveland, OH - Blossom Music Center
22 - Boston, MA - Tweeter Center for the Performing Arts
23 - Holmdel, NJ - PNC Bank Arts Center
24 - Uncasville, CT - Mohegan Sun Arena
28 - Toronto, ON - Molson Amphitheatre
29 - Albany, NY - Saratoga Performing Arts Center
30 - Scranton, PA - Toyota Pavilion at Montage Mountain
31 - Pittsburgh, PA - Post-Gazette Pavilion