It only took six or so months, but the redesign is finally here! With all the news spilling out in the last few months, we are so excited!

As you may have noticed, we have gone through one final (we swear) re-naming and domain change, the very appropriate, Augustana Fans and matching domain. We hope all of you enjoy the site and everything will be re-added over the next week (photos, media sections, etc). Thank you for visiting!

Also, expect things to keep being tweaked over the next couple days so they run better, so if you see errors, please let us know!

It’s that time again (and good to finally have time again) that the site will be getting a complete makeover. However this time, I want to get more people involved! So, do you wonderful Augustana fans have a favorite photo of the band that you would want to see incorporated? We’re looking more for pictures of the whole band, but if there is one that just screams “The whole world has to see this!” (though our reach may be a bit exaggerated there), plop the link right down in the comments.  If it is one of your wonderfully self taken photos – you’ll get credit in the sidebar (or somewhere that can be seen on whichever design is decided upon).

So, c’mon and lets get posting!

(also posted in the forums, feel free to post photos there if you would rather)

As you can see, there is a new layout up – which has a whole new format and style, hopefully to better feature the news that is posted. There is now a place where we can feature news or you can browse news by category!

I’m still working out the kinks (there are a few) but everything should be running smoothly soon!

Just a quick gallery update – I added my photos from last nights concert at the Fine Line Music Cafe in Minneapolis (which was amazing).

You can check them out in the gallery here: 05/12/08 Minneapolis, MN

I’ll be getting on top of the regular site updates this week

Check out this great interview/article from the Idaho Statesman: Grateful for ‘Boston,’ Augustana hopes to a forge lasting career

Also, I added some images from the Tribeca Film Festival appearance yesterday (which I completely forgot about) to the gallery.

And, we have an iTunes music charts update from Shannon:

Here are some more of the latest numbers as of right now on the itunes charts:

-Top Selling Rock Albums :CLCH (deluxe version) is #1, CLCH (basic version) is #8, ATSAB is #40
-Overall Top Selling Albums: CLCH is #4
-Top Selling Rock Songs: “Sweet and Low” is #3, “Fire” is #16, and “Boston” is #41

Check out AFN’s radio play project in the forums. There is now a whole section dedicated to resources for requesting Augustana songs from your local stations – but we need your help for the database to grow. So please go check it out! It is by no means complete and should be growing and evolving in the future.

And once again, today is the release date for “Can’t Love, Can’t Hurt” so make sure to go and buy it and remember to watch them perform on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Wednesday night!

Reviews (yes, we will be posting the good and the…not so good reviews):

Featured Review: Augustana – Can’t Love, Can’t Hurt Absolute Punk

A boring concept, a crappier execution Diamondback Online
Augustana: Can’t Love, Can’t Hurt Daily Iowan
Augustana, Can’t Love Can’t Hurt: * * * — Beyong ‘Boston’ USAToday
CD Review: Augustana’s Can’t Love, Can’t Hurt Pegasusnews

Reminder! Augustana’s performance tomorrow at the Bat Bar at 1pm will be shown later that night on DirecTV channel, 101. The schedule for that channel has Augustana’s portion listed for 11pm EST/10PM CST, for an hour and is supposed to show their performance and perhaps interviews.

The description from the DirecTV guide:

AUGUSTANA: San Diego, CA. Rock. Augustana has been featured on numerous tours with the likes of The Fray, Counting Crows and Snow Patrol. Their new album is scheduled for release in April.

Also, a new site project was added to the middle column, so check it out!

Ok, it’s kind of a small thing, but we’ve made it to one year of being here today! The site started off as Hotel Roosevelt on March 3rd, 2007 and has managed to progress to what it is from all the wonderful picture donations and help that it has received. Thank you everyone so much! And of course thank you to Augustana…because without them there would be no need for the site.

So here is to a great 2008 and beyond!

I added lyrics for the Can’t Love, Can’t Hurt EP to the music page, which you can check out here: Can’t Love, Can’t Hurt EP (2008).

One new desktop wallaper (titled: no title) and ten new 100×100 Avatars were also uploaded.

A new design is up that I’ve been working on for most of the week. I hope you all like it! It works for 800×600 but it looks best in any resolution that is larger than that. It’s been tested in both IE and Firefox for bugs but if you come across any, let me know! I’ll be working on re-doing the gallery and the video archive (and maybe the forums) if I get a chance this weekend.