The Promise Ring has announced a reunion tour for this summer and a rarities collection to be released in the fall.

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The AV Club have posted their "Oral History" of The Promise Ring.

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The Promise Ring has announced a show at Irving Plaza in New York City for May 20th. Tickets go on sale Saturday. The band will also be playing The Bamboozle on May 19th.

The Promise Ring will be playing Turner Hall in Milwaukee on February 24th and the Metro in Chicago on the 25th. They will also be releasing a rarities album in summer 2012 via Dangerbird Records.

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The Promise Ring has posted a new video. You can view it in the replies.

Influential emo act The Promise Ring has created a Twitter account. The band has been inactive since 2002.

Dan Didier of The Promise Ring hinted at a possible reunion for the band sometime next year.

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Davey von Bohlen says "never" to a Promise Ring tour and an extended Cap'n Jazz reunion.

The Promise Ring were one of the bands most instrumental to emo's rise to prominence. The band burst onto the scene in 1996 with their powerful debut 30 Degrees Everywhere and cemented their legacy with the genre-defining Nothing Feels Good. They would go on to explore poppier territory on Very Emergency, and by their 2002 swan-song Wood/Water, there was little trace of the angst and knotty angularity that characterized their earlier recordings. One constant throughout their too-short career was vocalist Davey Von Bohlen's hard-hitting lyricism and honest delivery; in a style where heart-on-sleeve earnestness is the norm, few sounded quite so genuine. If you've missed out on this...