Rise Against talk to Examiner about new album “Endgame”

Rise Against vocalist Tim McIlrath recently talked to Examiner.com about the upcoming release of “Endgame,” the band‘s sixth studio album due out in March. The singer also pokes fun at the misinformation reported by Spin which made references to the country band, Dixie Chicks, and their inspiration on the Chicago punk band’s forthcoming LP. McIlrath states, “The record is not a concept record and has absolutely nothing to do with the Dixie Chicks.”

For the past three months McIlrath and bandmates, Joe Principe, Brandon Barnes and Zach Blair headed back to Colorado to the scene of the crime – The Blasting Room, where all but two Rise Against albums were created, and are currently mixing and adding last minute backing vocals.

Once again the band turned to producer Bill Stevenson, whom they’ve worked with since their Fat Wreck Chords days. “Endgame” follows two consecutively successful albums, The Sufferer and The Witness, and Appeal to Reason, the latter being Rise Against’s highest charting album reaching #3 on Billboard’s Top 200 and possibly most controversial.