Senses Fail at The Mojo Room in Port St. Lucie on Jan. 16, 2007.

Senses Fail has announced the dates for its upcoming fall headlining tour. The 38-date trek begins Oct. 8 in Richmond, Va. - just one day after the release of Life Is Not A Waiting Room (Vagrant), the band's third full-length and follow-up to 2006's Still Searching. The tour's seventh date is Wednesday, Oct. 15, at The Mojo Room in Port St. Lucie. Special guests on the tour are Sky Eats Airplane, Dance Gavin Dance and Foxy Shazam.

A special ticket presale for the tour at SensesFail.com includes the option of pre-ordering the new album for just $8. Tickets are also available at TicketMaster.com and local outlets for $15 plus service charges. For more information on the show, go to the Slammie concerts page.

The band formed in 2002 in Ridgewood, N.J., taking musical influences of punk, metal and hardcore and mixing them with poetry, emotion, literature, religion, eastern philosophy and spirituality to create its own sound and image. The name Senses Fail is derived from the Buddhist belief in Nirvana.

A debut EP, From the Depths of Dreams (Drive-Thru Records), was released in 2002. The band moved to Vagrant Records for 2004's Let It Enfold You. It was followed by Still Searching, which debuted at No. 15 on the Billboard Top 200 chart and sold more than 300,000 copies. Senses Fail has performed multiple worldwide tours plus numerous stints on Warped and Taste of Chaos. The band's catalog sales have topped 850,000.

The band now features new guitarist Heath Saraceno (formerly of Midtown) along with vocalist Buddy Nielsen, guitarist Garrett Zablocki, bassist Mike Glita and drummer Dan Trapp.

Sky Eats Airplane released its self-titled album (and second overall) on Equal Vision Records in July and immediately broke into the Billboard Top 200. The Fort Worth, Texas, electronicore five-piece had already built a rabid following (more than 5 million MySpace plays and growing) with its dramatic symphonies that fuse bellowing roars with delicate melody.

Post-hardcore band Dance Gavin Dance formed in Sacramento, Calif., out of the ashes of several other bands including Farewell Unknown. The band's third and self-titled album is due on Aug. 19 on Rise Records.

The self-proclaimed "Evel Knievel of rock 'n' roll, Foxy Shazam released its debut, Introducing Foxy (Ferret Music), in January. The album is chock full of the Cincinnati, Ohio, band's piano-propelled songs that layer spastic hardcore noise atop fractured soul and inspired pop.

Classic music Click here to hear songs from SFSA: South Florida Slammie Awards, Vol. 1 (1994). More info, how to order. Classic video Raped Ape performs Remembrance at The Button South in Hallandale, Fla., on June 25, 1992. Click here to see more clips from the original Slammie Awards events on our YouTube page.

As part of our 15th anniversary year, we're bringing the Slammies back from the dead for a special "15 years of rawk" edition that honors not just current artists but the past 15 years of the South Florida music scene.

The original South Florida Slammie Awards ran from 1992 through 1999, outlasting most Florida-based rock awards events (there were many) during the booming '90s music scene. Featuring everyone from Marilyn Manson, Puya and Nonpoint to Against All Authority, Further Seems Forever and New Found Glory, the Slammies spanned the full spectrum of styles in cutting-edge hard music, from punk to metal to hardcore with a little indie thrown in. And, of course, a mosh pit or two.

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A total of 86 bands are represented on the South Florida Slammie Awards' 15th anniversary ballot. With 15 categories featuring 15 nominees each, the awards offer a comprehensive look back at the modern era of of the South Florida punk/metal/alternative/indie scene.

Receiving the most nominations are:

• 7 - Dashboard Confessional, Further Seems Forever, New Found Glory, Nonpoint, Shai Hulud

• 6 - The Agency, The Groovenics, The Holy Terrors, Load, Marilyn Manson, Puya, Raped Ape, Strongarm

• 5 - Against All Authority, Amboog-A-Lard, Irish Car Bomb, Malevolent Creation, Poison the Well, Radiobaghdad, The Vacant Andys, Where Fear & Weapons Meet

Other notable nominations:

• Drummers Jason Lederman (Against All Authority, Brethren, Cavity, Machine, Shai Hulud, Until the End, Where Fear & Weapons Meet) and Chris Goldbach (Against All Authority, Collapsing Lungs, Irish Car Bomb, Malt Liquor Riot, Middle Finger Mob, Radiobaghdad) lead the parade of musicians who played in multiple bands.

• Chris Carrabba (Dashboard Confessional, Further Seems Forever), Chad Gilbert (New Found Glory, Shai Hulud), Goldbach and Chad Neptune (Strongarm, Further Seems Forever) each played in two of the Most Important Band nominees while Lederman played in three.

• Unsung hero John Owens holds the distinction of fronting three bands that "should have made it big, but didn't" - Anchorman, Seville and The Vacant Andys.

Of the 15 nominees for Best Live Music Club, only five remain: Churchill's, Culture Room, Ray's Downtown, Respectable Street and Revolution.

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