Vagrant signs John Ralston

Vagrant has signed South Florida-based singer-songwriter, John Ralston. The label will be releasing Ralston's full length, Needle Bed> and he will support the album on a tour with new labelmates, Dashboard Confessional.

He is described as a writer of "intensely personal songs dealing with love and loss, family
tragedies and life's frustrations, yet uniquely suffused with the hope for
better days ahead" and one magazine described him as a "Beatles-Cure" hybrid. He came to the attention of the label after performing select dates with Dashboard last year.

Needle Bed is due out April 18th, 2006.