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.