Rise Against will be playing three "exclusive" shows in LA this May. May 16th-18th the band will be performing at the Troubadour with Strike Anywhere and a rotating opening band. Bands occupying the rotating opening slot include Authority Zero, Love Equals Death and The Blackout Pact. Tickets go on sale on February 15th.

The band plans on completing their followup to 2004's Siren Song of the Counter Culture with Bill Stevenson before the first of the shows. They will also be playing a show on March 18th in Miami, Florida with Nine Inch Nails, Rob Zombie, Coheed and Cambria, and more at Bicentennial Park.

The group also recently reissued their 2001 debut, The Unravelling and their single "Swing Life Away" spent more than twenty weeks on the Billboard Modern Rock singles chart.