2010)
Following the conclusion of their touring in 2008, the band went back home, to write and record their follow up album. The band also booked and performed on a European Tour with Alkaline Trio in early 2009, starting on January 22, 2009 and ending on the February 17, 2009. The tour covered shows in Belgium, Germany, Holland, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, France and ending in a 11 date tour in England. Shortly before the European Tour, the band announced via myspace on January 6, 2009 that they had signed with Sideone Dummy Records for their next album release.
Once the band came home from the European Tour with Alkaline Trio, the band set about tackling their next album. Starting on Tuesday March 10, they headed to Ft. Collins, Colorado, to record in the "Blasting Room!!", armed with close to 20 songs. There they would record their second album with producer Bill Stevenson, the drummer for Descendents and Only Crime. Bill Stevenson's production credits include records with bands like NOFX, Good Riddance, Rise Against, Comeback Kid, Suicide Machines, Descendents, A Wilhelm Scream, MxPx, Lagwagon, The Ataris, Black Flag, and many more. Pre-production was completed by March 15, which whittled the number of songs down to 13. Tracking began on March 15 with Bill and Jason Livermore. The band had finished recording and mixing the album by April 8. The band then performed some tour dates with Menzingers.
On May 14, 2009, Sideone Dummy Records revealed the name of the band's second album to be Good Views, Bad News, to be released August 18, 2009. On June 1, 2009 Sideone Dummy announced the release of the album's first single, "Be All That You Can't Be" on July 21, 2009. The single was available on 7" vinyl, available in Blue, Orange and White(Hot Topic Exclusive). The pressings of each colour was limited to 500 each. On June 10, 2009 the band announced that "Be All That You Can't Be" was to be included on the Warped Tour 2009 Tour Compilation CD. Good Views, Bad News reached No. 24 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart.
More recently the band has announced single shows with Bane and This Is Hell on July 27 and Comadre, Dead To Me, Hour Of The Wolf on August 8. These shows are to be warm up shows ready for the band to perform on 5 dates on the 2009 Warped Tour on the Kia/Kevin Says Stage. Broadway Calls is scheduled to perform at the Leeds Festival in England on August 29, and at the Reading Festival on August 30. These festival dates line between dates supporting The Offspring on August 25 and 26 in London and Manchester, England and September 1 and 2 at shows in Munich, Germany and Milan, Italy.
More recently Sideone Dummy have announced the band is to support Streetlight Manifesto on a U.S tour during late September and early October, followed up by 3 dates supporting The Gaslight Anthem during mid October 9.
In Late July 2009, 2 songs additional songs were made available from the new album, for free download. "The Call Out" is available from NME website. "Jump At Shadows", is available, from a promotion with UK based "Kerrang!".
On 6 August 2009 the music video for "Be All That You Can't Be" debuted on Absolute Punk. In late August 2009, the Bouncing Souls announced that Broadway Calls would be supporting them alongside Bayside on a tour across the West Coast of the U.S during late October and early November 2009.
During April and May 2010 the band toured the east coast and midwest of the U.S with Cobra Skulls, The Flatliners and Off With Their Heads, amongst other bands.
The 2nd music video for the album was made for "Basement Royalty", and was released on 13 May 2010. It was made up of a collection of live performances when the band performed at Banquet Records in the UK in early 2010, and clips of the band members exploring the UK.
Matt Koenig left the band in early June 2010, due to alleged lack of song writing contribution towards the band's third album, which they had planned to start writing for following the end of their tour in early 2010. Koenig has been replaced by Adam Willis, who previously played with Josh Baird & Ty Vaughn in Countdown to Life. The band is currently writing for their third album.
Screamo band Comadre released their 4th Mix tape on 1 October 2010, which includes a collaboration with Broadway Calls.
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