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You can now buy Take A Vacation (single) on iTunes or Amazon for $0.99.

If you're strapped for cash, you can download it for free at Filter, who have the following to say:

Vacation time is often heralded as celebration time. As we all need a little break from the every day norm, The Young Veins, happily run with such intermittent idealism in the title track from their forthcoming debut album, Take A Vacation!

Pack a day bag and pick up some sunscreen, as FILTER premieres the 60's costal vibes of The Young Veins. Catch the guys opening for Rooney this summer, while their debut album drops June 8th.

From WTMD's New Music Sampler:

THE YOUNG VEINS — "CHANGE"
Tap into The Young Veins as they serve up quick chord changes and great harmonies.

The Burning Ear was less than impressed:

When Panic At The Disco’s second album disappointed everyone who had loved their first, half the band left and eventually formed The Young Veins. No surprise that they sound nothing like Panic. It’s solid classic-rock, just nothing special.

And this is sort of random, but Ryan hooked these guys (The America Yeah) up with a producer:

ML: Tell me about your oppor­tu­nity to record at Palms Stu­dio with Mark Ever­ton Gray?
LL: I mean it sorta just fell into my lap...our lap.
TM: His lap and then I joined on.
LL: Then I trans­ferred it to his lap. And I was like, here you can have it in your lap as well. [Laugh­ter] To be hon­est, we just went out, had a cou­ple drinks with him, turned into a long night of debauch­ery, and at the end of it he was maybe drunk­enly say­ing, ‘I’m gonna record your record.’ Then two days later, showed up at my house, lis­tened to music. He got a rec­om­men­da­tion from a friend of mine and his. And then just went with it. I never thought it was really gonna hap­pen, always thought it was too good to be true. And then it went from, ‘I’m gonna record one song to three songs to a full length album.’ And we actu­ally did record 12 songs, but we didn’t use the others.

ML: How did it fall into your lap, who was this mutual friend?
LL: It’s this kid named Ryan that me and Mark know together, he used to play in a band Panic! At The Disco, and now he plays in The Young Veins. And Ryan was in town ‘cause he moved to Cal­i­for­nia and he’s like, ‘Come get a drink,’ then me and the friend at nine in the morn­ing is telling me he’s gonna record our record that I thought was gonna take a lot of money to record. We had planned on record­ing it our­selves and planned on bud­get­ing five to six grand into record­ing. It was a big finan­cial and ques­tion­ing weight off my shoul­ders. It was cool.