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Rome Hero Foxes

Announces Sophomore Album

18 Summers

To Be Released July 27th, 2018

June 11, 2018 - Houston, TX - Houston quintet Rome Hero Foxes is thrilled to announce 18 Summers, the band's forthcoming sophomore album. 18 Summers, which represents a shift away from Rome Hero Foxes' post-hardcore beginnings to a warmer indie rock sound, will be released on July 27th, 2018. For more information, please visit:

romeherofoxes.com.

"It's something different from what our listeners are used to but I feel like we were meant to create music like this. I feel right at home when I listen to it," shares drummer Adrian Romero.

Adds guitarist Michael Fox: "18 Summers is a huge step in the maturity of the band. Artists progress and mature over time and this record is the most comfortable I've ever been with our music. Our newer sound hits closer to home with my influences growing up."

Rome Hero Foxes named their sophomore LP 18 Summers, but it more accurately describes the band's beginnings. Shortly after graduating high school, the quintet was discovered in 2016 by Dance Gavin Dance's Kurt Travis and released For When You're Falling Backwards. As far as debuts go, its expanse melded the urgency of post-hardcore with an inward gaze offsetting any chaos. That introspection, bent over swirling guitars and mesmerizing vocal lines, led to reinvention. Instead of baring their teeth through arrangements that spiraled and warped, the band took a self-imposed journey into simpler territory. A pair of twin EPs, I/O and Horoscope, reset Rome Hero Foxes as a group indebted to surf rock and indie pop instead of gnarlier waves, with the latter predicting their shimmering follow-up. Enter the real 18 Summers.

"During this time of writing all of this material, it made me envision all these songs as this sort of time capsule-like void or world where time is slow but life keeps moving faster," vocalist and rhythm guitarist CJ Burton explains. With that definition in mind, it's easy to understand the varied warmth and speeds put to tape here. "Seattle Queen," with Andrew Hagan's percolating keyboards leading the way, places love's angled complexities behind a slice of bubblegum pop. "Chest Piece" splits its pathway between R&B schmaltz and vaulted pop-punk. Other fare, like the Black Mirror nod "San Junipero," heighten interpersonal highs to infectious, but experimental highs. It's the only track that reminds listeners of the band's darker roots, with flecks of mathy guitar flanking verses. This album is as concerned with love as it is with its absence in the face of growing older and growing apart.

18 Summers enters like a dream - abrupt and disorienting - before adjusting to this new state with enthusiasm. This eternal sunshine captures a world where time is relative: sit back, relax, and dive in. Because here, love reigns supreme.

Rome Hero Foxes is CJ Burton (vocals, guitar), Andrew Hagan (vocals, keys), Michael Fox (guitar), Emilio Garcia-Caro (bass), and Adrian Romero (drums).

For more information:

Website:www.romeherofoxes.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/romeherofoxes

Twitter: www.twitter.com/romeherofoxes

Instagram: www.instagram.com/romeherofoxes

18 Summers Track Listing:

1. Lost In A Room

2. Break Your Own Bones

3. Chest Piece

4. 18 Summers

5. Be Your Side

6. Don't Call My Name

7. San Junipero

8. Don't Close The Door

9. Seattle Queen

10. Good For You

High Res Press Photo: http://bit.ly/2sLoscU (Credit Natasha Bermudez)

Album Artwork: http://bit.ly/2JhnNLf

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What: The nation’s best self defense instructors gather in Midway Utah on June 29th for a summer training seminar – demonstrating the latest & most advanced situational awareness strategies and self defense moves and escapes taught by current FBI defense tactics instructor and law enforcement for the first time together in Utah.

Who: Steve Kardian - renowned FBI Defense Tactics Instructor & author of The New Super Power for Women; Tracie Arlington – lead instructor of defense Strategies for Women training of 100,000 women; Patti Stewart - Lead Instructor at DefenseinHeels.com; and many others.

Where: Zermatt Resort

Why: Nationally recognized experts and TV personalities in the field of public safety & self defense will be sharing the latest techniques for the first time together in Utah. This event is not to be missed.

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3 Surprises To Watch Out For When Paying

For Long-Term Care

More than 70 percent of Americans over the age of 65 will need long-term health care services, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Yet, according to the Employee Benefit Research Institute, only 13 percent of those who received professional home health care had long-term insurance policies, which can protect seniors from high out-of-pocket costs.

“There is a wide gap of people without long-term care insurance (LTCI), and some of the alternatives carry little-known laws and legal liabilities that can pose a problem to the care recipient and their family, says Chris Orestis, Executive Vice President of GWG Life (www.gwglife.com) and author of the books Help on the Way and A Survival Guide to Aging.

“The growing long-term care funding crisis has brought lawsuits and mandated claw-back actions against families in attempts to recover monies spent on long-term care,” Orestis says.  “There is a growing need for consumers to consider all their available financial options to fund long-term care, and that can include selling a life insurance policy.”

“Often the weight for long-term care falls on the family, and they need to avoid a financial surprise that can come late in life for their loved ones.”

Orestis shares three key things people should know about alternative ways of covering long-term care and possible problems those can present down the road:

• States can sue for Medicaid recovery of LTC. Many families assume that once a senior is approved for Medicaid coverage of long-term care, the only thing left to worry about is maintaining financial and functional eligibility. “You’ve proven that a loved one cannot afford the level of care they require, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t anything left to worry about in terms of covering and repaying costs,” Orestis says. The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 requires states to implement a Medicaid estate-recovery program, which allows states to sue families via probate court to recover Medicaid dollars spent on a family member’s long-term care. “A report by the Office of the Inspector General showed that Medicaid, the primary source of long-term coverage, recovers hundreds of millions of dollars from families every year,” Orestis says. “But as budget pressures on states increase, estate-recovery actions are likely to become even more aggressive.”
• Watch out for withheld information on life insurance. Selling or borrowing against a life insurance policy in the secondary market, a process called a life settlement, is a way to help people find alternative funding sources for long-term care. “A number of states have passed legislation mandating consumer disclosure about the secondary market before their policies will be allowed to lapse,” Orestis says.
• Be aware of filial responsibility laws. “These impose a duty upon adult children for the support of their impoverished parents and can be extended to other relatives,” Orestis says. “These laws can include criminal penalties for adult children or close relatives who fail to provide for family members when challenged to do so. Attorneys for nursing homes are testing the laws by filing lawsuits on behalf of indigent parents to recover funds.” Currently, 28 states and Puerto Rico have filial responsibility laws in place.

About Chris Orestis

Chris Orestis, Executive Vice President of GWG Life (www.gwglife.com), has more than 20 years of experience in the insurance and long-term care industries and is nationally recognized as a healthcare expert and senior care advocate. He is a former Washington, D.C. lobbyist who has provided legislative testimony; the author of two books: Help on the Way and A Survival Guide to Aging; a frequent columnist with a currently popular series titled "The Healthcare Hunger Games"; and has been a featured guest on over 50 radio programs, in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Kiplinger’s and Investor’s Business Daily, and on PBS as well as numerous other media outlets. 

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