The album's release date was later changed to April 7, 2009. Their debut full-length was retitled Common Struggles (former titles include Young Goodman Brown: A Book of Short Stories and Benson Shady Grove), was produced by Howard Benson, and was slated for release on Reprise in 2008. Following this, the group opened for Saves the Day on their US tour. Upon releasing the EP, the group opened for The Fray on several tour dates in America. In July 2008, they released an iTunes-exclusive EP, No More Sadface, on Reprise Records instead, which hit No. 43 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart.
However, instead of releasing the full-length, the band put the project on hiatus and continued touring. In early 2006 Single File recorded their debut full-length, which was tentatively titled Benson Shady Grove, with producer Ed Rose (who has worked with such bands as Motion City Soundtrack, The Get Up Kids, Senses Fail, Emery, Reggie and the Full Effect, The Spill Canvas, and The New Amsterdams). Single File were also named one of MySpace's Top 10 Unsigned Bands in 2006. After that they promoted several national tours in 20, including touring with the Vans Warped Tour as well as scoring regular airplay on Denver radio station KTCL with the song "Zombies Ate My Neighbors" (named after the video game of the same name), which became a local hit. Ray Salazar left the band after Heartbreak & Masturbation to pursue other musical endeavors. The band established itself in the local Los Angeles music scene and began to draw attention from local A&R reps. Their first EP, As You Were was self-released in 2005, followed by two further EPs, Heartbreak & Masturbation with Ray Salazar on drums (2006) and My Best Defense (2007). The group started out originally as a swing jazz trio when its members were in high school, though members Sloan Anderson and Chris Depew had been playing together since middle school.
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