Citizen - Youth (2013)

Genre: Punk/Alternative/Indie

Website: Bandcamp/Facebook 

Similar Sound: Seahaven/Turnover

  

Track Listing:

1) Roam The Room

2) Figure You Out

3) The Summer

4) Sleep

5) How Does It Feel?

6) The Night I Drove Alone

7) Speaking With A Ghost

8) Your Head Got Misplaced

9) Sick And Impatient

10) Drawn Out

 

Info:

pop punk/Indie band from the Southeast Michigan/ Northwest Ohio area. They are currently Signed to Run For Cover Records

The band effortlessly blurs lines from crashing Foo Fighters-esque drums and and loud guitars to quiet, emotive twinkling breaks akin to peers Basement and Title Fight but with their own midwestern personality.

 

 

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Hightide Hotel - Secret Somethings Vol. 2 (2011)

Genre: Emo/Indie/Rock

Website: Facebook/Tumblr 

Similar Sound: By Surprise/Snowing

  

Track Listing:

1) Intro 

2) Ballad

3) Ultimatum

4) Hollow

5) Your Bed

6) My Bed

7) Hospital Green

8) Malice

9) Closer

10) Outro

Info:

Hightide Hotel is an emo band from Philadelphia. Members include Benjamin Schmidt, Christopher Thomas, and David Sampson. Former member - Nathaniel Dionne.

They are releasing one more full-length entitled “Naturally” in 2013 before disbanding.

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Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends (2002)

 Genre: Emo/Indie/Alternative

Website: Official/Facebook 

Similar Sound: Brand New/Bayside
 

Track Listing:

1) You Know How I Do

2) Bike Scene

3) Cute Without The 'E' (Cut From The Team)

4) There's No 'I' In Team

5) Great Romances Of The 20th Century

6) Ghost Man On Third

7) Timberwolves At New Jersey

8) The Blue Channel

9) You're So Last Summer

10) Head Club

Info:

Taking Back Sunday originally formed on Long Island, New York, USA in 1999. The band has gone through several lineup changes. Their first release came in 2001 with the Taking Back Sunday EP, and featured Antonio Longo on vocals, John Nolan on guitar and backing vocals, Eddie Reyes on guitar (the original founder of the band), Jesse Lacey, Adam Lazzara and Mark O’Connell replaced Stevie D) they released the follow-up album Tell All Your Friends, which was produced by Sal Villaneuva. The album gave the band a first taste of success in the scene. 


 

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Kite Party - Baseball Season (2011)

Genre: Alternative/Indie/Rock

Website: Facebook/Bandcamp 

Similar Sound: Hard Girls/The Clippers

Track Listing:
1) Welcome To Miami
2) Runner
3) Spirit Gum
4) Buried In Dogs
5) Arizona
6) Hightower
7) Southpaw
8) Jaws Of Life
9) We Won't Survive

Info:
Kite Party's new album, Baseball Season is a meditation on love, loss, and the daily struggles of being in a band whose name is perpetually misread as Katy Perry. 
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Transit - Something Left Behind (2011)

Genre: Pop Punk/Indie/Rock

Website: Bandcamp/Facebook 

Similar Sound: Man Overboard/Fireworks

 

Track Listing:

1) Indoor Voices

2) Please, Head North (Acoustic)

3) For The World (Acoustic)

4) Just Go, Just Leave

5) Castaway (Acoustic)

6) Hope This Finds You Well (Acoustic)

7) Stay Home (Acoustic)

8) Something Left Behind

9) 1978

 

Info:

Transit is an American pop-punk group based out of Boston, MA along the lines of Taking Back Sunday, Saves The Day, Crime In Stereo, Balance & Composure, Polar Bear Club, and Hot Water Music. Transit has released three full-length albums: 2008’s This Will Not Define Us, 2010’s Keep This to Yourself and 2011’s Listen & Forgive. Other releases include 2011’s Record Store Day limited edition 7” Promise Nothing, the acoustic EP Something Left Behind, 2009’s Stay Home EP, 2007’s Let It Out EP, a split 7” with Man Overboard, and a self-titled 4 song demo. They are currently signed to Rise Records.

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Daytrader - Twelve Years (2012)

Genre: Pop Punk/Indie/Emo

Website: Facebook/Bandcamp 

Similar Sound: Misser/Turnover

 

Track Listing:

1) Deadfriends

2) If You Need It

3) Firebreather

4) Skin & Bones

5) Lost Between The Coasts

6) After-Image

7) Struggle With Me

8) Silver Graves

9) Heard It In A Song

10) Letter To A Former Lover

 

Info:

Daytrader was a punk band from Brooklyn, NY… They debuted a three song demo in September 2010 and released an EP entitled “Last Days of Rome” in January 2011, citing influences such as Jimmy Eat World, Sunny Day Real Estate, Further Seems Forever, Saves the Day and Hot Water Music. Their debut LP, “Twelve Years”, was released May 8th, 2012 on Rise Records.

On November 9th 2012, after losing vocalist Tym a month prior, the band announced that they had parted ways. Tym went on to form a new band, Some Stranger

 

 

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Caspian - Waking Season (2012)

Genre: Post Rock/Indie/Experimental

Website: Bandcamp/Official Website 

Similar Sound: This Will Destroy You/Gifts From Enola

 

Track Listing:

1) WakingSeason

2) Procellous

3) Gone In Bloom And Bough

4) Halls Of The Summer

5) Akiko

6) High Lonesome

7) Hickory '54

8) Long The Desert Mile

9) Collider In Blue

10) Fire Made Flesh

Info:

Caspian is an American instrumental rock band from Beverly, Massachusetts. The band formed in Autumn of 2003 and played their first concert in August of 2004.

 

Caspian loosely formed in Autumn of 2003 in Beverly, Massachusetts, developing material through the first year of its existence, recording a demo in May 2004 and performing a small number of shows in late 2004 and early 2005, including a support for the Japanese post-rock band Mono. The band’s first performance took place at The Pickled Onion in Beverly, Massachusetts on August 26, 2004. At the time the band had not yet chosen the name Caspian and were looking for a vocalist.

 

 

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The Early November - In Currents (2012)

Genre: Emo/Indie/Rock

Website: Official/Soundcloud 

Similar Sound: The Starting Line/The Dangerous Summer
  

Track Listing:

1) A Stain On The Carpet

2) Frayed In Doubt

3) In Currents

4) Digital Age

5) Tell Me Why

6) Close To You

7) Guilt & Swell

8) That's Not Your Real Name

9) Like A Kid

10) Smell Of This Place

11) Wearing The Tie

12) Call Off The Bells
  

Info:

The Early November is an American pop-punk band from Hammonton, New Jersey. The group formed in 1999 and signed with Drive-Thru Records in 2002. As of 2006, they have released two EPs (2002's For All of This and 2002's The Acoustic EP), as well as two full-length albums (2003's The Room's Too Cold and 2006's triple album The Mother, the Mechanic, and the Path). Their latest effort debuted at No. 31 on the Billboard 200. They also participated in the Vans Warped Tour in 2002–2004 and 2006. They are currently signed with Rise Records and released a new album entitled In Currents on July 10, 2012.

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Moving Mountains - New Light (2012)

Genre: Post-Rock/Indie/Emo

Website: Bandcamp/MovMou 

Similar Sound: The Appleseed Cast/Athletics

 
Track Listing:

1) Alleviate

2) Ode We Will Bury Ourselves

3) Where Two Bodies Lie

4) 8105
   

Info:

Moving Mountains is a New York-based indie rock band. Combining emotional vocals with elements of post-rock and emo, the band has often been compared to The Appleseed Cast.
The band was formed in Westchester, New York in 2005 by Gregory Dunn (guitar/vocals) and Nicholas Pizzolato (drums). A self-titled demo EP was leaked to the public in early 2006 and their debut album Pneuma was released independently in early 2007. Later that year, Frank Graniero (guitar/vocals) and Mitchell Lee (bass) completed the band’s line-up. In 2008, Pneuma was reissued by Deep Elm. In Fall 2008, the band self-released the EP “Foreword”.

 

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Seapony - Go With Me (2011)

Genre: Dream Pop/Lo-Fi/Indie

Website: Bandcamp/Facebook 

Similar Sound: Beach Fossils/Craft Spells

  

Track Listing:

1) Dreaming

2) I Never Would

3) Blue Star

4) Into The Sea

5) I Really Do

6) Go Away

7) Always

8) So Low

9) What You See

10) Nobody Knows

11) Where We Go

12) With You

 

Info:

Seattle Washington’s Seapony, comprised of Jen Weidl (Vocals, Guitar), Danny Rowland (guitar) & Ian Brewer (Bass). Their first release was the 3-song single Dreaming followed by their debut album, Go With Me (released by Hardly Art) which puts Jen Weidl’s youthful melancholia and yearning on display and wraps it in a blanket of twee/surf/jangle pop.


 

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Summer Vacation - Condition (2011)

Genre: Punk/DIY/Indie

Website: SumVacay/Bandcamp 

Similar Sound: Joyce Manor/Glocca Morra

 

Track Listing:

1) I Know What You Want

2) Tiffany Sucks

3) Post-You

4) Team Captain

5) Wormhole Blueprint

6) Last Summer

 7) Blue Dream

8) The Flower That Drank The Moon

9) Dementia

10) Not That

11) Vice City

12) Apparatus

13) Cancer

 

Info:

SUMMER VACATION is a band made up of four people. our persons stretch across Southern Calfornia from the San Gabriel Valley to Corona. two of us started playing music together in spring 2009, but that was a completely different band*obscure. three of us started playing together in fall 2009(birth of xsvx). four of us started playing together in winter 2010. we play kind of like a punk or something. there's melodic shit going on and upbeat boppin'-poppin' beats to get down wit. it's sorta fast but not really all the time you know, stuff. like, we get heavy sometimes but like with lots of harmony whatever. our songs have a lot of chords and we have to repeat them over and over. it's a musician thing whatever. sometimes we throw in sad parts because life also includes sad parts. sometimes we have funny parts b/c life is colored by the wonderful jokes everyday people share....everyday. it's good to learn how to laugh at all the sudden things that get us down in life. nice.

 

 

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