Doors 6:30pm | Show 7:30pm
Call them power pop, alternative, rock, or pop punk…any way you slice it, you’ll be missing something. Motion City Soundtrack is one of those bands that can’t fit neatly inside the cookie cutter mold of a genre. Lead singer and guitarist, Justin Pierre has called the band “Scrabble rock” because of its inclusion of intense vocabulary in its lyrics. The five-piece is rounded out by Joshua Cain (lead guitar/backing vocals), Jesse Johnson (keyboardist/moog synthesist), Matthew Taylor (bassist/backing vocalist), and Tony Thaxton (drummer/backing vocalist).
Motion City Soundtrack quickly realized that playing in Minnesota wasn’t going to garner them the impact they wanted to make on the music scene, so they toured constantly, spreading their music to as many ears as would listen. The hard work has paid off; the band has sold more than half a million albums in the US alone, peaking at the #2 spot on the Independent Albums chart with their second album, Commit to Memory. With four studio albums under their belts, Motion City Soundtrack is gearing up for their release of their fifth album, Go, on June 12, 2012.