This Condition spends the first thirty-one seconds of their debut EP, “Find it in You,” careening perilously toward the edge of the giant emo trash bin in the sky.
Rarely do I feel as bewildered as I had been while experiencing the Styrofoam Junkies for the first time. Their newly released untitled EP brings forth a
“Snap! Crackle! Pop!” goes Valet Parking, in (what I presume to be) their debut album, “That’s What She Said,” right from the beginning. It’s just like a sugary breakfast cereal that all the kids love to chomp down
Nassau-based pop-punk/emo quartet Oh Savanna is in dire straights after three members left at the end of this summer. Currently, lead singer Ryan Mielke is picking
Though they may not be the most original pop-punk band from Long Island, Permanent Me still gets the job done. With both a new record and an opening
William Wordsworth’s 1799 poem, “Lucy Gray,” is a gothic tale of an obedient child ordered to run an errand in the wilderness where she disappeared in a storm. It is a tale about the death of innocence – to
When The Standoff learned that their band name was taken by an English group just as they were in the midst of the “legal stuff” preceding their first recording, the potential for disaster was there. But they took the news in stride – after sifting through a list of 500 potential names, the five-piece, based in West Hempstead, settled on “Styrofoam Junkies” in May of 2007. The name, they say, can inspire either love or hate, but it sticks.
A member of Long Island’s indie/emo scene will call it quits on Monday, Aug. 6th, after a final hurrah at Great Neck’s Sky Lounge. Eleven to Your Seven, a Nassau-based quartet, have captured local teens’ attention since Sept. with simple melodies and boyish lyrics that narrated the pangs
The Rehab Addicts have been around in one way or another since their collective sophomore year of high school in 2004. It took them some time to come up with the final lineup, but in the end they found the best (and simplest) line up to be Mike - Guitar/Vocals, Dan - Bass/Backup Vocals and T.J.
Childhood friends Josh Sason and Christopher Antonelli of East Meadow united in 2006 to form Vibes, a piano pop band that shoots huge and thrives on their outspoken artistic idealism.