Strung Out

Whats up we are a pop punk band from Harrisburg Pa. We believe in hard work and having fun. We don't have famous friends we are not critically acclaimed and no one in this band was ever in some famous band who's name we could drop or coat tail we could ride. But we will get up earlier than you and work longer and harder. That has to count for something. If it doesn't then at least we had a hell of a good time trying and made some amazing friends along the way.

LA rockers The Darlings have come a long way since their inception in 2005. After beating out hundreds of bands to win Ernie Ball Battle of the Bands 13, the Darlings had their song "What Lies Below" picked up by the Anaheim Ducks, who used the track for their 09/10 season promo spots on Prime Ticket. The band's song "Broken Heart Still Beating" has also been in steady rotation on influential LA modern rock station KROQ's Locals Only show for months. In addition to hitting the road on tours with Face To Face, Strung Out, Pennywise and sharing the stage with Sum 41, Bad Religion, and Social Distortion last year, they also picked up endorsements from Ernie Ball, Fxck Cancer Foundation, and Supernatural Cymbals. The Darlings don't show any signs of slowing as they were just showcased at the NAMM Show 2012 in Anaheim, CA and are releasing their next single "Hypnotize" off their debut full length album, 'The New Escape' on Gadsen Records (UMG) this Spring.

A fashion-crust Pollack, a dude that looks like if Ben Franklin was young and handsome, a drunken 90lb weakling and a hair-farming little guy that looks like he either parties with the Beastie Boys or the Arab Spring walk into a bar. Sounds like the start of a pretty good joke right? Well, this joke calls itself the Holy Mess and chances are that it walks into a bar, breaks a bunch of things, insults a few people, angrily grumbles and then melts your dick right off your pelvis with their sloppily aggressive take on the already sloppy and aggressive pop punk sound popularized by bands like Dillinger 4 and Lifetime. The punchline of the joke is that the Holy Mess don't give a fuck on a level so profound that when I asked them some history so I could write this bio I just got a message back that said "if that ain't country, I'll kiss your ass." Yet somehow, they have managed to crank out a modern masterpiece of booze soaked, regret fueled bangers that they've foolishly titled "Cande Ru Las Degas" and even more foolishly left up to the flying monkeys over at Red Scare Industries to disseminate to the masses, and said dissemination will commence August 2012, so hold onto your fancy opera glasses, grandpa. -Brendan Kelly