Apollo Up!

Nashville post-hardcore trio Apollo Up! mixes punky aggression having a fondness for challenging song constructions and unexpected powerful shifts, developing a cerebral but impassioned audio equally comparable to the deceptively available experimentalism of Ted Leo & the Pharmacists as well as the awesome strength of Fugazi. After many years spent slogging through a number of minor local clothes with titles like Lotushalo as well as the Shakedown Luxury cruise, Alabama-born vocalist and guitarist Jay Leo Phillips, bassist Mike Shepherd, and drummer Jerome Frey shaped Apollo Up! in past due 2002. The group authorized with respected regional indie Theory 8 Information (the Carter Administration, the Sincerity Guild, etc.) in 2003. Their debut recording, Light the finish and Burn off It Through, was made by Nashville engineer Jeremy Ferguson (most widely known for his use Be Your Personal Family pet) and released in January 2004. Following a launch of Light the finish and Burn off It Through, Phillips started to break up his time taken between his personal band and a fresh part as bassist and keyboardist within the Nashville fantasy pop trio Neglect Cassettes, frequently touring with both rings while playing a significant role within the documenting of Neglect Cassettes’ second recording, 2006’s Sodium. After vocalist and lyricist Phillips came back to his major outlet, the next recording by Apollo Up!, Chariots of Open fire, premiered in June 2006, once more made by Ferguson and released by Theory 8.