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Despite the music group name, Facing NY hail in the punk rock and roll mecca from the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Bay Area picture, a second-generation emo music group with some progressive and post-rock tendencies that grew out of two small earlier outfits. Vocalist and guitarist Eric Frederic and keyboardist …

Despite their musical differences, eclectic jam band Zox will forever be nestled next to cult favorite Vancouver indie rockers Zumpano (Carl Newman’s band before the New Pornographers) — not only alphabetically, but also for quirks of nomenclature: both bands are named after their drummer’s surnames. In cases like this, drummer …

NORTH PARK indie rockers the Transit Battle certainly are a melodic post-hardcore quartet that’s not whiny or self-involved enough to be looked at emo, nor sufficiently enamored of technique more than songwriting to attract the post-rock chops fetishists. A little more aggressive and much less poppy than either the Weakerthans …

Arriving at emo in the straight-edge post-hardcore path, Oakland, CA’s Desa provides its roots within a long-running East Bay ska-punk group called Web page link 80. Developing in 1994, Hyperlink 80 released three albums with a number of different lineups structured around the primary of drummer Joey Bustos and trumpeter …

Oakland rock-band Road to Nowhere had originally formed during senior high school. After graduation, nevertheless, the bandmembers proceeded to go their separate methods, leaving vocalist/guitarist Dave Smallen to keep under the music group name, playing solo acoustic displays. He assembled a fresh lineup that included drummer Joey Bustos (ex-Link 80, …