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Acquiring their name from the primary character within the 1986 BMX movie Rad, Cru Jones arrived together in 2001 in Florida. Relocating a couple of years later on to Syracuse, NY, their passionate crossbreed of post-hardcore and emo was sometimes similar to Fugazi or early Coalesce; their dynamic tracks, in …

After Rilo Kiley released The Execution of most Things in Oct 2002, the band’s two co-founders took time off to spotlight different side projects. Jenny Lewis documented using the Postal Provider and toured to get the band’s gold-selling QUIT, while Blake Sennett shaped the Elected with guitarist Mike Bloom, primary …