The Valley Arena

Based away of Long Beach front, CA, the members of rock and roll outfit the Valley Arena experienced all played in a variety of teams around Southern California for quite some time before the band’s formation, and guitarist/vocalist Chris Stevens and drummer Mike Nielson have been jamming with one another since they had been both 13 years of age. After the two close friends abandoned their additional musical tasks and met up in 2003 with vocalist/guitarist Warren Woodward and bassist Dave South, points fit immediately, as well as the Valley Industry had been officially born. Simply months after developing, the quartet experienced finished its 1st album, Take delight in Strangers, that was inspired by ’90s D.C. post-punk works like Fugazi and Jawbox. The label-less Valley Area didn’t stay unsigned for lengthy, and soon after the record’s conclusion, these were snatched up by New Jersey-based Astro Magnetics Information — an imprint of Eyeball Information co-owned by Thursday’s Geoff Rickly — with time for Strangers’ correct 2005 discharge. A summertime tour implemented, and the people added displays in the U.S. and European countries with their tour journal before getting into the studio room in past due 2006 to begin with focus on their following record. The Valley Area released the ensuing Sesso.Vita, which is Italian for “Sex.Lifestyle,” in Dec 2007 through Anodyne Information; the groove-oriented record was made up of tracks built around some stories occur a made-up edition of their Longer Beach hometown.