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Highspire:
EJ Hagen (guitar), Alex White (vocals), Isaac Betesh (bass), Ron Snyder (guitar), Kevin Fassett (drums)
Founded in the year 2000.
Hometown: Philadelphia, Pa.
A small group of musicians, living in and around the Philadelphia area who are notoriously elusive, opting for the pursuit of writing and recording good music. Usually labeled as “shoegaze” or “dreampop”, Highspire has always been more interested in expanding these sounds and/or crossbreeding with other musical ideas to help create their own style of symphonic-rock/pop. Over their history, Highspire has managed to endure a seemingly endless stream of sackings, quittings, fights, bannings, evictions, thefts, arrests, hospitals, stolen vehicles, vehicle break-ins and break downs, mental break downs, odd jobs, no jobs, and massive record delays, but somehow has aways managed to remain standing and functional to a certain degree.

Update: EJ & Alex have joined the morning after girls.

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shoegaze, dream pop, newgazer, indie, shoegazer
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Your Everything
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Top Tracks

1	Skies You Climb full track	54
2	Until The Lights Go Down full track	49
3	Glass in My Mouth full track	44
3	Slowbeat full track	44
5	Love Me Or Leave Me full track	37
6	No Day Like Today full track	36
7	Shattered full track	33
8	Fade In A Day full track	32
8	Portsmouth full track	32
10	Vesperbell full track	26
11	Turn For The Worse full track	8
11	Dagger	8
11	Believe	8
14	Sub Par Life, Brilliant Death full track	4
14	Sub Par Life, A Brilliant Death	4

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Derail6782 wrote:
Saturday evening

Pinkglove: yes, Glass In My Mouth puts me in such a good mood everytime I hear it!

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her035 wrote:
Saturday afternoon

Hey great recommendation. Thx to that little *wo*man in the lastfm music machine. Hi caitlin :)

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Pinkglove23 wrote:
September 2009

Glass in my mouth is such an awesome track! These guys are amazing! We need a new album!

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Uniontrade wrote:
September 2009

yeah good stuff

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Glitterassassin wrote:
September 2009

great stuff !!

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BUD2THECHUD wrote:
July 2009

Extremely overdue for a new album. Ah.. The skies you climb....bliss.

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riigo wrote:
July 2009

HEY. not bad.

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optimistic_tour wrote:
June 2009

perfection.

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LihinianZissou wrote:
May 2009

This band really is something special!

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OOyuri wrote:
March 2009

very nice shoes ^_^ ...

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groovybug wrote:
March 2009

Do they only have one album?

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ashkaa wrote:
March 2009

i've just discovered them...great band!!!

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jaficg wrote:
February 2009

love me or leave me

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dale1dale wrote:
February 2009

great quality to the music so well thought of! i mean i love the gaze bands that sit on the same riff but this is fucking brill! all shoe music exites me although a new album would make my year!!!

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japhii wrote:
October 2008

skies you climb (L)

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shelby87 wrote:
October 2008

Your Everything is one of my favorite nugaze album!

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Scarius wrote:
April 2008

awesome discovery thanks to last.fm-radio =D

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platform wrote:
April 2008

fantastic sounds!!! feel the summer breeze!

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Marthe-Ma wrote:
April 2008

This is really really good. I was lucky to find this. I agree with you Derail6782, a new album would be great. Though I'm lucky enough to have just found out about this so I'm not bored of this one yet.

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skeleandmole wrote:
March 2008

amazing ...the skies you climb

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