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Minneapolis, United States (1999 – present)

Motion City Soundtrack is a band which includes members Joshua Cain (guitar), Tony Thaxton (drums), Justin Pierre (vocals/guitar), Jesse Johnson (Moog), and Matthew Taylor (bass). Following their high-school graduation, Minneapolis, MN natives Pierre and Cain — both of whom were inspired by Sunny Day Real Estate, Jawbox, The Flaming Lips, and Superchunk — formed the band in 1999. The pair assembled a temporary lineup and issued a self-released 7” that same year. Later, while touring through Pennsylvania in support of their release, Motion City Soundtrack met Thaxton and Taylor of the Virginia-based band Submerge. The two musicians decided to leave their hometown of Richmond, VA, to join Motion City Soundtrack full-time, and the expanded band soon entered the studio with producer/engineer Ed Rose (The Get Up Kids, Ultimate Fakebook). Three weeks before recording commenced, they were also joined by keyboardist Jesse Johnson (whose personal record label, Ordinary Records, had issued some of Jimmy Eat World’s earliest material in 1995) to relieve singer/guitarist Pierre of his synthesizer duties.

With a new lineup firmly in place, the band’s punk-glazed debut, I Am the Movie, was released in the summer of 2003. While playing venues and basements in support of the album, Motion City Soundtrack was picked up by Epitaph Records; later, they joined Blink-182 on a tour through Europe and Japan. Blink’s bassist, Mark Hoppus, took a liking to the band and agreed to produce their next album; the resulting Commit This to Memory was released two years later and featured an increasingly pop-heavy sound.
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  • Jonjonjohny

    @LC-Intelligent: I respect them for MDL, instead of writing of from a perspective of being a fucked up loser like most of Justin's lyricisms they wrote something they felt at the time. Maybe Weezer esk but its a great album.

    yesterday evening

  • shremlltd

    First listen, pretty great album. Handmade for the summer. I like how they've aimed for a raw sound instead of the grandeur of EIIKM, very similar to what Relient K did with Forget & Not Slow Down.

    Sunday morning

  • dazeno24

    When did the new album leak!? Also, could someone be kind enough to put a link :)

    Sunday morning

  • LC-Intelligent

    Timelines is fantastic... I think they have finally returned to form. I love MDL but I felt it didn't shine as much as the other albums, there were some stand out tracks but the rest of the album just didn't have that melancholy that is typical of the best MCS songs.

    Saturday afternoon

  • neversmiled

    няши блееааать :3

    Saturday morning

  • mcgavin27

    It is a very mellow album but it is great.

    Friday evening

  • winterisbroken

    If I had to rank them all it would be EIIKM > Go > CTTM > IATM > MDL. Go, CTTM, and IATM will probably rotate often.

    Friday morning

  • SpyKiisMaGiC

    It'll probably land behind EIIKM and CTTM for me and ahead of MDL. Not sure about which side of IATM it'll end up on.

    Friday morning
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4 Feb 2012 | from blog.myspace.com/motioncitysoundtrack

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