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Princeton, New York NJ, United States (1994 – present)

Saves The Day is a Rock band from Princeton, New Jersey and formed in 1994.

They got together when its members were only 13, signed a label deal while still in high school, and went on to sell thousands of records, tour with Blink-182 and Weezer, land songs on the playlist of Los Angeles’ KROQ, and influence countless followers.

Singer-songwriter-guitarist Chris Conley’s lacerating, frequently existential lyrics provide sharp counterpoint to his sweet melodic sensibility as the band exercises their penchant for a variety of rock, punk and pop hooks. In Reverie was produced by Rob Schnapf, who has worked with Saves The Day before, as well as with Beck, Elliott Smith and Guided By Voices.

Precocious from the get-go, Conley took up the cello at six. He had his first real rock ’n’ roll epiphany while sitting in his dad’s Mazda listening over and over on his Discman to the opening drum fill in “Stairway To Heaven.” “That summer I started playing guitar,” he explains. “I was 13. When I got back to school, a friend of mine, who was our drummer for a long time, asked me to come to his house and jam. David played guitar. That was the first incarnation of Saves The Day. We were called Indifference and later, Sefler, which came from an e-mail typo.”

Says Soloway: “We’d play on the street outside Chuck’s Café in Princeton.” “They had great wings,” Conley adds, “which is what they gave us for playing.” As Sefler moved indoors to the school gym and friends’ basements, they began discovering indie rock. “I was getting into Superchunk, Sunny Day Real Estate, Archers Of Loaf, Jawbreaker …, ” Conley recalls. “We would play as hard and fast as we possibly could without losing the melody.”
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  • Riot183

    такая неплохая группа, как я их раньше не слушал?:)

    Thursday afternoon

  • TheOnlyRoc

    Listened to them as a little kid with the first few albums. Neverassociated them with emo but the recent things Ive heard sound pretty close to some emo bands. They sound more like their old sound but they don't sound nearly as original and the high productions always kill the soul of the music a little when it ever has a soul. when its straight pop music it doesnt matter if its overproduced.

    10 days ago

  • number2xtreme

    THROO BEING COO

    10 days ago

  • orangesinge

    I can never decide between In Reverie and Stay What You Are.

    12 days ago

  • ChrisFallout

    Something as spiritual of music simply can't (and shouldn't be) be so easily defined. [2] Too true.

    18 days ago

  • runnersdialzero

    Mark Henry, for me, genre arguing is basically as pointless as your typical last.fm wall filled with "OMG THIS BAND RULLZZ" and "FUK U SELLOUTZ". Any band that's worth a shit defies all the extremely vague genre labels out there like "emo", "hardcore", "alternative", "indie", or God help us, "grunge". They're vague, they don't have real definitions - get five people in a room, ask them the definition, and you'll get about five different answers. Saves The Day are one of those bands that defies those labels, thus why post after post of "These guys are emo", "NUH UH EMO IS A FAG LABEL", "Emo purist post" etc. etc. etc. hurt my head and damage my already unimpressive IQ. Even besides that, first and foremost - why the need to fit everything into neat little boxes in the first place? Something as spiritual of music simply can't (and shouldn't be) be so easily defined.

    20 days ago

  • ChrisFallout

    I write to these guys. Best playlist.

    24 days ago

  • yes_i_am_kabut

    я буду петь реквием на твоих похоронах!

    27 days ago
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Saves The Day Announce UK Dates in August

11 May 2012 | from savestheday.com

Saves The Day have announced a string of UK dates this August that will bookend their appearances at this year’s Reading and Leeds Festivals. They will play shows at at London’s Rhythm Factory, Portsmouth’s Wedgwood Rooms , Kingston’s The Peel and …

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