Bayside

Built on blasts of boisterous punk and soaring, heart-on-sleeve emotion, New York four-piece Bayside have been favourites in the underground, alternative rock world since they emerged out of the US emo scene in 2000. Led by frontman Anthony Raneri, they were a gang of Green Day and New Found Glory fans moshing around in dingy clubs when they first got together, and named themselves after a railway station in Long Island that they happened to be driving past. They released debut album Sirens And Condolences through Victory Records, but tragedy struck in 2005 when they were driving home from a gig in Denver and an icy road caused their touring van to crash and kill drummer John Holohan. The band made an emotional return with album The Walking Wounded and a settled line-up of Raneri on vocals and guitar), Jack O'Shea on lead guitar, Nick Ghanbarian on bass and Chris Gugliemo on drums took on a positive, survival attitude and made a commercial breakthrough with Killing Time in 2011. Joining California pop-punk label Hopeless Records in 2014, they reached a new high of number 24 on the Billboard Charts with Cult, before celebrating 15 years as a band and releasing their seventh studio album Vacancy in 2016.

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