Today I'll be sharing a relatively local band, who has garnered significant praise over the years, and additionally has been a regular on the Vans Warped Tour since 2005: Motion City Soundtrack. From Minneapolis, Minnesota, founded in 1997, MCS has utilized a unique mix of pop-punk sensibilities with poetic, flourishing, and often-times self-critical lyrics from the mind and voice of Justin Courtney Pierre. The songs of MCS often delve into topics like life, death, addiction, depression, obsessive-compulsion, mental health, and pessimism.
They will be having a new album releasing just this September, their first since initially breaking up in 2020.