Thursday, July 1, 2010

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Stay: SoCal Is Right At Your Door

Sounds like early millennium, glorified shorelines. Sounds like a sunny summer. Sounds like California. Sounds like anything but the waves of Boston Harbor lapping at the concrete. The Beantown power-pop quartet Stay sounds like anything and everything but what they really are. Instead of being the simple pop-punk outfit, immortalizing the lazy days of summer in a four minute time slot, they are a mark on a timeline of modern rock history. They take all that the radio prized in the punk-pop hay day when beach bands flourished and every East Coast dreamer hoped for the day that The O.C. was real life, long coastal drives in the hot sun with nothing but the wind blowing your hair and love on your mind, and transplant it directly into 2008 with the Games With Girls EP. This is nostalgia at its best.

Stay dismantles the Indie, big city stereotypes and makes 2003 worthy tunes that still manages to stay relevant to 2010’s punk-pop culture. “Run Wit’ Me” opens the Games With Girls EP on Highway 1 along the Los Angeles-Orange County border in a top down Cadillac until at the very end, after miles of beautiful beaches, lands listeners in the areas of NoCal, “Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis”, feeling sea-salt refreshed and puppy love ridden. Stay brings the California beach dream directly to the New England outlets of Boston.

For that post-high school, road trip high all over again, catch Stay at the Middle East Downstairs with Down With Webster on July 11th! Tickets are $10 in advance, $12 at the door. So get on it soon!

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