Bayside

About the Artist
 

Bayside is a veteran punk rock band from New York whose trademark guitar style and electrifying performance have affirmed them as staples of the genre.Queens-based Bayside has been winning over worldwide audiences for more than a decade. Having released 5 full-length albums since their inception in 2000, the band has consistently recorded memorable albums that stay true to the centered punk rock aesthetic while being lyrically quirky and interesting. If you haven't seen Bayside live, you're truly missing one of the best punk club shows on the circuit. 

Propelled by the songwriting of singer and rhythm guitarist Anthony Raneri, Bayside has remained a constant while their contemporaries have fallen by the wayside. Their sound is unequivocally punk, but they’re unburdened by its restrictions. Think: grungy, distorted bar chords weaved into airtight song structures with high-energy vocals (reminiscent of At The Drive-In’s Cedric Bixler-Zavala).

Bayside’s dynamic finds Raneri the driving force in songwriting on most albums, but each member brings a distinct musicianship to the equation. The band’s chemistry, if not wholly obvious on their albums, shines through with flying colors when they play live.

For a style so intrinsically wrapped up in adolescence, Bayside projects a maturity and work-ethic that is anything but. After 12 hardworking years, four albums and several lineup changes, Bayside’s chef d’oeuvre arrived in 2011 in the form of ‘Killing Time,’ an album that puts their experience, maturity and intelligent production on a platter.

"We had the time, the producer, the label to support it and fans who are ready to hear it,” says Raneri. “Everything was in place for us to make our masterpiece."

Just seconds into the album’s opener, “Already Gone,” {link} Bayside has you by the throat and smiling about it, with an intensity and appeal that doesn’t take a moment’s rest for the album’s duration. It’s a vicious, anxious, cathartic album; a result of a career’s worth of tragedy, hard-work and passion. With an album like ‘Killing Time,’ let’s hope Bayside sticks it out for another 12 years.

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