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Minnesota’s Motion City Soundtrack hits the Pipe this weekend with their take on punk-glazed indie rock. The quintet’s latest album, Commit This to Memory, has overtones of the All American Rejects and Boys Night Out and is heavily influenced by the boys of Superchunk, the bands musical superheroes.
The group, though it seems like a newcomer, has been self-releasing records since 1999, but it wasn’t until 2002’s I Am the Movie was picked up by Epitaph records that the guys started playing with the pop-alt big boys.
Now, with a couple of big singles under their belts, a touring stint with Blink 182 and a new album (Commit This to Memory) that’s getting their faces on MTV—what else is there for a rock band?—Soundtrack seems to be on the right track.
They’re known for having a quite a devoted following—so as not be shown up at the concert lest a group of groupies makes an appearance, download “The Future Freaks Me Out,” learn the words and sing them like you always knew them.
Pipeline Cafe, 805 Pohukaina St., Sat. 5/27, doors open at 6pm, $20, all ages are welcome with at least one adult per group, tickets at Jelly’s Aiea, Hungry Ear Kailua, Hawaii’s Natural High Waikiki, Pipeline Cafe, online at [www.presaleticketsonline.com] or charge by phone at 926-3000, info at 479-6004
