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City: KANSAS CITY
State: Missouri
Country: US
Signup Date: 2/19/2009

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November 16, 2009 - Monday 

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Everyday/Everynight launches Moon Phases


The boys of Everyday/Everynight are cool with the fact that you haven't heard of them yet. But watch out — pretty soon, you will be held accountable.
Comprising five ragtag kids with tousled hair, plaid shirts and tattoos, Everyday/Everynight initially appears to be your token group of indie-band boys as they chill on their couch in Brookside, their homemade album art hanging on the wall. Sweet, friendly and eager to please, the guys give off a fresh-faced naïveté. But after a few minutes of talking shop, you realize that this isn't their first time dealing with the Kansas City music scene.
After self-releasing their debut record, Moon Phases, in early September and booking a cluster of shows across the Midwest, these young alt-rockers are making a name for themselves with the lush orchestration, pounding piano lines and rich sonic textures of their band's music.
Guitarists and backup singers Mat Shoare and Evan Ashby, bassist Ross Brown and drummer Micah Holdaway draw on a range of musical styles, including ambient alternative rock and indie folk, infusing their songs with deep, guitar-heavy tones and grounding their compositions with lead singer Jerad Tomasino's heartfelt lyrics.
With glimmers of influences such as Cursive, Explosions in the Sky and Brand New, Everyday/Everynight hovers between genres, fusing shimmering electro fuzz and rougher punk undertones with the angst-ridden vocals and soft, acoustic conscience of kids raised on a hearty diet of Saddle Creek.
Whether they're serenading with an ethereal acoustic lullaby or turning on a dime to explode into a torrent of alt-rock fury, one thing's for sure: These five guys under the age of 23 know how to strike a mature chord.
Everyday/Everynight began with two childhood friends in Omaha: Holdaway and Tomasino. The two moved to Kansas City after Holdaway enrolled at William Jewell and Tomasino was admitted to the UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance, where he met Shoare and Ashby in the conservatory choir. Tomasino later invited Brown to join the band after meeting him at an audio-engineering program at BRC Audio Productions in Kansas City. The members began to mesh styles, sounds and harmonies, and ended up taking their band name from the lyrics of one of the first songs they wrote together.
Soon, they ventured out onto the scene.
"I was completely inspired going around to local venues and checking out local bands," Ashby says. "I don't know that people see Kansas City as a music town, but I think that there's so much opportunity here."
Citing influences such as In the Pines, the Republic Tigers and even local dance DJ Max Justus, Everyday/Everynight is particularly inspired by acts that are doing more experimental things.
"[It's] that tangible experience of, 'Oh my god, they wrote that? It's amazing. I love it. Maybe I could do that,'" Tomasino says. "That's why I love the idea of music as a conversation. We take it in, we hear it, and we say something back — it's very organic."
But this community of musical exchange has its ups and downs in a town like KC, especially as the guys of Everyday/Everynight establish themselves among other young bands.
"It's like shark-infested waters," Tomasino says. "There are a lot of really cool-looking sharks and really dangerous sharks."
A bit of rivalry never hurts, but when it comes to such things as booking shows, many small local bands are in competition within the same genres and for the same fans. And some are not afraid to get a little lethal.
"The Kansas City scene fosters really great business skills and assertiveness," Tomasino says. "It's definitely more economical to look out for yourself, so to speak."
However, the guys of Everyday/Everynight view competition as healthy.
"Being in Kansas City is like, you've got good songs — now what? You have to go after it," Tomasino says. "It's not a bad thing, but I can see how the weight of that could crush some young bands that want to develop their creativity."
"If you want to be in the scene and play around, you have to step up your game," Brown adds. "And if Kansas City is ever going to be seen as a music town, there needs to be some of that." 
A month after debuting Moon Phases and seeing success in terms of record sales, online merch sales and booked shows, the guys of Everyday/Everynight are feel­ing optimistic — for themselves and their city.
"From a band's perspective right now, you want to be in Kansas City because it's obviously growing," Shoare says.
"You learn a lot, being a young band in Kansas City," Tomasino reflects. "It's like growing up on the streets; you get a little tough, but hopefully you're able to take those skills and use them in a positive way. We've seen a lot come back. I know that's not from just sitting and waiting."
Enduring the struggles and victories of starting a new band is an exercise in devotion. And for the guys of Everyday/Everynight, their band's name isn't just a title — it's a formula for success.

August 7, 2009 - Friday 



"Moon Phases"

by: Everyday/Everynight



track list:

1. A Crying Shame
2. Pluto
3. Negatives
4. Everyday/Everynight
5. Too Young
6. New Skin
7. Maybe You're An Angel
8. Yuma
9. I Love You. Goodbye

released independently on September 5th, 2009

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A Crying Shame

Let's talk about,
something else,
it doesn't feel good,
you moved on so well...
just like I knew you would.

I know they say,
"I've seen him play,
since he was a kid.
I always thought he would...
but he never did."

sunrise
sunset
inspiration

...oh, it's coming over me.
could I be a better man?
...could that be over me?

Say my name,
it's "a crying shame"
...a dream that never came.
I always want to be,
but never can arrange.
never can arrange.

---------

Pluto

there's a ghost on my way home.
i see him every night.
singing in his car,
i see him every night.

there's a scene set on the stage.
to us, we're all "the lead"
never who we are:
jealous thespians.
we never get the part.
we never get that part.

there's a song that i once wrote.
gilded with my soul.
the world, it stayed the same
i found what i was worth.
i've never felt the same.

there's a constant satellite
who always stayed the course
he's nothing anymore
nothing anymore
nothing anymore

(fact and fiction...)
there's a future that i've seen,
in books and the t.v.
i don't want to be me...

[and that's me, out-
on the roadside,
trying to scream my past away.]

[and that's me, be-
hind the curtain,
wanting him to break a leg.]

[and that's me, for-
ever traveling,
back to where i thought was home.]

[and it's me, that
ex-planet,
solar giant, all alone]

--------

Negatives

I want to smile-
pick up my guitar
and make you smile,

I want to laugh-
get that weight off my back
and really laugh,
I want to mean it,
I really want to...

I want to see-
get on my feet
and really see the world,

I want to listen-
keep my big mouth shut
and really listen,
I want to hear it,
I want to understand...

But I'm too tired for a wakening.
When you spend your dreams awake-
the lines get blurry and you stop seeing straight.

I want to be-
on the other side of things
the t.v. screens,
reality.

I want to smile-
If I play my guitar
will you smile?
will you smile?
can we be the same?


I don't need to move
just to prove
to you that I am going somewhere.

----------

Everyday/Everynight

Flash.
Memory.
We are having fun.

Soft.
Camera glow.
We are children.

None.
Of my own.
I am twenty one.

God.
Only knows.
What you've become.

If you.
Were the Sun.
Then I'd chase the day.

If you.
Were the Moon.
Then I'd chase the night.

Sun.
Take the moon.
And run away.

Everyday.
And Everynight.
I will chase.

I will run.

-----------

Too Young

Oh my God,
is this it?
i think i finally understand,
there's no time,
this is it,
there's no time,
there's no plan,
save a prayer,
and a song,
as i walk down the line,
catalog,
of memories,
must i leave them behind?
I never told,
never said,
how i wish that i did,
we're too young,
gotta move,
it's my wish that you would,
don't you dare,
follow me,
i agree, it's too soon...

And it's a shame,
for us to wait,
so many years,
to open our eyes,
and it's a mistake,
to wake, sleep, then pass,
our fullest days,
should not be our past,
the fastest day,
of my life,
has been today,
has been my last,
has been my last.

"and if i must go,
while i am young,
all that i wish-
to leave is my love."

-----------

New Skin

i never thought I'd be this old-
i thought i'd die-
but i feel younger than before.
the calendar's shedding and i'm changing skin.

i'm not who i was back when you knew me,
back when i was in that band.
my name is static,
but that's the only thing that is.

we were so close...
and you know that i miss everyone,
but i'm missing you the most.


i never thought i'd live this way-
kill'n myself to keep a GPA.
the more i go to class
the more i feel absent.

life is wasted on the living...
sometimes i feel like there's no meaning.
i wanna quit with all the dreaming
and change my fate...

i should have been earlier out of the gate...
i should have saved more photographs.
i should have savored all that laughter...


i wanna go to Montana.
i wanna start bad movie club again.
i wanna be with my old friends-
my medicine for these changing times.


[ well, i'm not who i was-
but, i wanna get to know you.
i wanna let you in-
before we change again ]

--------

Maybe You're An Angel

you say you took the long way-
out of here.
you say you took that pain pill-
out of fear.

Well, listen to me baby
I want to make things right
but I can't have you dying on me
every night.



I know I have my demons-
my long goodbyes...
but then . . . my dreams are peaceful
when you're by my side.

Oh, I could be your lover
or I could be your friend
I think we could help each other-
without falling in...


Maybe you're an angel-
sent from God.
Maybe I will save you-
maybe not.

We could go our seperate ways
or we could stay and see.
I'm just saying- if you're going to take the long way-
will you take it with me?

--------

Yuma

con ogni morte c'e
una nuova vita...


The lens is broken now
I can see for myself.
the air has never been so clear-
I don't know where I am
I don't know where I'm gonna go
and I don't care
I don't care . . .

I drove to Yuma yesterday-
just so I could see the sun . . .
closed my eyes and took it in.
I thought I heard you laughing-
and I took it as some kind of sign...
a second chance?
a second chance?

non sono tutto
I can find my place- I can
fa parte di esso
I know
I know

non siamo tutto, c'e
un posto per noi


no, you're not alone...
know that I'll be here for you-
when/if you want to get clean.
when I see you hurt-
just know it hurts me the same...
oh my god
oh my god

non sono tutto
I can find my place- I can
fa parte di esso
I know
I know

há uma maneira para fora
maneira para fora . . .
há uma maneira para fora
maneira para fora . . .


non sono tutto
I can find my place- I can
fa parte di esso
I know
I know
I know
I know
I know

--------

 I Love You. Goodbye.

We are children-
this way.
we can think up-
anything.
I guess that's why-
I thought you'd stay
I can think up-
anything.

We are further-
than ever.
There's a stranger-
in the mirror.
Do you ever-
wish for more?
Do you ever-
wonder?

She said, "It's over. goodbye...
sometimes it's over. goodbye...

sometimes it's hard "J"
that's life.
I was never meant to be-
your wife.
And, I still love you-
goodbye.
Sometimes it's over...