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On today's artist spotlight, we focus on The Rocket Summer. The Rocket Summer is the solo project of Bryce Avary from Dallas, Texas whose style of music can best be described as alternative rock with a mixture of power pop influences, similar to that of Dashboard Confessional and Relient K. Formed in 1997, Bryce released his first EP under the name The Rocket Summer in 1999, whose name was inspired by the Ray Bradbury novel, The Martian Chronicles. His debut album called Calendar Days was released in 2003 on a $15,000 budget, substantially higher than what it cost to make the EP. The sophomore effort titled Hello, Good Friend followed in 2004, peaking at #26 on the Billboard Heatseekers Chart, and subsequently after that began a tour of the U.S. and Japan.
The Rocket Summer began to really breakthrough in the music scene when Bryce signed with Island Def Jam Records in 2006, Do You Feel was released the following year and peaked at #44 on the Billboard 200, containing such tracks as "So Much Love" and "Do You Feel". It was from there that Bryce began writing the follow up to that album. To tide fans over until the release of the new album, Bryce released a 4-track digital EP titled You Gotta Believe in the fall of 2009 which contained three songs from the upcoming LP, Of Men and Angels which was released this past February, containing memorable tracks such as "You Gotta Believe", "Walls", and "Hills and Valleys". If you're not familiar with The Rocket Summer's music, do yourself a favor and go out and buy Of Men and Angels, it truly is a fantastic album!
For more information on The Rocket Summer, head on over to their website at: http://www.therocketsummer.com/
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