Motion City Soundtrack, founded in Minneapolis in 1997, received perhaps the best ovation from the crowd. Lead vocalist and primary songwriter Justin Pierre kept the energy going throughout their set, ...

In Max Bemis’ own words, people tend to think his band Say Anything has only been around since 2004, the year it released its official debut, …Is A Real Boy. But SA actually formed in 2000, adding ...

Under a wash of red and blue lights, Bemis stalked the stage with restless energy. He sang not at the audience but with them, inviting a collective reckoning rather than passive consumption. Voices ...

Say Anything lead singer Max Bemis has got enough issues—enough to, well, write a 27-song double disc detailing those issues, which he did in the band’s 2007 sophomore release In Defense of the Genre.

Max Bemis of Say Anything and Two Tongues has opened up a shop where you can pay to have a song written all about you! The song can be about virtually anything. The buyer is asked to write a brief ...

Two years ago Say Anything released the Sufjan Stevens-inspired “Carrie & Lowell & Cody (Pendent)” from …Is Committed, an album frontman Max Bemis promised would satirize emo bands “trying to be the ...