THIS SONG IS NOT ABOUT YOU BY JUST FOR KICKS
Pop punk with a slight emo touch that I love as much now as I did 15 years ago. They were a favorite local band for years.
Backstory: Three high school kids in 1995/1996 start a Queers/Mr. T Experience/ a million other bands rip-off band. They write 41 songs in about four years, release one ten-song cassette, play shows constantly, and become their own band. Decide that pop-punk isn’t cool anymore, change their name to Hunter Rose, and get more emo/mathy. Then they break up.
2008, two guys decided to get the band back together. They recruit three other guys and start writing new songs. They play some shows, and in 2009, they record a new album, then promptly stop being a band. In 2012, a favorite local venue closes so they have a reunion show and released a cassette of the material they had recorded three years earlier. They’ll probably break up/just stop playing again, but who knows.
This song is from their just-released album called “This is About Us.” Buy it here for super cheap.
And here is everything the original line up did between 1996-1999, for free.