Local Band of the Week by Erilyn Daly: Shoreline's End

Band: Shoreline's End
Members: Patrick Alan, Jony Burns, Justin Burns, David Rehmann
Hometown: Dallas, TX
Record Label: Mercury / Island Def Jam
Genre: Alternative / Pop / Rock

Alright, time for the second Local Band of the Week, I hope these last two weeks have found you jamming out to some Belle Epoque and The Sound Revival. No article last week, turns out some bands are as unreliable as you’d think they’d be!! I kid. Kind of. Now, this week we have a band hailing from Dallas, entitled Shoreline’s End.

Shoreline’s End is a pop-rock band that is definitely going to go places. They’ve been around since 2007, and have gone through several lineup changes, the first of which came about in 2008 when they signed with TQ Management. Since then, they’ve replaced their drummer and guitarist//keyboardist, but have kept on rollin’. Their name might sound simplistic, but it is definitely more complex than just implying where the continent begins. I spoke with Patrick Alan, the singer (and only remaining founding member), and he explained the meaning behind the name. He said “One of my good friends, Kirk Baxley, was in a band called Greatness in Tragedy and they had a song called Shoreline. When that band broke up I was looking for a name for this project and I came across their CD. Shoreline was the first song, so I came up with Shorelines End and it’s stuck ever since.”

Wanna know who to compare them to?? They’d say (and I would too) Train and the Goo Goo Dolls. They even shared the stage with Train at the House of Blues in Dallas, which is also their favorite local venue to play, what a coincidence!! They have very cute and endearing lyrics that make you automatically like this band once you listen to them. Their music has a certain sincerity that’s lacking in most of today’s music scene; not so much about the bitches and the hoes. Recently, this quartet (when touring there are 6 of them) signed to Mercury//Island Def Jam, which is kind of a big deal. They just debuted their first single off of their “major record CD release”, called “Barely Breathing.” This seems to be about having fallen in and out of love and being on the cusp of falling back in with someone else. All of which is wonderful, but scary at the same time. You know, stuff everyone can relate to.

So what’s next for these pop-rock, err, rockers?? Well in September, like I mentioned previously, they’re releasing their first major label CD. But for now, they will be appearing at Warped Tour, and if you’re a brave soul willing to tackle the scorching summer heat, you should most certainly check them out. Especially because they will be selling exclusive merch, two CDs releasing July 1st, one of which is a two disc acoustic CD//DVD, and the other a re-release of their independent EP release,“Cold Summer Night." This one has new bells and whistles, including pre-production demos and remastered tracks. For the rest of the year they plan on doing some intense touring in our humble United States, and then venturing across the pond to tour the UK. Looking way into the future for 2011, they hope to release their sophomore album. Busy, busy boys!!