About

“Standing sideways in the thin alley ways to escape the wind”

Rapid Cities are the world we live in.

Started in New Brunswick, NJ in 2006 as a concept and punk rock critique by John Terry, Anthony Battiato, Brian Whitney, and Cass McGrath, the band immediately started churning out songs and ideas that reflected the need to move everything they loved in life and music in a forward direction.

Times spent in the studio and in the van were an outlet for wild debate and creative energy. In the next couple years, the band would go on four tours, go through three vans and more than twenty states. Brian would also leave the band after two of these tours and be replaced by Shaun Seneviratne.

In 2008, they sat down in the studio to document their ideas in the form of the debut full length record, “Machinery Saints,” an ambitious project that took several months to complete and which, after its release, is currently stirring up more than a few cocktail conversations.

Shortly after the record was released in 2009, Anthony would bid the band “Adieu,” leaving a vacancy to be filled by Greg Meisenberg.

With this latest lineup change, the band is ready to keep treading the uneasy pathways which will find them writing and recording new songs, touring, and finding themselves in uncomfortable situations that involve bad jokes, ‘merican satire, impromptu mechanics, forgetful artists, broken amplifiers, and pretend love triangles.