The Release is an alternative-rock

Alternative rock

Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...

 band from Boston

Boston

Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...

. Their sound combines the raw energy of punk

Punk rock

Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...

, the musicianship and soul of classic rock

Classic rock

Classic rock is a radio format which developed from the album-oriented rock format in the early 1980s. In the United States, the classic rock format features music ranging generally from the late 1960s to the late 1980s, primarily focusing on the hard rock genre that peaked in popularity in the...

 and blues

Blues

Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...

, combined with catchy hook-filled songs that mix elements of everything from progressive rock

Progressive rock

Progressive rock is a subgenre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." John Covach, in Contemporary Music Review, says that many thought it would not just "succeed the pop of...

 to reggae

Reggae

Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...

. They have been compared to The Police, Elvis Costello, No Doubt, 311 and Incubus.

History

The band started in 2000, under the name 3 Feet Short

3 Feet Short

3 Feet Short is a 4-piece ska/punk band from Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The band was formed in 2000 by singer/guitarist Kyle Fox, at Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School where he met Rob Megna, Tom Moorey, and Samm Bahman, who would become the other members of the band...

, based out of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, when the members were all in high school. They've shared the stage with other artists like State Radio, Goldfinger, The Beautiful Girls, Badfish, Catch 22, Bayside, Zox, The Pietasters, Nate Wilson Group, and many others, at venues such as The Avalon (Boston, MA), The Palladium (Worcester, MA), The Middle East (Cambridge, MA), The Webster Theater (Hartford, CT), Harpers Ferry (Allston, MA) and The Living Room (Providence, RI). In 2007 the band changed their name to "The Release", and independently put out their first EP under the new name. Their first official full-length album as The Release is due out in the Fall of 2011.

Members

• Kyle Fox - Vocals, Guitar
• Samm Bahman - Lead Guitar
• Tom Moorey - Bass
• Rob Megna - Drums

Discography

• Hypocritically Acclaimed (November, 2002)
• Apocalypse New EP (January, 2005)
• Live in Boston DVD (2006)
• Self-Titled EP (August 14, 2008)