Solea

Although indie rock quartet Solea's self-titled debut was not released until 2005, the impetus for the band stretched all the way back to a European tour in the summer of 1996 between a popular first-generation emo band, Texas Is the Reason, and the long-running pop-punk act Samiam. The primary singers and songwriters of each band, Samiam's Sergie Loobkoff and Texas Is the Reason's Garrett Klahn, bonded over the course of this extensive haul and began writing songs together on their shared tour bus, fleshing them out during sound checks. After the tour ended, the pair kept in ...