Tallahassee, FL · pop-punk · emo

Mayday Parade

1 upcoming festival

Warped Tour survivors trading in the specific ache of a song you loved at sixteen — 'Miserable at Best' still empties the tear ducts.

Mayday Parade formed in Tallahassee, Florida in 2005, emerging from the same Southern pop-punk and emo scene that fed the Warped Tour circuit through the late 2000s. The band self-released an early EP and sold it by hand outside shows, an approach that helped build a following before their first full-length album.

Their music pairs bright pop-punk arrangements with unabashedly emotional lyrics about heartbreak, distance and adolescence, often shifting between full-band choruses and quieter piano or acoustic passages. Vocalist Derek Sanders has fronted the group throughout, and the band has continued releasing albums and touring steadily well past the era that first produced them.

pop-punkemo