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Indie / Emo / Post Hardcore

You can buy our music on ITUNES and at SMARTPUNK.

Click here to get the AudioBio Ep on Itunes.
Click here to get the To Breathe is to Compromise (2005) EP on Itunes.
Click here to get the Covington (2004) CD (Web-ONly) on Itunes.
Click here to purchase the AudioBio (2006) Ep at Smartpunk.
Click here to purchase the To Breathe is to Compromise Ep at Smartpunk.

OUR BIO!

(Disclaimer: If this is your first time hearing us, you might as well go get your friends and family before you listen. Al Gore, owner of the internet, has asked that we do this to try and cut down on the immense strain imposed on the internet every time a person hears us for the first time. Thanks!)

Ladies and Gentlemen, Welcome to the "band of the future, THE AWKWARD ROMANCE. (all caps most bands capitalize the title, we capitalize the whole name) If Superman was heralded as the "Man of the Future", then we must be the Band of the Future. Although were not so much a band, but rather four super-humans who comprise an undeniable musical onslaught that is light years ahead of its time. A force reckoned into being to fight the injustice of people having to listen to music that is inferior to ours, which can also be classified as all music ever.

All bands play live shows, right? Well, perhaps they do, until they see the awkward romance play, shortly after which the majority of them are struck deaf and mute for a full month, and then become schoolteachers or door-to-door computer salesmen. We are on tour 366 days a year, because every year is leap year for us. We accomplish this feat in spite of our lack of a booking agent. Our only mode of transportation is a chariot pulled by white stallions. We once played a 13 state tour in two and a half days. We book shows from the road using a commodore 64. The only reason we have a relatively small fanbase (compared to the beatles) is because there are so few survivors of our live shows. Our live show has been outlawed as a lethal weapon in 14 states. The opinions expressed by the survivors of our shows are generally this: "THE AWKWARD ROMANCE was the musical equivalent of Godzilla rampaging through and melodically destroying a small Japanese town. But in a very fun way."

The compositions we create can hardly be described as music, since other "so-called" music is clumsily thrown together by mere mortals. We have crafted more of a celestial soundscape that is in theory similar to cherubic tunes played by angels, except with more sweet riffs, harmonies, and ROCK. We have redefined all genres previously conceived by humankind into our own genre of music that is single-handedly ours. Since we invented it, we decided to call this genre "AMAZING" (all caps). This is a very new concept to earth, so inadequate terms are often used to describe us such as "Indie Rock" or Rock n Roll by most unenlightened humans and the great robot called "myspace".

We are currently unsigned, but that is only because record labels are terrified of us. They have realized that with our great knowledge of music law, we would rewrite the offered contracts and confuse their lawyers, and then screw the label over, instead of them screwing us over. What they fail to realize is that we would still sell more CD's and legal downloads than anyone ever, (yes, including Creed), resolve the issues associated with illegal downloading, and single-handedly resurrect the dying music business.

In short, the only force on earth capable of stopping us would be a band comprised of Chuck Norris, John Cougar Mellencamp, Sting, and Mozart (on drums), but as we all know, Styx has long since broken up. However, in spite of our great list of achievements, which include saving earth with our unparalleled musical genius, obliterating the need for the word "genre", and putting Superman himself to shame, the virtue we're most proud of is our humility. We are such good guys, that our male fans often refer to us as the awkward "bromance". The ladies just plain out dig us. When not reinventing the face of music, we can be found volunteering at shelters, rescuing hurt animals, or kissing babies. Although, of course, we would never brag. "Down to earth" is a term we use to describe ourselves. Unless, of course, we happen to be flying at the moment. Then we just laugh loudly at the irony and proceed shortly thereafter to write the best song ever written, EVER.

WE DO HAVE A LOT OF SHOWS ALL THE TIME - so many, in fact, that we don't have time to update purevolume, so please go to our myspace to see them all.

Girls Don't Do Math

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For booking, management, or a&r inquiries:
Please contact Eli Scott at elijscott@bellsouth.net or 770-630-8489

In loving memory of Dr. Joel W. Phillips

January 10

Entire Audibio EP on purevolume now!

Yo! We have posted the ENTIRE AUDIOBIO EP on our purevolume profile. Please Listen. Love. Comment. Live.

<3 TAR.

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November 17

NEWS!

Yo!

Sorry about the delay. Let me preface anything by saying this. Most all of our activity/promotions are going to be on myspace now. www.myspace.com/theawkwardromance. Sorry, but they made it too easy for us. If you want to email us, you can still do that at band@theawkwardromance.com - and we will write you back, but for the most part, we don't have time to do anything but myspace.

Anyway, we're super excited. We recently received a few more endorsements from amazing companies. Saluda cymbals, Orange Amplifiers, and DiPinto Basses and Guitars are all backing us now, and we couldn't be happier. We're working on some new stuff, we have a few new songs, and we're going to be recording three songs in December with producer Matt Goldman (Copeland, Cartel, Underoath, etc) at Glow in the Dark Studios. We're currently hard at work writing songs for that, and playing shows, as always. For all of our shows, once again, check our myspace page. For now, the plan is to give the three songs away instead of selling them, so that's good news for you guys. (that could change, of course). We went on our tour in Sep/Oct, and it was awesome. There were so many people who were incredible to us, and we'd like to thank all of you who let us sleep at your house, fed us, put us on a show, and just talked to us or watched our set. We had a blast.. and we can't wait to do it again. I guess that's about it for now, just be on the lookout for the new songs come January. Thank you guys for listening to our music and for being our friends. We can't tell you how much you all mean in our lives.
Love,
Eli

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September 13

Vote please.

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August 17

We're on ITUNES!

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August 16

NEWS!

HI! So, it's been a while. I hope you're all doing well. We have great news all around.

Stu got an endorsement from an amazing company called C and C Drums. If you've talked to Stu at all, I'm sure you've heard about this. His drumset does sound amazing, though.

We have uploaded another song from AudioBio on our purevolume site, if you'd like to hear it. It's called "revel without a cause"

We have been playing shows non-stop, and it's been a lot of fun. We were on tour for most of July, and there is nothing that we love more.
We're in the process of writing some new songs, that we're hoping to be recording with Matt Goldman later on this year. We've actually just finished writing the first one, called, "Singing to the Choir"- we're probably going to play it live pretty soon.. so be on the lookout for that.

Speaking of live, we have a lot of shows coming up, including one in Griffin this Saturday with Fireflight. It'd be awesome to see you there.

Also, since we're going on tour in October, we're doing a tour fundraiser to help us be able to tour. The date is (Wednesday) September 27th at the Church at Covington. There won't be any opening bands, and we will be playing songs from Covington forward. Basically, this is a kill two birds with one stone show.. we get to raise money for tour, and we also get to play all the old songs a lot of you guys keep asking for. We're not playing Clang with an E. We have our reasons, though. If you want to know why, just go read the journal, I'm going to make a post about it in there.

We've gotten some new t-shirts and killed off some old ones. Our merch page is woefully outdated.

We are out of Covington CD's. We're not re-ordering them. The only way to get them is through ITunes. (where you can also get To breathe and Audiobio). There's more news, but I can't think of it right now. If you don't have audiobio, do us a favor and buy it, burn it from a friend, or download it. We hear it's on the p2p networks.. We'd rather you have the music than not, so go for it.

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