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SUMMARY:Cartel
DESCRIPTION:Breaking out in the mid-aughts\, CARTEL artfully threaded the s
 pace between the turn of-the-millennium pop-punk tidal wave and the widesp
 read virality of the social media  generation\, cutting their blend of hy
 per-melodic pop-rock with reflective lyricism and  ambitious sonic versat
 ility.  \n\nThe Conyers\, GA-based group quickly rose through the underg
 round on the back of  their 2005 breakthrough LP\, Chroma\, which debuted
  at No. 2 on the Billboard  Heatseekers chart\, bore the Gold-certified h
 it “Honestly” and launched the childhood  friends – vocalist/guitar
 ist Will Pugh and guitarists Joseph Pepper and Nic Hudson – onto Warped 
 Tour\, TRL\, Epic Records and millions of MySpace Top 8s.  \n\nNearly tw
 o decades and more than 250\,000 copies later\, the album still resonates 
 as a  genre hallmark\, hailed as one of the greatest pop-punk records of 
 all time by Rock  Sound and Loudwire and a singalong staple at emo nights
  around the world. But while  the lightning-in-a-bottle energy of their d
 ebut took them from regional buzz band to  mainstream names to know\, it
 ’s their insatiable desire to never settle that’s kept them  one of t
 he most respected acts in the genre to this day.  \n\nFrom the moody\, a
 ngular guitars and experimental song structures that colored 2007’s  to
 p-20 debuting Cartel through the heavier impulses of 2009’s Cycles and 
  atmospheric\, airy melodicism the group elevated on their 2013 self-relea
 sed Collider\,  the ebbs and flows of the band’s career have always sho
 wn Cartel’s desire to prioritize  their own self-fulfillment over criti
 cal and commercial acclaim.  \n\n“There’s so many little things we p
 ull from that I think often go unnoticed\,” Pugh says.  “We love blin
 k-182 and Green Day\, but we don’t reference them\; we reference  Sound
 garden. ’90s grunge and alternative was the seminal stuff that spoke to 
 us as  young musicians\, and it’s given us a completely different toolb
 ox in terms of how we  think about making music.”  \n\nThat evolution
  was once again on display in 2022 as the band released their first new  
 music in nine years\, singles “17” and “The End” to accompany thei
 r spot as direct  support on the Hello Gone Days alongside Dashboard Conf
 essional and Andrew  McMahon in the Wilderness.  \n\n“Now that we’v
 e gotten away from some of the pettiness of the way things were in the  p
 ast\, it’s given us more allowance to go back to the well and not have t
 o feel like  everything’s a response to what we just did\,” Pugh says
 . “When we were writing ‘17’ \n\nand ‘The End\,’ all we were co
 ncerned about was what Cartel would sound like right now – not what we s
 ounded like earlier.”  \n\nThis mentality has ultimately allowed Carte
 l to age with grace\, resisting the tangles of  nostalgia. Instead\, they
  remain focused on their position as elder statesmen of the  scene\, stan
 ding shoulder-to-shoulder with the bands that inspired them – look no fu
 rther  than Pugh’s production work with New Found Glory – while also 
 inspiring the next era of  acts to fearlessly chase their own muse.  \n
 \nAs the group stares down the 20th anniversary of Chroma in 2025\, they d
 o so with both  an appreciation for what their past has afforded them and
  an excitement for what the  future holds. More recent live appearances o
 n Warped Rewind at Sea\, Emo’s Not Dead  Cruise\, Slam Dunk Festival\, 
 Is For Lovers Festival\, and When We Were Young have  introduced Cartel t
 o a whole new generation of listeners – some of whom weren’t even  al
 ive when they rode the dual guitar intro of “Honestly” to the Billboar
 d Hot 100 all those  years ago.  \n\n“Thinking about having done this
  for over half of our lives sort of breaks the space-time  continuum\,”
  Pugh says. “It’s so cool\, because it constantly feels like being reb
 irthed  every time you hear the records.” ##
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CATEGORIES:All Ages,Concerts
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