This Time Next Year

Remember when pop-punk was powerful, heartfelt and honest? Remember when the scene was all about wearing your heart on your sleeve, building your band from the ground up and putting forward an authentic presentation?



This Time Next Year certainly remembers.



With roots in the hardcore scene and a wide-range of influences (their very name is a direct reference to one of their musical forefathers, The Movielife), This Time Next Year arrives with their debut full-length album for Equal Vision that's start to finish genuine and from the heart.



"I don't care who you are, at some point you listened to Blink-182, New Found Glory or The Movielife," notes guitarist / vocalist Brad Wiseman. "If you listen to any kind of alternative rock today, that was there in your youth." His band of Californians aren't shy about that lineage, putting their own creative spin on what can be a stale genre. Road Maps & Heart Attacks will surely turn heads with its fresh approach to the pop-punk sound.



With a dual vocal approach reminiscent of bands like Taking Back Sunday, This Time Next Year has won fans the old-fashioned way -- through extensive touring in support of their early releases.



"We've met so many people that have helped us out -- booking shows, giving us food, places to stay," says singer Pete Dowdalls. "We've met amazing people on tour. I don't think a lot of kids my age right now have the opportunity to go out and live off a hundred bucks and see the entire country in a month."



Wiseman recalls one touring adventure, early on, that pointed to great things for the future. "On our very first tour, we went out to West Virginia. We had just released the EP. We show up to this VFW hall and there was maybe 20 kids there. These 10 kids come in and they just lose their shit, singing every word. That was the first time I had ever been 3,000 miles from home and had any amount of kids so stoked on our band. To me that was mind-blowing."



What truly sets the band apart from the pack is the well-crafted and hard hitting material all over their new album, like "New Sensation," with a big and epic opening riff Dowdalls knew should be some type of single when Wiseman sent him the first demo. "[Lyrically] it says how we feel about music right now," Wiseman explains. "We're not about gimmicks or fashion or talking about clubs or the dance floor. We just write music that comes from our heart, which is a rare thing right now."



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