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The Walkup
12+ albums
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There’s that famous saying that all roads lead to Rome. What’s not so famous is the part which explains how all the roads are not all equal in distance – some are longer, some are shorter, and some even have detours. This summer, Michael, Sean and Alex who crossed roads three years ago and formed The Walkup, will release their debut album Down on Pacific (Reynolds Recording Co.). It is a record brimming with energy, perfectly jittery vocals and punchy angular riffs that personify the unapologetic fun essence and underground rock spirit that brought this group together. To start from the beginning, Michael hails from Boston, Sean is from Staten Island, and Alex is a native of Manhattan. Coming from different walks of life, the three members eventually all relocated to New York City by 2005. “The NYC music scene is pretty big and diverse, but if you hang around awhile, you end up running into the same people over and over again and recognizing those with similar tastes and aspirations to yours,” says Alex. “The trick is finding people that you actually like." Leave it to these three to make that trick look easy - they met at a bar in the Lower East Side, where they discovered their shared tastes in music and scotch. After running into one another around the neighborhood, they decided to see if these shared tastes would translate into more than just talk and put their collective talents to the test. Almost instantly they connected and realized that there was something to playi
