Artist Hawthorne Heights
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Hawthorne Heights
Around the 2006 release of If Only You Were Lonely, Hawthorne Heights was the biggest band in the indie-emo scene. Then the bottom fell out: A simmering feud with its label, Victory Records, became litigious, and guitarist Casey Calvert died from a prescription-drug interaction. The lawsuits and countersuits kept the band out of a recording studio for two years—no insignificant gap when its main demographic is known for fickle taste and a short memory. But Hawthorne Heights has worked hard to make up for lost time, releasing its final Victory album in 2008—Fragile Future, a slightly better but still humdrum collection of generic emo-punk—before plunging into 2010’s Wind-up Records debut, Skeletons, then launching its own label, Cardboard Empire, to release Hate, the first in a planned series of three EPs.
Updated 10/05/2011
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