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Marquee Memories: Smash Mouth

August 2026 is a big month for Smash Mouth as the band released Mercury Comet, their first album of original material since 2012's Magic, and the first LP of the Zach Goode era.

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Unlocked: 3Quency

You may recognize 3Quency's Brianna Mazzola, Nori Royale and Wennely Quezada from Netflix’s Building the Band, the competition music series where 50 solo singers picked bandmates simply by their voices.

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Marquee Memories: Stand Atlantic

Stand Atlantic charged out of Sydney’s pop-punk scene in 2012, initially named What It’s Worth. The original group of Bonnie Fraser, Arthur Ng, David Potter and Jordan Jansons, released the Catalyst EP in 2013 before changing its name to Stand Atlantic in 2014.

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The Bouncing Souls: Marquee Memories

The Bouncing Souls are one of punk’s great lifers, a band that came out of the late 1980s scene in New Jersey around Basking Ridge and New Brunswick and have remained true, while writing some catchy anthemic tunes.

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Unlocked: Jakob Nowell of Sublime

Jakob Nowell, the son of Sublime's Bradley Nowell, has seamlessly followed in his father's footsteps nearly three decades after his dad’s death. Jakob was just an infant when his dad died in 1996, right before the band's now-classic self-titled album dropped.

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Setlist Insider: Biffy Clyro

Biffy Clyro formed in Kilmarnock, Scotland, in 1995, when 15-year-old Simon Neil first started playing alongside drummer Ben Johnston and bassit Barry McGee. McGee was replaced by Ben’s twin brother James Johnston. Neil and the Johnston brothers have stayed the core of the band across the band’s 30+ year history. The group's first UK top 40 single “Questions and Answers,” from The Vertigo of Bliss (2003), reached #26 on the UK singles chart in June 2003. Their first UK top 10 single came a few years later when “Mountains” went to #5.

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Marquee Memories: Des Rocs

Des Rocs is the rock project of Danny Rocco, a Long Island singer songwriter who was first signed by Epic Records while in the duo Secret Weapons whose first record, As the Setting Sun Comes Crashing Down on Me, dropped in 2016. Secret Weapons also toured with Panic! at the Disco, Fall Out Boy and Weezer which was a great trial by fire.

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Marquee Memories: Catie Turner

Catie Turner is a singer/songwriter from Bucks County, Pennsylvania who graduated high school in 2018, the same year she hit it big on season 16 of American Idol and made it into the top seven that season.The next year she released the EP The Sad Vegan (2019). One of its songs, “Prom Queen,” was used in the trailer for Shane Dawson’s The Beautiful World of Jeffree Star. It's success helped her get signed with Atlantic Records in 2020.