When the band SARGE broke up, Elizabeth started her own band: The Reputation. "The Reputation" is all about punkish powerpop to piano driven epics; as Entertainment Weekly says, "...sharp songwriting is backed by an immediately accessible blend of crunchy pop, burst of punk and some downright pretty orchestration... plenty of meaty hooks, plenty of conscious-invading choruses..." Jay Farrar of SON VOLT and Fred of JUNE OF '44 make cameos.

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The Reputation's To Force a Fate is their second album and first for Lookout. The band is fronted by vocalist/guitarist Elizabeth Elmore who led the popular band Sarge in the '90s. The Reputation are from Chicago, IL and have a sound that combines melodic punk with the fragile emotion of alt-country and '70s singer-songwriters. The album has the same driving Midwestern power behind groups like Naked Raygun, Alkaline Trio, and Pegboy, tempered with delicate flourishes of piano, strings, and horns, bro   [ read more ]

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