Who they are: Known for their honest, self-examining lyrics and pristine pop-punk musicianship, The Wonder Years are well on their way to becoming one of the cult heroes of the scene. Still finding ways to tour behind 2011's near-perfect album Suburbia: I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing, the band's meteoric rise from sweaty basements to selling out nearly every date of this year's Glamour Kills Tour may still be rising.
Why they're Band of the Week: The band are currently writing the follow-up to Suburbia, just put one of the coolest pieces of merch you'll ever see up for sale, and just in case that wasn't enough, they also were just announced as direct support for Yellowcard's upcoming headlining tour. Tickets for the tour go onsale Friday, and the previous link will provide you with exactly when you need to cancel all of your previous plans and watch one of the best up-and-coming pop-punk acts open up for one of the genre's most influential pioneers. Indeed, it's good to be The Wonder Years right now.
What you need to listen to: While we all patiently wait for more songs to point our fingers violently to while we scream to our hearts' content, let's take a listen to (and look at) one of the band's best songs, "Came Out Swinging." The video was shot by Mitchell Wojcik, who TWY die-hards will recognize as the photographer who recently completed shooting the band for the photobook A Year as a Ghost, which chronicles the band's busy and brilliant past year.
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