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Tim Rogner: guitar, vocals
Scott Murphy: bass, vocals
Mike Leveranz: drums
Kyle Lewis: guitar


Pity the cops patrolling suburban streets: Allister has recorded the soundtrack to a million speeding tickets--and probably a few other offenses it's best not to mention here. The quartet's second disc, “Last Stop Suburbia”, races past your ears faster than its seventeen songs can be absorbed. The energy is contagious.



With one foot crushed to the floor, one hand cranking the radio and the other hand steering out of town, the Chicago-area quartet delivers sing-a-long melodies that bounce around your brain for days. Over the breakneck chord changes and hyper-kinetic drumming, the band's sentimental lyrics supply what every suburban upbringing ideally should but so rarely does: experiences you won't want to forget, much less escape.



Ironically, escape from suburbia is exactly what Allister's new dis...