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Members: Dave Baysinger (vocals), Sam Barnhart (guitar, vocals), Milam Byers (guitar), Jerry Morrison (bass), Jared Byers (drums)
For fans of: Weezer, Jimmy Eat World, The Strokes
Label: Tooth & Nail

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Sometimes, a coat of paint serves the purpose. Other times, you have to rip the guts out, draw up some new plans, and rebuild from the ground up. It can happen with cars, it can happen with houses, and it can happen with rock bands.

But, do it right, do it with thought and skill and energy, and that rebuilding process and the final product itself can turn out better than you would ever have imagined.

It can feel like you're starting Again, For The First Time.

For guitarist Sam Barnhart and vocalist Dave Baysinger, the veteran core of the rock band Bleach, the turn of the millennium had them thinking that maybe it was time to close the book on the band they'd been part of for the better part of the '90s.

Members had come and gone (amicably, mind you), they had ended their affiliation with their record label, and a certain kind of preprocessed pop was dominating the airwaves.

Sam and Dave both returned to their home state of Indiana and were getting themselves prepared for a life after Bleach when conversations with various friends and family members planted the seed that maybe it wasn't time to let go just yet.

"As we got away from it and reevaluated and got a new vision for what we were doing, things started falling into place," Sam says. "Things that kinda told us it wasn't time to stop, that it was just the beginning and everything up till now was just preparation for what was to come. That made it real exciting for us again."

Some of those things included the gradual formation of a new Bleach, which features guitarist Milam Byers, bassist Jerry Morrison and drummer Jared Byers. The new band hit the road with a vengeance, taking time to gel as a live unit, and started to plot out a course for new material.

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