A Shoreline Dream

Shoreline Dream, best described by many of their fans as “Melodipsych Rockers” is one of those rare groups willing to risk it all to get their music heard. The band jumped in without looking back from day one releasing the much talked about “Avoiding the Consequences” on their own dime. Forming their own label “Latenight Weeknight Records”, distributing self duplicated cd’s during tours, and pushing it all as much as they could, ASD simply took the advice given to them by fellow musicians & industry folk to not let “the man” be in charge. Ryan Policky, vocalist, guitarist & one of the founding members of the group led up the “destiny paving” by putting his home up for ransom to get the money to make it happen.

After a few years of recording and countless gigs all over the west coast and texas, the group found themselves swimming around with many of their influences such as Film School and Airiel. After heavy airplay on East Village Radio out in New York, the band found themselves making contact with their current distributor, toneVendor, giving them that last needed piece of the puzzle to glue together and hang up on the wall. In turn, another influence floated up to the surface, this time becoming not only a friend, but also a collaborator. Ulrich Schnauss, after falling in love with both the debut album and the highly regarded “COASTAL” EP, sent out an email to his fans praising the group. While on tour with Innaway, the band found out about this and contacted him immediately. This turned out to be a huge jump for the band in terms of international notoriety as well as boosting their local buzz. URB Magazine named the group one of the Next 100 for 2008, local and national papers were going crazy, and many of their singles landed on zine/festival samplers, totalling over 1.5 million samplers distributed with one of their songs to date.