Banner Pilot is a young punk rock quartet from Minneapolis that formed in 2005 and used to jokingly describe their band as, "€œif Jawbreaker, The Lawrence Arms, and Alkaline Trio got in a knife fight and Jawbreaker won… but just barely." Hell, that’s actually a pretty good description! But that would make for a pretty bunk band bio and it doesn’t quite sum it all up. Any time you have a band made up of hard-drinking bookworms, you just know there’s a good story and some hijinx. First and foremost, they have a breakout record about to be unleashed unto the world.

The Dirty Hits are a band from Minneapolis, MN, formed in the summer of 2007. They have released a 7-inch EP, The Weather Center, and a full-length record, The Rumble and the Roar, both on Cheat Sheet Records. They most recently released a split seven-inch with Western Curses, also from Minneapolis. They include ex-members of The Crush, Heads and Bodies, Off With Their Heads, Mahkato and Incommunicado, to name a few.