Lion of Ido

After finding Bandcamp on MySpace, I received a friend request from a music page called Lion of Ido. I listened to this almost non-stop that week before Warped Tour. When Ido approached me to hand me a flyer, I immediately knew who I was looking at. I was instantly a fan of his music and we just as instantly became friends. Meeting him after hearing his band just strengthened how much I loved it. Since then I've been to a bunch of his concerts, both on Long Island and in NYC.
Ido created Lion of Ido after his old band, Last Week, split up. This split also resulted in the creation of Lights Resolve, which I also like, but doesn't sound so original the way Lion of Ido does. Later on, I set up a concert with Lion of Ido at my college, which was cancelled on account of my college being (in professional terms) stupid. I also showed up to be an extra in the music video for their hit song "Hard to Love". To this date, this band is by far one of my favorite bands in existence.

Sherwood

Sherwood is another pop-rock band with indie roots who draw their inspiration from the Beach Boys. They hail from San Luis Obispo, California. I found this band long prior to the Bandcamp story. I came across their music on MySpace and fell in love with the songs they posted, which were all from their album "Sing, But Keep Going". After the story I'm about to tell you, they went on to be one of the first bands signed to MySpace Records and released two hit albums, "A Different Light" and "Qu".
My good luck streak continued after winning those Warped Tour tickets.  I was with my best friends Ben and Audrey and we were all over the place. None of us had ever been to anything like this. We walk in to first hear a song by a favorite and Ben and I, Hellogoodbye. I knew it was going to be an amazing day. After running around and trying to see every band that played, I caught word that Sherwood was playing at the MySpace tent. We ran over there and watched them play. Finally, after two years of loving the band and none of my friends every hearing about them, they became a little more real in my life. We all took pictures with the singer and with the awesome guy selling their merch.
A man walked up to me to advertise his band. This band was called Lion of Ido...

Bandcamp

I believe the year was 2005 or 2006. A couple of my friends informed me of a concert out by where they lived, about 40 minutes from me, where Sugarcult was going to be doing a show at an outside venue. Ever since the National Lampoon's Van Wilder, I had been in love with Sugarcult's hit album "Start Static" which was essentially the soundtrack to the film. I was excited and had never heard of the bands they were playing with besides Halifax. Well, one of those band were Bandcamp.
I remember laying out in the field behind the crowd when Bandcamp went up on stage and started playing. They're a fun pop-rock band and hearing them play made me immediately buy their album entitled "Wanna Dance?". This was before Facebook, so I added them on my MySpace in order to keep in touch and hear about new music. Sadly I never heard anything new about them since. But I DID win two tickets to Warped Tour at this show, which was the next weekend. And this pushes into some more music...