The Flood

Boy Who Lived Forever

Rest

Interesting Girl

The Ghost In You

Blackest Days

Broken Hearts Bleed Black

Broken

My Own Addiction

From Today Until Forever

My Fascination

Get A Gun

Fire In Tokyo

The Haunt

Once A Hero

Wonderful Disaster

The Blackest Days

Goodnight & Goodbye

Monster

Big Paper Airplanes

Instruments of Fashion and the Murder of Romance

The Blackest Days (Remix)

Get A Gun (Elektro Mix)

Last Kiss

Danger Danger

The Enemy

Most bands go their entire careers without playing before a crowd of thousands. For 23RAINYDAYS, that chance came in 2004, before the band even had songs or a name, much less a stable line-up. They had all decided to quit music in order to pursue their careers. It was months later that they were offered the opportunity to open for Kill Hannah and the Violent Femmes at Live on Penn. They quickly put a new lineup together and in a matter of weeks they had written 15 new songs and were playing to 10,000 people on the streets of DC.

From such auspicious beginnings, 23RD have not only gone on to prove themselves as great songwriters focused on the national stage (they recently returned from a stint on the road with industrial founding fathers, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, but also as a prolific recording act. In a little over four years, they’ve managed to record two full-length albums and a handful of EPs, mount three coast-to-coast US tours, get picked up as a MySpace artist and ink a new deal with Radioactive Music.

Creating a sound self-described as “Dark Pop Synth Rock,” 23RD balance the doom and gloom perspective of their Goth roots with the consummate pop production that has been garnering them airplay across the Mid Atlantic. Listening to their songs ‘Monster,’ ‘Get a Gun,’ or ‘From Today Until Forever’ you get your fill of guitar but can feel a dance band dying to surface. In the words of singer Ian Kaine MacGregor “The people in our band are absolute music fanatics and we're the sort of misfits that liked everything from Depeche Mode to Motley Crue when we were growing up.”

Because of — or perhaps in spite of — that diverse range of influences, 23RD hesitate to be lumped in wholesale with any and all of the scenes their music touches upon. They are not goth and certainly not emo. 23RD’s music owes more to melodic, eyeliner-heavy British acts like Placebo, The Killers and The Cure than any MTV-friendly angst rock by a long shot.

*Note: In late 2009, after a long and amazing run, our band decided to go our separate ways. That same year we made our way onto the MTV VMA tour and were featured in the book "Music to Die For". At that point we had toured every inch of the country several times over and we felt like we had accomplished everything we wanted to and more. Thank you to everyone that listened to our music, bought our records, came to our shows, wore our t-shirts, and tattooed our logo on your bodies. You guys are the absolute best and made that time in our lives beyond memorable.

~ Ian & 23RD

23RAINYDAYS

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