The ACBs are a band from the midwest (Kansas City to be exact) who just love to laugh and make music and sing and laugh some more. Our biggest fans are probably young kids and the elderly which makes playing club shows to apathetic hipsters quite the challenge (cue: drinking). We do it anyway and folks usually end up having a good time. What we lack in style, we make up for in swagger. We rely on intangibles. We enjoy a good josh. We play because we have to. Coach once told us, “All I want...is everything you’ve got” and he got more than he wanted.
Since 2007, more or less, we: released self titled debut to limited fanfare, slowly built up a solid fanbase in the midwest, garnered more fanfare, bought van, played with some bands (Fastball, Flickerstick, Ryan Cabrera), lost van to fire on the way to Norman, OK, played with good bands (Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, The Get Up Kids, The Republic Tigers), lost 2 members to sunny California, released second album, ready to play for whomever will listen. If that didn’t make any sense, just read this (it’s prettier):
‘The ACBs began 2010 as a broken band, but closed out the year as a supergroup of sorts. After half the band moved to L.A., frontman Konnor Ervin and bassist Bryan McGuire regrouped, adding Andrew Connor from Ghosty and Kyle Rausch from Abracadabras. In November, they released their first album in four years. On Stona Rosa, the ACBs moved beyond the power pop sound they'd cultivated on their debut and settled into a stranger, stonier, lonelier space. Ervin's couching his inventive melodies in more tender, artful compositions, and the band has the chops and confidence to sell it. It's a good look on them.’
-- David Hudnall (2010)
