NEW YORK, NY – While BAYSIDE’s vocalist/guitarist Anthony Raneri is looking forward to recording the follow-up to 2008’s SHUDDER, he’s not sitting idly. Always bustling with creativity, he has unleashed a brand new demo, “The Ballad of Bill the Saint”, on his personal MySpace page (www.myspace.com/anthonyraneri). “Lyrically, I just wanted to try telling a story,” says Anthony. “I don’t think that singing about the hardships of being in a touring rock band are very relatable, so I wanted to try writing a few songs that used a fictional character’s life as a metaphor for mine.” His songwriting prowess has been praised by the likes of Alternative Press, (“Anthony Raneri’s lyrics completely cut to my core”), Wonka Vision (“lyrically, the band has reached the epiphany within… they put the rock back in punk rock”), to IGN (“the band writes the best songs and delivers with the passion and power that made Jimmy Eat World so successful”). He continues, ” I wanted to convey the situations or feelings I was having, but I had to take them outside of my own personal situation so people could understand.”

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