Chasing Morgan is an American pop punk

Pop punk

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 band from Harford County, Maryland

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 that began in late 2009. taking influence from such pop punk acts as Blink-182

Blink-182

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, New Found Glory

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, and Sum 41

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, They have played along side national touring bands such as Hawthorne Heights

Hawthorne Heights

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, The Misfits

The Misfits

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, ZO2

ZO2

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, After Midnight Project

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, Veins Of Jenna, I Call Fives, We Are The Union and Handguns. The band has played on the Vans Warped Tour 2011. The band is currently unsigned and self-released their debut EP The Breakfast Special in 2011.

Formation/Breaking The Silence

The band was formed in early 2006 by childhood friends Darin Reagan and Steve Cross. later that year after meeting him on their Track and Field team, Kevin Ambrosich became the third member of the band. They went through several name changes and line up changes until November 2009 when they were contacted by Mark Weider about joining the band. When Mark joined they picked friend Brian Lindsey to play drums and they started writing music under the name Breaking The Silence. In April 2010 the band released a 4 song demo CD that they gave out at their high schools for free. The band started playing shows in June 2010.

Chasing Morgan, The Breakfast Special and present

After playing a few shows in the summer of 2010, the band decided to change their name to avoid copyright issues. Later that summer they announced that they would change their name to Chasing Morgan.

In November 2010 Chasing Morgan started recording their debut EP at Orca Sound Studios with producer Kevin Johnston.
Chasing Morgan's debut EP The Breakfast Special was self released by the band in February 2011. AbsolutePunk.net

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 reviewed the EP, giving it an overall positive review saying "this EP is strangely well-produced for such a young band" and "this EP is an impressive release for a group of high school kids" During the summer of 2011 Chasing Morgan played at the Maryland Stop of the Vans Warped Tour 2011

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The band is currently recording their debut full length album. The album is being produced by Nik Bruzzese from the band Man Overboard

Man Overboard (band)

Man Overboard is an American pop punk band from Mt. Laurel and Williamstown, New Jersey that began in 2008. Since then, they have released two EP's, an acoustic EP, a split with Boston pop punk band Transit, a compilation of old songs and a full length album...

 

Members

• Mark Weider — lead vocals
• Darin Reagan — lead guitar
  Lead guitar
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• Kevin Ambrosich — rhythm guitar
  Rhythm guitar
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• Steven Cross — bass
  Bass guitar
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• Brian Lindsey — drums
  Drum kit
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