Red Goodbye is an indie rock

Indie rock

Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...

 band from Long Island, New York. They have released 4 CDs independently, the most recent of which (One Time Mountain) has received broad exposure on the internet.

In July 2010, singer Andrew Horn was announced as the winner of the 2010 Americu Rockstar Competition for Central New York

Central New York

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.

Full Circle Torrents

In summer 2009, several months after rock band Creed

Creed (band)

Creed is an American rock band formed in 1995 in Tallahassee, Florida. Becoming popular in the late 1990s and early 2000s, the band has released three consecutive multi-platinum albums, one of which has been certified diamond, and has sold over 28 million records in the United States, with an...

 announced that their reunion album would be titled Full Circle

Full Circle (Creed album)

Full Circle is the fourth studio album by American rock band Creed, released on October 27, 2009. It is Creed's first release since disbanding in 2004, prior to the release of their Greatest Hits album, and is their first studio album since 2001's Weathered, as well as their first to feature...

, hundreds of torrents appeared on peer-to-peer file sharing

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 sites labeled as a leaked

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 copy of Full Circle but actually containing Red Goodbye's One Time Mountain, with modified file names and ID3 Tags

ID3

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. The band's rock sound and the baritone of singer Andrew Horn were enough to make the "leak" appear authentic. Some fans of the band were reportedly unaware they were not listening to Creed for months, until they searched for lyrics online and posted the accounts on the band's official website.

In the months leading up to the official Creed release, the album was downloaded upwards of 70,000 times.

Discography

• (Untitled) (November 2006)
• The Second Demo (March 2007)
• Demo 3 (December 2007)
• One Time Mountain: The RadioTower EP (February 3, 2009)
• RadioTower (Anticipated 2011)

Singles

• The first single officially released was the version of "God and Girl" that appears on One Time Mountain
• The second single is expected to be "Shakespeare Lied", also from One Time Mountain

Tours

• Red Goodbye played various venues in Oneonta, New York
  Oneonta, New York
  Oneonta is a city in southern Otsego County, New York, USA. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, had a population of 13,901. Its nickname is "City of the Hills." While the word "oneonta" is of undetermined origin, it is popularly believed to mean "place of open rocks" in the Iroquois language...
  
  from 2006 to 2008
• Andrew Horn is currently on tour in Utica, NY playing acoustic shows.