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Ride Your Bike is a band headed up by Mike Getches, who penned an imaginary screenplay to provide the back drop for “Bad News From the Bar”—the group’s debut album. “Bad News From The Bar” contains upbeat and energetic rock tracks and some more mellow acoustic touches. It is the musical companion to a wartime story, a concept album about Elliot and Lillian finding out what is important in life. Mike Getches manages to create quite a lush, pop album that has plenty to thank contemporaries like Dashboard Confessional and Death Cab For Cutie. Mike has a talent for writing infectiously catchy songs. He is one of those musicians who takes influences of others and crafts something of his own without really reinventing anything.

In “Bad News From the Bar,” there are a lot of pop-styled acoustic guitars present with some interestingly layered vocals backing-up Getches geeky voice. Some stand-outs are super gentle songs such as the contradictory-titled “Faster.”

Ride Your Bike’s music is perfect for films or TV shows that involve young teens and twenty-somethings.

Band Talk

Ride Your Bike's Mike Getches' Portrait
Mike Getches Band Leader
Song Writer
Vocals
Guitar
Ryan Hassel Guitars
Vocals
Matt Weitz Electronics
Percussion
Keys
John Harrold Bass

Ride Your Bike is a fun and intelligent indie-pop band, hailing from Fort Collins, Colorado. Mike Getches, the band’s leader, is a singer with a voice like fine spun silk and a guitarist with a genuinely original and imaginative vision.

“Bad News From The Bar” is Ride You Bike’s first album and it is more than just music—it’s a story, a narrative-driven album. The sound is a lush soundscape that finds childhood friends, Elliot and Lillian, drifting apart due to Elliot’s big city dreams. It’s only through encounters with drug-addicted neighbors, police interrogators and fiery plane crashes that the pair ultimately discover what’s really important.

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