All American Radio has spent the past four years stomping around indie rock clubs, bars, and basements, delivering the rock to kids who deserve better than what radio gives them.

Armed with a strong D.I.Y. ethic and a tight camaraderie, All American Radio makes beautiful, emotionally charged music that skirts the emo category by keeping one foot solidly planted on rock and roll soil. "I always say it's noisy rock with very spacey keyboards and guitars with a lot of effects, but real solid, rock-based drumming," explains bassist Tim Joyce. "We try to go for more melodic, atmospheric sound with the guitar, but try to stay tight and rhythmic with the bass and drums."

Joyce is joined by singer/guitarist Brian Goshorn ("Guido," if you're nasty), keyboardist/violinist/band cutie Mollie Swartz, and newbie John Marino, who replaced the band's replacement drummer about four months ago (cough, "Spinal Tap," cough). "Mollie and Guido and I have known each other for close to 10 years now, since high school," says Joyce. "For several years, the three of us tried a couple different bands, like, different ways to get together and play music, but it never really worked out."

Fortunately for rock and roll, it finally did work out, and All American Radio is set to release its first full-length album, Fragments Of, on Philadelphia's Burnt Toast Vinyl in the fall. Part of the band's sound is owed to their collective good taste in music. "We definitely have a big My Bloody Valentine influence and I would say a big Smashing Pumpkins influence, and I think we all pretty much listen to Fugazi," Joyce explains. Throw in Swartz's love for poppy dance music, Guido's affinity for Sonic Youth-esque noise rock, Joyce's background in the straight-edge hardcore scene, and Marino's history in the drunk-punk circles, and it's safe to say that the result will be a little to the left of the Top-40 bull's-eye. But, interesting music aside, it's All American Radio's live show that has been fogging up the black-rimmed glasses of indie rock kids to the midwest and back. "We like to be loud, and we like to have a really full sound. I just think we convey a lot more energy in our performance than we do on our recording," says Joyce. "We see recording and performing as two different art forms. So our records may have extra instrumentation and extra tracks on them ... but I think it's a lot more entertaining to see a band get loud and be full of energy."