Sunday's Best
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Sunday's Best | ||
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Origin | ![]() |
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Genre(s) | Indie rock | |
Years active | 1997–2003 | |
Label(s) | Polyvinyl | |
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Ian Moreno Pedro Benito (1997-2001) Ed Reyes Tom Ackerman James Tweedy (2001-2003) |
Sunday's Best is an indie rock band formed in 1997.
The band's start came at KXLU, Loyola Marymount University's famous college radio station, where guitarist Ian Moreno, singer/bassist Ed Reyes, and drummer Tom Ackerman (formerly of Skiploader) all worked at in the late 1990s. Moreno and Reyes started the band with singer/guitarist Pedro Benito, a friend of Reyes's, and recorded the band's first 7" single in 1998, before recruiting Ackerman to play drums. In 1999, they put out their first EP, the seven-song Where You Are Now, and in 2000, they followed with their first LP, Poised to Break, on Polyvinyl. In 2002, their sophomore effort The Californian appeared, showcasing the group's most perfect and clean pop sound yet. The band slowly parted ways over the next few years, though frontman Ed Reyes and guitarist Ian Moreno have since started a new band, The Little Ones. and Benito turned up in The Jealous Sound.
[edit] Sunday's Best in popular culture
Sunday's Best have appeared frequently in the Amped series of games, which were released on the Xbox. The songs featured include "Don't Let it Fade" and "Our Left Coast Ambitions," and are believed by fans of the band to "add new highs" to the gameplay. The song "Without Meaning" appears in the film "Waiting..." and many other tracks have appeared on the short-lived animated television shows Clone High USA and Undergrads.
Sunday's Best have also been heard during Fox show The Loop, during the episode "Bear Drop Soup". The song featured in that episode is "Indian Summer".