"Our songs are very simple, and can generally relate to everyone," says Everyday Tragedy guitarist Rome. "We sing about love, life, and the simple misfortunes of each. We use our own experiences as a mold, more like a mockery of ourselves to relay a message that life will always throw its little 'everyday tragedies' at you, and you just have to keep pushing through."

And pushing through is exactly what pop-rock act Everyday Tragedy has been doing since day one — which in this case, was a freezing cold day in Detroit (and a likely warmer day in California). With band founders Greg and Rome meeting online, the musical pairing became substantially more real once they found that their visions, styles and ideas were vastly closer than the thousands of miles wedged between them might've suggested. The resulting collaborative affair eventually yielded Everyday Tragedy's debut, Lovesick, Heartbroken or Somewhere In Between, which fuses the melodic playfulness of The All-American Rejects with the full-throttle foresight of The Used and Taking Back Sunday.

The time spent during initial long-distance collaborations between Greg and Rome resulted in the one song that would eventually inspire Everyday Tragedy's entire debut, "Fall In Love." And although Rome had every intention of forging ahead, he was faced with a very large problem — the fact that his collaborating partner was three time zones away. So Greg purchased a plane ticket for Rome, who spent 19 days visiting the Golden State. It was during that time period that the pair had met with other producers and recorded several more songs on Greg's computer. And it was then that Rome made his final decision to leave the comforts of his life in Detroit and moved in with complete strangers, sleeping on a couch for the first nine months — all for the love of the music. "I knew no one in California and it was an exhilarating experience," Rome recalls.

In their search for producers, Sergio Chavez (Silverstein, Motörhead, Alien Ant Farm) came recommended by a mutual friend, who agreed to work with the act. Together with a host of musicians, including the recording talents of drummer Jarrod Alexander (Death By Stereo, A Static Lullaby) at both NRG in North Hollywood and at Maple in Santa Ana, Calif., Greg and Rome began to assemble the rest of Everyday Tragedy's cast during the recording of Lovesick, Heartbroken or Somewhere In Between, adding Anthony Leone, Ryan Poladian and Jimmy Lloyd to the ensemble.

One of the aforementioned pop tunes is the album's first single, "One for the Money," which has already received respectable airplay on Los Angeles' KROQ. “The song is written around an intricate story that is illustrated in the album's artwork,” says Rome, “But for me, 'One for the Money' represents the struggles of trying to succeed in what is most important to us. Many things in life will challenge our abilities to stay true, to ourselves and to our goals."





Their live performance has graced stages as far as Kansas City, Missouri and their show can only be described as explosive and even dangerous at times with constant guitar spins and other acrobatic on stage antics.

As for the eventual goal of Everyday Tragedy's future, Greg says the rock act aims to make something that everyone can easily relate to and enjoy. "With our backgrounds in heavy music we got tired of watching our scenes degrade into what they are today and decided to go into a territory completely fresh and new to us," he says. "We want to be out with the fans, showing them that music is still fun and that going to see a good show isn't a thing of the past." With all of the forces behind this ensemble, they are definitely getting well deserved attention and showing no signs of slowing down. –Edited by Waleed Rashidi of AP