While not exactly Cutting Edge circa 1985, the Story Of is still reaping the benefits of appearing on MTV2’s Austin Music Week in late December. “We’ve gotten a lot of emails from random people across the country that saw it and an incredible amount of traffic on our Myspace,” confirms singer Christman Hersha.

The local quintet were filmed live at Stubb’s and interviewed at Maryann Price’s Eastside cabin on the Colorado River, where the band recorded its forthcoming sophomore LP, Until the Autumn, a soft and sincere collection of indie pop that would nestle up nicely on The OC. “It wasn’t a very comfortable living environment,” Hersha laughs. “We had blow up mattresses that we would inflate every night, but it was really inspiring to wake up each morning on the river.”

This article appears in February 20 • 2009.

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