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Anarbor

By michele Thursday January 7, 2010

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I must say I am totally shocked we haven’t discussed this band before, but better late than never right? Anarbor comes to us from Phoenix, AZ. Though the band was formed in 2004, many changes have been made over the years.Mike Kitlas (guitar) and Slade Echeverria (vox) have been friends since Kindergarten and decided it would be fun to form a band with fellow junior high school classmate Greg Garrity (drums), Adam Juwig soon adding on as guitarist. Now originally Jess Myers served as the bass player for the band but she left in 2008. The band was originally referred to as “Troop 101″ but later that name was later changed to “Anarbor”. In 2008, despite the fact that the boys were still attending high school in AZ the band was signed to Hopeless Records after their self-released EP ‘Hearing Colours, Seeing Sounds’. Their self-release went on to reach #62 on the Amazon.com Top Album chart and their Hopeless Records debut ‘The Natural Way’ found its way to the Billboard Top Singles Chart at #6. And in March of last year, their release ‘Free Your Mind’ experienced having several songs being recognized on the Top 20 Billboard top list weekly.

The band is working on new material and hopefully releasing an album in the near future. Anarbor will also be on the entire Van Warped Tour this summer so be sure to go out and support.

Fun Fact (thanks to patty): Mike’s dad is from Michigan and his sister was born in Ann Arbor, since she is the one that got him into music the bands name is a tribute.

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