Streetlight Manifesto

Streetlight Manifesto
Streetlight Manifesto performing at the Mayan Theatre in 2012. Left to right: Kalnoky, Thatcher, Brown, Conti, Nirenberg, McCullough, and Stewart.
Background information
Origin	New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States
Genres	Ska punk, punk rock, third-wave ska
Years active	2002–present
Labels	Victory, RISC, Pentimento Music Company
Associated acts	Catch 22, Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution, Toh Kay
Website	www.streetlightmanifesto.com
Members	Tomas Kalnoky Jim Conti Chris Thatcher Mike Brown Pete McCullough Matt Stewart Karl Lyden Dan Ross
Past members	Jamie Egan Josh Ansley Stuart Karmatz Pete Sibilia Paul Lowndes Mike Soprano Chris Paszik Delano Bonner Nadav Nirenberg

Streetlight Manifesto is an American ska punk band from New Brunswick, New Jersey formed in 2002. They released their first album, Everything Goes Numb, which was distributed by Victory Records, on August 26, 2003. The band headlined and sold out their first concert at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey on December 9, 2003. Several of Streetlight Manifesto's members were well known in the New Jersey third wave ska community for their roles in past ska punk bands from that area, primarily Kalnoky's Catch 22 and fellow New Jersey band One Cool Guy.

Kalnoky, Ansley and Egan (also from New Jersey) had previously been members of Catch 22. In 2002, Kalnoky gathered a large number of musicians—including Ansley and Egan, several members of One Cool Guy, his brother Achilles, and several of Achilles' orchestra friends—to perform on the Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution EP, A Call to Arms. Included on the five track independently released CD is "Here's to Life", a song which Streetlight Manifesto reworked and included on Everything Goes Numb, and a new version of Catch 22's "Dear Sergio", which included a new verse. Both Streetlight and the Bandits are members of The RISC Group, a collaboration of artists to self produce and retain rights to their music.

Streetlight Manifesto's first recording consisted of a four-track demo EP, featuring the songs "Everything Went Numb", "Point/Counterpoint", "The Saddest Song" and "We Are the Few", all of which were re-recorded for their debut album. The line-up that recorded the demo consisted almost entirely of musicians from Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution: Josh Ansley (bass guitar), Jamie Egan (trombone and trumpet), Tomas Kalnoky (guitar and vocals), Stuart Karmatz (drums), Dan Ross (alto and baritone saxophone) and Pete Sibilia (tenor saxophone). The band was signed to Victory Records, the same label as Catch 22.