Motion City Soundtrack由Joshua Cain (guitar)， Tony Thaxton (drums)， Justin Pierre (vocals/guitar), Jesse Johnson (moog) 和Matthew Taylor (bass)五個小伙子組成。樂隊靈魂Cain和Pierre是高中同學，很小就受Sunny Day Real Estate, Jawbox, the Flaming Lips的影響，99年兩人成立了Motion City Soundtrack，并發了個小樣“7”，那時Taylor, Thaxton, 和Johnson還未加入。隨后，隨著成員們的陸續加入，2003年在制作人Ed Rose的幫助下，他們發行了PUNK處女碟《I Am the Movie》，專輯毫無矯情，受到樂評及歌迷的好評，被人稱作glazed-punk(光滑punk？)。2005年他們發行了第二張專輯《Commit This to Memory》，而《Commit This to Memory Deluxe Edition》則是加入了bonus DVD和一首未發行的單曲Invisible Monsters在內，并重新在2006年發行。 總體來說，這支樂隊風格清新，同眾多主流POP-punk差不多，旋律編曲方面比較重視，主唱Justin Pierre嗓音不錯，打入個排行榜沒有什么問題，關鍵是大家怎么看他們了 A leading light in the punk-pop genre, Motion City Soundtrack includes members Joshua Cain (guitar), Tony Thaxton (drums), Justin Pierre (vocals/guitar), Jesse Johnson (Moog), and Matthew Taylor (bass). Following their high-school graduation, Minneapolis natives Pierre and Cain -- both of whom were inspired by Sunny Day Real Estate, Jawbox, the Flaming Lips, and Superchunk -- formed the band in 1999. The pair assembled a temporary lineup and issued a self-released 7" that same year. Later, while touring through Pennsylvania in support of their release, Motion City Soundtrack met Thaxton and Taylor of the Virginia-based band Submerge. The two musicians decided to leave their hometown of Richmond, VA, to join Motion City Soundtrack full-time, and the expanded band soon entered the studio with producer/engineer Ed Rose (the Get Up Kids, Ultimate Facebook). Three weeks before recording commenced, they were also joined by keyboardist Jessie Johnson (whose personal record label, Ordinary Records, had issued some of Jimmy Eat World's earliest material in 1995) to relieve singer/guitarist Pierre of his synthesizer duties. With a new lineup firmly in place, the band's punk-glazed debut, I Am the Movie, was released in the summer of 2003. While playing venues and basements in support of the album, Motion City Soundtrack was picked up by Epitaph Records; later, they joined blink-182 on a tour through Europe and Japan. Blink's bassist, Mark Hoppus, took a liking to the band and agreed to produce their next album; the resulting Commit This to Memory was released two years later and featured an increasingly pop-heavy sound. A deluxe version of the album (complete with bonus DVD) appeared in 2006, and the band spent the summer on Warped Tour before heading to Europe with OK Go that fall. Entering the studio for the third time, Motion City Soundtrack began to work with producers Adam Schlesinger (of Fountains of Wayne), Eli Janney (of Girls Against Boys), and Ric Ocasek (of the Cars). The completed product, Even If It Kills Me, was released in September 2007.