Acceptance

For five years, Seattle emo/punk band Acceptance cultivated a fanbase playing the club circuit and performing their harmony-filled, guitar-crashing anthems. Then former MTV "120 Minutes" host Matt Pinfield came calling. Now an A&R man at Columbia Records, Pinfield took the band under his wing and produced their EP, Black Lines to Battlefields. Now Acceptance's full-length, Phantoms, is due out this year. —EP