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band from

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. The band released their debut album, ''

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, on July 31, 2007.

History

The band first began performing while students at

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. Chicago native guitar player Tom Schleiter and fellow Miami student and

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drummer Kevin Kane who had played in another band on campus, were joined on bass by Daniel McMahon, a friend of Schleiter’s from when they both attended

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in Arlington Heights, Illinois. After a search for a vocalist, another Miami student and friend, Alec Cyganowski joined the group.

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. The band moved back to Chicago and signed to

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Records, who released their first full-length, ''

'', on July 31, 2007. A spot playing at

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and nationwide touring ensued in the US in 2007, opening for

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, and

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. Most recently, the band's single "Powerspace Snap Bracelet" was featured in SPIN, who also reviewed their album, and the band was profiled in '' Aquarian'' magazine.Powerspace reveal the VIP Secret
. ''Aquarian'', July 18, 2007. The band has toured with The Classic Crime, Envy on the Coast,

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, Brighten,

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, and at PunkSpring in Tokyo Japan in support of the album. In January 2008 Tom Schleiter took a temporary leave from Powerspace to complete his degree at Miami University. Guitarist Max Perenchio filled in while Tom was attending college. Tom rejoined the band to play in Tokyo at PunkSpring, and after graduation. Starting on April 16, 2008 and ending on the morning of April 17, several of the guys took part in an all night chat on the forum, absolutepunk.net. Along with fans that stayed all night, they broke the previous record, held by The Audition, for most posts in a news thread, with over 5100 replies over about 8 hours. On May 20, 2008, Dan made the decision to leave the band. He was replaced on tour by Jake Serek. Powerspace was scheduled to release a full length titled "American Machine" in early 2010 but on February 17, 2010, Powerspace officially broke up before releasing their new album. The breakup letter was quoted as saying, "Powerspace as everyone knows it is 100% gone, and speaking about it in the past tense is still a very new thing for me, but for these guys to give up music entirely would be a crime. And they're not, and I'm not, and that's about all I can say. So keep tabs." Currently, guitar player Tom Schleiter is successfully writing and producing music at his studios in LA and Nashville, under the pseudonym 'Tommy English', working with artists such as Børns, Kacey Musgraves, and Adam Lambert. Tom was nominated for a 2017 Grammy Award for Engineering on K.Flay’s album “Every Where is Some Where”. Singer Alec Cyganowski is living in Los Angeles and has started a new band called CYGZ and is currently releasing new music, with an album slated to come out at the end of 2020. Drummer Kevin Kane is pursuing his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at The University at Buffalo. Bassist Dan McMahon is in an electronic rock band called duck, who have released an EP on their BandCamp page. The EP "Bassment Family", was produced by Tom Schleiter.

Members

*Alec Cyganowski - Lead Vocals *Tom Schleiter - Guitar *Kevin Kane - Drums *Daniel McMahon - Bass

Discography

Albums

*2006: ''Houston, We Have a Party'' (EP) *2007: ''

'' (album) *2010: ''

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'' (album) (unreleased)

Singles

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" 2007

References

External links

Official PurevolumeOfficial website
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