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Welcome 2 the official home of THE SIDELINE STORY — pop-punk / emo from West Palm Beach, FL, doing this since 2013 on BBZ Music.
We played the shows, pressed the songs, disappeared for a bit… and now we're OFF THE SIDELINE and back with a full comeback season of new singles.
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Off The Sideline —
The Comeback Season
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After quiet years, The Sideline Story is back. The band returned with a run of new singles across 2025–2026 — the Christmas chaos of “Hallmark (I hope your Christmas Tree burns down)”, and a 2026 streak: “This Could Have Been Your Song,” “Pop Punk Time Machine,” “Don't Call Me Baby,” “Love Like Mine,” “Cassette,” and the era-defining “Royal Blue.”
💿 Calling Home — Hand-Signed CDs
The Calling Home acoustic album (2026) got the full old-school treatment: the band is hand-signing 200 CDs. Actual pens. Actual CDs. Like it's 2003 and the merch table is a folding table.
🎄 Christmas Singles (2025)
Two holiday drops: “All I Want For Christmas Is You” and the extremely pop-punk titled “Hallmark (I hope your Christmas Tree burns down)”. Festive. Unhinged. Correct.
🔵 The Royal Blue Era
Current era color: Royal Blue. New songs, same band that shared festival stages in 2013 — just with better Wi-Fi and worse knees.
📻 Press (2013)
Back in May 2013, Punk Reviews reviewed the single “Pick Me Up.” The site is gone now, but the review happened — the internet remembers, even when the hosting bill doesn't get paid.
HitClips Micro-CD Player
60 seconds of a song on a tiny plastic chip was the FUTURE — so we upgraded the chip. This player now streams the full songs for real via YouTube, right here in the toy. Pick a track below and hit play.
* Videos stream from the band's official YouTube uploads (DistroKid / BBZ Music). One exception: the “Eeenie Meanie” cover has no YouTube video, so that chip links out to Spotify instead.
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100% virus-free.* (*The “downloads” actually just play the song in the HitClips player above — streaming beat downloading, even in 2003. Never download the_sidelinestory_REAL_full_album.exe.)
Shows & Shared Stages
In 2013 we shared stages with bands that went on to headline the scene. This is documented. This is forever. This is going in every bio until the end of time.
Pop Punk Festival — The Seven Venue, Douglasville, GA
152 Productions • 2:00 PM • Tickets $15 / $17
On the bill with Cartel, Fireworks, Veara, State Champs, Carridale, We Still Dream, Freshman 15, Giants At Large + more. The big one.
Backbooth — Orlando, FL
With Shout London and A Desperate Endeavor. Downtown Orlando, sticky floors, perfect night.
Backbooth — Orlando, FL
With Seven Story Fall and Rushmore. Back again two weeks later because Orlando knew what was up.
Every real band website in 2003 had one. Entries live here while this page is open — the fanciest technology 2003 had to offer.
saw u at the seven venue!! state champs who?? (jk love them) u guys ATE
backbooth show went CRAZY. pick me up has been stuck in my head for 13 years
came for royal blue, stayed for the hallmark christmas tree song. 10/10