The Greeting Committee

Kansas City’s Greeting Committee’s brand of indie rock is inclusive and upbeat. The band found success the in 2015 with the release of their debut EP, It's Not All That Bad, which yielded the breakout hit “Hands Down.” The song helped them secure a deal with Harvest Records, which issued their first full-length effort, This Is It, in 2018. The following year, the band returned with the more mature and reflective I'm Afraid I'm Not Angry, and in 2021 they released their sophomore long-player, Dandelion. Formed in 2014 by high school students Addison Sartino (vocals), Brandon Yangmi (guitar), Pierce Turcotte (bass), and Austin Fraser (drums), the buoyant indie pop quartet eventually attracted the attention of local radio personality Lazlo Geiger. Following the release of their debut EP, It's Not All That Bad, things began to move quickly for the young group — the song “Hands Down” became a regional hit — and a deal was soon struck with Los Angeles-based label Harvest Records, which re-released the EP in October 2015. Two years later, the band issued their second EP, Meeting People Is Easy, and in 2018 they released their debut long-player, This Is It. They spent the next year on the road touring alongside contemporaries like Bombay Bicycle Club, Hippo Campus, and Tennis, and in 2019 they released the I'm Afraid I'm Not Angry EP. In 2021, the Greeting Committee landed three songs on the soundtrack for the popular streaming romantic comedy To All the Boys: Always and Forever. That same year also saw the departure of drummer and founding member Austin Fraser and the arrival of the heartfelt post-breakup single “Can I Leave Too?” The song appeared on the band’s emotionally vulnerable sophomore long-player Dandelion. They kept the momentum going in 2022 with a pair of standalone singles, “Hopscotch” and “Anything But You,” with collaborations with Post Sex Nachos (“Talk About It”) and flipturn (“Where’d All My Friends Go?“) appearing in 2023 and 2024, respectively. ~ Timothy Monger & James Christopher Monger