Hop Along

Led by idiosyncratic singer/songwriter/guitarist Frances Quinlan, Philadelphia's Hop Along make impulsive, punk-injected indie rock. The group emerged from Quinlan's lo-fi indie folk solo project called Hop Along, Queen Ansleis, which released one album, Freshman Year, in 2005. Her brother Mark Quinlan joined her on drums in 2008. Tyler Long followed on bass in 2009, and the name was shortened to Hop Along. After releasing the EPs Wretches and Is Something Wrong? in 2009, their first band full-length, Get Disowned, was recorded piecemeal over a two-year period at Headroom Studios in Philadelphia. It arrived in 2012 to a warm reception by the indie music press