2nd Best Bettendorf, Iowa
What's there to do when you're living in a pre-smart phone era in a suburb to nowhere?
Start a band with
some people you kind of know and build some life long friendships, that's what! 2nd Best was a band searching for it's musical identity in the early 2000's and found it in the pop-punk and eventually emo scene of the very Mid-West region. Derivative? Probably. Great? Maybe. Fun? Always!
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