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Scott Perez, Lucas Hornbeck, Chris Perez & Jeff Balistreri grew up on stages across America. From Bangor, to the Sunset Strip, Nashville’s Broadway, Lake Erie to Virginia Beach, & literally everywhere in between.
In every town from coast to coast, one can find a storyteller with a tale set in a house party up a holler, the local dive down a haint, deep inside a warehouse rave, in the middle of a ridiculous Ace Hotel party, an iconic club show or festival or even a hungover glimpse at a morning show performance that recants IDLE MOVES turning the space between the audience & a wall of roaring amplifiers into pure energy, all the while sharing these sacred spaces with legendary musicians, & the nights with amazing music lovers across the country.
Sometimes miles apart in different bands, these wanderers each found something special on their journey…
When 2020 silenced every stage and caged every traveler, the sonic vacuum inspired the four to take what they found on their travels, return to their native Tampa Florida roots & bottle it.
At first, their efforts produced a handful of songs written through various livestream performances and cut in an old downtown Seminole Heights apartment.
These were released independently as singles throughout 2021, & Re-Released as “II” in 2025.
Once the world freed itself from zoom calls & livestreams from bedrooms, The band wasted no time electrifying every stage on the map or elsewhere.
Every night under stage light IDLE MOVES began distilling, & refining nuances, subtle notes and nods to classic indie rock, post-hardcore, midwest emo, shoegaze & the "get in the van ask questions later" sounds & ethos that were birthed in the early aughts, just to be washed back out to sea much to early during the very same digital renaissance that has you reading this from a screen instead of a flyer or the back of a record.
The end result? a record that brings the stage to your stereo with surgical precision that never loses its purpose of taking the passionate, visceral, brain saturating, chest thumping roar of a rock band 3 feet from your face in a crowded club and delivering it to your ears regardless of medium.
The album HUGO was released on December 10th, 2023. Named after the 1989 hurricane that shredded the US east coast, an analogy for the set & setting of the creation of the songs within.
The haunting radio broadcast artifacts peppered through the record capture a moment in time where people communicated over ham radios to relay messages to friends and family separated by tragedy yet refused to be silenced.
After a year of bringing HUGO roaring to life out on stages across south Florida, IDLE MOVES recorded their live set at Ybor City’s CROWBAR in March of 2025 which is streaming exclusively on BANDCAMP.
The set summed up the bands place in the Tampa scene, featuring a new song that was released on April 20th, 2025. “OBVIOUS” which is now streaming everywhere, was written on stage, and recorded at the bands home base in Tampa: THE BOP SHOP.
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