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Cartel is an American pop punk band from Conyers, Georgia, United States, that formed in 2003. The group was featured on the MTV television series Band in a Bubble in 2007 as part of an experiment where they were given 20 days to write and record a full album. The current members of the band include vocalist/bassist/drummer Will Pugh, lead guitarist Joseph Pepper, and rhythm guitarist Nic Hudson. In April 2020, Pugh released an EP for a new side project, TAURIDS, with fellow Nashville residents Bobby Holland and Adam Bokesch. Both musicians and audio producers/engineers from the band The Daybreaks.

Pinkshift is an American rock band, consisting since 2022 of lead vocalist Ashrita Kumar, guitarist Paul Vallejo, and drummer Myron Houngbedji. The band formed in Baltimore, Maryland in 2019, after the three members met at Johns Hopkins University and began writing music. Their music has been described as pop-punk with "elements of grunge and alt rock", with the band having cited Nirvana, Arctic Monkeys, and No Doubt as musical influences.