Biography

Most bands go their entire careers without playing before a crowd of thousands.

For 23RAINYDAYS, that chance came in 2004, before the band even had songs or a name, much less a stable line-up. “My drummer and I actually quit music for our personal careers,” said 23RD’s lead vocalist and guitarist, Ian Kaine MacGregor. “Then we had an opportunity to open up … at the Live on Penn show. We just sort of threw this band together. In the course of about three weeks, we wrote 10 or 15 songs and did a show with 10,000 people where we opened up for the Violent Femmes and Kill Hannah.”

From such auspicious beginnings, 23RD have not only gone on to prove themselves as a heat-seeking hard rock band focused on the national stage (they recently returned from a stint on the road with industrial founding fathers, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult) but also as a prolific recording act. In a little over four years, they’ve managed to record two full-length albums and a handful of EPs, mount three coast-to-coast U.S. tours, get picked up as a MySpace Band of the Week and ink a new deal with Metro area rock label, Radioactive Music. Given that 23RD started out on top, it comes as no surprise that MacGregor and company are working so hard to stay there, even if that means thinking beyond the borders of DC proper.