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Floral Terrace has bursted onto the scene as ONE HOT INDIE BAND! As a young band in New York’s highly competitive Hudson Valley music scene, the group is based around one singular concept – writing catchy guitar driven music. 18 year old front man, Justin Olori, admits “it hasn’t been easy getting noticed. You just have to love and believe in your music and hope people can see, feel, and hear it in your work.”

After years of knowing each other and having been in countless local bands between the 3 of them, Floral Terrace was born. Justin and his childhood friend, George Bosotina, partnered up with drummer John Damiano to begin putting the puzzle pieces together. Brian Millagram quickly grew into the role of rhythm guitarist and backup vocalist. When Olori chose to put down the bass in early 2009 to focus solely on singing, he looked no further than his older cousin, Justin-Allen Speca.

In less than one year the band has had the opportunity to support such acts as: Straylight Run, The Friday Night Boys, Every Avenue, and Envy on the Coast throughout the greater New York area and has gained quite an internet following. After achieving success regionally, the band took to the road. They toured with friends Artist Vs Poet, Racing Kites, and TVTV for their first time out. Subsequent tours with The Ready Set, Go Crash Audio, Backseat Goodbye and Goot took the band to new places as far away from home as Denver, northern Florida, Dallas, and Chicago. Floral Terrace (aka Flo Teezy) as their fans affectionately refer to them, has currently played in 25 of the 48 Continental Unites States and has over 50,000 friends following them on Myspace .

Floral Terrace remains optimistic about their future. “A lot of bands get really worked up about the music industry,” says George Bosotina. “We just want to write an album we believe in and take it to the world. Whether we are by ourselves or with the support of a record label, we are coming!”

Listen to some of FT’s music below & buy their record on !!!

Interview with Floral Terrace:

What are you currently up to?
We just got done recording some new songs with some good people. Recently we’ve really been feeling doing collab songs the way hip hop artists do. this particular session we wrote and then brought to our friend zack and jeremy. they sat down with us and we just went at it the way hip hop artists do. We then jumped into rob freeman’s (cobra starship, hit the lights) studio and tracked it with help from our longtime friend Greg. From there we are sending it to paul leavitt (all time low, friday night boys) for a final mixdown. These songs will be available on our myspace next week!!! we will also be doing exclusive extra stuff on our purevolume account!!!

Any interesting band stories you would like to share?
On our last tour we pushed our van 2 miles off the exit in the mojave desert of california to save money on the tow since rates are ridiculous out there.

Do you write from your personal experiences?
Absolutely, our band name is named off experiences growing up that we just really wanted to get away from. Every single one of us came from some awful shitshow situation and kind of were dumped in a room together in july of 2008, we looked at eachother like what the fuck are we really even gonna do this? haha sure enough here we are.  Our first batch of material was so depressing haha, were cool with it still but its like damn we were pissed back then! Recently we’ve been  writing about so much more stuff than we ever imagined.

Do you have a particular song that means more to you than others?
As for stuff one can reference, the song “first to leave” is some of the most honest lyrics weve ever wrote. the song came as we were learning to write about new stuff and one thing bothering us has been how mean people are, in but not limited to relationships. Once we started writing it we just kept going and had the song done in like 2 days flat.

You have a fresh sound, what are your hopes for the future of your band?
We have a few producers we’d like to work with and depending on what/if label says we’ll most likely get to work with one of the few people we’ve pegged for our first official release. We also hope to go overseas and play to the UK, Japan and Australian kids. We’ve been getting some noise online from those countries and its blowing my mind we may even have 1 person interested in seeing us live in another part of the world. haha

Please check out this great band at the links below!

www.myspace.com/floralterrace
www.twitter.com/floralterrace
www.facebook.com/floralterrace
www.floralterrace.bigcartel.com
www.purevolume.com/floralterrace
www.saynow.com/floralterrace
www.eventful.com/floralterrace