Justin Courtney Pierre

Best known as the frontman and co-founder of Moog-heavy, Minneapolis-based rockers Motion City Soundtrack, singer, songwriter, and guitarist Justin Courtney Pierre has also worked in film and music production. A versatile songwriter with a distinctive tenor, Pierre cites a wide array of artists as influences, including Pavement, the Flaming Lips, Fugazi, Sonic Youth, the Carpenters, Bruce Hornsby, Nirvana, and Tom Waits. A leading light in the punk-pop genre, Pierre led Motion City Soundtrack from 1997 to 2016, releasing six studio albums, including 2007's chart-topping Even I...