A punk rock band from Oakland, California with a taste for vintage West Coast pop-punk and a melodic sense akin to indie rock, SWMRS (pronounced "swimmers") began when they were too young to drive, but have matured into a sound and style of their own. The SWMRS story begins in 2004, when Cole Becker and Joey Armstrong were inspired to form a band after watching the movie School of Rock; both were just nine years old at the time, but youthful inexperience wasn't about to stop them. Armstrong had a bit more knowledge of how life in a rock band works than the average kid, since h...