Artist · chart history
Matchbook Romance
Band Poughkeepsie United States Active 1997–2007
Matchbook Romance formed in 1997 in Poughkeepsie, United States and was active until 2007. Matchbook Romance has 5 chart appearances on 5 radio countdowns from 3 stations on RockLists, spanning 2004–2006. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “My Eyes Burn”, which appears on 1 list with a best position of #88. The station that charted Matchbook Romance most often is WBER (Rochester, NY), with 3 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2005.
Matchbook Romance came out of Poughkeepsie, New York, and took a while to find their name: they started in 1997 as Fizzlewink, became The Getaway in 2001, and settled on Matchbook Romance a year later. Epitaph Records signed them, and Brett Gurewitz himself produced West for Wishing, the April 2003 EP that counted as their first proper release. Their debut album, Stories and Alibis, followed that September.
Early on they played emo and pop-punk with its heart pinned firmly to its sleeve, all yearning choruses and guitars that surge and pull back. Voices, in 2006, has a darker, heavier feel, and "Monsters" carried that brooding edge onto rock radio.
All told, they put out two full-length albums on Epitaph, along with one EP and a split EP shared with Motion City Soundtrack, before the band called it a day in 2007.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Matchbook Romance on radio countdowns
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 102 | Monsters | Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2006 |
| 2006 | 85 | Monsters | WFNX Top 100 Songs of 2006 |
| 2006 | 138 (tie) | Monsters | WBER Listener Countdown 2006 |
| 2005 | 88 (tie) | My Eyes Burn | WBER Listener Countdown 2005 |
| 2004 | 153 (tie) | Promise | WBER Listener Countdown 2004 |
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