Let's agree on one thing: Rock is all about chemistry.

You remember chemistry: the undeniable sound that comes when a group of musicians makes a sound that no other combination of players in the world could make.

Faced with a world filled with digital manipulation, looped choruses and artificially enhanced drum samples, many musicians have simply given up on Rock.

Not The Tom Collins. Fran Capitanelli (guitar & vocals), Craig McQuiston (bass) and Kyle Spence (drums) have tapped the source: that indefinable and mesmerizing sound that only comes when great songs are played and sung by a band that has come together in that one-in-a-million combination that creates the Rock. Songs like "Back of Your Mind," "In the Morning" and "That Town You Love" combine an emotional and lyric depth that evoke the best of Tom Petty or Big Star with an instrumental power that can only be described as a highly combustible combination of Television and Led Zeppelin.

The Tom Collins came together when Atlanta-based Fran Capitanelli recruited the Athens-based rhythm section. Both Spence (who has played with Harvey Milk & J. Mascis' Fog) and McQuiston (veteran of local legends the Glands, Elf Power) were local stars in their own right. When combined with Capitanelli's electrifying guitar heroics, the band won an immediate following in both Atlanta and Athens and their debut, Deep Cuts, followed in 2002.

While the record earned stellar reviews and substantial local airplay, the band believes it didn't really hit its stride until they began writing the new songs that would become the current release, Daylight Tonight. The Tom Collins have created an album that combines the emotional resonance of Elvis Costello and The Flaming Lips with the instrumental power of the classic 70’s bands they first heard on their parents' stereo.

The Tom Collins is the rarest of bands, one that would be equally comfortable sharing a stage with Aerosmith or The White Stripes. Now is their time, and Rock needs the Tom Collins.

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