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    Rock/Pop

    The Story So Far with The Starting Line, Ultra Q

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    Tuesday, October 20, 2026

    6:30 PM

    Starland Ballroom

    Sayreville, NJ

    Scheduled

    About This Event

    The Story So Far headlines a bill with The Starting Line and Ultra Q at Starland Ballroom. The Story So Far is a Walnut Creek pop‑punk group with five studio albums and a focus on compact songcraft and plainspoken lyrics. The Starting Line, active since 1999 and back in 2025 with Eternal Youth, and Ultra Q, an emerging rock‑pop act with roughly 25,000 Spotify followers, favor tight arrangements and forward momentum.

    About the Artists

    The Story So Far

    The Story So Far

    pop punkmidwest emopunkemo

    The Story So Far is a Walnut Creek, California pop‑punk group formed in 2007, working in the overlap between punk urgency and emo and Midwest‑emo melodicism. With five studio albums behind them, their writing tends toward compact structures and plainspoken lyrics rather than studio ornament.

    The Starting Line

    The Starting Line

    pop punkemopunk

    The Starting Line is a pop‑punk band formed in 1999 in Churchville, Pennsylvania, later operating out of Philadelphia. They came to wider notice during the early‑2000s wave of emo‑leaning punk, pairing direct melodies with tightly paced arrangements.

    Ultra Q

    Ultra Q

    Ultra Q is a rock-pop group appearing at Starland Ballroom in the New York area, on a bill with The Story So Far and The Starting Line. Their profile sits in the emerging tier on Spotify, with roughly 25K followers and a modest popularity score, a useful snapshot of a band still building its audience.