In a recent Facebook post, members of The Story So Far from Chicago (formed by a member of seminal punk band 88 Fingers Louie in 1998) accused the band The Story So Far (pop punk from California) of using their name, songs, and recognition to promote their own band without due compensation to their namesake originals:
“. . .While the band name itself isn’t terribly original, we (the band) own the rights to this name. On top of that, there has been some communication with their management about this, and the band are fully aware of what’s going on. They have used our songs, and whatever little recognition our band used to have, as a way to promote their own band. Check out anything on this band, especially iTunes and Spotify, and I’m sure our bio, tunes, etc. will be linked in. Unfortunately, none of us have the money it takes to fix this, although we did talk with a lawyer to try to get things rolling. If you have a chance, please like this page and spread the word. The music business is a fucked up place, and it blows my mind that things like this still happen. I believe we will be posting all of our tunes here, too. We may even try and find some of the demos we had done for the follow up to our Hopeless Records EP and post them. Thanks!”
The Story So Far (Chicago) have now uploaded a few of the aforementioned demos to their Facebook page. Meanwhile, The Story So Far (California) appear to have no comment on the accusations.