Kevin Bronson on November 1st, 2011

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Orange County-based Starving for Gravity has been cultivating its gritty, angsty alt-rock ever since Lucas Holter, Mark Allee, Ben Jindra, Aaryn Minich and Brad Kovar packed up the van in their native Minnesota and headed west. Since, they’ve made an EP with veteran record producer Michael Lloyd and, most recently, become one of five finalists in the nationwide Pop Up Live program, a project from SPIN, the snack company popchips and Reverbnation to expose emerging artists. They’ve joined Chicago’s Counterpunch, New York’s Christine Hoberg, San Francisco’s the Bruises and Seattle’s Ramona the Band in a competition that will send a winner to Austin in March to perform at a SPIN event concurrent with SXSW. How do they stack up? Each finalist made a short promotional video touting their wares – you can decide for yourself.

||| Watch: The videos from all the finalists and cast your vote.

||| Download: “Demon in Me” (from Popup Live page)