The Northern Divide – Resolution
Telyscopes – Love Song, Not The Cure
Star FK Radium – Blue Siberia
Dirdy Redzz – Spoken Herb
Lands – Polyonymous
Bunny Man Bridge – Shush Mutt
Shortstack – Reckless and Alive
Moss Of Aura – Only
Scenic MentaL Detours – Jump of Joy
Night Streets – Night Streets
John W. Warren – Saudade
Vandaveer – Ways & Means
Jeremy Hyman – New Edition
WonderChurch – Dog Water
Lilac Daze – Knives
Jon Miller – Edison
Terri Bocklund & Curr Kowalski – Bagizo (Go Swimming)
Urban Verbs – Next Question
Stripmall Ballads – Cuba Variations
Three Man Soul Machine – Golden Thread

Tired All the Time – Bloody Toothbrush
Damu the Fudgemunk – Never Off (On & On)
Social Station – Awfully Pretty
Warren Wolf – Lake Nerraw Flow
OV – Perc Song (Chords)
Craig Gildner and The Blue Sky 5 – Sittin’ Pretty
Yoko K. – mimi’s heart muted
Astronaut Jones – Turkey Grease
Lilac Daze – Kathleen
A Shrewdness of Apes – Summer Job
Nitemoves – Ask Me Anything!
Peals – Trillium
The Iris Bell – Shade
The Orchid – The Arrow and The Song
Jon Miller – Jello
The Red Lines – Windy City
The Soul Searchers – Ashley’s Roachclip
Les Rhinocéros – What Do YOU Know About VELCRO
Protect-U – Down the Tubes
Nate Belasco – Automatic

Hurlebaus – Capital Crescent Town
Lilac Daze – Frederick Rock City
Aaron Leitko – Downtown Protoculture / Extended Family (Edit)
Ronny Smith – Lift Off
The Rail Runners – One Note Brown
#KNO-1 – If Only 4 1 Night
Bliss – Still
Scenic Mental Detours – Dots on the Ocean
Soleaux – Cyanide
The Red Lines – There There
PHZ-Sicks – Black Women
Nitemoves – Rosencroix
Yoko K. – huggy robot
Luke Brindley – Threshold
Kindlewood – Desiderium
DJ Winterman – Di Gully
Jordan Clawson – The Play
Once Okay Twice – The Lonely
Daniel Bachman – Song For The Setting Sun I
Brian Forehand – Moonroof

The Frederick band’s eponymous full-length album, out Friday on New Jersey’s Black Numbers label, is the result of four years of shows and self-released EPs. Their woodshedding tends to be purposeful and ongoing, agree drummer/singer Matt Henry and guitarist/singer Evan Braswell. It helps that they’ve known each other for most of their lives and developed the kind of brotherly bond that keeps the sensibility intact.

“We’re all pretty picky — because we’re all such music-history nerds — about what we want out of the sound of the record,” Braswell says.

The 10-song Lilac Daze crackles with life: Songs such as “Shark Bait,” “Glow In The Dark” and “So Confused” have the kind of immediacy associated with Superchunk, Jawbreaker, Velocity Girl and other acts that sprung from edgy punk scenes but had broader sonic ambitions.

Lilac Daze isn’t coy about its primary reference points — Green Day, for example, gets repeated shoutouts on the band’s bio page. Henry says that for him in particular, the ’90s thing was baked-in.

“My mom loved to call into radio contests. She always won all sorts of CDs and videos … and my dad’s a huge music fan as well,” Henry says. “Even though I was like, in third grade, my mom was like, ‘Hey, I won this Weezer CD’ or ‘I won this Smashing Pumpkins CD.’ I kind of had all that stuff embedded in my brain, even at that young age.”

The band’s third member, bassist/singer Patti Kotrady, wasn’t an old friend, but she was a catalyst: Henry and Braswell met her at shows around D.C. and Maryland, and Lilac Daze essentially formed around her in late 2012 as she learned to play bass and write songs.

“At first, it was a little hard to fit into their musical process since they’ve done it together for so long … but Evan and Matt were great about making sure I had equal input when we first started,” Kotrady says.

A lot of Lilac Daze is about relationships, but the storytelling tends to be oblique. Kotrady’s “Lonely Eyes,” for instance, has a sensuous edge (“Thigh to thigh, hand in hand, I passively listened to your plans”), but it’s a collection of scenes more than anything else.

“Ultimately, it’s about being in a tough situation and reaching out for others’ company when that isn’t what’s best for you,” says Kotrady. “So you end up being with people who don’t really care about you, or vice versa.”

“Wrought Iron Fence,” by Braswell, is about wandering around a church alone and drunk — “realizing I still don’t know what I want out of that aspect in my life,” he says, noting that he wasn’t raised with religion. And Henry, the group’s only married member, credits “Jack O’ Lanterns” to finding proper perspective on childhood memories.

“This sounds so cheesy, but when I started dating Nicole, who’s now my wife, it was like, ‘OK, this is actually the time of my life,” Henry says. “Like, right now is the best time.”

And for now, all three members say the band’s interpersonal dynamic is fruitful. If there’s any tension, Braswell says, it’s because he and Henry “kind of act like little kids most of the time.” It’s not unusual for Kotrady to get the last word.

“One time we were in the car on a really long drive, and my feet smelled so bad that she made me pull over to buy new shoes,” Henry says. “We didn’t really get in an argument. I was just like, ‘OK, my feet smell really bad.'”

Lilac Daze plays an album release show Oct. 14 at the East Street Arts Center in Frederick, Md. The band also opens for La Sera on Oct. 20 at Songbyrd in D.C.

This weekend the two musicians, who play in Northern Virginia pop-punk band American Television, are putting on the inaugural Breakin’ Even Fest at Songbyrd Music House & Record Cafe in D.C.

“As we’ve gotten into our 30s and life has progressed,” Flowers says, “it’s gotten harder and harder to do some of the touring and other things that bands do.” But that doesn’t mean they’re bowing out of music altogether.

Taking place March 4 and 5, Breakin’ Even Fest will feature more than a dozen bands from across the D.C. region, including local favorites Lilac Daze and Loud Boyz, as well as New York rockers Iron Chic and Timeshares.

The fest focuses on tuneful punk rock, a style Flowers says he doesn’t encounter enough in the D.C. scene.

“There’s a lot going on in D.C. already,” the drummer says, “but we saw a little bit of a void in the music that we really like — melodic pop-punk with a little bit of a hard edge.”

D.C.’s biggest punk festival, Damaged City, specializes in a faster and more aggressive side of the music. Flowers says that fest “is really great, but it’s not really the music that Steve and I like.”

To help pay for the event, Rovery and Flowers have arranged a number of local sponsors, including Mobius Records and vinyl-pressing company Furnace Manufacturing, which have each donated merchandise to be raffled off over the course of the weekend. Rovery says each “mystery merch pack,” given away a few times each night, will be worth around $200.

In addition to the ticket prices — an affordable $27.50 for the entire weekend — proceeds from the raffles will go directly to the bands. Rovery and Flowers won’t be taking any for themselves.

“We came up with the name Breakin’ Even is because our goal is to break even,” Rovery says, “but first and foremost we need to make sure the bands get paid.”

Breakin’ Even Fest takes place March 4 to 5 at Songbyrd Music House and Record Cafe in Adams Morgan.