Motion City Soundtrack
Motion City Soundtrack performing in Washington, D.C. in 2012
Background information
Origin	Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.
Genres	Alternative rock pop punk pop rock emo power pop indie rock
Years active	1997–2016 2019–present
Labels	Epitaph Columbia The Boombox Generation Modern Radio
Members	Justin Pierre Joshua Cain Jesse Johnson Matthew Taylor Tony Thaxton
Past members	Joe Skinner Andrew Whitney Andrew Gruhn Austin Lindstrom Joel Habedank Matt Potocnik Sidney Burgdorf Claudio Rivera
Website	motioncitysoundtrack.com

Motion City Soundtrack is an American rock band formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1997. The band's line-up consists of vocalist and guitarist Justin Pierre, lead guitarist Joshua Cain, keyboardist Jesse Johnson, bassist Matthew Taylor, and drummer Tony Thaxton. Over the course of their career, the group has toured heavily and released seven studio albums, the majority on independent label Epitaph Records. The band's sound, usually described as pop-punk and/or emo, makes notable use of the Moog synthesizer. Pierre mainly handles the band's lyrics, which often touch on themes of anxiety, alienation, relationships, and self-destructive behavior.

The band was founded by Cain and Pierre, and took several years to form a stable lineup. I Am the Movie, the group's debut album, was released in 2003. Their commercial breakthrough, Commit This to Memory, arrived in 2005, and its follow-up Even If It Kills Me (2007) was similarly successful. For many years, the band was a staple of the Warped Tour. They briefly signed to major label Columbia for My Dinosaur Life (2010), but the label dropped the band shortly after and rejoined Epitaph for Go in 2012. Its follow-up, Panic Stations, arrived in 2015. The group disbanded the following year, but they announced a reunion in 2019, issuing their seventh album, The Same Old Wasted Wonderful World, in 2025.

The staff of Consequence ranked the band at number 75 on their list of "The 100 Best Pop Punk Bands" in 2019.^[1] In 2025, Terry Bezer of Screen Rant included the band in his list of "10 Forgotten Pop-Punk Bands Who Deserve To Be Better Remembered".^[2]