In a sorta dark day for indie rock, the quartet announced they were heading their separate ways for an unspecified amount of time, they said they still wish to release their EP but aside from that, Opus is also being delayed due to the hiatus. Each member said they were entering the hiatus for different reasons:

Winston Marsh wishes to pursue his Record Label/Production Company, Imitation of Life full-time in an attempt to scout musicians and get them ready for bigger and better things. He also wishes to finally get his side-project Babes underway.



Renee Belmont, former girlfriend of the dead bandmate, stated her reasoning behind the hiatus was to spend some time in Asia finding herself. Its recently been revealed that Renee hasn't been with the band for at least a month, as she already left for the expedition around the beginning of March.

Paul Glover is one of two of the band members hoping to settle down a bit during the hiatus:



Greggory Marsh, brother of Winston, is also hoping to settle down for more specific reasons, him and his fiancee, Mariah Button of the Hard Sugars, have been engaged since fall of 2011.



The band formed in 2008 and gained public recognition in late 2010 with the release of their demo publicly.

It all gets too much for the Misery Loves Company frontman whilst performing new song from their upcoming album.

Misery Loves Company played a secret hometown show last night at The Vault, Los Angeles where they played out all tracks off the new album as well as the best of their previous material.



Things were going well for the shocked fans as they got a little more than they bargained for at a 'Meet & Greet' session with the band as they disappeared and came out on stage a few minutes later. They played through their new album to an intimate crowd of silence, however fans quickly learned the words and started singing along.

We then came to the final song of the set, a track titled 'Breathe' which is set to feature on the upcoming album 'Secrets'. Ryan Williams opened to a warm, sombre acoustic guitar melody which was mixed with a nostalgic piano backing. From the off it was clear that this was a very personal song for the band as drummer Josh Heyler sat face down as all lights went off, the stage was lit by candles only. In-fact we didn't get any percussion until the second chorus, by this stage frontman Ryan Williams was singing the song with his eyes shut. The emotion was visible on his face as he appeared to be singing about a close friend who had passed away. The song started to build slowly with the acoustic-piano instrumental building to the sound of a light snare with small whispers in the background. As the song erupted to finish out, Williams was fighting the tears as it all got too much for him. His voice was raspy as he tried pushing through the tears " No I don’t want to believe, You’re sinking in the sand, your leaving all behind, Darling just take my hand", but fans didn't mind too much as the whole front row began crying with him! As the song began playing out williams hung up the microphone and walked off stage, followed by Heyler leaving just lead guitarist Barker and touring bassist/producer Colby Wilson playing to each other on stage.



The new album 'Secrets' is due to drop on April 24th where the recorded version of this track will be present. The band however also revealed that they will release another single before this date which is, as of yet - unrevealed. They will also be on tour promoting the album this Spring with support from indie rockers 'our name is stars.' and local band Alaskan Sunrise. They are also set to play the full Summer of the Vans Warped Tour! So one thing is for sure, Ryan Williams sure will have many shoulders to cry on!