I t's said absence makes the heart grow fonder. That's certainly true in the modern rock landscape, where reunion tours and album anniversary concerts for even marginal bands become hot tickets for nostalgic Gen Xers and Millennials looking for a taste of that feeling those sonic vibrations gave them in their more youthful days.

A much rarer feat is absence making new hearts grow fond. Not often do artists just go away for a while and come back to an audience that now includes tons of fresh faces. But according to Spokane's own Dan Hoerner, the guitarist for Seattle's seminal '90s emo band, Sunny Day Real Estate, that's what his band has encountered since returning to the road in 2022 after the group took a hiatus for over a decade.

"It's so weird to see that seemingly 75% of the crowd

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