About

Four Year Bender’s brand of country-fried, California rock n roll has been a mainstay on the Bay Area scene since 2004.  Their debut album, “Lucky” garnered critical acclaim as well National airplay, but it has always been the live shows that made them legends. 

Led by songwriter, Ryan Smith, the Bender expertly walks the line between earnest, quality song-craft, and raucous rock n’ roll debauchery.  There is a little bit of something for everyone at a Four Year Bender show, and it is all excellent.

After an extended, and drama-filled hiatus, the original band got themselves back into the studio in 2019 and recorded a new full-length album entitled “Gettin’ Gone”. The eagerly-awaited follow up revisited Four Year Bender’s specialty for catchy, melodic tunes about the beautiful weirdness that is modern life.  Recorded in 5 days while the band was holed-up in a remote studio in Stinson Beach California, it sounds like old friends that have been through the wringer and lived to smile about it.   

Like every other band in the world the Bender has been patiently biding their time since early 2020, and while the road hasn’t always been easy, it will take more than a once-in-a-lifetime, global pandemic to stop them.   Stay tuned!