1. Senior Discount is a group of young men who create and and play rock music, write and release comedic scripted videos, and continually produce various other works of entertainment
2. Not just a band.

The "Important Stuff":
Senior Discount has been continually playing music for about five years, while various members of the band made the choice to get to degrees (in Elementary Education, Communications, and Film) before pursuing entertainment full-time. Now that its college-bound members have finished their schooling, Senior Discount wants to begin doing just that.
Senior Discount has also played over 200 shows in states such as RI, MA, VT, NJ, NY, PA, and CT. They've shared the stage with such acts as Gym Class Heroes, Girl Talk, Boys Like Girls, The Bravery, The Ataris, Leftover Crack, Just Surrender, A Wilhelm Scream, the Street Dogs, Zox, Bad Larry, Westbound Train, Monty Are I, Daly's Gone Wrong, Big D and the Kids Table, Brain Failure, Catch 22, Darkbuster, Stealing Jane, Rehab, River City Rebels, Jimmy's Chicken Shack, Someday Providence, Mickey Avalon, Streetlight Manifesto, Sasquatch and the Sick-A-Billys, the Bloodshot Hooligans, Tip The Van, The Loved Ones, MC Lars, Badfish, Mastamindz, Whole Wheat Bread, Suburban Legends, Patent Pending, and many many more.
Senior Discount's debut (and so far, only) album, "There Were Four Who Tried...", has gotten many reviews from all over, including very positive reviews from Razorcake (CA), Hussieskunk (OH), Plug-In Music (PA), Rock Is Life (MA), Suburban Horror (CA), Upstarter (ID), as well as The Unbound Zine (Canada), and No Front Teeth (The UK). They feel that they've gotten their most important reviews from the historic Maximum Rock N Roll (CA), which boasted, "These guys can rock and scream….a strong full-length," and the revered AbsolutePunk.net, which stated "The band really acts out their emotions….Every track from the album is an anthem to punk rock's principles."
During this time they also focused heavily on film production, as they used short films to promote for their shows and releases. Their one full-length film ("VBW Attack: The Senior Discount Movie") led to the band selling out a 350-person capacity movie theatre for the premiere, and the subsequent DVD release for the film garnished a win for "Best Comedy" in the 2008 Indie Gathering Film Festival (which is one of the top 25 film festivals, as rated by MovieMaker Magazine). Their film also got shining reviews from Punk Globe (CA) which said "It's well done, it astounded me. These guys are having fun," and The Noise (Boston) which reported "...let's just say that this DVD is gold and that the band, and those with them, have some mighty winds at their sails."
The national television network G4 has bought footage from the film, started airing the clips in late 2008, and continues to air them. Senior Discount's online videos have achieved over 30,000 views on streaming video websites, and have also sold footage to the web site Break.com.
In 2007 and again 2008, Senior Discount won the Providence Phoenix Best Music Poll for Best Punk Band - two years in a row. The Phoenix has received many awards for excellence in journalism, including honors from the New England Press Association, the American Bar Association Gavel Awards, the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Awards and many more. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones personally picked Senior Discount as one of the top five bands in the contest to open for the MMB's at their Hometown Throw-Down show show on New Years Eve '07/'08.
Senior Discount were also semi-finalists in the 2008 95.5 WBRU Rockhunt, a yearly contest held by WBRU, which is frequently named one of the best radio stations in the country by numerous trade magazines such as Billboard and Rolling Stone - Rolling Stone named it best radio station in the country in a medium size market three years in a row, the only radio station ever to achieve that. WBRU also had Senior Discount play their "Rock Hunt kick-off" show on Jan 23, 2009, and before that Senior Discount played the 2008 WBRU Birthday Bash at the specific request of Girl Talk, a very popular mash-up DJ - Girl Talk's album "Feed The Animals" was named Time Magazine's #4 album of the year (out of 10) in 2008.
The band just released their new free EP and website, and they're currently looking for a booking agent to help them play out continually while they focus on writing their next album and continuing to write/film scripted comedy.

The "Non-Important Stuff":
The idea of Senior Discount started the year that the band graduated high school. Kevin Silva (who had played bass for years) decided to start a band with Chuck Staton and Christian Staton (who had never played instruments before).
After a year or so of learning their instruments and playing incredibly simple songs, Senior Discount started play out live. Their first release (non-official, according to the band) was distributed by an idea called "Operation Santa Claus", where the band had recorded their songs, and in one night dropped off copies to 200 people they knew around their hometown.
Soon (after Senior Discount had played about three shows), the lovable gremlin that followed them to and fro, Tom Wells, played lead guitar on a song called "Smile" that Chuck had written. After a performance with Tom, the band decided a fourth guitarist with neccessary for the band, and Tom Wells was added.
At this point in time, Alan Sousa teamed up with Chuck Staton and they began writing and filming short films for the band to help with promotion. The types of footage they would release would be one of two kinds:
1. Scripted comedy videos
2. Documentary style stunts or pranks (example: filling Tom Wells' room with 300 pumpkins for Halloween)
The band then recorded two EPS (both untitled, both given out for free) before recording their full-length in 2006. By that time, the band had given out more than 10,000 free demos to spread their name in New England, and spread it they did.
As you've seen by the paragraph above, their CD release, DVD release, shows and videos are easily considered successes.
On April 11th 2008, Kevin Silva quit the band onstage (click here to read the entire story). Chuck Staton, foreseeing such an action, had recruited Alan Sousa, already an integral part of the band, to replace Kevin on bass two months prior. With the departure of Kevin, the band has played bigger shows, recorded better music, and lost their all-around weakest link.
Senior Discount is about best friends creating art together.
End of story.