Boys Like Girls

Boys Like Girls

Okay, so like you were playing guitar in your bedroom and then you posted some music on the Internet and a big record exec called you and made you famous? Right. That’s not exactly the true Boys Like Girls story, but it’s pretty close. Actually, the members of the Boston-based emo band were all already in other bands when they hooked up in the fall of 2005. Front man Martin Johnson recruited Paul DiGiovanni (lead guitar), Bryan Donahue (bass) and John Keefe (drums) to record a few songs he had written. They uploaded the demo to a PureVolume account, and by the end of the year they were No. 1 on the Web site’s list of unsigned bands. That’s when some record execs (booking agent Matt Galle and record producer Matt Squire) did, in fact, come calling. Soon afterwards, the foursome was on the road, in the studio, on the road again and then on the road some more. “Yeah, we have a week off every once in a while, but we’ll basically be on tour until the end of next summer,” says Johnson.

By the way, the group’s name — surprise, surprise — is the topic of most Boys Like Girls songs: getting into, being in and getting out of relationships. Even being No. 1 on PureVolume.com can’t keep a guy from getting his heart broken a few times. — Olivia Flores Alvarez Boys Like Girls perform Friday, February 16, at the Meridian, 1502 Chartres, 713-225-1717.