The Luxury

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For the Toccoa, Georgia musical group of the same name, see Luxury (band).

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The Luxury
Origin	Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Genre(s)	Rock, Brit Pop
Years active	2005 - Present
Associated acts	Baby Strange The Halogens Hey Now Morris Fader Gutta Monolith Ultrasonic Rock Orchestra
Website	Official Website
Members
Steven Borek Justin Day Jason Dunn Steve Foster Daanen Krouth
Former members
Kristoffer Ehrig (2005-2006) Jason Horvath (2005-2006) Brooks Milgate (2006-2007) Hugh Wyman (2005-2006)

The Luxury is a CMJ-charting^[clarify] rock band, formed in Summer 2005.

The Luxury's music is a mix of contemporary and classic British and American-flavored original rock that has been likened to artists ranging from Stereophonics and The Beatles to R.E.M. and Tom Petty.^[1] Reviews and press mentions have often made note of the pervasive dichotomy between the melodically graceful and uplifting melodies in the Luxury's music and the dark, perhaps even depressive lyrics of lead vocalist/primary songwriter Jason Dunn.

The band started out with a short-lived lineup brought together by local DJ David Virr (aka Dave Duncan). Over the course of 2006 the lineup of the band evolved, beginning with Dunn and drummer Stephen Foster, joined by Ultrasonic Rock Orchestra guitarist Daanen Krouth, bassist Justin Day and keyboardist Brooks Milgate (who would later leave the group to pursue his own projects, to be replaced by Steven Borek).

In spring 2007, the debut album This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things arrived. Heralded in local and national ^[2] press as a success, the record went straight to the College Music Journal charts upon its distribution, debuting as the 13th most added disc in the nation.^{[citation needed]} In Boston, singer Jason Dunn has been nominated for "Best Vocalist" a total of 4 times, by the Boston Phoenix, WBZ-TV, and The Noise. The Luxury benefits from having two audio engineers (Dunn and Foster) in the group. ^[3]

In May 2008, the band ran into a snag involving Amazon.com and the Atlanta-based band Luxury (largely inactive since the late 90's) - it appeared that the megasite had grouped both bands' mp3s together into one online store, meaning that payments for downloads were also being grouped together. The situation is still being looked into. ^[4]