Crime in Stereo is a Long Island-based hardcore punk/melodic hardcore band, formed in 2002. On August 9, 2010 they announced that Crime In Stereo was no more. On October 3, 2012 they announced the end of their hiatus, saying they will be writing new music. “It was a strange year,” says Alex Dunne, Crime in Stereo’s songwriter and guitarist. This is in reference to the twelve months between the 2006 release of their critically acclaimed The Troubled Stateside and the beginning of recording "Crime in Stereo Is Dead.