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Defiance, Ohio
Background information
Origin	Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Genre(s)	Folk-punk
Years active	2002–
Label(s)	Plan-It-X Records, No Idea, Anti-Creative Records, Friends and Relatives Records
Members
Ryan - upright bass Geoff - guitar Will - guitar, harmonica, drums BZ - violin, drums Sherri - cello, banjo, guitar Theo - drums, guitar (they all sing)

Defiance, Ohio is an anti-capitalist, largely acoustic punk (typically referred to as folk-punk) band from Bloomington, Indiana. They are known for their extensive touring and intense, enthusiastic live shows. They are named after the real town Defiance, Ohio. The band features a violin, cello, and double bass. The band is also known for being involved with fellow DIY minded record label Plan-It-X Records, often touring with many bands on Plan-It-X Records and participating in multiple Plan-It-X Fests.

They have released two full length LPs, Share What Ya Got and The Great Depression, as well as a handful of split recordings. In the DIY spirit, much of their music is put out by the band themselves, producing their own CDs and CD-Rs, as well as allowing anyone to download all of their music for free from their website under a Creative Commons Attribute-NonCommerical-ShareAlike license [1]. When not releasing their own music, the band works with independent record labels in order to produce their releases. Typically these have been smaller independent labels. However, the band's second and most recent full-length, The Great Depression, was released on the more notable though still staunchly independent No Idea Records.

After making the decisions to work with No Idea, the band felt a need to explain their actions and maintain the sense of dialog that they feel has been consistent in how they've operated themselves as a band. They said that they would have preferred to release the album themselves, but that they did not have the capacity to do so while continuing to keep older releases in print. Their third full-length CD, The Fear, The Fear, The Fear, was released on No Idea on December 4th.

Some members from Defiance, Ohio also participate in another pop-punk band, Pretty Hot.

• Demo (2003) self-released
• Share What Ya Got (2003) CD self-released, 12" Friends and Relatives Records
• 2003 Tour CDR (2003) self-released
• Share What Ya Got (reissue) (2004) self-released, European pressing also available
• Ghost Mice/Defiance Ohio split CD (2004) Plan-It-X Records
• One Reason/Defiance, Ohio split 7" (2004) Anti-Creative Records
• The Great Depression (2006) CD/12" No Idea Records
• Environmental Youth Crunch/Defiance, Ohio Split (2007) 7" Dead Tank Records
• The Fear, The Fear, The Fear (2007) CD No Idea Records

• Official Band Page
• Plan-It-X Records
• Anti-Creative Records
• No Idea Records
• Friends and Relatives Records
• Defiance, Ohio collection at the Internet Archive's live music archive
• Podcast interview with Ryan