Motive for Movement

Motive for Movement was a Tulsa, Oklahoma indie rock band that formed in 2005. The band consisted of the 4 members now known as Foreign Home. The band has gone through many style shifts since 2005 but consistently combines angular guitar and syncopated drums for a style often described as ambient shoegazing indie rock with Britpop melodic sensibilities.

• Copeland (band) (Tooth & Nail Records)
• Sparta (band) (Hollywood Records)
• Eagles of Death Metal
• Edison Glass (Credential Recordings)
• Dear and the Headlights (Equal Vision)
• Project 86 (Tooth & Nail Records)
• Showbread (Tooth & Nail Records)
• Inhale Exhale (Solid State Records)
• Vedera (Epic Records)
• The Ataris
• Capital Lights (Tooth & Nail Records)
• Umbrellas (band) (The Militia Group)
• Blinded Black (SideCho Records)
• Deas Vail (Mono Vs Stereo)
• Between the Trees (The Universal Motown/Universal Republic Group)
• Unwed Sailor (Burnt Toast Vinyl)
• Minutes Too Far (Doghouse Records)
• Hundred Year Storm (Floodgate)
• Other Lives (band) (TBD Records)
• Treaty of Paris (band)
• Eleventyseven (Gotee Records)
• The Valley Arena
• Meese (Atlantic Records)
• Le Meu Le Purr (TVT Records)
• Desole (Abacus Records)
• The Hanks
• The Forecast (Eyeball Records)
• PM Today (Rise Records)

Diversafest 2008 with:

• Paramore (Fueled by Ramen)
• Phantom Planet (Fueled by Ramen)
• The Roots (MCA Records)
• Zappa Plays Zappa
• Ghostland Observatory
• Helmet
• Clutch
• The All-American Rejects (Interscope Records)
• The Disco Biscuits
• The Apples In Stereo (Simian)
• moe.
• Admiral Twin

Diversafest 2009 with:

• The Black Crows
• Cake (band)
• Rooney (band)
• The Cool Kids
• Ozomatli
• Metro Station (Columbia)
• Blue October (Universal Records)
• Other Lives (band) (TBD Records)
• Ra Ra Riot
• Delta Spirit
• Citizen Cope
• The Uglysuit
• Gogol Bordello

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