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.

Played With

 * 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)

Festivals
Diversafest 2008 with: Diversafest 2009 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
 * 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