High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Split Lip is responsible for the Midwestern emo-core sound, together with bands like Endpoint, and a group they inspired, The Get Up Kids. After gaining acclaim in the small international hardcore community for their debut album, the band switched gears to more country-leaning pop rock like Counting Crows and matchbox twenty and changed the name of their band to Chamberlain, re-releasing their second album under the new moniker.The band started as a youth crew inspired straight edge group in the Indianapolis, Indiana suburb of Carmel around singer Steve Dujinske and bass player Curtis Mead, along with Clay Snyder.