Sidewalk Driver

We wanna see your faces at Faces Brewing Co.! This Saturday, April 11, join us for a Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge benefit show with Silver Screams Duck & Cover & The Wynotts ! Doors are at 8pm, music starts at 8:30pm, and it’s all ages! Let’s go!

Ticket link in comments!

📸: Nicole Tammaro

We are devastated. Our beloved friend, Alex “Gumball” Garrido—a founding member of Sidewalk Driver—has died. He fought cancer valiantly and left this world on June 10, 2025 with loved ones at his side. Tad and Gumball grew up together in Miami, playing in bands together there and bringing their rock to Boston, where they played in the legendary Board and would go on to form Sidewalk Driver in the fall of 2004. If you enjoy our first full-length album, For All the Boys and Girls, you know Gumball’s work. He played lead guitar and worked his arranging magic all over that album. He was a prolific songwriter, a talented multi-instrumentalist, a kind and caring bandmate, and his impact on Sidewalk Driver is still felt today. When we work on a new song, someone inevitably says, “We should add a Gumball part here,” referring to one of those tasty, dynamic layers that were his signature. Gumball left the band in 2008 when his wife’s job took them away from Boston. We had a magical onstage reunion when he joined us on Small Talk at the For All the Boys and Girls release show. We’ll share a video in the comments; you can feel the joy through the screen. We’re sending all of our love to Gumball’s wife, Rita, their son, Adrian, and to all of GB’s family and friends. To know Gumball was to love him and to lose him is heartbreaking. Tell your loved ones you love them.