Lyon Drive

Lyon Drive is Isaiah Steinfeld and Daniel Valery — two people who started playing music together in the early-2000s Florida scene and never fully stopped. The name is borrowed from a street, the kind of ordinary detail that anchors something bigger.

Steinfeld first formed Daeva, playing bass in the melodic hardcore outfit that shared stages with bands like Misery Signals and Undying. Not long after, he and Valery reconnected in Modern Arcade, an Orlando alt-punk band where Steinfeld handled bass and vocals while Valery moved between lead guitar and drums. The band shared stages with rising acts including The Commercials and Paramore before eventually dissolving as life pulled its members in different directions.

Valery stayed deeply embedded in music, performing with Suck Brick Kid, Go Rydell, and Crisis in Hollywood — with Suck Brick Kid appearing at The Fest, SXSW, and Warped Tour.

The project reconnects creative threads that stretch back two decades. Easycore, pop punk, and post-hardcore — loud rooms and the kind of songwriting that sounds like it was made in a garage because it was. Heavy is the first volume: direct, unpolished, and built to be played loud. Released through AU79 Records, Lyon Drive lives somewhere between the heart-on-sleeve anthems of Polar Bear Club and the quiet emotional gravity of American Football, with the vocal honesty of The Wonder Years and the narrative depth of The Weakerthans.