Surprise of the Century is a 5 piece Goth Rock Indie Pop Band based in Northern New Jersey creating chill Math Rock inspired Indie Pop as well as creepily crafted Goth/Punk Inspired Stoner Rock songs.
The band has been known to gig in the greater NYC, frequenting many popular New Jersey Venues and Scenes. SOTC released their first single, "The Disabled Ableist" at Pianos on the Lower East Side in October 2017.
Surprise of the Century has been featured on local college radio stations including Montclair State University's 90.3 WMSC and William Paterson's 88.7 WPSC - Brave New Radio.
Listen to "Bed Head" available on Spotify, Band Camp, Amazon Music, iTunes, Apple Music and many other Digital Stores and streaming services.
Surprise of the Century was founded by Sean Ritz and began as an acoustic project, which grew into a revolving door policy with consistent members, Sean Thomas Riley & Kerwin Ortega.
Sean has always been draw to music and art winning awards for art as early as kindergarten and playing guitar by the age 16. Sean has in the past ran an underground music venue, The Spider Saloon & Speakeasy which closed its doors in October 2016. Sean has had 2 music industry internships one with the NGO A2IM & another with the Swedish record distribution company Record Union Sean also teaches guitar at Dan's Music Studio in West Orange, NJ and occasionally substitute teaches music at Original Music School in Morristown NJ where he participated in a "Meet Me in Morristown" event. Sean also freelances guitar lessons and is a freelance stage technician at Highland Ballroom. Sean is also a freelance writer and contributor at The Math Rock Times, Half Cat Media & Mad Indie Media.
