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Nine months ago, the rockers of Another Day Late traded in their comfortable New York lives — their girlfriends, the famous bagels and the scrumptious pizza — for a pair of bunk beds in Newport Beach.

Guitarist Scott Kircher’s parents wanted to help the five-man rock band get on its feet and offered the guys a free place to stay while working on their music.

In the meantime, they have made a home at L.A.’s Whiskey a Go Go, they won a spot on the Honda Civic Tour with Fall Out Boy and, most recently, they were selected from a pool of 13,500 bands to perform in the 2007 Vans Warped Tour.

Quite a step up from dotting East Coast clubs in an old Jeep Cherokee without air conditioning.

“So much of everything that happens in the music industry happens in Southern California,” drummer Josh Hubberman said. “We feel so lucky and honored to be doing so well in an area that has spawned so many great bands.”

Hubberman, Kircher, guitarist Justin Talbott and vocalist Kohl Hegmann started playing together three years ago while earning their bachelor’s degrees in New York.

It didn’t take long for them to realize music was more that just a hobby.

“During college, it was just a group of guys who enjoyed playing music together,” Hubberman said. “When we performed on the Taste of Chaos tour in front of thousands of people, we realized we could sort of do this and it wasn’t just for fun.”

After completing their degrees and moving out west, the band found bassist Chad Philipps on Craigslist and is now excitedly preparing for the upcoming Warped Tour performance and the imminent release of a new EP, “News Said It’s Raining in New York.”

“Warped Tour is going to be amazing because we can see all the bands we love and if we are chosen for the final four, that would be such an awesome experience and opportunity,” Hubberman said.

The quintet finds it difficult to define its musical style, adding that their hard rock sound falls conveniently between mainstream and cutting-edge.

“We all listen to completely different stuff and that comes out in our music,” Hegmann said.

“It’s progressive-indiecollege-alternative with a pop sensibility,” Philipps joked.

Though they’ve moved out of the Kircher residence and into a two-bedroom apartment in Costa Mesa, Hubberman, Kircher, Talbott and Hegmann have maintained the bunk beds, using the other room as a technological haven.

“Some nights when we go to bed, it’s like having a middle school sleepover with a bunch of friends,” Hubberman said. “The camaraderie in the band has just been great.”

Another Day Late is set to perform with four other Southern California bands on Aug. 25 on the Ernie Ball Stage at the Home Depot Center in Carson as part of this year’s Warped Tour.

To learn more about the band, which will be one of MySpace Music’s featured artists from Aug. 20 to 26, go to www.myspace.com/ anotherdaylate.