SWMRS (formerly Emily’s Army) are an American punk rock band from Oakland, CA.

They were formed in 2014 by Cole Becker, Joey Armstrong and Max Becker, who originally spelt the band name “Swimmers”.

Seb Mueller joined in 2014 after former guitarist Travis Neumann left the band, with Max swapping bass for guitar and Seb taking Max’s previous position. Cole began singing lead for most of the songs, although Max still sings a couple of the songs off of their debut album.

The band released two songs in 2015: “Miley” and “Uncool”. In 2016, they released their debut album “Drive North”, which featured the original two songs as well as ten more songs. Months later, the band released two more songs for “Drive North” called “Palm Trees” and “Lose It”.

Their second studio album, Berkeley’s On Fire was released on February 15, 2019. Four singles were released from the album; “Berkeley’s on Fire”, “April in Houston”, “Trashbag Baby”, and “Lose Lose Lose”.

In 2020, as it came out that many artists on the indie label Burger Records had engaged in the sexual assault of minors with the help of the label, SWMRS drummer Joey Armstrong was implicated, having engaged in a relationship with a 16-year-old when he was 22. The band went on a two-year hiatus following this, during which time Armstrong was ejected from the band, as well as bassist Sebastian Mueller.

On November 3rd, 2022, Cole and Max Becker released a new song as SWMRS, “Dye Yer Hair”.