Struggling rock band SlipDog goes to the extremes to get their new demo tape played on the radio. Jace Darnell is the hopeful front man, Jace's bandmates include spaced-out guitarist Doc, punky bassist Joe, and dumb-jock drummer Danny.
Jace convinces a reluctant Sarah to contribute her DJ skills to Slipdog. Meanwhile, the band runs into drummer problems when Danny dies after a football accident, fortunately Sarah is able to recruit her friend Lucas to replace him.
Jace and the SlipDog members deal with writers block. Meanwhile, Jace's father Eric is depressed because he did not succeed at music but manages a music repair store. When Jace hears one of Eric's unfinished songs, he is finally inspired.
SlipDog embarks on a road trip for a gig in Idaho, but problems arise when the band gets into an argument at their destination and on top of that the place they were going to play has burned down forcing them to perform elsewhere.
SlipDog gets a gig at a hot venue, but the band has to pay the owner unless at least 100 patrons come to the bar. Meanwhile Sarah is getting bored at her current job and Jace encourages her to pursue her career in Slipdog full-time.
After Slipdog plays a concert at a local school, three girls become obsessed with Jace and follow him everywhere and start intruding on the band's rehearsals and showing up to their gag uninvited causing tension between them and Jace.
Doc meets pretentious performance artist Siobahn, who does not get along with the band and starts trying to change their sound. Meanwhile Lucas becomes exasperated with the conflicts and quits, leaving the band without a drummer again.
The band rents a studio to record a song and in the process ends up recruiting the engineer Owen to be their new drummer. Meanwhile Siobahn interjects her unwanted opinions on everything finally causing Doc to break up with her.
SlipDog competes in a "battle of the bands." and run into their former guitarist Dominic who used to date Jo, after the two start dating again Dom's band steals the song they were planning on playing, forcing the band to play a new one.
As a favor Sarah gets SlipDog to play at her friend's wedding and they end up playing several more weddings under the alias "Happily Ever After" and make good money, but Doc gets worried that the band is losing focus on concert gigs.
Slipdog gets their first concert at a decent venue, opening for a boy band called Boulevard Boys. Impressed by the Boys manager Allan and embarrassed by Dole's behavior the band hires Allan but find he's not as good as he seems.
After their performance at the Boulevard Boys concert Jace goes on an ego trip wanting to perform at bigger venues and refusing to play certain jobs, frustrating the band and causing them to do a side project resulting in a conflict.
The band travels to Seattle to meet a record label exec. Unfortunately, Doc's former girlfriend Siobahn works at the label and informs Doc that the company wants to sign a contract only with Jace, not Slipdog, forcing Jace to make a choice
