The original name of the band was Lunchmeat which was formed by high school students Bobby Sullivan, Chris Thomson, Scott McCloud and Alexis Fleisig in 1985.

[2] The next summer the band reunited under the name Soulside recording an album at Inner Ear with Ian MacKaye, Don Zientara, and Eli Janney.

Following Soulside's demise, Scott McCloud, Johnny Temple, and Alexis Fleisig would join Eli Janney to form the post-hardcore band Girls Against Boys at the end of the 1980s.

[8] Bobby Sullivan went on to form a band called Seven League Boots, who played a blend of reggae and punk.

In 2017, Soulside reunited to play one show in Prague at Scott McCloud's fiftieth birthday on November 5 at the Lucerna Music Bar.