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MEST (other)
Mest is an American rock band originally formed by lead vocalist and guitarist Tony Lovato, bassist Matt Lovato, drummer Nick Gigler, and guitarist Jeremiah Rangel. They broke up in 2006 after eleven years, but temporarily reformed in California in 2008 for a "final tour." Tony released “Not What You Expected” in 2013 and it was announced in 2018 that the classic lineup of Mest, with Tony Lovato, Matt Lovato, Nick Gigler, and Jeremiah Rangel, would be getting back together to track Masquerade. History Cousins Matt Lovato and Tony Lovato formed the band together in October 1995. The band's last guitarist, Jeremiah Rangel, joined the band in 1998. Their previous guitarist was Steve Lovato, Tony Lovato's brother. Nick Gigler joined the band in 1997. In 1998, the band self-released ''Mo' Money, Mo' 40z''. Their debut album on Maverick Records, ''Wasting Time'', was released in July 2000 and ''Destination Unknown'' in 2001. They toured as an opening band for Goldfinger on July ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Island, Illinois
Blue Island is a city in Cook County, Illinois, United States, south of Chicago Loop, Chicago's Loop. Blue Island is adjacent to the city of Chicago and shares its northern boundary with that city's Morgan Park, Chicago, Morgan Park neighborhood. The population was 22,558 at the 2020 United States census. Blue Island was established in the 1830s as a way station for settlers traveling on the Buffalo Trace (road), Vincennes Trace, and the settlement prospered because it was conveniently situated a day's journey outside of Chicago. The late-nineteenth-century historian and publisher Alfred T. Andreas made the following observation regarding the appearance of the young community in ''History of Cook County Illinois'' (1884), "The location of Blue Island Village is a beautiful one. Nowhere about Chicago is there to be found a more pleasant and desirable resident locality." Since its founding, the city has been an important commercial center in the south Cook County region, althoug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allister
Allister is an American pop-punk band from Chicago, Illinois. The four-piece formed in 1994 as Phineas Gage when the original band members were still in high school. In 1998, Allister became one of the first bands to sign to Drive-Thru Records. They went on hiatus in 2007, then reunited in 2010, and have been touring and recording again since. They have released six studio albums: ''Dead Ends and Girlfriends'' (1999), '' Last Stop Suburbia'' (2002), '' Before the Blackout'' (2005), ''Countdown to Nowhere'' (2010), '' Life Behind Machines'' (2012), and ''20 Years and Counting'' (2019). The band also made a cameo appearance in the 2004 film ''Sleepover''. History Commercial success (2002–2007) With the aid of producer Chris Fudurich, the band recorded their second full-length album '' Last Stop Suburbia'' in 2002, showcasing a certain degree of growth in the songwriting of Rogner and Murphy. The album featured several fan-favorites, such as "Radio Player", "Overrated", and "So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bowling For Soup
Bowling for Soup is an American rock band formed in Wichita Falls, Texas, in 1994. The band consists of Jaret Reddick (lead vocals, guitar), Gary Wiseman (drums, percussion), and Rob Felicetti (bass, backing vocals, acoustic guitar). The band is best known for its singles " Girl All the Bad Guys Want", "1985", "Almost", " Punk Rock 101", and " High School Never Ends". The band is also known for performing the theme song for the Disney Channel animated series ''Phineas and Ferb''. Reddick is the only original member as of 2025. History Formation and early years (1994-1999) Bowling for Soup has its origins in Wichita Falls, Texas, where Jaret Reddick and other members of the band grew up. Reddick and original drummer Lance Morrill met in the fall of 1976. Reddick began playing music in 1985, at 13 years old. Reddick and guitarist Chris Burney knew each other in high school (they met in 1986) and as students in the 1980s, they grew up on the commercially successful heavy metal mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaret Reddick
Jaret Ray Reddick (born March 6, 1972) is an American musician. He is the lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter of the pop-punk band Bowling for Soup. He also voices Danny on ''Phineas and Ferb'' and has voiced Chuck E. Cheese since 2012. Following Chris Burney's retirement from performing in 2025, Reddick is now the only remaining original member of Bowling for Soup. Early and personal life Jaret Ray Reddick is the youngest of six children, with four sisters and a brother. He went to Cunningham Elementary School, Wichita Falls, Texas. He graduated from S. H. Rider High School in Wichita Falls. In high school, he played snare drum in the marching band, until age seventeen when he started playing guitar. Reddick was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis when he was 19. Career Bowling for Soup Bowling for Soup formed in 1994 in Wichita Falls, Texas. Their name derives from How to Fold Soup, a short story by Steve Martin. Reddick is the songwriter for the band, p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alli Webb
Alli Webb is an American businesswoman and writer. She is the co-founder of Drybar, a chain of American salons providing a hairstyling service known as blowouts. Early life and education Growing up in Boca Raton, Florida, Webb attended Olympic Heights Community High School. Webb's parents owned a clothing business, which sparked her interest in fashion. She left Florida State University after one year, and moved to New York City, where her brother worked for Nicole Miller. Webb also began working for Miller in New York. Career Webb and her brother later left New York City for their native Florida, where they opened more stores for Miller. When the two chose to end their partnership, Webb attended The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale. She was trained in hairdressing by Toni & Guy and worked under John Sahag. In 2010, Webb co-founded Drybar with her brother Michael Landau and her then husband Cameron Webb. By 2019, there were over 125 locations. In 2013, Webb developed a l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YouTube
YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim who were three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google Search. In January 2024, YouTube had more than 2.7billion monthly active users, who collectively watched more than one billion hours of videos every day. , videos were being uploaded to the platform at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute, and , there were approximately 14.8billion videos in total. On November 13, 2006, YouTube was purchased by Google for $1.65 billion (equivalent to $ billion in ). Google expanded YouTube's business model of generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by and for YouTube. It also offers YouTube Premium, a paid subs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NOFX
NOFX () was an American punk rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1983. Bassist/lead vocalist Fat Mike, rhythm guitarist Eric Melvin and drummer Erik Sandin were original founding and longest-serving members of the band, who have appeared on every release by the band, although Sandin departed briefly in 1985, only to rejoin the following year. El Hefe joined the band in 1991 to play lead guitar and trumpet, rounding out the best-known iteration of the lineup. NOFX's mainstream success coincided with increased interest in punk rock during the 1990s; unlike many of their contemporaries, however, they had never been signed to a major label. NOFX released fifteen studio albums, sixteen extended plays and a number of 7" singles over a career spanning more than four decades. The band rose to popularity with their fifth studio album ''Punk in Drublic'' (1994), which is their only release to receive a Music recording certification, gold certification by the Recording Industry Association o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Hefe
Aaron Abeyta (born August 8, 1965), better known as El Hefe or simply Hefe, from ''el Jefe'' (Spanish for "the boss"), is an American musician, best known as the lead guitarist and trumpet player for the American punk rock band NOFX. He started playing guitar at the age of 13, but he states that he started taking it seriously at the age of 15, joining his first band. He joined NOFX in 1991 and his first recording with the band was his contribution to their EP ''The Longest Line''. Abeyta was given his nickname by NOFX founder Fat Mike because at the time when Abeyta joined the band, Fat Mike was dating a girl named Erin and he didn't want there to be any confusion. According to Fat Mike, "I suggested a Mexican-sounding name, like 'El Jefe.' I don’t speak Spanish, so I didn’t realize the 'h' sound is usually spelled with a 'j.'" El Hefe once owned a nightclub called "Hefe's" in Eureka, California, and now lives in Stevenson Ranch, California. He has two children and is d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broken Down (Mest Album)
''Broken Down'' is an acoustic album from American pop punk band Mest. On November 13, 2013, a Kickstarter was started by Tony Lovato, and was successfully funded December 11. Much of the songs are acoustic renditions of songs from almost all their albums except "Mo' Money, Mo' 40z" and Not What You Expected. Track listing # "Lost Broken Confused" - 3:01 # "Last Kiss" - 3:52 # "Rooftops" - 4:16 # "2000 Miles" - 3:27 # "Fuct Up Kid" - 2:12 # "Drawing Board" - 3:48 # "As His Black Heart Dies" - 3:29 # "Jaded (These Years)" - 3:10 # "Keeps Me Movin On" - 2:52 # "Wasting My Time" - 5:01 # "Mother's Prayer" - 2:45 # "Walking on Broken Glass" - 3:44 # "Hotel Room" - 2:40 # "Take Me Away (Cried out to Heaven)" - 4:19 * Tracks 6, 10, and 13 are acoustic versions of songs from ''Wasting Time'' * Tracks 5, 9, and 11 are acoustic versions of songs from ''Destination Unknown'' * Tracks 1, 3, 4, 8, and 12 are acoustic versions of songs from ''Mest'' * Tracks 2, 7, and 14 are acoustic versions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warped Tour 2013
The Warped Tour is a touring rock music festival that toured the United States and Canada each summer from 1995 until 2019, and returned in 2025 for its 30th anniversary. By 2015, Warped was the largest traveling music festival in the United States and the longest-running touring music festival in North America. Internationally, the festival stopped in Australia from 1998–2002 and again in 2013, as well as the United Kingdom in 2012 and 2015. Following the first Warped Tour, the skateboard shoe manufacturer Vans became the festival's title sponsor, when it then became known as the Vans Warped Tour. Warped Tour was conceived by Kevin Lyman as an electric alternative rock festival, but later began focusing on punk rock music. Although it was primarily a punk rock festival, it covered diverse genres over the years. Lyman said that the 2018 Vans Warped Tour would be the final, full cross-country run. On December 18, 2018, Lyman revealed details for the tour's 25th anniversary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Not What You Expected
''Not What You Expected'' is the sixth studio album from American pop punk band Mest, their first album in eight years with only vocalist Tony Lovato returning. Originally slated for released in April 2012, the album was continuously pushed back until September 24, 2013. A week before the release, the band announced via their official Facebook Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by the American technology conglomerate Meta Platforms, Meta. Created in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with four other Harvard College students and roommates, Eduardo Saverin, Andre ... account and website that they would be giving the album away for free, one song per week, through their official website. However, internationally in Japan, the album was released in full. Singles The album's first single, "Almost", which had an accompanying music video, was released on February 14, 2012. The second single, "Radio (Something to Believe)," was released over a year later on J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Automatic Loveletter
Automatic Loveletter was an American rock band formed in Tampa, Florida, in 2005. The band consisted of vocalist and guitarist Juliet Simms, her older brother and lead guitarist Tommy Simms, and drummer Daniel Currier. History Automatic Loveletter was formed with Juliet Simms on guitar and lead vocals, Daniel Currier on drums and brother Tommy Simms playing bass and producing, with bassist Sean Noll sitting in on occasion in Tommy's home studio in the Tampa Bay area. The band was first called Stars and Scars and recorded its first song together in December 2005, naming the song after the band but written by lead singer Juliet Simms. They also recorded "Tin Lizzy", written by Tommy. Juliet also finally acoustically laid down all of the songs she had been writing over the last three years for consideration for her first major label album. Signed by Allison Hagendorf, host of Fuse TV's "The Pop Show", then working at Epic Records, Juliet went on to form Automatic Loveletter wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
