Crazy Town

Crazy Town is a rap rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1995 by Bret Mazur and Seth Binzer. The band is best known for their 2001 single, "Butterfly", which reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. As a group, they have released two studio albums, The Gift of Game and Darkhorse.
History of the band
Formation (1995–1999)

Mazur and Binzer, who go by the names of Epic and Shifty Shellshock, respectively, started collaborating together in 1995. However they did not become serious about releasing any material until much later. By early 1999, Crazy Town consisted of Mazur, Binzer, Rust Epique, James Bradley Jr., Doug Miller, Adam Goldstein (aka DJ AM), and Antonio Lorenzo "Trouble" Valli. Their debut album, The Gift of Game, was released in November 1999, having been recorded earlier that year.
The Gift of Game and "Butterfly" (1999–2001)

The release of The Gift of Game was followed by a tour support slot for the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Guitarist Rust Epique left the band while the album was being mixed, and Crazy Town was joined by Kraig Tyler shortly after. The first two singles from The Gift of Game, "Toxic" and "Darkside", were released but failed to chart.

In 2000 Crazy Town was signed to tour with Ozzfest, however they were forced to withdraw after only two weeks when Binzer was arrested after he threw a chair through a window while he was drunk. Turntablist DJ AM left at this point. Crazy Town then released their third single in 2001, "Butterfly" (which uses samples from Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Pretty Little Ditty"). It reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. After this DJ AM returned. Soundscan reports 100,000 album sales of The Gift of Game prior to the release of Butterfly, after Butterfly reached number 1 sales exceeded 1.5 million.

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Linkin Park

Linkin Park is nu metal wing bands and alternative rock that came from Aguora Hills, California, in the United States. They had several times changed its name, such as Xero, Hybrid Theory, 0818, until the name Linkin Park until now. The name "Linkin Park" itself is a play on the name of a park in Los Angeles, Lincoln Park.

Prior to become lead singer Chester Bennington of Linkin Park, Mark Wakefield the vocalist first. However, he came out from Linkin Park to be another project (becoming manager of the band Taproot) - when ituse the the name Hybrid Theory - to become manager of a music group Taproot . Bassist Dave Farrell aka "Phoenix" also never came out briefly from Linkin Park for a tour with his old band, Tasty Snax. While 4 other personnel - Brad Delson, Mike Shinoda, Joe Hahn and Rob Bourdon - Linkin Park always survive since the beginning of its formation.

Linkin Park has released three studio albums, namely Hybrid Theory, Meteora and Minutes to Midnight. Linkin Park also released the album Live in Texas, Reanimation and Collision Course, and Hybrid Theory EP. Linkin Park's success in popularizing the songs like Crawling, In the End, Numb, Somewhere I Belong, and What I've Done. In total, Linkin Park's albums have sold over 50 million copies.

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Greenday

 

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Formed:
1988 at Pinole Valley High School, Pinole, California.
Members:
Billie Joe Armstrong - Vocals and Guitar
Mike Dirnt - Bass
Tre Cool - Drums

Quote from Vocalist Billie Joe Armstrong:
"You know when people say 'My favorite band is the Who,' and you know they're talking about a classic rock band. Well, I want people to talk about Green Day like that."

Trivia Fact:
The first name of Green Day was Sweet Children.

Early Years:
Green Day emerged out of the Northern California underground punk scene in the late 80's. Their first album 1,039 / Smoothed Out Slappy Hours was a compilation of three previous released EP's. Shortly after the album was released Tre Cool replaced the band's drummer, John Kiffmeyer, completing the trio that make up the group today. After a second album Kerplunk, released in 1992, the band signed to major record label Reprise.

Breakthrough:
Dookie was released on Reprise in the spring of 1994. MTV jumped on the video for the album's first single "Longview" shortly after the album was released. The second single "Basket Case" topped the modern rock singles chart for 5 weeks. The band continued to gain commercial momentum and Dookie eventually reached #2 on the pop albums chart and sold 10 million copies. The single "When I Come Around" crossed over to pop radio making Green Day one of the biggest bands in the world.

The followup album, 1995's Insomniac, was edgier and failed to include any major hit singles. The band talked publicly about dismay with their massive commercial success, and Insomniac managed to jettison a significant number of fans. The album sold only 2 million copies. Green Day canceled a 1996 tour claiming exhaustion and retreated from the spotlight to record 1997's Nimrod. Critics were pleased with the new album but sales were disappointing even though the ballad "Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)" was a left-field hit.

After a 3 year hiatus, the album Warning was released. It was the most direct pop album the group had released yet but failed to ignite a great deal of excitement. After the greatest hits collection International Superhits appeared in 2001 it looked like the band's glory days were over.

The group seriously considered breaking up, but instead spent a year working out their issues. After studio tapes for a new album were stolen, the band hastily put together a new album inspired at least in part by Queen's expansive "Bohemian Rhapsody." The result was the anti-Bush rock opera American Idiot. Although the band feared it would be a failure, the album turned out to be a massive success resulting in the trio's first #1 hit album, a Grammy award for rock album of the year, and a #2 pop single "Boulevard Of Broken Dreams."

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SUM 41

 

Sum 41’s career has been filled with highlights that extend well beyond the traditional ‘punk‘ band. They’ve collaborated with Iggy Pop, Ludacris, Tommy Lee, Rob Haldford, and Tenacious D, and were invited to tour with heavy metal legends Motley Crue when they reunited. They were shockingly close to death while filming a 2005 documentary in war-torn Congo, and Deryck Whibley was almost deported from the U.S for his political views in 2007. Not to mention, they’ve sold over 12 million albums and toured the globe countless times.

Since their inception in 1996, Sum 41 has been relentless, unapologetic, and unconcerned with musical boundaries. In the past, their music style has been described as an “eclectic meld of raucous punk-rock, thunderous heavy metal and straightforward rock.” Sum 41’s new album, Screaming Bloody Murder, feeds off this past and expands on it.

They have recently been labeled as one of the world’s best live bands. Whibley says he’s not concerned with these labels, but “all we’ve ever tried to do is play better live. Its what makes us a band. At times, everything else is bullshit. Touring is something we constantly work on, and over 12 years we have continued to improve.”

Sum 41 has also been unapologetic about their life-style off the stage. “We’re best-friends, we love to play music. And we also happen to be idiots. This hasn’t changed since high-school,” says drummer Stevo 32. “Rock music has a long history of partying. We are no different,” quips Whibley.

WIth track titles like: ‘Blood in My Eyes’, ‘Jessica Kill’, ‘Holy Image of Lies’ and ‘Happiness Machines’, Screaming Bloody Murder is an evolution of the band’s metal and punk-rock influence, but continues to blend musical styles as they have done in the past.

Bassist Cone McCaslin feels “like we really reached a new level with this one. Its definitely my favorite Sum 41 album. Musically, this album has pushed way beyond anything we have ever done. I can’t wait for fans to hear this album. I can’t wait to play this album live.”

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Good Charlotte

From the opening sounds of GOOD CHARLOTTE’s fourth album Good Morning Revival -- which launches with an artful, innovative sound collage that slides into the irresistible “Misery”-- it’s evident that the world-famous band who’ve sold over nine million albums has revolutionized its sound for 2007. And by the time the optimistic parting shot “March On” rolls around, it’s evident that this is the vibrant, adventurous and unexpected rock album that has redefined the group.

Returning to work with producer Don Gilmore (Pearl Jam, Linkin Park, Avril Lavigne) -- who helmed Good Charlotte’s eponymous 2000 breakthrough debut -- was the decisive change that reinvigorated the band. After a pair of successful albums like 2002’s tremendously popular triple platinum The Young and the Hopeless and 2004’s subsequent million-selling follow-up The Chronicles of Life and Death (which were realized with producer Eric Valentine), GC singer Joel Madden says its modus operandi on Good Morning Revival (Epic/Daylight) was simply to “make a record that we loved and that felt good.”

In an effort to achieve that goal, Gilmore challenged Joel and his identical twin, Good Charlotte’s guitarist Benji Madden, to bring their A game. And he was highly critical. “We threw out 50 or 60 songs and pretty much started over,” Benji says. “Don was like, ‘I want to reinvent you guys. I want people to ask themselves, ‘Is that Good Charlotte?’”

“We wanted to love every track,” bassist Paul Thomas explains. “Our goal this time out was to make it an awesome listen straight through. No fucking filler, man.”

For the Maddens, who -- unlike their bandmates Paul, guitarist/keyboardist Billy Martin and new Good Charlotte drummer Dean Butterworth -- had become fixtures of the paparazzi-addled L.A. nightclub scene as well as prominent DJs, the opportunity to ship up to Vancouver to create new music was absolutely necessary and remarkably fruitful.

The first day in British Columbia the Maddens had the bulk of “Victim of Love,” the contagious harmony-laden rock & roll song, down. “We knew we were onto something,” Joel explains. And literally every day it was like we were writing a new song. After two months in Canada, isolating ourselves and getting away from everything that we were comfortable with was amazing. We came away with most of what you hear on this record.”

By the time the group officially hit the studio with Gilmore, the downtime between its last tour and its official reconvening was as therapeutic as it was motivational. “The fact that we were able to stop, take a deep breath and kind of find some appreciation for all that we’ve accomplished has a lot to do with why this record sounds as vital and electrifying as it does,” says Martin. “We used to just take every offer that came our way and we’d never get much in the way of downtime. Now that we’ve had that time off it feels like a new band in a lot of ways.”

One of the album’s highlights is its first single: the blistering, unforgettable rocker “The River,” an impassioned song about sin and redemption that traverses the dark side of Los Angeles. For the song, the band brought longtime friends and fellow musicians M. Shadows and Synyster Gates (of Avenged Sevenfold) into the mix, marking the first time Good Charlotte has officially collaborated with another artist on an album. It turned out to be a natural fit for both bands.

“We’ve been friends with Avenged for a longtime. This wasn’t planned, but it ended up working out,” Joel explains. “We were sitting around listening to some new music and they liked that song so we asked them to jump on. It felt right and sounded really cool. Aside from being friends of ours, we’re also fans of their music and since this is our first collaboration, we couldn’t be happier that they’re a part of our record.”

Good Morning Revival sustains its momentum with tracks like the fuzzy, club-driven “Dancefloor Anthem” and the genre-defying, Gorillaz-like You Tube favorite “Keep Your Hands Off My Girl” (which was introduced to audiences on the band’s U.S. fall 2006 tour and will be the lead single in Europe, Asia and South America). Good Charlotte has proven that it can thrive in a number of musical realms.

“Honestly, the first time I heard it, I was like, ‘Are you fucking kidding me? People will never know that’s a Good Charlotte song,” concedes Billy. “And then Joel’s like, ‘Well, that’s the point!’ But soon enough it had me in its clutches.”

“It’s kind of weird,” Joel says. “That song takes a lot of balls. I know some people will listen to it and probably think, ‘No thank you.’ It’s definitely not as if we sat down and penned a piece of art. It’s kind of like a sarcastic take on the whole club scene.”

Elsewhere, on the hard-charging dance beat-steered rocker, “Misery” -- in which the singer observes the “tacky, plastic, shallow, empty” people that distinguish the City of Angels -- the keyboards are really pronounced. While the gorgeous “A Beautiful Place,” which evokes strains of Travis, The Beach Boys and the Flaming Lips, asserts that Good Charlotte is as much of a bona fide pop band and serious chart contender as it is a techno group or a punk quintet.

“I wrote that song in Mexico,” Benji says of “A Beautiful Place.” “I was down there during hurricane season and I was in this beautiful beach environment. I had a night off and I was just thinking about how lucky I’ve been. “That’s a real Dean [Butterworth] moment. It was different when we wrote it, but then Dean started playing that real pronounced drum part. The drums are part of the hook. And it changed the whole sound.”

Speaking of new vibes, the ups and downs of relationships propel rock anthems like “Break Her Heart” and the opposites attract tack of “Something Else.” These songs, along with the tender, melodic ballad “Where Would We Be,” find Joel -- who recently ended a lengthy, highly-publicized relationship with a certain movie star -- putting his feelings out there for public scrutiny. “I’m sure people are going to say these songs are about this or that,” he admits. “Love is a big part of me and I’ve accepted that and it’s in my music. And I’m not afraid to just show it.”

Such honesty coupled with success and personal growth couldn’t help but inform Good Morning Revival. “This record shows a lot more of us than anything we’ve done in the past,” Benji says. “Because it’s hard to be an angry kid, all mad at the world when you’ve got it so good. I mean, that angst will always be there for Joel and I because of the way we grew up. Our father wasn’t the best role model as people know. But I definitely have a moment every day where I go, ‘Wow. What a rad life.’ I look at myself as being really blessed.”

To which Joel adds, “It’s been a roller coaster ride for us in our own little way. We were up, then we kind of went down a bit. But now we’re up again. I think our new record has really been as much about looking back as it is about moving forward. We’ve realized a lot, and I’m really grateful that we’re still doing what we love.”

Revitalized and inspired, Good Morning Revival finds Good Charlotte at its creative pinnacle

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Silverstein

With the release of A Shipwreck in the Sand, their fourth and finest album yet, SILVERSTEIN honours their near decade long, magnanimous rule as an empire with 750,000 albums sold and over 1200 shows played. All the while, the benevolent conquerors have shown nothing short of loyalty to their audience and honest devotion to their cause. An unrelenting tour schedule and a sense of artistic accountability suffice to explain how an obscure band with a relevant sound could foster their earliest fanfare into a laudable career: the decade-long allegiance of an audience and the ability to still smack relevant and intelligible with tender aged, new recruits. A Shipwreck in the Sand, for all of its creative maturation, possesses a thematic and aesthetic familiarity that rightly crowns their story.

In 2000, the band formed their union, not in hopes of grandeur but wrought of their youthful love of music and a vision to meld disparate emo, hardcore and metal influences, ranging from the Get Up Kids to Grade, Penfold to Poison the Well. Inside of two years, SILVERSTEIN self-released their first two, somewhat jejune EPs, Summer's Stellar Gaze and When Shadows Beam, attracting a great deal of local attention and testing their road legs in eastern Canada in the process.

In 2002, SILVERSTEIN signed with Victory Records and released their debut album, When Broken Is Easily Fixed, securing their notoriety as the new distinct sound of the post-hardcore or screamo genre. The album set the pace as raw and intense yet melancholic with therapeutically acrimonious lyrics on heartache and betrayal. Such elements would become the legacy of SILVERSTEIN and whatever the genre, it was apparent they were an inspired group, making something original and relevant from the alternative music soundscapes of their youth. The album exceeded 200,000 sales, the enterprise was promising and with a cause worthy of dedication, the band wholeheartedly submitted themselves for the countless thousands of miles of highway ahead.

Their sophomore release, Discovering the Waterfront in 2005, exceeded their first album in both craftsmanship and commercial success, boosting worldwide sales beyond a half-million. Discovering displayed artistic growth as a harder, decidedly more metal album but with seamlessly more pop-sensibility. Audiences were provoked into hysteria and SILVERSTEIN met their every demand. Ever eager to keep their loyalists happy, SILVERSTEIN partook in extensive major tours: the Never Sleep Again tour with Aiden, Hawthorne Heights and Bayside, Europe with Simple Plan, Taste of Chaos, Warped Tour, Japan and Australia and finally the headlining Never Shave Again tour of the United States.

After chartering nearly the entire globe, SILVERSTEIN rerouted their explorative journey through the channels of their own lives for 2007's release, Arrivals and Departures, an album which maps the hardships of a band whose elastic lives are taut strenuously from tour to tour. Even then, tapped into in the depravities of a touring-musician's lifestyle, the band displayed only accountability and gratitude towards their fanbase, producing a lyrically relatable album about hope through perseverance replete with SILVERSTEIN's infamously infectious melodies and dynamism. Never weary, the band continued its inexhaustible campaign of performances on a summer-long tour with Rise Against, followed by a US tour with From Autumn to Ashes, more time spent in Europe, Australia, Japan and a sold out cross-Canada headlining tour with Protest the Hero. SILVERSTEIN's successes detail a history of artistic ingenuity enough to win hearts anew each album and the devotion and fortitude to maintain faithful relationships with their audience.

Present day, A Shipwreck in the Sand reflects such a history. The album is marked by further musical evolution in showcasing their most refined sound yet. The songs are faster, harder, heavier and more infectious and, yet, still familiar. The lyrics are more mature, rhetoric riddled and relevant than ever in their execution of a concept record which tells of a family whose house and dreams are consumed by a great fire. The ensuing lessons in pain, betrayal and despair along with an internal narrative of a voyaging ship's mutiny, resonate with the current North American, socio-political climate. Reaching new plateaus and maintaining continuity, the album reflects the band's devotion to the dreams they have obtained along their own vestal voyage. Life can too easily seem like a shipwreck, but with SILVERSTEIN, music is a beacon of hope that does indeed promise greater things on the horizon and their union has always been about love.

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30 Seconds to Mars

The 30 Seconds to Mars are an American group founded in 1998 by Jared Leto (vocals and guitar) and brother Shannon Leto (drums). The general membership of the band is much discussed, though some sources define the group as an alternative rock [2], others within insericono instead of the third and most recent kind of derivation of the current hardcore punk known as emo [4] [5 ]. Certain elements of the band's sound has also led to associate it with the so-called progressive rock [3], while the popular online database All Music Guide prefers the further definition of post-grunge [1].
Created in 1998 by Jared Leto with his brother, Shannon, 30 Seconds to Mars began as a small family project. Things, however, began to grow quickly, and Matt Wachter joined the band as bassist. After a change of guitarists (as the group's first two guitarists, Kevin Drake and Solon Bixler, left the band in a short time), the three Tomo Milicevic invited to join the group. Miličević also plays keyboards and is also a professional violinist.
The group's name from an interview on Virgin Records:
"We have found on the Internet of the theories of a Harvard professor, on the advanced technology. One of the theories under was called "Thirty Seconds to Mars" and we have chosen because we feel in 30 seconds from mars and we think this name represents well our music [6]. " (Jared, Shannon and Matt explain the band name)
Surprisingly, though Leto is a Hollywood actor of decent reputation, prefer not to use his name to ensure the popularity of the band. Besides, does not want that attention is focused on him rather than on the rest of the group and refuses to play in local use his name to promote the evenings.
The impact of their new sound - described by critics as apocalyptic, March and devastating [3] - does not go unnoticed and Puddle of Mudd, even before the album comes out, they are called to open the concerts.

30 Seconds to Mars (2002-2005) The debut album, 30 Seconds to Mars, produced by Bob Ezrin, was released in August 2002 and was acclaimed by critics. However, according to Billboard, has sold over 100,000 copies in the U.S. [citation needed], mainly due to the lack of promotion. The album was preceded by the single "Capricorn (A Brand New Name)" and goes right to the top of the list of American debut, the Billboard Heatseekers' chart and the Mainstream Rock Tracks reached the thirty-first position. Subsequently produced "Edge of the Earth."
After a tour as support to Incubus, MTV America invites you to the program "Campus Invasion" and their visibility rises. Like the band, brings a breath of fresh air and a fresh attitude while retaining typical rock'n'roll.

A Beautiful Lie (2005-2008) Shannon Leto at Guitar Center's Drum-Off 2008 Finals.Nonostante the modest success, due largely to poor sales, the band has not given up.
Their second album, A Beautiful Lie, was released on August 30, 2005. The development of the second album took three years of time and many trips across four continents. Production was headed by Josh Abraham, producer of Orgy, Linkin Park, Velvet Revolver, in collaboration with the Jared Leto. The album after a few months he has sold more than 580,000 copies.
Because A Beautiful Lie has been placed online five months before its official release, the band decided to include two bonus tracks: "Battle of One" (an original song that was to be the album's title track, the first time was announced) and "Hunter" (a cover of Björk). To better promote the album, were included the "golden passes" in a certain number of copies, which provide their holders access to free concerts by 30 Seconds to Mars and access to the backstage.
After doing a support for groups like Audioslave and Seether in April 2006 the band started the first headlining tour, called Forever Night, Never Day
In September 2005, A Beautiful Lie was certified gold by the RIAA for selling more than 500,000 copies. In January 2006, A Beautiful Lie was certified platinum by the RIAA for selling over one million copies. In 2006 the band won the MTV Video Music Awards "Best MTV 2" for "The Kill (Bury Me)". The second nomination was for "Best Rock Video", but won with the AFI "Miss Murder". On November 20, 2006 2 launch the premiere of the MTV video for "From Yesterday" video is the first ever allowed to shoot a video in China [7]. In October, the band opened their Welcome to the Universe tour, sponsored by MTV 2. Matt said that the tour was "Environmentally Sound" [8].
In March 2007, during a concert in El Paso, Texas, Jared Leto announced that it would be the last gig with Matt Wachter of 30 Seconds to Mars, and he dedicated the last song, "Attack". The main motivation seems to be the abandonment of his need to spend more time with his family. Jared and the other components in its decision, stating that this would never change the love they feel for Matt. A few weeks later, Tim Kelleher joined the band, replacing Matt in concert, but not joining the band officially.
The band won the TRL Awards, April 14, 2007, "Best New Artist".
The 30 Seconds to Mars won the MTV Australia Video Music Awards, April 29, 2007, with the video "The Kill (Bury Me)" in the "Video of the Year and Best Rock Video" (the video had already won many awards and had several nominations for MTV, Fuse, mtvU, and Billboard in the U.S.). The music video was directed by Jared, with the pseudonym of Bartholomew Cubbins. In 2007, 30 Seconds to Mars explode musically in the old continent and especially in Italy. Are candidates for two EMA'S 2007 for "Rock Out" and "Inter Act". To receive the prize "Rock Out" presents Jared Leto, in phone link with Shannon and Tomo from California, thanking fans and the Echelon of the fact of having arrived at that point. On March 22, 2008, 30 Seconds to Mars won yet another gold record for A Beautiful Lie in South Africa. In 2008 the band won the award for "Video Star" for "A Beautiful Lie" at the MTV Asia Awards, two awards to the Kerrang! Awards in the categories "Best International Band" and "Best Single" award and "Mejor Artist Internacional Rock" at the MTV Video Music Awards Latin America also were held on November 6 in Liverpool, the fourteenth edition of the MTV Europe Music Awards and 30 Seconds to Mars have won both awards in which they were nominated: "Rock Out", which follows the winning of the 2007, and "Star Video" for "A Beautiful Lie"

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+44

Formed in 2004 in Los Angeles, CA, +44 is a band from two former Blink-182 members Mark Hoppus (Bass Guitar/Vocals) and Travis Barker (Drums/Keyboards), who has also played in a variety of musical projects including The Aquabats, Box Car Racer, and Transplants. +44 also features Shane Gallagher (Lead Guitar), from The Nervous Return, and Craig Fairbaugh (Rhythm Guitar/Backing Vocals), from Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards, The Forgotten, and Mercy Killers.
It also once featured Carol Heller (Guitar/Backing Vocals), formerly of Get the Girl, but she later left the band to start a family. She was heard as backup vocalist in 3 of the tracks on the new album. The name +44 is a reference to the international dialing code for the United Kingdom, where Hoppus and Barker first discussed the new project.

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Angels & Airwaves

Angels & Airwaves is an American rock supergroup led by Blink-182 guitarist/vocalist Tom DeLonge. The band also includes guitarist David Kennedy, notably from Over My Dead Body, Hazen Street and Box Car Racer, drummer Atom Willard from The Offspring and Rocket from the Crypt, and bassist Matt Wachter from 30 Seconds to Mars, who replaced Ryan Sinn, from The Distillers, in 2007.

The band has released three studio albums thus far: We Don't Need to Whisper (2006), I-Empire (2007) and Love (2010) and are preparing their fourth album Love II set for a release in November 11, 2011.

They have also released a documentary Start the Machine (2008). In 2011 the band released the movie Love. The band plans to make at least two more films after Love.

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Box Car Racer

Box Car Racer is the first and only studio album by American post-hardcore band Box Car Racer. Produced by Jerry Finn, the album was released May 21, 2002 through MCA Records. The band was essentially a side-project of Blink-182 members Tom DeLonge and Travis Barker, with David Kennedy completing the band’s studio lineup; bassist and friend of Kennedy, Anthony Celestino, toured with the band throughout late 2002.

The album peaked at number twelve on the Billboard 200, and the two singles "I Feel So" and "There Is" charted on the U.S. Modern Rock Tracks. Despite receiving positive reviews on release, Tom DeLonge has stated that the band has "served its purpose" and is now defunct.

Background and recording Origins, music and concept

Box Car Racer was formed by Blink-182 guitarist Tom DeLonge in late 2001 as a side project with Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker. Blink-182 producer Jerry Finn was called to produce the album. The two wrote all of the material themselves and recruited David Kennedy from Hazen Street to complete the lineup. The band recorded Box Car Racer during the winter of 2001/2002. According to DeLonge in interviews, the album’s recording sessions were difficult for him because of constant back pain. Blink-182 had previously canceled tour dates in fall 2001 due to DeLonge’s back problems.

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BLINK 182

 " Blink-182 was an American trio that played pop punk and punk rock music. The band was originally formed in 1992 by Tom DeLonge (vocals and guitar) and Mark Hoppus (bass and vocals) who quickly recruited Scott Raynor (drums) in Poway, California, a northern suburb of San Diego. Originally, the band's official name was "Blink". However, the numerical three digit suffix was appended early in their career following an objection from an Irish band with the same name. In 1998, midway through a U.S. tour, Raynor announced that he was leaving the band, due to undisclosed reasons. Travis Barker was touring with The Aquabats at the time, on the same bill as blink-182, and DeLonge and Hoppus realized that their new drummer had to be Barker. DeLonge left the group in early 2005, with the band portraying it as an "indefinite hiatus" and virtually ceasing to exist. DeLonge and Barker went on to play in a band Boxcar racer, that didn't work out and DeLonge went on in a alternative rock band called Angels & Airwaves, while Hoppus and Barker continued in a similar genre with their band +44. "

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