Artist Profile: All Time Low

All Time Low are a pop-punk band based out of Lutherville-Timonium, Maryland just outside of Baltimore. The band consists of Alex Gaskarth on lead vocals, Jack Barakat on lead guitar and backup vocals, Zack Merrick on bass, and Rian Dawson on drums. The band initially started out as a Green Day cover band, and signed their first record deal with Emerald Moon Records where they released their debut EP, The Three Words To Remember In Dealing With The End in 2004. Their first studio album titled The Party Scene arrived a year later and just before they graduated from high school in 2006, signed with Hopeless Records and released Put Up Or Shut Up, which mostly contained re-recordings of songs from their prior EP plus 2 new songs. The band made a huge mainstream push with their second full length album So Wrong, It's Right which was released in 2007. The album contained such pure pop-punk gems such as "Dear Maria, Count Me In", "Six Feet Under The Stars", "Poppin' Champagne", and my personal favorite ATL song "Remembering Sunday". The band released their follow up album Nothing Personal in 2009, debuting at #4 on the Billboard 200 album chart and producing such memorable classics such as "Weightless" "Damned If I Do Ya (Damned If I Don't)" and "Lost In Stereo". The band have just wrapped up work on their brand new album Dirty Work, which is slated for release sometime this Spring.

When I first came across these guys a few years ago, I was totally blown away by their musicianship and the way that their melodies were exploding out of the speakers. They have the same goofy pop-punk sensibility that Blink 182 displayed on their first two albums, but they had their own distinct sound to call their own and their own distinct personalities which set them apart from the countless number of pop-punk bands dominating the scene these days. I'll be seeing these guys in concert on May 6 at the House of Blues in Boston and couldn't be more thrilled to see first hand what these supremely talented guys have to deliver to the audience in action.