Sunday, November 7, 2010

The All-American Rejects!

The all american rejects are an American rock band formed in Oklahoma in 1999. The band was formed by members Nick Wheeler and Tyson Ritter when They both met at a club in 1997 where Nick Wheeler was performing with his band. Tyson offered himself as bass player for there band. The band name came from a combination of two band suggestions, The All-Americans and The rejects which they put together to create The all-american rejects. There style of music ranges from alternative rock to punk pop. They are currently signed with Doghouse, Dreamworks and DGC/Interscope. The band members are Tyson Ritter( lead vocals and bass guitar), Nick Wheeler(Lead guitar and backing vocals), Mike Kennerty( rhythm guitar and backing vocals) and Chris Gaylor(drums and percussion).They currently have 3 albums released and are working on a fourth album that is set to release sometime in 2011. There 3 albums are The All-American rejects(2003), Move along(2005) and When the world comes down(2008). The all-american rejects have been nominated for 17 awards and have won 4 awards in there career, one of which being from MTV video music awards for best group video. Some of there well known songs are Gives you hell, Move along, swing swing, it ends tonight and Dirty little secret. Both move along and dirty little secret have song over two million digital downloads alone. Hope this blog helped you learn something new about this band. Please comment and let me know if there is any bands I should do a blog on. Thank you.

1 comment:

  1. Hey Travis. You're giving us mostly facts, so it isn't plagiarism exactly, but many of your posts are very similar to the Wikipedia articles on the same bands. Be careful and try to add more of your opinions instead of just the facts.

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