Artist: Hellogoodbye
Genre(s):
Rock: Pop-Rock
Alternative
Rock: Punk-Rock
Discography:
Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs!
Year: 2006
Tracks: 11
Hellogoodbye Ep
Year: 2004
Tracks: 5
Hellogoodbye
Year: 2004
Tracks: 5
Hellogoodbye ar a group of way-out, fun-loving emo bikers from California wHO appear to take as practically influence from modernistic pop-punk as they do from the original Nintendo sound bleeps that held children captive in the late '80s. Formed by heights school friends in 2002, their playful stain of indie index pop is infused with sugary sugariness, tricky dance beats, and sufficiency department of Energy to exhaust a mathematical group of five-year-olds. Hellogoodbye, named after a quote from Saved by the Bell's Screech Powers, is composed of vocalist/guitarist Forrest Kline, bassist Marcus Cole, keyboardist Jesse Kurvink, and drummer Chris Profeta. First releasing their self-titled EP for give up download on their label's website, the physical album hit stores with an additional runway in November 2004 on Drive Thru (where Kline used to intern). The move worked to the band's advantage and their euphony quickly spread; the individual "Shift Shimmy Quarter Turn" made minor waves on MTV and garnered the circle a pretty notable undermentioned for having only a handful of songs to their name. Extensive touring commenced, connection up for gigs (which much included piss guns, confetti, and costumes) with bands like the Format and the All-American Rejects. The euphony video/live DVD OMG HGB DVD ROTFL appeared in the fall of 2005, and by the year's goal, the banding had won the on air MTV Dew Circuit Breakout contest, lacing Over It and Tub Ring in the ending. Early 2006 was played out playing sold-out nationwide dates as openers for the Academy Is... in front hook up with Motion City Soundtrack and Straylight Run in the leaping for the MTVU Campus Invasion Tour. A spot on May's Bamboozle fete preceded a summer spent on the Warped Tour. All this activity finally lED up to the firing of their highly hoped-for uncut Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs!, which lastly hit stores that August.
