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Sum 41 is a band from little Ajax ontario, The just came out with there new album. # 4 Chuck,---2004

#3, --------2002-----------Does this look infected?

#2-------2001------------All Killer No Filler

#1--------2000-----------Half-hour of power

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Bio- Bye Good Charlotte

the stuff your about to read is our bio. I hate bios. i don't know, i just do. thats me being honest. the history of our band is pretty easy. we started the band in april of 1995. we recorded a bunch of stuff from 95-2000, which you can find somewhere on the internet, only couple real copies of each record really exsist, but if you find one, could you make me a copy. in 2000 we put out good charlotte. and in 2002 we put out the young and the hopeless. we've down a hundred tours. written hundreds of songs, and played hundreds of shows in alot of diffrent places. i can honestly say though, we are just getting to know our fans, and ourselves. we are happier than we've ever been, with chris now in the band, if feels like things have always been just like this. we are having a great time , meeting kids all over the world who feel the same way about music as us. our goals right now as a band are to make the music we want to make, and give our fans what they have given us. positivity, dedication, loyalty, hope,truth, and a place to belong. we really just feel like the luckiest guys in the world, cause after all we just fans too. so thanx to all of you guys checkin out this site, and our music, and thanx for giving us a chance to make music. enjoy the bio.............thanx, Joel.

The Story So Far

Twin brothers Benji and Joel (born 3/11/79) grew up in a lower middle-class family in the town of Waldorf, Maryland—“the middle-of-nowhere suburbs," says Benji.

"Ours was definitely a dysfunctional family situation,” he admits, “but luckily me and Joel always had each other. When things started to fall apart, we just got into music." The twins' older brother Josh turned them on to influential albums by Rancid, Minor Threat, the Cure, the Smiths, and many more.

Benji began teaching himself guitar at 16; Joel gravitated towards lead vocals. "Right away, Joel and I started thinking up songs," Benji recalls. "We'd go straight to our room after school, singing and playing for hours every day."

After Paul (bass) and Billy (guitar) joined, Good Charlotte took their name from a children's book and played their first gig in a neighbor's basement for an audience of 20. "We only played our own songs—we weren't good enough to learn anyone else's songs!"

The brothers dedicated themselves to their music, although they had almost no money for equipment and no connections in the industry. They cut their first demo, wrote their own bio, and began mailing packages off to a list of record companies obtained from a magazine.

"I wrote this letter saying, we're Good Charlotte and if you sign us now it will be a lot cheaper than if you wait!" recalls Benji. "Our ignorance was kind of a blessing. We couldn't be discouraged by knowing too much about how the business really works."

Benji and Joel graduated high school in June 1997, and for a graduation present the twins’ mother presented them with a pair of open airline tickets to California. "Some of our favorite bands like Green Day had started out at this East Bay club called 924 Gilman Street. So when we graduated, that summer we made a pilgrimage to visit the club. We'd never even been on a plane before, but we have an aunt in Berkeley who let us crash with her."

The brothers returned to Maryland, newly inspired and more determined than ever. They left home and moved to Annapolis, played many more shows both electric and acoustic, and worked "all kinds of shitty jobs—I've had over 30 of them," says Benji. "It was a struggling time in our lives, but it was also a great time. It's good to be hungry sometimes."

When Billy joined on second guitar, Good Charlotte was complete. The band won a local contest, and their song "Can't Go On" was included on a sampler of area talent. They attracted the interest of a manager, and Lit offered a support slot on a series of sold-out East Coast dates.

"We had no money, no transportation, and no way to do the gigs. Our mom was living in like a shed on a neighbor's property, and the only thing she really owned was a mini-van. She said, you guys take the mini-van to play the shows and I'll catch rides or walk to work. That just shows you how she's been there for us the whole time."

"By the time we played New York with Lit, in December 1999, all the labels turned out. We signed our deal in May 2000, in the studio where we were recording, and the album Good Charlotte (Epic) came out in September."

By then, the quintet was on the road non-stop. Three months of dates with MXPX segued into the 2001 W.A.R.P. tour, then into more gigs up until Christmas Day (off), followed by still more gigs including a trip to Australia and New Zealand (where their debut went platinum). Through this intensive roadwork, Good Charlotte built an avid fan base—and MTV took notice, giving extensive airplay to the band’s videos for "Little Things," "Motivation Proclamation," and "Festival Song." At this writing (August 2002), Benji and Joel are hosting MTV’s "All Things Rock," which airs Monday through Thursday after 11 PM (ET).

Honesty is the thread that runs through every song on The Young and The Hopeless and binds Good Charlotte to their devoted fans. "I don't think we're better than any other band," says Benji, "although I do think we're more sincere, more real, than some of them. We want to be judged for what we're really doing, not put in a genre with a bunch of other bands with which we have nothing in common."

"We have a lot more to say than some of the bands we're compared with, and I hope people will hear it on this album. The kids that we were, five years ago—I just want to give those kids something to help them through the day."

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Bio- By Gob

There's nothing like throwing a dung-shaped chocolate bar into a hotel pool filled with frolicking families to break up the monotony of life on the road. "It was total chaos," laughs Gob guitarist/vocalist/chief mischief-maker Theo, who pulled the stool stunt during a recent tour stopover in Chicago. "We had just checked in when I noticed the pool was filled with parents and their kids," he says. "So I bought a king-sized Oh Henry bar from the lobby vending machine and tossed it in when no one was looking. All of a sudden, some kid screamed, 'there's a log in the water!' and all hell broke loose. It was pretty damn funny."

That Theo and his Gob mates (guitarist/vocalist Tom, bassist Craig, and drummer Gabe) enjoy playing practical jokes almost as much as pounding out pop-happy punk should come as no surprise to anyone who's seen the group live. "People come to our shows knowing they're in for a good time," says Gob co-founder Tom. "We have a blast on stage and I think audiences appreciate seeing a band that's not embarrassed to get up there and have fun. That's the way it should be."

It's astounding to think that until recently, most of us hadn't heard of the other platinum-selling Canadian pop-punk quartet, even though they've been around since '96. Since then, they've released four albums (Too Late, No Friends, Ass Seen On TV, How Far Shallow Takes You and last year's gold-selling The World According To Gob), scored a handful of radio hits, garnered video airplay on Canada's MuchMusic network and snagged three years on the Warped Tour. Up north, where everything comes second to hockey, Gob are also hailed as heroes for appearing as characters in Electronic Arts' new NHL 2003 video game. "We had a couple of songs on the 2002 version," says Theo. "We'll have another two songs on the 2003 version, and we can be drafted to play for your team. A couple of us are pretty big hockey fans, so this is a pretty big deal for us."

The Vancouver-based band has been following an indie route since day one, and has spent the past few years strategizing for a U.S. breakthrough. Last year, fellow Canucks Sum 41 helped Gob build a Stateside buzz by taking them on four separate road trips across the country. "We played a few shows together a couple of years ago," says Theo. "Now they've become this super-huge multi-platinum band. It's really cool that they didn't forget about us. We're really grateful for their support." The success of the Sum 41 tours led to mass applause and major airplay for "I Hear You Calling," a caffeinated pop hit that whipped American kids into a lather.

This past spring, Gob took a major label step forward when they signed with Arista Records. The ink on the contract had barely dried when they entered a Los Angeles studio with producer Mark Trombino (Jimmy Eat World, blink-182) to record their Arista debut, Foot in Mouth Disease, due in early 2003. "We've been approached by major labels before, but it never felt right," says Theo. "Within five days of hearing our demo, Arista flew us to New York to play for (label president and CEO) L.A. Reid."

About doing the industry showcase, Tom says, "We were told to expect a few people to show up with notebooks, who'd jot down notes and pass them back and forth without saying a word while we'd play. But it wasn't like that at all. Arista had 50 or 60 people there and they were definitely into it." Adds Theo, "Afterward, L.A. told us we were really tight and one of the best bands he'd ever seen live. They showed us right away that they believed in us and we were really excited about that."

Preceding the band's highly anticipated full-length album is the F.U. EP, a nine-track primer on all things Gob.

"The EP helps introduce us to the U.S.," says Tom. "It features some of the old favorites that we play live, along with three new songs that were recorded exclusively for this record. There's also one new track that'll appear on the full album later on."

The flamethrowing F.U. EP is raw-nerved and punked-out, drawing as much from Dag Nasty and AC/DC as from Minor Threat and the Pixies. Hyper chug-nuggets like "What To Do," "For The Moment," "No Regrets" and "Beauville" are classic Gob-turbine-powered and pop-savvy and filled with one sumptuous hook after another. Infectious new songs like "Sick With You" and "LA Song" are warm and thicker, with smart, taut arrangements that echo in your head long after they're over. The disc leads off with "Ming Tran," a fun and exhilarating track whose quirky chorus-about having martial arts expert Ming Tran kung fu one of Tom's foes-is catchy enough to make even the most tone-deaf sing along.

"I wrote the song about a girl named Ming Tran who kicks guys in the head," laughs Tom. "She was featured in an ad I saw in Giant Robot magazine and I have a video where she wails on some poor guy for like 10 minutes. I thought it was pretty amusing. The song is about someone who did me wrong, so I send my friend Ming Tran to kick them in the face. I hope she likes the song. I don't want her kicking me in the face."

Gob's roots can be traced back to the mid '90s, after rival high school students Tom and Theo found out they were seeing the same girl. "Technically, Tom didn't date her," laughs Theo. "I scored more than he did. All he got was one kiss." "Yeah," replies Tom, "but that's all I wanted from her." After comparing licks and riffs, the two set out to turn the scene on its ear.

Of the band's early days, Tom says, "I remember reading an article about a local band taking off and touring North America on their own and I thought that was incredible. I couldn't imagine just getting in a van and going to play anywhere we wanted. I thought you needed to have lots of money and be on a big label to do those things. So that inspired us to book tours and make CDs and do everything ourselves. We would record seven inches and make T-shirts and sell them at shows and use that money for gas to get us to the next place. It was total DIY stuff. Then we got management (Nettwerk-who also guide the careers of Avril Lavigne and Sum 41) and now we have a major label. But you can't wait around and hope that everything will fall into place. You have to get out there and make it happen. We did and now we're doing what we want. It's pretty cool."

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Bio- By Green day

Out of all the post-Nirvana American alternative bands to break into the pop mainstream, Green Day were second only to Pearl Jam in terms of influence. At their core, Green Day were simply punk revivalists, recharging the energy of speedy, catchy three-chord punk-pop songs. Though their music wasn't particularly innovative, they brought the sound of late-'70s punk to a new, younger generation with Dookie, their 1994 major-label debut. Green Day weren't able to sustain their success -- Dookie sold over eight million, while its follow-up, Insomniac, only sold a quarter of its predecessor -- yet their influence was far-reaching because they opened the doors for a flood of American neo-punk, punk metal, and third wave ska revivalists.

Twelve Stones was formed in the small New Orleans suburb of Mandeville, LA. The group was mostly still in their teens when they formed the lineup of vocalist Paul McCoy, bassist Kevin Dorr, guitarist Eric Weaver, and drummer Aaron Gainer. After performing no more than 12 live performances, they took their demo to New York City and performed at an industry showcase. The band ended up signing to Wind Up Records to record their debut album with producer Jay Baumgardner. The album saw a release in 2002, less than two years after the formation of the group. ~ Bradley Torreano, All Music Guide