All Time Low Bio

Nobody wants to have to grow up in public. But when you're young,
talented and creating something that strikes a chord with enough people,
sometimes you've got no choice. For the members of All Time Low, who
cut two strong indie releases and inked their Hopeless Records deal
before they'd even finished high school, that's just the path they had to
take.

And with their new album, So Wrong, It's Right, these 2006
graduates from the Baltimore suburbs prove they're
growing up just fine. Produced by Matt Squire (Panic! At
the Disco, Cute Is What We Aim For), with help from the
band's longtime collaborator Paul Leavitt (Over It),

So Wrong, It's Right finds All Time Low cranking out 12
infectious, impeccably played slabs of classic pop-punk
that recall ATL's early inspirations (Blink-182, New Found
Glory) as much as they push the whole genre forward. "A
lot of bands that start out being called "pop-punk" either
shy away from the term or end up trying to force their
sound in a different direction, singer/guitarist Alex
Gaskarth explains. "We're proud of who we are, and
we're trying to take pop-punk back to where it used to be:
a place that's about having fun, being positive and building
a community."

Since forming in 2003 when Gaskarth and guitarist Jack Barakat teamed up with bassist Zack Merrick and
drummer Rian Dawson, All Time Low have steadily risen to the center of that community. With a four-song EP
and an album, The Party Scene (both on the Maryland indie Emerald Moon), under their belts, the band kicked
off their first national touring campaign in 2005, supporting like-minded headliners such as Plain White T's, the
Early November and Motion City Soundtrack. And in 2006, after one of those tourmates, Amber Pacific,
brokered a meeting with their label, All Time Low signed to the label and released their Hopeless debut, the Put
Up Or Shut Up EP. Though it drew on older material, Put Up Or Shut Up was a breath of fresh air for the genre,
winning critical acclaim from outlets such as AbsolutePunk.net (which beamed, "Say hello to your new favorite
pop-punk band") and Aversion.com.

                                                     Between Put Up Or Shut Up's release and their high-school graduation, All
                                                     Time Low finally had the freedom to hit the road full-time, and over the
                                                     next year they'd share stages with bands like Sugarcult, Cute Is What We
                                                     Aim For and Hit The Lights, in addition to bringing their fun, freewheeling
                                                     stage show ("We try to make every show feel like a party," Gaskarth says)
                                                     to the 2007 Bamboozle and Warped Tour festivals. "When you're out there
                                                     on the road and you're going out on what can be pretty massive tours for
                                                     the first time, it really keeps you grounded," Gaskarth says of the band"s
                                                     ascent through the touring ranks. "You're surrounded at all times by this
                                                     huge, diverse group of people with all these amazing experiences to
                                                     share, and you're always learning from them. It really gives you a chance
                                                     to find yourself."

                                                     And that they did. While it has the same loose, energetic spirit that fueled
                                                     Put Up Or Shut Up, So Wrong, It's Right reflects the tremendous musical
                                                     growth All Time Low have experienced in the past few years. And as
                                                     Gaskarth notes, working with Squire as their producer also forced the
                                                     band to step up their game. "We went into the sessions with 15 songs, and
                                                     Matt was like, "Okay, these three songs are great, and the rest suck," he
                                                     remembers, laughing. "But it was the perfect outside opinion to get, because
Matt has a great ear for what we want to be writing, which is really solid pop-rock songs. It forced us to go back
and make the rest of the album that much stronger."

From the fist-pumping first single Six Feet Under The Stars' (which Gaskarth describes as "about regrettably
drinking Jager with someone you used to have a relationship with") and the SoCal-style punk volley of "This Is
How We Do," down to the acoustic lament Remembering Sunday, So Wrong, It"s Right proves why magazines
as far-ranging as Metal Hammer and Alternative Press (which in 2007 declared ATL one of "100 Bands You
Need To Know" in its annual cover special) have cozied up alongside fans to embrace the band. And while
Gaskarth's lyrics are tongue-in-cheek clever and rich with wordplay in tracks such as the driving, multilayered
"Holly (Would You Turn Me On?)," he's also grown in some impressive new ways. "I'm not just writing about the
everyday things that happen to me anymore, although there's still some of that in these songs," he says. "I've
started to become more of a storyteller."

All Time Low's story may just be starting, but with So Wrong, It's Right, the band have added a new chapter
that feels destined to be a classic. "We're still doing just what we set out to do, which was to have fun and
celebrate this style of music that we all grew up listening to," Gaskarth says. "But at the same time, we're
growing up as a band, and it feels like we've finally found ourselves with this album."

(courtesy of Hopeless Records.)

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