Where: Louie's Backyard
When: March 11
Sounds Like: Blink 182, Good Charlotte, Fall Out Boy
Claim to Fame: Played The 2007 Warped Tour, signed to Hopeless Records
You're forgiven for confusing Maryland punk rockers All Time Low with their California power-punk brethren Blink 182.
Like Blink, the members of All Time low like to revel in juvenile quirkiness and pose - nearly - in the buff every chance they get. The band
even got its start playing Blink 182 covers, but All Time Low has come into its own with a new album and a trail of successful shows behind them.
Fans can look forward to hearing the road-tested young band's latest material live on March 11 at Louie's Backyard on South Padre Island.
The band played almost every major date of last year's Warped tour, toured the Eastern seaboard while most of its members were still in high school, and recently completed a national tour with Hopeless Records label mates Amber Pacific.
"We were playing all of these new places, basically introducing ourselves to the world. When we came back, people looked at us differently," guitarist Jack Barakat told Alternative Press. "Local bands wanted to play with us and we started to turn heads around Maryland. Ever since that tour, things have changed."
Barakat and his band mates -- vocalist/guitarist Alexander Gaskarth, drummer Robert Dawson and bass player Zachary Merrick - released their first full-length album, "So Wrong It's Right," in Sept 2007. The 12-song effort is loaded with short, up-tempo guitar based pop-punk numbers. The lyrics range from summery, "The Beach," to poignant, "Remembering Sunday," and the band built a fervid fan base across the country with its mix of bugglegum pop and more introspective ballads.
"I hope kids look at our record three years from now and go, 'That's a classic pop-punk record,'" Barakat told Alternative Press. "It's weird. The stories behind these songs are the stories of my high school years, but I feel like this is the record that I've always
wanted to have."
