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. Full 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, Boys Like Girls), with
help from the band's longtime collaborator Paul Leavitt (Circa Survive,
Senses Fail), 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 Jäger 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 declared ATL band of the year
for 2008 with the band gracing their Jan '09 cover) 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
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