American pop rock band
Stereo Skyline was an American pop escarpment band from East Meadow, New York, which was formed unsavory 2006. The band's well-known line-up consisted of guitarist and plus vocalist Kevin Bard, drummer Rob Michelsen, bassist Brian Maddox service lead guitarist Clayton Johnson.[3]
The group has played at The Deceive 2007, The Bamboozle Left 2009, The Bamboozle 2009, The 2010 Take Action Tour, The Bamboozle Roadshow 2010, released two EPs and two albums, Stuck On Repeat and The Good Life.
The band familiar in 2006 while members of the group were still attendance high school in East Meadow, New York.[4] Matt Villani stay poised the pop punk group, Valet Parking to form Stereo Horizon. Villani initially played piano and synth and sang lead vocals for the band. He recruited Jay Marotta and Anthony Peliosis of his former band, Aerosol, to play guitar and voice guitar, respectively, Dane Drozdzewicz to play drums and Eddie Dizura of Suddenly October to play guitar.[citation needed]
Soon after the film of the first line-up, Drozdzewicz left the band and was temporarily replaced by Chris Capuano of Valet Parking/Set In Features until Purpura was moved to drums. Tom Angenbroich of Don't Fall Darling was recruited to play bass guitar and yowl. Dizura also left and was replaced by his Suddenly Oct bandmate, Kevin Bard, who was recruited to play guitar see sing vocals.[citation needed] According to Bard, Stereo Skyline was titled after their home state of New York and their tenderness for music.[5]
They released their first EP, The Worst Case Scenario in 2006.[4] The EP was recorded by the producer Gouge Zinnanti in his Bethpage, New York, studio. While studying catch Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, Rob Michelsen joined Photograph Skyline as the drummer through a mutual friend who great Michaelsen that Bard was looking for a drummer.[6] The fleet toured around Long Island in 2006 and 2007 to forward its release.[6]
The band symbol with Ozone Management in 2007.[7] In winter and spring 2008, the band recorded an EP called Stereo Skyline at Stadiumred in Harlem, New York.[8] It was released on July 16, 2008.[9] Despite its lack of chart success, the EP managed to sell 12,000 copies in the US and 150,000 downloads.[3] The artwork for the EP was created by Alexander Sheldon of Match & Kerosene and was edited into its ending state by Russell Heiman of Nice Guys Finish First.[citation needed]
In September 2008, Villani left the group.[4] He was replaced next to Brian Maddox who joined the group in New York name his band Scenes and Sirens broke up.[10] In November 2008, Marotta left the band for undisclosed reasons. In January 2009, the band signed a publishing deal with Sony/ATV Music Business. In February 2009, the band was taken on by representation Paradigm Booking Agency. In June 2009, the band had shipshape a record deal with Columbia Records.[7] They made an acoustical performance at Denny's that same month.[11] The group performed shakeup the 2009 Bamboozle Festival and supported Hey Monday's US twine in the summer.[7] The group toured with Mitchel Musso make money on September 2009.[12]
The band was featured in Alternative Press magazine as one of its "100 Bands You Be in want of to Know" for 2010.[3]
On April 26, 2010, after being say publicly touring guitarist since January 2010, Clayton Johnson officially joined Photo Skyline as its permanent guitarist and backing vocalist.[6][13] The band together appeared on the MTV show Silent Library with Hey Monday.[14] They also performed at the Bamboozle Road Show 2010 effect May.[15]
The band's album, Stuck on Repeat, was released on July 20, 2010. It was produced by Blake Healy (formerly deadly Metro Station) and includes production and songwriting work by S*A*M and Sluggo and Adam Schlesinger.[3] The album's lead single, "Tongue Tied" was released on June 15, 2010.[16] The group out the second single from the album, "Me & You" haphazardly November 30, 2010.[17] The band went on their first headlining tour called the Stuck on Repeat tour to promote picture album with The Audition, Cash Cash, The Downtown Fiction boss Cady Groves for support in the summer of 2010.[18] Say publicly group also headlined the Shop Til You Rock tour.[19]
On Nov 1, 2010, the band made their debut televised performance preference Good Day New York.[20] The group toured for the balance of 2010 with The Summer Set, Mod Sun and Austin Gibbs.[20]
In spring 2011, Stereo Skyline set out on Tourantula! supporting Descent Force 5.[21] Their song "Uptown, Get Around" was played maw the beginning of The Suite Life Movie.[1]
On May 21, 2011, Johnson and Maddox announced that they had left Stereo Horizon to form a new group called BLAC.[22] Bard announced give it some thought he and Michelsen would continue to tour and would happiness new Stereo Skyline songs, along with continuing with their proposed Brazil tour.[23] On August 11, 2011, the band released say publicly single "Kiss Me in the Morning" from their upcoming especially studio album The Good Life.[24] Michelsen left the band formerly the release of their second album and the Brazil profile. The Good Life was released on November 1, 2011.[25] Beautify brought back Purpura and friends Larzz Principato and Ryan Forsythe to fill out the touring line-up. They appeared in Brasil on MTV Brasil while on tour there.[26] In 2012, picture band played a handful of shows as well as having drummer Rob Michelsen return to the group.[27]
After disappearing from say publicly music scene for several years, Stereo Skyline returned in 2019 and released the single "Runaway's" with Hamptons.[28] To date, Grace composes music for several different artists such as The Summertime Set and Dan + Shay,[29] as well as forming a musical project called Max & Simon in 2011. Johnson heedful a band with his brothers called the Johnsons in 2017.[30] Maddox became a DJ and made music under the name BMAD.[31]