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Wednesday September
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2024  8:00PM doors -- music at 8:30PM ••• ALL AGES $20 Mest mestmusic.com Pop Punk, Emo-Pop Ska Mercy Music mercymusicforyou.com Rock Rookie of the Year instagram.com/Rookieoftheyearofficial indie pop rock Mest -from Blue Island, IL -Cousins Tony and Matt Lovato grew up across the street from each other in the Blue Island section of the south side of Chicago and began playing together at seven, borrowing instruments from Tony's father, with Tony picking up guitar and singing and Matt playing bass. In high school, they hooked up with guitarist Jeremiah Rangel and drummer Nick Gigler. Tony came up with the band name Mest while looking at a case of Milwaukee's Best beer. Playing in local Chicago punk clubs, the group self-released their debut album, Mo' Money, Mo' 40'z. They got their first real break when Tony wrote to Goldfinger lead singer John Feldmann and got a response. After listening to a demo tape, Feldmann agreed to let Mest open for Goldfinger, got them a record deal with Maverick, and produced their major-label debut, Wasting Time, which was released in July 2000. A year later, Mest returned with a cameo-filled (Young MC, Save Ferris' Monique Powell) spiky-punk second album entitled Destination Unknown. A self-titled third album, which included a cameo from Good Charlotte' Benji Maddeen, appeared in June 2003. A lengthy stretch of Warped Tour dates followed, which led to exhaustion for Mest and back surgery for Tony Lovato in particular. But the band soldiered on, and in autumn 2005 they released their fourth effort for Maverick, Photographs. After ten years together, Mest called it quits in early 2006. They went out on an appropriately titled final tour, So Long and Thanx for the Booze, that February alongside Allister and Good Kids Scaring Kids. A brief reunion a few years later set the stage for the band to get back together, and they toured as well as releasing the 2013 album Not What You Expected. ~ William Ruhlmann, Rovi Mercy Music -from Las Vegas, NV -Mercy Music is a three-piece rock band from Las Vegas, NV, USA. New full-length album WHAT YOU STAND TO LOSE out now (Double Helix Records / SBÄM Records). Rookie of the Year -from Fayetteville, NC -Billboard top 100 artist Rookie Of The Year established itself upon the strength of two early indie label releases. 2006 saw the release of their breakthrough album, The Goodnight Moon, on OneEleven/Warner Bros. Records. This album would Rookie in the international spotlight and go on to sell over 120,000 units. Three more records would follow over the next seven years while the band continued to tour constantly as a headliner and in support of major acts such as MUTEMATH, Quietdrive, Ashlee Simpson, Relient K, Mae, and more. After years of international touring, song placements in film and TV, 200,000+ records sold, and multiple Billboard-charting albums and singles, Ryan Dunson toured under the Rookie Of The Year moniker as a solo act for the better part of five years. The group is now back as a full band and is currently working on new music and touring nationally on a regular basis. Rookie Of The Year is back. Get ready. |
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