In the summer of 2009, Baltimore pop-punk band All Time Low stripped down their songs to just an essential heart beat, exclusively for MTV Unplugged. The bands performance was shot in New York City, and had the band take their high-energy performance down a notch in the candle-lit studio for some very fortunate fans who intently sung along.

All Time Low plays two new songs off their latest album Nothing Personal, “Damned If I Do Ya, Damned If I Don’t” and “Weightless”. Also don’t miss live performances from their previous releases “So Wrong ,It’s Right” and “Put Up Or Shut Up” including “Dear Maria, Count Me In,” “Coffee Shop Soundtrack,” “Jasey Rae” and a surprise duet with Kate Voegele on “Remembering Sunday.”

All Time Low’s “MTV Unplugged”
1. Damned If I Do Ya (Damned If I Don’t)
2. Coffee Shop Soundtrack
3. Remembering Sunday
4. Jasey Rae
5. Weightless
6. Dear Maria, Count Me In
7. Outtakes
8. MTV Unplugged Interview

2009 has become the year of All Time Low. Since becoming one of the hottest bands in the USA with a No 4 album entry selling over 60,000 copies in it’s first week and multiple sold out tours, the band have repeated the feat in the UK. Widespread critical acclaim backed up with radio and TV playlists and a completely sold out Uk tour in Sept 2009. the band continue to rack up some enormous statistics – including over 80 million myspace plays and over 480,000 myspace friends.

All Time Low are an established live act having toured with the likes of Fall Out Boy, Cute Is What We Aim For, Sugarcult and Plain White T’s amongst others. The band’s Sept/Oct 2009 tour of the UK sold out and the them completed a headline tour in the USA alongside by We The Kings, Hey Monday, and The Friday Night Boys. The band have been announced as headliners on the forthcoming Kerrang! Relentless Tour 2010 alongside The Blackout, Young Guns and My Passion. Full dates for what promises to be one of the tours of 2010 are a follows:

January 2010
Sat 23rd         Dublin, Academy
Mon 25th         Southampton, Guildhall
Tues 26th        Bristol, O2 Academy
Wed 27th        Norwich, UEA
Fri 29th        Cardiff, Cardiff University
Sat 30th        Birmingham, O2 Academy
Sun 31st        Leeds, Academy
February 2010
Mon 1st        Glasgow, Academy
Wed 3rd        Newcastle, Academy
Thurs 4th        Manchester, Academy
Fri 5th        London, Roundhouse

Tickets and are priced £16.50 (£25.30 Dublin) – subject to booking fee. For tickets please see www.aloud.com, or venue box offices.. Doors are at 6.30pm with All Time Low onstage at  9pm.

The 2 disc CD/DVD “All Time Low MTV Unplugged” is released through Hopeless Records on the 2nd February 2010. The album “Nothing Personal” is out now. Hopeless Records are distributed in the UK through ADA. [komodorock.com]

Filed under: News by Liliana | Posted at December 18th, 2009
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ATL are featured at Kerrangs new issua. More info here

Filed under: News by Liliana | Posted at December 16th, 2009
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All Time Low could well be any other post-Infinity On High pop punk band. Like so many of their peers the Maryland quartet mix dance beats with crunchy guitars, heavy breakdowns and that whiny voice. With everything in just the right place it would be so easy to dismiss the band. But even the most ambitious of bands in the genre are rooted by the same conceits, so if you like one it’s difficult to shun the rest outright.

Letting down your guard is key if you’re to appreciate Nothing Personal. Every bit of my cynical music reviewer body wants to just rip this juvenile group apart. But then I remember back to summers driving around town with the windows down, blasting Blink-182 and New Found Glory records and I can’t help but get nostalgic. All of a sudden lyrics like “There’s nothing surgery can do/when I break your little heart in two” don’t seem so stupid.

All Time Low may not be pushing the boundaries of the genre, but they do the genre’s conventions so well, it’ll take a true misanthrope to ruin what aspires to be nothing more than a fun summer record.

Source: chartattack.com

Filed under: Reviews by Liliana | Posted at August 16th, 2009
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The pop-punk ghetto is a crowded place these days, but it has its escape routes. Maryland’s All Time Low was the great white hope for the much-maligned genre when Alternative Press named the four-piece as its band of the year for 2008. Six months later, ATL’s third album, Nothing Personal, revealed an outfit outgrowing the influence of cretinous has-beens like Blink-182.

The solid first single “Weightless” gets its three chords in the right order, but a playful ’80s vibe creeps into the picture with tracks like “Damned If I Do Ya (Damned If I Don’t)”, not least because it lifts the intro from Pat Benatar’s “Hit Me With Your Best Shot”.

Vocalist-guitarist Alex Gaskarth is genuinely amused by the comparison. “Nice! That’s awesome,” he laughs, calling the Straight from Boise, Idaho. “To be completely honest, I can’t say we pinpointed it quite that hard, but in writing the record it definitely came down to the science behind what makes a song great. And I honed in on what I thought was the best of the ’80s, ’90s, and the early 2000s, and that’s what I tried to pull from.”

ATL took what Gaskarth calls a “hip-hop approach” to Nothing Personal, not only working with a number of pop punk’s stalwart producers—like Matt Squire, Butch Walker, and David Bendeth—but also pogoing into a different universe entirely, for a collaboration with Rihanna hitmaker The-Dream. A smooth and understated slice of blue-eyed boy-band soul called “Too Much” was the controversial result.

“As of right now, it’s the least popular song, based on kids buying the tracks on iTunes,” says Gaskarth, “but I think people will come to appreciate it and realize there’s a little more to this band than what they’re familiar with. And that was the idea of the song: to shock people and to remind them that we’re not a one-trick pony. We can write outside of our comfort zone. It’s something we really want to do. You can’t write the same songs forever.”

These are encouraging words from the frontman of a group that took its name from a New Found Glory lyric, as is Gaskarth’s admission that “we love the idea of becoming a more mainstream, household-name kind of band.” And while the 21-year-old vocalist believes it’s also important not to alienate ATL’s current fans, it definitely takes some ’nads to “swing for the fence”, as Gaskarth puts it, at precisely the time most would settle for a simple base hit. This is the year, after all, that ATL finds itself headlining at Warped.

“I know,” Gaskarth says. “I remember our first year helping to build the East Coast Indie Stage. Going from there to here is a really good feeling.”

Source: straight.com

Filed under: News by Liliana | Posted at August 16th, 2009
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Shockhound.com and MySpace have teamed to offer fans an All Time Low exclusive bundle which consists of a shirt and the “Live from MySpace Secret Shows” EP (which is available ONLY with purchase of the shirt)

To order the bundle click here.

Source: alterthepress.com

Filed under: News by Liliana | Posted at August 7th, 2009
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When All Time Low came bursting onto the scene a few years back, they brought with them a certain charisma and sincere charm, helping to throw them into the forefront of the current pop-rock scene. Since banding together as brothers of electrocuted emo and pumped-up punk in 2003, All Time Low have brought forth their third studio album, titled Nothing Personal, the biblical equivalent to a musical Book of Partying, Falling in Love, and Gossiping Groupies. It’s Nothing Personal, but it sure as hell sounds like it was for Alex, Jack, Zack and Rian. Let’s dive into the music, shall we?

The album kicks off with “Weightless,” a furious homage to optimism, built on a catchy tune and memorable lyrics. The duration of the album bears a similar sound, not straying far away from their signature upbeat punch of pop. “Break Your Little Heart” comes to save the single-sickness day with a fresh chorus that’ll keep you singing the line “laughing all the way to the hospital”. “Damned If You Don’t” follows, allowing the songs to flow together to mold the makings of a solid sophomore record to their label debut, So Wrong, It’s Right. Make room for “Stella” too, a track reminiscent of SWIRI’s “Holly”. It’ll catch your ears before most of the other jumpy tracks.

All Time Low break it down and slow it up towards the last half of the album, offering the heart-felt ballad “Too Much”. The final track, and arguably the band’s best one, is the goosebump-inducing “Therapy,” featuring Alex Gaskarth’s most promising delivery of vocals to date. If you’ve ever doubted their abilities, skip to the end and bask in the sweet timbre of an un-vocoded voice.

While Nothing Personal is a solid album throughout and showcases growth in the maturity and musicianship within All Time Low, the CD is missing that little oomph of stand-out material. Maybe it’s the substance in their lyrics or the current slew of pop-punk acts whom they have to contend with. Regardless, the boys will surely come to find themselves, as this album is a test of their sustainability and relevance in today’s popband-eat-popband scene, which they’ve passed. But for crying out loud, let the boy sing. Gaskarth can do fine on his own without all the digital touching up and auto-tune. This ain’t no grade 12 music creation class! Whether this album will break All Time Low through to the mainstream is uncertain at this point. They’ll need to wait for 3OH!3 to cool off a little, at the very least. They have the auditory goods, but just need to fashion them into a more cohesive package.

Final Score: 7.5/10

All Time Low is:

Alex Gaskarth-Guitar/Vocals

Jack Barakat-Guitar/Backing Vocals

Rian Dawson-Drums

Zack Merrick-Bass/Backing Vocals

Produced By:

Matt Squire, Butch Walker, David Bendeth, S*A*M & Sluggo and The Dream.

For Fans Of: Blink-182, Fall Out Boy, Paramore

Source: eastscene.com

Filed under: Reviews by Liliana | Posted at August 7th, 2009
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