简介

Hawthorne Heights，2001年成立于俄亥俄州西南部城市Dayton，最早乐队叫A Day In The Life，成立之初还是在简单的模仿Greenday,Blink182,戏剧性的先后换掉当初所有5名成员后更名为Hawthorne Heights，新乐队改变了原有的风格并且开始了高速的创作，他们在音乐融里入Melodic Punk（旋律punk）和hxc（硬核）/emo，乐队独特的气质把这些时髦的元素交融的不温不火，同时不落俗套。之后乐队自费Descendents, From Autumn To Ashes，Coheed游历了五个国家并且开始了他们的巡演生涯。2003年11月的一个周六，Victory Records的总裁Tony Brummel在例行公事般的听了乐队毛遂自荐的Demo CD后立即决定要签下了这个名不见经传的年轻乐队，后来乐队的表现证明了Tony Brummel的眼光独而并非是一时的冲动。随即五个年轻人奔赴芝加哥开始了第一支单曲《Ohio is for lovers》录制工作，从此成为了一支真正的职业乐队。《Ohio is for lovers》推出后便在网络和电台得到了极高的支持率，以至很多人都开始对俄亥俄充满向往，他们打电话到电台和乐队的公司，想知道这群家伙究竟是什么乐队。《Ohio is for lovers》的大受欢迎让公司对乐队充满信心，他们请来制作人Sean O'Keefe（曾经制作过FallOut Boy, Spitalfield）开始为乐队录制处女专辑《The Silence In Black And White》。

Hawthorne Heights - Discography (2004-2018 ) [16.44 FLAC]

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Hawthorne Heights

2004 The Silence in Black and White
2006 If Only You Were Lonely
2008 Fragile Future (Deluxe)
2010 Skeletons
2011 Hate EP
2012 Hope EP
2012 Stripped Down to the Bone Volume 1
2013 Zero
2015 Hurt EP
2018 Bad Frequencies

A Day in the Life

2001 Nine Reasons to Say Goodbye

JT Woodruff (solo)

2012 Heavy Heavy Heavy Heavy Heavy Heart

Artist biography

One of the biggest breakout successes of the new millennial emo-punk explosion, Hawthorne Heights found huge success with their first two albums, both of which went gold -- their 2006 single "Saying Sorry" also found gold status. Originally called A Day in the Life, the Ohio-based band endured personal hardships, numerous lineup changes, and a landscape of shifting musical styles over the years, but continued to hone their particular brand of angst-fueled pop-punk well into the 2010s.

Composed of drummer Eron Bucciarelli, bassist Matt Ridenour, vocalist/guitar player J.T. Woodruff, and guitarists Casey Calvert and Micah Carli, Hawthorne Heights built their fan base on a demo recording and a series of self-booked national tours that saw them sharing stages with the likes of From Autumn to Ashes and the Descendents. In 2003, they signed with Chicago label Victory Records, resulting in the 2004 release of their powerful full-length debut, The Silence in Black and White. While the bandmates relentlessly toured behind it, the album became Victory's highest-selling debut, and its lead single, "Ohio Is for Lovers," slowly invaded rock radio.

Hawthorne Heights' second album, If Only You Were Lonely, arrived in 2006 along with a DVD titled This Is Who We Are. Leading up to the album's release, Victory urged the band's street team members to help it chart above R&B singer Ne-Yo, whose own album was slated to be released the same day. Questionable promotional tactics included rearranging store displays to hide Ne-Yo's record and make Hawthorne Heights' more prominent. Lonely debuted at number three on the charts, though more than a few eyebrows were raised in the band and label's direction. Regardless, the album continued to sell well, eventually going gold.

However, controversy came to a head in early August when Hawthorne Heights suddenly announced that they were leaving Victory Records (a move that violated a contractual obligation calling for two more albums) and suing the company over various issues, including unpaid royalties and tarnishing their name over the aforementioned incident (the band claimed to have no knowledge of the infamous street team letter). In a statement issued online, the bandmembers compared their time at the label to being in an "abusive relationship" and directly attacked "greed driven" label head Tony Brummel. As issues were sorted out behind the scenes (and Victory countersued the band, claiming they just wanted to jump to a major's roster), Hawthorne Heights continued touring nationwide and served as a headlining act on the fall 2006 version of the popular Nintendo Fusion Tour.

Following several court dates with their label, Hawthorne Heights returned to the road in late 2007. However, guitarist Casey Calvert died in his sleep just several hours into the tour, the victim of a lethal combination of antidepressant medications and Vicodin (Calvert had reportedly undergone a root canal prior to the band's departure, hence his need for painkillers). Soldiering on as a quartet, the bandmates resolved their issues with Victory Records and issued a third album, Fragile Future, in August 2008. Rather than replace Calvert, the band decided to have guitarist Micah Carli fill in on vocals. In 2010, Hawthorne Heights finally did switch labels by having Wind-Up Records issue Skeletons, their fourth album. Meanwhile, Victory wrapped up its contract with the band by releasing Midwesterners: The Hits, which featured material from their first three albums. The band split from Wind-Up in 2010 and formed their own label, Cardboard Empire. Along with touring, they began work on a series of EPs, beginning with Hate in the summer of 2011 and then Hope in late 2012. The following year Hawthorne Heights showed their ambitions with Zero, a post-hardcore concept album about a group of rebels in a dystopian, near-future America. March 2018 saw the release of the single "Pink Hearts" ahead of the arrival of the full-length Bad Frequencies, which dropped later that April via Pure Noise.