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Los Angeles, United States (1998 – present)
theSTART is an American alternative rock band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1998. Their current lineup includes Aimee Echo, Jamie Miller, Lance Webber and Chelsea Davis.
Echo and Miller formed the band in the fall of 1998, citing a mutual love of old-school new wave, dance-punk energy and dark pop, with bassist Jeff Jaeger, drummer Scott Ellis (Mellowdrone, She Wants Revenge) and guitarist Mike Smith. The latter left during the recording of their debut album, Shakedown!, which was released on The Label, a sub-label of Geffen Records.
After returning from touring, the band found the label was closing its doors, and, after Scott Ellis’ departure, released The 1234 EP independently. Following a 2002 summer tour supporting Scarling., the band gathered enough money to release theSTART EP on Smallstone Records. After a tour supporting AFI, the band was signed to nitro records. Stabilizing a new line-up with Erick Sanger and Billy Brimblecom, Jr., they recorded their next album, Initiation. In the meantime, theSTART EP was re-released on Nitro Records under the title Death Via Satellite. Unfortunately, on the day of Initiation’s release, Brimblecom announced his departure. The band proceeded to tour with artists such as The Offspring, Auf der Maur and Garbage with a number of fill-in drummers. Sanger was let go in 2006 for unclear reasons, paving the way for current rhythm section Lance Webber and Chelsea Davis. The band also parted ways with Nitro Records, and signed with Metropolis Records later that year, releasing Ciao, Baby in 2007.
Echo and Miller formed the band in the fall of 1998, citing a mutual love of old-school new wave, dance-punk energy and dark pop, with bassist Jeff Jaeger, drummer Scott Ellis (Mellowdrone, She Wants Revenge) and guitarist Mike Smith. The latter left during the recording of their debut album, Shakedown!, which was released on The Label, a sub-label of Geffen Records.
After returning from touring, the band found the label was closing its doors, and, after Scott Ellis’ departure, released The 1234 EP independently. Following a 2002 summer tour supporting Scarling., the band gathered enough money to release theSTART EP on Smallstone Records. After a tour supporting AFI, the band was signed to nitro records. Stabilizing a new line-up with Erick Sanger and Billy Brimblecom, Jr., they recorded their next album, Initiation. In the meantime, theSTART EP was re-released on Nitro Records under the title Death Via Satellite. Unfortunately, on the day of Initiation’s release, Brimblecom announced his departure. The band proceeded to tour with artists such as The Offspring, Auf der Maur and Garbage with a number of fill-in drummers. Sanger was let go in 2006 for unclear reasons, paving the way for current rhythm section Lance Webber and Chelsea Davis. The band also parted ways with Nitro Records, and signed with Metropolis Records later that year, releasing Ciao, Baby in 2007.
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Ciao, Baby
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Initiation
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Death Via Satellite
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Alby_ wrote:
Guess who found a new favorite band to drool ovar!!! :D
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cesarojedac wrote:
I thought that the girl was Gwen Stefani :D
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roy37mm wrote:
Where can I download the albums? They don't have them in my country ¬_¬
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Carnecaliel wrote:
"Initiation" is my favourite album by them, so good!
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adirgeforher wrote:
<3 <3
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simonegomez wrote:
EU AMO THESTART!
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vidkids wrote:
@nyork_binox: sometimes they have some of their stuff on soulseek but I don't know if they would still have it. Missing Persons should be in their top five similar artists.
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nyork_binox wrote:
Someone please tell me where I can download their albums online?? I would buy them but I'm money-less at atm...I only want a listen, please!!! :'(
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CHIBHEAD wrote:
Aimee has such a killer voice! I fuckin looooove theSTART!
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JamBox64 wrote:
God, I love this band. I do
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ThunderPX wrote:
So apparently Aimee, Jamie and Chelsea did some sort of sideproject while Lance was away. Why they didn't just write more theSTART songs, I don't know.
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A_Fatal_Pengwyn wrote:
Shakedown! is such an addicting song. And definitely the best album I've gotten for only $3. :D
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pagliacciclown wrote:
I hope that the new material is somewhere between the rock & dance, a bridge between Initiation & Ciao Baby... think the band Curve. mmm.
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Strvation wrote:
От немезиса меня просто выворачивает, в хорошем смыле этого слова :D
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SexWithMinors wrote:
excited to see if they keep veering off into more dance-inspired music or rein it in and go back to rocking out.
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theactiondesign wrote:
We will rock together in March!
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ThunderPX wrote:
"If we can get it together, we will be playing some tunes we've never done before so...we'll see what happens." - myspace update. Awesome.
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Cammerslammer wrote:
I really want some new start material!
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dane_chaos1 wrote:
aimee echo!!!!!!!!!! :D
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ThunderPX wrote:
FINALLY got my copy of Shakedown!. It's awesome.
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8 Oct 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/thestart
Hi friends, it's been a little quiet around here as of late. is anyone still on myspace? We barely are. Just letting anyone interested know we are working on some new music. …
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