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November 10, 2009
Jenae Lee and Raphael Ghieuw Sien
Maryland-based pop rock band, All Time Low released their debut album “The Party Scene” in 2005, which led to their signing with the label, Hopeless Records. Their single “Dear Maria, Count Me In” from the “So Wrong, It’s Right” album led the band to popularity.
Their new record, “Nothing Personal” was released July 7, featuring hit singles, such as “Weightless” and “Damned If I Do Ya (Damned If I Don’t).” Their album remained as the number four album on iTunes for an entire week.
Through Moxie, The Hatchet and other student journalists were able to conduct a phone interview with All Time Low’s lead singer/guitarist, Alex Gaskarth.
The band collaborates on the music, but Gaskarth writes all the lyrics for the band.
“I would say the average content of all our songs is a summary of what goes on in the life of a 19- to 21-year-old who is living the lifestyle of being in a band, doing all kinds of crazy, crazy things that get thrown at you…about feelings, experiencing things for the first time and really just enjoying it all through the whirlwind,” Gaskarth said.
The band was created during the members’ freshman year of high school. They toured together on breaks with a parent because they didn’t have their driver’s licenses and couldn’t check into hotels without an adult.
“It’s not the rock-and-roll story you would expect,” Gaskarth said.
Gaskarth certainly did not predict a full-blown career.
“We never looked at it as…a potential career, it was just something to talk about between weekends,” he said. “We sort of did it because the bands we looked up to, looked like they had so much fun doing it and it was just something that stood out to us…with hard work and a lot of luck, we developed it into something much bigger and in our senior year in high school we signed a contract.”
In the future, Gaskarth hopes to collaborate with Jimmy Eat World.
