cover of episode Alex Gaskarth: How All Time Low Captured the Pop-Punk Zeitgeist by Staying True to Themselves

Alex Gaskarth: How All Time Low Captured the Pop-Punk Zeitgeist by Staying True to Themselves

2023/10/24
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Alex Gaskarth is the frontman of pop punk band All Time Low. He formed the band with his friends when he was just a freshman in high school, and by the time he was a senior, the band already had a record deal. In time, All Time Low joined bands like Fall Out Boy and My Chemical Romance to define the emo-pop sound of the 2000s. In this episode, Alex talks with Guy about All Time Low's sleeper hit, “Dear Maria, Count Me In”, the band's secret to staying together after 20 years, and how a grueling tour schedule inspired their biggest chart topper "Monsters".

Links from the show:

Eleanor Rigby)

Brain Stew by Green Day)

All Time Low's first album The Party Scene)

Dear Maria Count Me In)

Monsters)

Head on Collision by New Found Glory)

All Time Low's Spotify)

Alex's Instagram)

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