Boys Like Girls is a four-piece American rock band from Boston, Massachusetts. The group completed nationwide tours with Cute Is What We Aim For, Hit the Lights and Butch Walker and topped the Top Unsigned Artist chart on PureVolume, within a few months from forming in late 2005. In August 2006 they released their self-titled debut album Boys Like Girls on Columbia Records/Red Ink. They were the co-headliners for the Soundtrack of Your Summer Tour 2008 that recently toured across the U.S. along with Good Charlotte, The Maine, and Metro Station.

Singer/guitarist Martin Johnson formerly of the Boston act The Drive / Fake ID wrote a handful of songs he wanted to record. And the group Boys Like Girls was formed in the final months of 2005. Martin recruited bassist Bryan Donahue and drummer John Keefe, both of whom had been in bands of different setups with the frontman, most notably in the pop punk band Lancaster and less notably the short-lived local act The Bends. Keefe brought along lead guitarist Paul DiGiovanni, whom he had recorded a brief demo with, to complete the line-up. Oddly enough, the two learned that they were distant cousins several months later. The quartet soon opened a PureVolume account to showcase their music, and uploaded a rough demo of "The Great Escape" and an acoustic rendition of "Thunder". By the end of the year, the group had landed the #1 spot on the website's Top Unsigned Artists chart.

While in control of the AT&T Blue Room, Martin Johnson said that they are going to begin recording their new album soon, and that it will hopefully be out in the first part of 2009. On martinsays.com, Martin said on February 10, 2009 that they started recording their new album.

It's rumoured their new album will be called Heavy Heart and will feature the songs "Kill Me in a Record Shop", "Free", and "I told you so". The songs were demos for their self-titled album, Boys Like Girls. However, the boys did not put them on the album. In the summer of 2008, they worked alongside Nickelodeon pop singer Miranda Cosgrove on her upcoming debut album, due for release in 2009.

Album:

Boys Like Girls

Tracks:

1. The Great Escape
2. Five Minutes to Midnight
3. Hero/Heroine
4. On Top of the World
5. Thunder
6. Me, You and My Medication
7. Up Against the Wall
8. Dance Hall Drug
9. Learning to Fall
10. Heels Over Head
11. Broken Man
12. Holiday

Formed in Franklin, Tennessee, USA, Paramore is an American rock band consisting of Hayley Williams (lead vocals/keyboard), Josh Farro (lead guitar/backing vocals), Taylor York (rhythm guitar), Jeremy Davis (bass guitar), and Zac Farro (drums). Their spunky blend of emo-pop and anthemic rock would eventually make them stars on both sides of the Atlantic. The group released their debut album All We Know Is Falling in 2005, and their second album Riot! in 2007, this was certified platinum in the US and gold in the UK and Ireland.

Buoyed by the popular singles "Misery Business," "Crushcrushcrush," and "That's What You Get," Riot! turned Paramore into industry darlings, going platinum within its first 13 months of release and earning the band a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist. The group toured exhaustively in support of the record, even landing a two-month jaunt across the continental U.S. with their idols Jimmy Eat World. Meanwhile, Paramore found time to contribute two songs to the Twilight soundtrack, including the Top 40 single "Decode." A live album entitled The Final Riot! was released several weeks after the Twilight soundtrack, capturing the band's energy as a live act and concluding its lengthy tour.

Paramore's new song "Decode" is the lead single for the novel-based Twilight film. Another song called "I Caught Myself" is also featured on the film's soundtrack. The band began shooting the video October 13 and singer Hayley Williams posted photos on the band's website of them on the set. "Decode" was released on October 1, 2008 on the Paramore Fan Club site as well as Stephenie Meyer's website. The video was premiered on November 3. Hot Topic hosted listening parties for the soundtrack on October 24, 2008, and the album was released on November 4, 2008. Border's released an exclusive version of the soundtrack that features an acoustic version of "Decode."

On January 21 2009, it was announced that Paramore will be the special guest with Bedouin Soundclash at the No Doubt Reunion Tour 2009, starting in May 2009 in outdoor amphitheaters and arenas across the US and Canada.

Secondhand Serenade is an American acoustic rock solo project fronted by vocalist and guitarist John Vesely. The solo project began in California, USA, in 2004. Vesely has released two studio albums to date under the name Secondhand Serenade, Awake in 2007 and A Twist in My Story in 2008. The debut album used multitrack recording to create the sound of a band using technology, while the second album took a different path, using a proper band and an orchestra to establish a more accomplished sound.

In 2005, Vesely released his debut album titled Awake. It was recorded as a demo, after booking a few days at a San Francisco studio earlier in 2005, "using just an acoustic guitar and his multi-tracked vocals". The album was promoted through the Secondhand Serenade Myspace page and by playing local shows. The CD's were originally sold through mail order with a PayPal account by Vesely, eventually he signed up with distributor TuneCore making Secondhand Serenade's songs available on music portals including iTunes.

The album experienced tremendous online support, and by the end of 2006 Secondhand Serenade had received millions of plays on Myspace and had been the social-networking site's No. 1 Independent Artist for months. In early 2007, Awake was reissued by Glassnote Records with an additional two songs. It was released on February 6 and gave Vesely his first chartings, debuting at #16 on Billboard's Top Heatseekers chart. The album was leaked, and was made available for download one month before its official release. On January 28, 2008 the music video for the first single from the album "Fall for You" premiered on the popular MTV show TRL and was certified Platinum by the RIAA. In support of the release, Secondhand Serenade spent most of March and April touring with American bands Making April, Automatic Loveletter, and The White Tie Affair.

Albums:

A Twist in the Story
1.Like a Knife
2.Fall for You
3.Maybe
4.Stranger
5.Your Call
6.Suppose
7.A Twist in My Story
8.Why?
9.Stay Close, Don't Go
10.Pretend
11.Goodbye

Awake
1. Half Alive
2. Broken
3. Vulnerable
4. Your Call
5. Maybe
6. It's Not Over
7. I Hate This Song
8. Awake
9. Take Me With You
10. Let It Roll
11. The Last Song Ever
12. End

The Click Five is rock band formed in Boston in mid-2003. Lead guitarist Joe Guese, bassist Ethan Mentzer, and keyboardist Ben Romans were students at the Berklee School of Music when they captured the attention of Svengali manager Wayne Sharp, a longtime jazz promoter whose first attempt at creating a pinup-ready pop combo. Sharp added another Berklee student, drummer Joey Zehr, who recommended childhood friend Eric Dill to fill the band's front man slot, after signing Guese, Mentzer, and Romans.

Click Five began sharpening their chops on the Boston nightclub circuit in the spring of 2004, and cut their first two-song demo session upon receiving their Sharp-issued matching mod-influenced suits and salon-styled haircuts. A four-song tape quickly followed, and within a month the group signed to Lava Records. Soon after touring the U.S. in support of Ashlee Simpson and releasing an EP, Angel to You (Devil to Me), The Click Five's debut LP, Greetings from Imrie House, followed in the summer of 2005 amid a flurry of licensed lunchboxes, trading cards, and hair products. The album was also supported via tour dates in support of the Backstreet Boys. After replacing Dill with singer/guitarist (and fellow Berklee alum) Kyle Patrick, Modern Minds and Pastimes followed in 2007.

Albums:

Modern Minds and Pastimes
1. Flipside
2. Jenny
3. Happy Birthday
4. Addicted to Me
5. I'm Getting Over You
6. When I'm Gone
7. Headlight Disco
8. The Reason Why
9. All I Need Is You
10. Long Way to Go
11. Mayy Jane
12. Empty

OneRepublic is an American pop/rock band formed in Colorado. The group consists of Ryan Tedder as their lead vocalist, guitarist and pianist. Zach Filkins in guitar and vocals, Eddie Fisher in drums, Brent Kutzle in bass, cello and vocal, and Drew Brown in guitar. They drew attention since the release of the hit single, Apologize, which remix is featured on Timbaland’s Timbalands Presents: Shock Value. Apologize is the most legally downloaded song in US digital history with sales of over 4.3 million digital downloads in the US alone. Their debut album was released in the United States on November 20, 2007, with international release dates staggered throughout early 2008.

As of November 1, 2008, Dreaming Out Loud had sold 805,691 copies in the US, with the bands total album sales reaching over 1.5 million worldwide. The band's second single, "Stop and Stare," has also crossed the two million mark in terms of worldwide single sales. Their third single, "Say (All I Need)," has been released in the UK and the US. In September, 2008 the band released their fourth single, "Mercy".

OneRepublic's varied style has made it difficult for the public to place the band in one particular genre of music. Although Ryan describes many of the songs on their album as, 'safe, radio-friendly pop-rock songs with big choruses', they present themselves in the genre of Alternative Rock.

Last September 24, 2008, the band stated during a concert at the London Forum in England, they were working on new material for a new album to be released in the summer of 2009. The band played one of the newly recorded songs titled, "All The Right Moves” which was also stated on 28th September at the Carling Academy in Newcastle.

Albums:

Dreaming Out Loud
1. Mercy
2.Apologize
3.Stop & Stare
4.Tyrant
5.Sleep
6.Goodbye Apathy
7.All We Are
8.Someone to Save You
9.Dreamin out Loud
10.Too Easy
11.Prodigal
12.Mercy [DVD]
13.Apologize [DVD]
14.Sleep [DVD]

OneRepublic