Artist of the Week: Plain White T's

Here's the deal, I'm putting this out a day late cause I was to tired yesterday from the great weekend I had at the Cubs convention. If you want, you can see some pics from the weekend right here. But enough about that, this week's band has been my AOTW a few times. It's usually when they have something new going on like now, but before we get to that, here's a little history lesson. The band started out of the Chicago land area back in 1997. Like most bands they started by playing small shows. most of which that took place at the famed Metro. In 2000, the band released it's first album Come on Over which included one of my favorite songs, "Kitty Kat Shirt". Soon after, the band would go through a transformation. The new line up was: Tom Higgenson(Vocals), Dave Tirio(Guitar), Tim Lopez(Guitar), Mike Retondo(Bass) and De'Mar Hamilton(Drums). In 2002, the band would release their second album with Stop, The album included some great songs, with some of my favorites being "Fireworks", "A Lonely September" and "Radios in Heaven". In 2005, the band would release their third album and first studio album with All That We Needed. The album would become a success with the help of the singles "All That We Needed", "Take Me Away" and "Hey There Delilah". The latter was originally a hidden track on the album, but after seeing it's success, it prompted the band to release an EP which included the hit song. The following year, the band would release their fourth album with Every Second Counts. Although the album already had two great singles in "Hate(I Really Don't Like You)" and "Our Time Now". Seeing the success of the previous released EP, the band re-released Every Second Counts with "Hey There Delilah" as a bonus track. Doing so would launch the single to number one, and the album to number ten on the billboard hot 100. This past summer, the band had been working on a new album, the process of which they documented in a series called Meet Me in California on ABCFamily.com. The new album is called Big Bad World and hit stores on September 23. The first single and video of the album was "Natural Disaster". A couple weeks ago Tom and his friend Mike threw around an idea of making a fun, YouTube style video for 1,2,3,4. They eventually came up with the idea of heading into Chicago armed only with a camera and a guitar, and play the song at random locations around the city. The focus however, would be on the people who stopped to watch, but would anyone even stop? Would this even work? You have to watch to find out. That being said, this week's artist is Plain White T's with their video 1,2,3,4, enjoy.