Jimmy Eat World

In 1995, the band signed to Capitol Records. Around this time, bass player Mitch parted ways with the band and was replaced by Linton's friend Rick Burch. After a brief scouting for producers, the band joined up with Drive Like Jehu drummer Mark Trombino to record their debut album Static Prevails.

In 1998, the band entered the studio again to record their follow-up, titled Clarity. Clarity was released in 1999, and the band released a video for Lucky Denver Mint, and the album became popular in Germany. Lucky Denver Mint became part of the Never Been Kissed movie soundtrack. Then, the band was dropped by Capitol. They released The Singles in 2000 and some Splits. In 2001, working for a third time with Trombino, the band recorded the album Bleed American. After scouting for a new label, they eventually signed with DreamWorks. The completed album was released in July of 2001. The current issue of the CD originally known as Bleed American was re-released as Jimmy Eat World after 911. Four Singles were released: Bleed American, The Middle Went 5 on the Billboard Hot 100, Sweetness Went 75 on the Billboard Hot 100 and A Praise Chorus. The Middle landed JEW in the Mainstream Area, and Sweetness did a little worse, but still found massive success. Bleed American went Platinum in a few months.

After lengthy touring in support of Bleed American, the band regrouped to work on the follow-up in early 2004. Once again, the band joined up with Trombino, but the collaboration was short-lived. The band decided to part ways with Trombino, instead bringing in producer Gil Norton, well-known for his work with Pixies and Foo Fighters. Futures was released in October of 2004, with lead single Pain immediately finding success at alternative radio and hitting 93 on the Billboard Hot 100. By this time, Dreamworks had been acquired by the much larger Interscope Records. Work and Futures became the other two Singles. They released a special version of Futures, with both the Album and the Demos Album. Additional demos from the Trombino sessions were later made available through the Jimmy Eat World Message Board, two of which, entitled Coming Home and Lying Dressed, would later become Disintegration and Closer. Futures went Gold by the end of 2004.

Jimmy Eat World's most recent release was an EP entitled Stay On My Side Tonight, released digitally at digital music stores such as iTunes on September 13, 2005. The EP features songs recorded as demos for the Futures album with producer Mark Trombino that were not used on the album, as well as a cover and a remix. The standard CD version was released on October 4th.

After a lengthy tour with Green Day, a joint-headliner with Taking Back Sunday across the US and sold-out concerts in Europe, australia and japan, the band regrouped to begin writing the follow-up to Futures in February 2006. A video series entitled 'A World of Adventure' was made available through the band's website during the tour, focusing mainly on guitarist Tom Linton.

Current working titles for some of the songs on the 6th studio album Chase This Light are "Carry You", "Chase This Light", "Stop", "Beautiful Is", "Dizzy", "Big Casino", "Be Sensible", "Firefight", "Electable" and "Gotta Be Somebody's Blues". "Carry You" is believed to be based on the song by Go Big Casino, Jim Adkins' side-project, of the same name. 'Chase This Light' was recently aired in an early stripped-down format by Jim Adkins at the WESTERN TREAD SHOW REVUE III at the Galvin Playhouse in Tempe, Arizona on May 8, 2006. The recording sessions for the album began on August 7th. After a lengthy writing and recording period the mixing for the album, entitled 'Chase This Light', began in June 2007.

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