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Quietdrive


Quietdrive is a pop punk band from Minneapolis, Minnesota formed at Saint John's University in 2002. Quietdrive released their debut album When All That's Left Is You on May 30, 2006 and are signed to Epic Records.

Biography

Quietdrive members Justin Bonhiver and Droo Hastings were best friends growing up together. In 9th grade, Brandon Lanier started telling Hastings that he was a great drummer, and that they should start a band with him. At the time, Droo Hastings was the lead singer of the trio, and Brandon was the bass player.

The band started to audition for a lead singer, so they posted an ad on MP3.com. Kevin Truckenmiller posted his solo work, including an early incarnation of the song Both Ways. They later got Kevin to audition for them. At the time, Kevin went to the audition and sang into a RadioShack microphone. The trio clamed that they couldn't really hear what he was singing, so they set up a recording session at a friend?s basement.

When All That's Left Is You is Quietdrive's first LP, produced, engineered and mixed by Matt Kirkwold and James Harley of World Record Productions with additional mixing by Chris Lord-Alge and Mark Endert, was released in May of 2006. Its first single was "Rise from the Ashes" and was featured on EA's NHL 2007 soundtrack. Matt Kirby has been quoted in saying that the band wants to explore different sounds in their album, including the harder rock sounds from their past.

In the month of January 2007, Quietdrive was featured as the "Artist of the Month" on Xbox Live.

The band is touring heavily in the Midwest as of late 2006 and early 2007.

Quietdrive went back into the studio with Matt Kirkwold and James Harley of World Record Productions to work up a new track. Quietdrive released the new single entitled "Pretend" on their AbsolutePunk.net page in early 2007 for fans to stream.

Their cover of the Cyndi Lauper song "Time After Time" (which is more upbeat than the original) is currently being used in promotions for the WNBA for its "Have You Seen Her?" campaign. It has become a minor hit on pop radio, hitting #33 on the syndicated American Top 40 countdown show. It was also featured on the soundtrack of the 2006 feature film, John Tucker Must Die. The song is also featured in the trailer to the upcoming remake Prom Night .

Quietdrive plan to hit the studio to record new songs in eary '08 for a 2008 LP release.

Origin of Name

In an interview with Away-Team.com, Kevin stated that their sound was "Rock n roll mixed with some passion and emotion and a never-ending drive to succeed, I guess. That's kind of what the name is all about, that quiet drive within us all." [1]

Current members

  • Kevin Truckenmiller: Vocals
  • Matt Kirby: Guitar/Vocals
  • Brandon Lanier: Drums
  • Justin Bonhiver: Guitar
  • Droo Hastings: Bass


==Discography==

Albums/EPs



Singles



Music Videos

  • "Rise From the Ashes" (2006), from When All That's Left Is You | ( watch)


External links



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