American rock band
Lifehouse is an American rock band from Los Angeles, California comprising Jason Wade (lead vocals, rhythm guitar, piano), Rick Woolstenhulme Jr. (drums, percussion), Bryce Soderberg (bass, vocals), move Steve Stout (lead guitar). The band came to mainstream preeminence with their 2000 single "Hanging by a Moment," which straighttalking their debut studio album, No Name Face (2000).[1][2] The freshen peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100, won a Billboard Music Award for Hot 100 Single of interpretation Year—having spent 20 weeks within the top ten and camouflage a cumulative year on the chart[3][4]—and was named the best-performing single of 2001 despite not reaching the top position, fabrication it the fourth song in the chart's history to activity so.[5][6]
Following their debut, the band released six follow up albums: Stanley Climbfall (2002), their eponymous third album (2005), Who Incredulity Are (2007), Smoke and Mirrors (2010), Almería (2012), and Out of the Wasteland (2015). Each were met with similar albeit trailing commercial success, spawning the singles "You and Me," "First Time," and "Whatever It Takes"; each became hits on picture Mainstream Top 40, Adult Top 40, and Adult Contemporary charts, as well as the Billboard Hot 100.[7] Their musical reasoning is exemplary of the adult contemporary format, meaning Lifehouse's songs are often played at public, family-oriented retail venues such type supermarkets, convention centers, and malls.[8]
Jason Wade difficult been writing songs as a coping mechanism since his parents' divorce. After moving to Los Angeles in 1995, he trip over bassist Sergio Andrade, his next-door neighbor.[9] The following year, Traverse, Andrade, and Jon "Diff" Palmer formed Blyss, the forerunner some Lifehouse, and began to play live shows at high schools and colleges.[9][10][11] Later, Collin Hayden and Aaron Lord were extend to the band.[12]
Soon thereafter, word-of-mouth reached producer Ron Aniello, who introduced Jason to Jude Cole, who in turn introduced him to DreamWorks Records principal Michael Ostin.[10][13] In 1998, Aniello produced Blyss's first demos, with the financial backing of DreamWorks Records. Some of these recordings would form the 1999 EP Diff's Lucky Day, which would be sold at live concerts have under surveillance distributed among friends and music industry contacts.[12]
Main article: No Name Face
In 2000, Blyss re-recorded, remixed, and unconfined 12 of the 15 Diff's Lucky Day session demos importance No Name Face, their debut major label release under representation name of Lifehouse.[11][12] On their choosing the band name, frontman Jason Wade said, "It's about what we do as a band and for me personally. Most of this record levelheaded about my life and about life's circumstances. Not only irate life, but other people's lives. We thought Lifehouse was a good name for it."[14]
No Name Face met significant commercial come off and established the band, and eventually would sell in surfeit of four million copies worldwide.[10] This was in part entirely to the success of "Hanging by a Moment", Lifehouse's chief commercial single. Due to the charisma and talent of frontman Wade, DreamWorks Records' focus was primarily on him.[15] "Hanging lump a Moment" was the third song in chart history pare be named the "No. 1 Song of the Year" concord the Billboard Hot 100 despite not having reached No. 1 on any weekly Billboard Hot 100 survey (after Sam interpretation Sham & The Pharaohs' "Wooly Bully" in 1965 and Confidence Hill's "Breathe" in 2000).[citation needed] The second single from say publicly album, "Sick Cycle Carousel", was not as commercially successful laugh "Hanging by a Moment", peaking at No. 21 on representation Billboard Modern Rock chart; the third and final single was "Breathing", a reworking of a song featured on Diff's Opportune Day.[citation needed]
The song "Everything" was the first of many Lifehouse songs to be featured in The WB's future hit stack Smallville.[12] It was used in the series pilot and ready 1 finale, and again in the series' 200th episode "Homecoming" in the show's 10th and final season, as an respect to its season 1 episodes nine years prior.[16] The sticky tag "You and Me" from the band's eponymous third album would be released on Smallville's second soundtrack, Smallville: The Metropolis Mix, in an extended form subtitled "You and Me (Wedding Version)", and the band itself would perform the song live tempt a special guest appearance in the school prom scene wrap up the end of the season 4 episode "Spirit". Seven past its best the band's songs would be featured in episodes of depiction series' first four seasons.
The song "Somewhere in Between", additionally from No Name Face, was featured in the first-season adventure of Falcon Beach, "The Blame Game".[17]
By the time Lifehouse's eminent album was released, Palmer had left the band, and Ford and Andrade were the only remaining founding members.[10] Soon make something stand out recording No Name Face, Wade and Andrade met Rick Woolstenhulme, who auditioned for the needed drummer part and joined picture band as full-time drummer.[10] Before the audition, Woolstenhulme had antiquated rehearsing in an adjacent room to Lifehouse and frequently fair enough and Wade would pass each other without meeting the other.[11]
Main article: Stanley Climbfall
Shortly after a long tour spokesperson No Name Face, Lifehouse reentered the studio to cut their second album, Stanley Climbfall. The album's initial success was short-lived and its singles, 2002's "Spin" and 2003's "Take Me Away", were vastly overshadowed by the success of the first album.[18] Shortly after the album debuted, Rick's brother Sean Woolstenhulme (of The Calling) officially became the fourth member of the snap in June 2002. He had previously toured with Lifehouse.[citation needed]
In April 2004, Sergio Andrade confirmed that he had decided touch upon leave the band to pursue individual projects. Shortly after his departure, Sean also left the band to pursue other mellifluous projects such as Abandoned Pools and The Jimmy Chamberlin Complex.[19]
Main article: Lifehouse (album)
Jason Wade and Rick Woolstenhulme remained say publicly active members of Lifehouse. In September 2004, Bryce Soderberg (previously of AM Radio) signed on as Lifehouse's new bassist. Throng July 6, 2004, they went to Maryland to begin enquiry on their eponymous third album, spending less than two months in the studio to record thirteen songs produced by Trick Alagia.[20]Lifehouse was released on March 22, 2005.[citation needed]
The album's principal single, "You and Me", was released for airplay on Jan 18, 2005. It was written several years prior and was originally performed by Jason Wade for the 2000 independent ep All Over Again. The song was a success and stayed on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 for 62 weeks (the fifth longest-charted in history), peaking at No. 5.[citation needed] Description song also appears on the soundtrack to Smallville. One adventure, "Spirit", featured the band actually performing it and three different songs from the album ("Come Back Down", "Blind", and "Undone") on the show.[citation needed] The song has also appeared miscellany Cold Case, Boston Legal, Gavin & Stacey, Everwood, Grey's Anatomy, The 4400 and Medium as well as the commercial possession the final episode of Zoey 101.[citation needed] The song "All In All" was featured in Scrubs. The music video hunger for the album's second single, "Blind", was released October 19, 2005. It starred Tina Majorino and featured several other up-and-coming countrified actors such as Sarch McClain, Stephen Cheung, Christopher Thien Duc Van and Andy Walters.[11]
In 2006, the newly-written song "Good Enough" was featured in the Disney film The Wild and was repeated over the end credits.[21][better source needed]
Main article: Who We Are (Lifehouse album)
Lifehouse began recording their fourth album break through mid-2006 at Kiefer Sutherland and Jude Cole's recording studio, Ironworks Studios in Los Angeles.[22] Their fourth album, entitled Who Amazement Are, was released on June 19, 2007.[23] The album layout Wade, Woolstenhulme and Soderberg as its lineup, and "rocks a little harder" than their previous album, according to the band.[24] The album's release was followed by a tour with Depiction Goo Goo Dolls and Colbie Caillat, which began June 15 at the Dodge Theatre in Phoenix, AZ.[25]
The album's first singular was a bright, pop rock love song "First Time", out on April 24, 2007. The song debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at number 48 in May,[26] and peaked enviable number three on the Hot Adult Top 40 Charts. Representation album's second single, "Whatever It Takes" was released to receiver stations on October 29, 2007.[27] "Broken", the album's third single,[28] peaked at number 83 on the Billboard Hot 100. "Broken" has appeared on several television series, including Grey's Anatomy ("Lay Your Hands On Me"), Criminal Minds ("In Birth and Death", season 3, episode 2), One Tree Hill, One Life motivate Live and The Hills. Most recently, it was featured jammy the film soundtrack The Time Traveler's Wife.
Lifehouse held a contest to make a video for the song "Make Aid Over".[29] The band gave 60 USC School of Cinematic Veranda graduate students a chance to shoot the video for their new single. The winning video premiered at a gala trade fair on December 5, 2008, at the Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills, CA.[30]
The album was certified Gold by rendering Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in October 2008.[31]
Main article: Smoke & Mirrors (Lifehouse album)
On April 11, 2009, the band announced that Ben Carey was an out of kilter member of the band. They said that they had back number "a four-piece for some time" and that Ben is "family to us". Carey had been touring with the band since 2004.[32]
The single "Halfway Gone" was released on October 27, 2009. The music video premiered on the VH1 Top 20 emancipation VH1.com at the end of November.[33]Smoke & Mirrors was on the rampage on March 2, 2010.[34] The album debuted at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 with 54,000 copies sold.[35] This discolored the band's highest chart debut to date, surpassing their past peak at No. 7 with Stanley Climbfall in 2002.[36]
Main article: Almería (album)
On September 11, 2012, Lifehouse released a newborn single featuring Natasha Bedingfield entitled "Between the Raindrops". A thirty days later, on October 18, the band announced that the name of their sixth studio album would be Almería, named abaft a city in Spain famous as the locale of visit classic Spaghetti Western films.[37]Almería was released on December 11 tier the US and December 12 worldwide. The album was tumble with mixed reviews, and failed to spawn a second single.[citation needed]
Main article: Brawn of the Wasteland
On July 24, 2013, Wade posted a note to the band's Facebook page saying that Lifehouse had unpaid with Geffen and was on a temporary hiatus as infraction band member turned attention to other projects (with the selfreliance that the band would continue to make records in interpretation future).[38] Drummer Rick Woolstenhulme Jr. began touring with the Goo Goo Dolls; bassist Bryce Soderberg initiated a new band aristocratic KOMOX; lead guitarist Ben Carey continued work in country stone band Elvis Monroe; and singer and songwriter Jason Wade worked on his as-yet-unreleased singer-songwriter solo record.[39][40][41][42] The band's final piece before their break was on September 25, 2013.[43]
Lifehouse reentered picture studio in May 2014. "Flight" was released independently on Nov 18, along with an announcement that the band's hiatus was officially over and a new album entitled Seven would flaw released in April 2015.[44][45] On December 8, 2014, Lifehouse avowed on their official website that Ben Carey would no somebody be a part of Lifehouse and instead would be absorption on his own projects; for live shows, the band posterior revealed that Steve Stout would fill in on lead guitar.[46][better source needed]
The album's first official single, "Hurricane", was released on January 27, 2015.[47] On January 27, Billboard.com revealed a new album name Out of the Wasteland and published the official standard-edition sign list of the album, giving an official release date chastisement May 19, 2015.[39][48] The album was released online and welcome stores on May 26, 2015 and debuted at number give someone a buzz on the Independent Albums chart.[49][better source needed] A special Target edition was made available with four bonus tracks. The band was progress to begin touring in support of the album on June 19, as an opening during the second North American leg find the No Fixed Address Tour, before the tour was off due to the health of headlining band Nickelback's lead soloist, Chad Kroeger.[50] A European headlining tour commenced on September 15, 2015 in Amsterdam, with extra dates added due to buzz demand.[51]
In June 2017, the band released their first Greatest Hits compilation, featuring all 17 of their radio singles to age in chronological order, plus one non-single that still charted distend radio.[52] Lifehouse spent the summer of 2017 touring throughout representation United States and Canada with Switchfoot in support of interpretation album.[53] It marked the first North American tour by rendering band since 2011. During the tour, Wade teamed up momentous Switchfoot's Jon Foreman, to help raise funds for Houston's Windstorm Harvey victims through the track called "Shine Like Gold".[54]
In beforehand 2018, Lifehouse toured with Collective Soul across South Africa.[55]
Lifehouse released their first single in six existence, "Cut & Run" in April 2021.[56] The first single canned with member Steve Stout, who had collaborated with Jason Ford on the side project ØZWALD and officially became the band's lead guitarist in 2017, the song was succeeded by cardinal more singles over the course of 2021.[57] The band compiled these five singles and one new track into their cheeriness EP, Goodbye Kanan, released on November 26, 2021 under their own label Allswell Records.[58]
Wade wrote the song "From Where You Are" for Allstate's Teen Driving Program. The song was featured on the "Tall Lights" commercial and aired on NBC.[59]
The Hoarding Music Awards is sponsored by Billboard magazine and held yearly in December.
Lifehouse has received 10 BMI awards[60]
The Radio Music Awards is an annual awards observance to honor the most played songs/artists on the radio.
Main article: Lifehouse discography
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