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Jan 05, 2009
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The Airborne Toxic Event
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The band was formed in 2006 by Mikel Jollett. During a one-week period in March 2006 while working on a novel, Jollett learned that his mother was diagnosed with cancer, experienced a break-up, and was diagnosed with genetic Autoimmune disease. Even though the disease encompasses over 70 different disorders, Autoimmune led Jollet to develop 2 cosmetic conditions: Alopecia areata and Vitiligo. Spurred by these events in his personal life, Jollett turned from writing prose to writing songs, and soon realized he was composing an album instead of a novel. [1]
Jollett met drummer Taylor in the summer of 2006 and the two established an immediate rapport. After working on original material together for four months as a two-piece, Jollett asked classically-trained violinist Bulbrook and bassist Harmon to join the band. With a background in orchestral and chamber music, Bulbrook since taught herself to play viola and keyboard, while Harmon holds a jazz degree in upright bass performance from the California Institute of the Arts and taught in East Los Angeles as part of the school’s Community Arts Partnership. Jollett had met Chen several years earlier, when both lived in San Francisco, and asked Chen to complete the lineup as the lead guitarist.
To supplement his fiction writing, Jollett had earned income as a freelance writer, contributing to organizations such as NPR, Los Angeles Times, Filter Magazine and Men’s Health. Since the creation of the band, he has continued to write only fiction and has a short story slated to appear in the Summer 2008 issue of McSweeney’s.
The Airborne Toxic Event played its first show in Echo Park in the fall of 2006, less than a month after it was fully formed. Since then, the band has performed extensively in L.A. and become well known throughout the greater Los Angeles area. In December 2006, Rolling Stone named them one of the “Top 25 Bands on MySpace.” [2] They went on to receive positive responses from music blogs and press, notably L.A. Weekly [3] and Los Angeles Times,[4] which named the group one of the top three L.A. bands to watch in 2008. Previous bands to receive this distinction include Cold War Kids and Silversun Pickups.
In a rare move, during the band’s January 2008 residency at the popular Silver Lake venue Spaceland, Los Angeles Commercial Radio stations KROQ, Indie 103 and Star 98.7 all officially added the as-yet-unsigned band’s song “Sometime Around Midnight” to regular rotation. Seattle’s KEXP, San Francisco’s Live 105, San Diego’s 91X, and Boston’s WFNX also showed significant support for the group.
After an extensive courtship from major labels, the Airborne Toxic Event signed with the indie imprint Majordomo Records in April 2008. Their first full-length record is scheduled for U.S. release on August 5, 2008.
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By Cory Ross
Since 1980 when i turned 5 AC/DC and i have never been seperated.This band has stood the test of time and covered 4 decades of metal real metal musid history.Finally for the 1st time in my life now at 33 i will see and try to meet the band that created West Coast Events.If you get a chance this will be a tour of a life time.Long live the true king's of Rock
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