Boys Like Girls
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Boys Like Girls performing at Mount Snow in 2009
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
| Genres | |
| Years active | 2005–present |
| Labels | Sony Music/Columbia, Red Ink |
| Associated acts | Fake ID/The Drive, The Bends, Lancaster, All Time Low, Hey Monday, Highlight of the Night, Stuperfly, Stereo Skyline, We the Kings, Good Charlotte, The Ready Set, VersaEmerge, Hedley, Stereos, Early Morning Blues, The All-American Rejects |
| Website | Official website |
| Members |
Martin Johnson Paul DiGiovanni Morgan Dorr John Keefe |
| Past members | Bryan Donahue |
Boys Like Girls is an American pop rock band from Boston, Massachusetts. Formed in 2005, the group gained mainstream recognition when it released its self-titled debut album. Boys Like Girls was the co-headliner with Good Charlotte for the Soundtrack of Your Summer Tour 2008 that toured across the United States. The group's second studio album Love Drunk, was released on September 8, 2009.
As of February 2011 the band announced they would be going on an indefinite hiatus. In November 17, 2011, Martin Johnson revealed that the group had not broken up; rather the members were taking a rest and engaging in various side projects. In 2012, Boys Like Girls announced that they were working on a new full-length studio album, titled Crazy World, which was released December 11, 2012.
The group was formed in Andover, Massachusetts in the final months of 2005, when vocalist Martin Johnson, formerly of the Boston act Fake ID/The Drive, wrote a handful of songs he wanted to record. He recruited bassist Bryan Donahue and drummer John Keefe. Keefe brought along lead guitarist Paul DiGiovanni, with whom he had recorded a brief demo, to complete the line-up. Some of the demo's titles were "Free", "If You Could See Me Now", and "The Only Way That I Know How To Feel". Some months later Keefe and DiGiovanni learned that they were distant cousins. The group later changed their name to Boys Like Girls.
The quartet soon opened a PureVolume account to showcase their music, and uploaded a rough demo of "The Great Escape" and an acoustic rendition of "Thunder". By the end of the year, the group was on the No. 1 spot on the website's Top Unsigned Artists chart and within a few months had completed nationwide tours with Cute Is What We Aim For, Hit the Lights, All Time Low and Butch Walker.
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