Coin (band)
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COIN live at Workplay Theatre in Birmingham, AL
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| Origin | Nashville, Tennessee |
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| Years active | 2012–present |
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| Website | thisiscoin |
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Coin (often stylized COIN) is an American indie pop band formed in 2012 at Nashville, Tennessee. It currently consists of Chase Lawrence (lead vocals, synthesizers), Ryan Winnen (drums), Joe Memmel (lead guitar, backing vocals) and Zachary Dyke (bass guitar).
The band originally released two extended plays in 2012 and 2013 titled Saturdays and 1992 respectively. They then gained mainstream attention in 2015 with the lead single, “Run", from their eponymous debut album, produced by Jay Joyce, released later the same year by Columbia.
The group gained further mainstream success in 2016 with the lead single, "Talk Too Much", from the band's second studio album, How Will You Know if You Never Try, which was released on April 21, 2017. The song has since become their first song to chart on Billboard's Alternative Songs chart.
The band was formed in 2012 by Chase Lawrence, Ryan Winnen, Joe Memmel, and Zach Dyke, all of whom were students at Belmont University. Lawrence and Memmel were classmates who would sit next to each other in music theory classes. After they decided to try writing music together, Winnen and Dyke were introduced to them through mutual friends. The band then decided that they needed recorded music in order for promoters to book them to play live, so they recorded four songs at their school and released them for free on the internet. When they started playing local shows around Nashville, the band quickly attracted a highly enthusiastic and loyal live following. Prior to the release of their debut album, they released two EPs; Saturdays in late 2012 and 1992 in 2013. The song "Atlas" was released as a single in August 2013 from the EP 1992. "Time Machine" was released as a non-album single in October 2013. Both "Atlas" and "Time Machine" were later re-recorded and put on the bands debut album. In March 2014, the band released a re-recorded version of their song, "It's Okay", as a non-album single.
The group released their single, “Run” in early 2015 and were hailed by Billboard as, “new wave crash-course survivors,” destined to “break the Nashville mold.” The song received positive reviews, as well as heavy airplay on Sirius' Alt Nation radio station. In the summer the band released their self-titled debut album, produced by Jay Joyce.
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