The Dopamines
| The Dopamines | |
|---|---|
| Origin | Cincinnati, Ohio, United States |
| Genres | Pop punk, punk rock |
| Years active | 2006-present |
| Labels |
It's Alive Records Paper + Plastick |
| Associated acts | The Ergs! |
| Website | thedopamines.net |
| Members | Michael Dickson (drums) Jon Lewis (guitar, vocals) Jon Weiner (bass, vocals) Josh Goldman (Guitar)) Mikey Erg (guitar (touring) |
| Past members | Matt Hemingway (drums; (2006–2008) |
The Dopamines is an American punk rock band from Cincinnati, Ohio, formed in late 2006 by Matt Hemingway (drums), Jon Lewis (guitar, vocals) and Jon Weiner (bass, vocals).
In 2008, Hemingway left the band (over personal matters) and Michael Dickson quickly took over as the permanent drummer.
Occasionally, the band had toured with a second guitarist, the position most frequently filled by Mikey Erg from The Ergs!. Roger Lima, from Less Than Jake, and Dan Webb, from Dan Webb and the Spiders, have also filled the spot of touring guitarist over the course of the band's history.
Josh Goldman has been the bands second guitarist since 2013.
The Dopamines formed as a side-project band, focusing on the ethos of "not taking ourselves or our band seriously" as a response to the overwhelming seriousness of the members' experience with previous bands they were in.
In 2006, both Lewis and Hemingway were in the skate-punk band Black Tie Bombers, another local Cincinnati band. Black Tie Bombers frontman Ryan Rockwell (Mixtapes) and Lewis had started a side-project band Ukraine Crane with Weiner in 2005, thus linking the introduction of The Dopamines founding members.
After a short tour with the pop-punk band The Queers in 2007 (which began the long-term relationship with Matt "Drastic" Yonker – who was drumming with The Queers at the time and would go on to record most of The Dopamines' material), Black Tie Bombers disbanded on mutual terms; Ukraine Crane followed suit shortly thereafter.
By this time Hemingway, Lewis and Weiner had already taken their side project to the next level, honing their sound and style in the form of a six-song demo that quickly gained momentum thanks to the Pop Punk Message Board, an online forum centered around pop-punk music from all over the world. Through the message board, It's Alive Records owner Adam Ali sought out the trio and offered to release what would become the band's 2008 self-titled début album.
In the summer 2007, the band went to the Drastic Sounds studio, in Nashville, Tennessee; Drastic Sounds is the home studio of Yonker, better known as the drummer of the Teen Idols and Bullets to Broadway. Drastic Sounds and The Dopamines would begin a long and rewarding relationship / friendship together, beginning with an 18 song recording session lasting just under two weeks.
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