Walk off the Earth

Walk off the Earth
Walk Off The Earth performing in Toronto at the Canadian National Exhibition 2013
Background information
Origin	Burlington, Ontario, Canada
Genres	Indie rock, alternative rock, reggae rock, ska, folk
Years active	2006–present
Labels	Columbia, SlapDash
Associated acts	Gianni and Sarah, G Spot Tornado, Pink Belly, The Creepshow
Website	walkofftheearth.com
Members	Sarah Blackwood Gianni "Luminati" Nicassio Ryan Marshall Mike "Beard guy" Taylor Joel Cassady
Past members	Peter Kirkwood

Walk off the Earth is a Canadian independent alternative rock, ska, and reggae rock band from Burlington, Ontario. They are known for their low-budget music videos of covers and originals. The band is well known for its covers of pop genre music on YouTube, making use of uncommon instruments such as the ukulele and the theremin, as well as looping samples. The band's recorded music and videos are produced by member and multi-instrumentalist, Gianni "Luminati" Nicassio.

Walk off the Earth was formed in 2006 in Burlington. The band began releasing music independently. The band created cover versions of the songs of The Gregory Brothers. The video of the band's live cover of Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know" gathered over 127 million views in four months on YouTube in early 2012. and received positive responses from both Gotye and his co-singer on the song, Kimbra. The band released an accompanying video where all five members are shown playing on one guitar. The production was taken from the 26th cut of a 14-hour session.Ellen DeGeneres featured the band on her January 23, 2012 show where they played live, again on one guitar; they were also included in YouTube Rewind 2012 "Rewind YouTube Style 2012", doing a part of their one guitar acoustic version of "Gangnam Style".

In February 2012, the band signed a recording contract with Columbia Records. They appeared in the Season 4 premiere of CTV's The Listener, performing two songs and socializing with the main characters in the bar. They also covered "Rude" by Magic!, "Someone Like You" by Adele, "Party Rock Anthem" by LMFAO, "Payphone" by Maroon 5, and "Roll Up" by Wiz Khalifa.