Jack’s Mannequin

Formerly referred to as the frontman for Something Corporate, a Western Coast punk-pop quintet that garnered a modest following through the early 2000s, Andrew McMahon can be the piano-playing songwriter in back of Jack’s Mannequin. Using the talents of several close friends and collaborators (including Mötley Crüe percussionist Tommy Lee), McMahon started focus on the collective’s debut pursuing Something Corporate’s hiatus in 2004. The producing Everything in Transit, a sunlit pop/rock and roll “concept recording discovering his alienating go back to the hometown he remaining to go after his music,” premiered on Maverick Information in August 2005 to a confident critical response. Followers also authorized of McMahon’s fresh audio, and Everything in Transit debuted at quantity 37 within the Billboard recording charts. Nevertheless, a supporting summer season tour was canceled after McMahon was identified as having Acute Lymphatic Leukemia that same summer season. He underwent an effective bone tissue marrow transplant from his sister (for whom Something Corporate and business briefly reunited to record the music “Katie”) and embarked on the lengthy street to recovery. As McMahon retrieved, a video for the album’s 1st solitary, “The Mixed Tape,” started producing waves on VH1 and MTV. Jack’s Mannequin performed sporadic displays in 2006, headlining a short summer season tour before providing as the starting take action for O.A.R. on nation-wide times. A repackaged edition of Transit made an appearance that fall in conjunction with a bonus Dvd and blu-ray, as well as the music group returned towards the studio room in middle-2007 to begin with focus on a sophomore work. McMahon graced the cover of Choice Press in January 2008, while articles in the music newspaper hyped the upcoming Jack’s Mannequin discharge among the most extremely expected albums of 2008. Although originally planned for a summer months release time, The Glass Traveler ultimately appeared that Sept. People and Stuff, the group’s third studio room record, premiered on Oct 4, 2011. The very first single, “My Race Thoughts,” debuted previously in the entire year.