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Vocalist+bassist & songwriter Mike Herrera, guitarist Tom Wisniewski
and drummer Yuri Ruley first got together in 1993, when they were still
in high school, to form the Punk-Pop band MxPx .
The Bremerton, Washington USA-based trio soon recorded a number of singles
and in 1994 assembled their debut full-length disc, "Pokinatcha",
that caught the attention of Tooth & Nail Records.
In mid-1995 the label issued their second album, "Teenage Politics",
which broke into the top 20 of the Billboard Magazine's Top Contemporary
Christian chart.
"Life In General" followed in late 1996 with a formula that
would similar chart impact.
MxPx were picked-up by A&M Records in 1998, in an arrangement with
Tooth & Nail and in June the group's fourth album, "Slowly Going
The Way Of The Buffalo", was released; the record crashed into the
top 100 of The Billboard 200 Sales chart and became a big hit on Billboard's
Top Contemporary Christian chart falling just one position short of #1
and spawning a minor Rock radio hit single in "I'm OK, You're OK".
Before the year's end, MxPx toured with Bad
Religion in support of their major label debut and delivered another
album, the 32-track CD "Let It Happen", a collection of demos,
B-sides and previously unreleased songs, which hit the top 10 of the Contemporary
Christian chart.
In July 1999, the band issued the concert albun "At The Show"
on Tooth & Nail; the live set peaked at #5 on the Billboard's Contemporary
Christian chart.
Less than a year later, in May 2000, MxPx re-emerged with its all-new
studio album titled "The Ever Passing Moment", their second
release for A&M shot to #1 on The Top Contemporary Christian chart
and reached the #56 spot on The Billboard 200 producing a couple of alt-Rock
radio singles: "My Life Story" and "Responsibility",
the latter of which charted inside the top 30 of the Billboard's Modern
Rock Tracks.
Two years later, to celebrate their first decade together, the guys released
another CD-compilation, the aptly-titled "Ten Years And Running".
"Before Everything And After", their third outing for A&M
Records, was prefaced by the single "Everything Sucks (When You're
Gone)" and finally released in September 2003; it peaked at #51 on
The Billboard Top 200 chart.
"Panic", which marked their return to the indie scene, was issued
on Side One Dummy Records in June 2005 reaching #77 on The Billboard 200
and became the band's second Contemporary Christian #1 album; it included
the single "Heard That Sound".
The trio returned in October 2006 with "Let's Rock", a 12-song
CD of unreleased and rare material stretching back to the 2000 "Ever
Passing Moment" recording sessions, the set featured a new single/video
titled "Breathe Deep".
Coming full circle in their illustrious career, MxPx has rejoined forces
with Tooth & Nail Records over 10 years since their first release.
The new album, "Secret Weapon", finds the band partnering once
again with producer Aaron Sprinkle, who manned the controls on some of
the band's first demos and the first LP "Pokinatcha".
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