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The Cab is an American rock band from Las Vegas, Nevada, signed to Fueled by Ramen subsidiary Decaydance Records. Their debut album, Whisper War, was released on April 29, 2008.
Biography
Band members Alex DeLeon and Cash Colligan first began playing together in high school, and recorded demos as a duo which they put up on their MySpace page. Alex Deleon would ask Alex Johnson who was currently in a hardcore band to join The Cab and he would accept. It was now a full band with guitarist Paul Garcia, guitar/pianist Alex Marshall, and drummer Alex Johnson, they played their first show at Rock n' Java in Las Vegas, and signed to local label Olympus Records in January 2006; however, they released no material on Olympus. They gave a demo to Spencer Smith of Panic at the Disco at a Cobra Starship show, who helped them sign to Decaydance Records in May 2007. Shortly after this, the band's members graduated from high school.During this time they decided to replace Garcia With Ian Crawford, who moved from Washington to join the band.
Blender named them #75 on their Top 100 Hot Report in September 2007, before they had actually released any official material. The group toured nationally in 2007 and 2008 with Hellogoodbye, The Higher, YouInSeries, We the Kings, Metro Station, Cobra Starship, and others. In February 2008, their touring van flipped over in Wisconsin, but none of the bandmembers were seriously injured, and they only missed one tour date. In March 2008 the band played SXSW.
Their Matt Squire-produced debut album, Whisper War, was released on April 29, 2008 which featured Brendon Urie of Panic At The Disco and Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy on the first single off the cd "One Of Those Nights", which was written by Stump. As of February 15, 2008, the featured song from the album, "I'll Run", had over 300,000 hits on the band's MySpace page.
On May 17, 2008, "Whisper War" debuted at #108 for its first week of sales and was named the #1 Top Heatseeker by Billboard
Members
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- Current
- Alex DeLeon - vocals
- Cash Colligan - bass
- Alex Johnson - drums
- Alex Marshall - piano/guitar
- Ian Crawford - guitar
- Former
- Paul Garcia - guitar
- Andy Pugh - guitar
- Kent Johnston - Bass
References
- The Cab at All Music Guide
- The Cab Rides into Local Music Scene. Las Vegas Review-Journal, March 14, 2006.
- Decaydance Signs The Cab. Alternative Press, May 16, 2007.
- Exclusive Session with The Cab.
- Dig Magazine, December 13, 2007.
- The Hot Report 2007:84-70. Blender, September 2007.
- The Cab Hope to Gain Fame with Debut CD. Quinnipac Chronicle, March 5, 2008.
- The Cab Previews Debut CD, Wraps First Major Tour with SXSW Slot. Las Vegas Weekly, March 13, 2008.
- Review of Whisper War. All Music Guide
- Review of Whisper War. Absolutepunk.net, April 30, 2008.
- Review of Whisper War. The Album Project, April 30, 2008.
- The Show Must Go On. Las Vegas Review-Journal, February 15, 2008.