Australian rock band 5 Seconds of Summer make ebullient, high-energy
music that straddles the line between '90s punk-pop and 2000s boy band
pop. The group were originally
YouTube celebrities, posting videos of themselves covering songs from various artists during 2011 and early 2012.
Formed in 2011, the band features :
Luke Hemmings (lead
vocals/guitar), Michael Clifford (guitar/vocals), Calum Hood
(bass/vocals), and Ashton Irwin (drums/vocals).
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| Calum Hood | |
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| Michael Clifford |
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| Luke Hemmings |
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| Ashton Irwin |
- In 2012, 5 Seconds of Summer released two EPs, Unplugged and Somewhere
New.
- The following year, they received a further boost after being asked
to open for Britain's One Direction on tour, and shortly thereafter
signed with Capitol Records.
- In 2014, a third EP was released, She Looks
So Perfect, and their debut album, 5 Seconds of Summer, followed soon
afterward. It promptly hit number one in the charts of more than a dozen
countries around the globe.
- In late 2014, the band wrapped up a world
tour and released the live concert album LIVESOS, which featured a cover
of the Romantics' 1980 hit "What I Like About You." Following a break,
they traveled to Los Angeles to work with producer John Feldmann (the
Used, All-Time Low, Plain White T's), who'd previously helmed most of
the group's debut album.
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In 2015, 5 Seconds of Summer delivered their second full-length studio
album, Sounds Good Feels Good, which found the group collaborating on
songs with Good Charlotte's Benji and Joel Madden, All-Time Low's Alex
Gaskarth, the Monsters & the Strangerz, and others. Included were
the songs "Permanent Vacation," which they had introduced while on tour,
the lead single "She's Kinda Hot," and "Jet Black Heart." Upon its
release, the album went to number one in the U.S., U.K., and Australia
on the same day.
- Early in 2016, the group headed out on a world tour
that reached the U.S., U.K., and Asia. ~ Matt Collar, Rovi.
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