Gin Blossoms

Rock / Alternative / Pop

Tempe, AZ

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About

Fueled by mega-hits including "Hey Jealousy," "Found Out About You" and "Til I Hear It From You," Gin Blossoms completed the classic crossover from college-circuit heroes to multi-platinum album sellers.

The band's hometown following in Tempe, Arizona grew quickly as the band earned a great reputation as a live act. Readers of the Phoenix New Times chose them as the city's best rock band qualifying them to play at the South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas in March, 1989. Later that year, College Music Journal dubbed them the "Best Unsigned Band in America" and invited them to play MTV's New Music Awards in New York City.

Major label interest quickly followed ...their initial releases on A&M Records included Up and Crumbling in 1991 and the multi-platinum selling New Miserable Experience in 1992 featuring the single, "Hey Jealousy" which peaked at #25 on the Billboard Hot 100. Four more singles followed ... "Mrs. Rita," "Found Out About You," "Allison Road" and "Until I Fall Away." With NME having sold nearly 3 million copies in the US alone, the Gin Blossoms became a band to be reckoned with.

Congratulations I'm Sorry, which was released in 1996, was the Blossom's final original album of the decade bringing them two more hits ... "Follow You Down" which spent ten weeks in the Top Ten and "As Long As It Matters" which earned the group a Grammy nomination for "Best Performance by a Duo or Group." The album debuted in Billboard's Top Ten and a year of touring helped put the record past 1,500,000 units sold.

The group then took a lengthy hiatus before embarking on an eighty-date US tour in 2002 and then releasing a new album, Major Lodge Victory in 2006.

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Our Links

Official Website
MySpace
PureVolume
Imeem
Facebook
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Other Links

Scott Johnson's MySpace
Scott Johnson's PureVolume
Scott Johnson's Virb
Uranus of Recording Tempe's Website
Uranus Recording of Tempe's MySpace
Jesse Valenzuela's Website

Events(27)

Jul 16	Hammond,	Festival of the Lakes	7:00pm
Jul 17	Minneapolis,	Aquatennial Block Party	6:00pm
Jul 18	Waukesha, WI	Waukesha County Fair	8:00pm
Jul 23	Jim Thorpe,	Penn's Peak	6:00pm
Jul 24	Cincinnati, OH	Riverstar Sports & Entertainment Complex	8:00pm

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Videos(11)

Text(2)

2 weeks ago

News Updates

7/3/2009

Scott Gives a Tidbit About New Material/Album

From Scott:

"Hey everyone,

We are currently in the studio now and for the past couple of days we've been doing some guitar tracks. A song we've been working on is called "Somethin' Real."

There you …

Media/Press Section

"HEY, GIN BLOSSOMS" by Andrea Nealon of The Free Lance-Star. Click here to read. (5/14/2009).

"SunFest Diaries: Best of the Fest" by Leslie Gray Streeter of The Palm Beach Post/pbpulse.com. (5/4/2009).

BEST PERFORMANCE THAT WASN’T BETTYE LAVETTE: Robin Wilson of …

Comments(61)

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Lauren, Jun 01:

Just an FYI, a good quality version (live) of a new GBs song "Miss Disarray" is up at http://gbfan.net/ in the Uploads section. Just wanted to point it out ;)

Stereo Jacket, Apr 14:

Thank you guys so much for letting us record at your studio. It was amazing! :)

Mingmen, Dec 23:

Hello !! We wish you a merry christmas !!

Deb, Dec 19:

Happy Holidays Gins! Here's to you and yours having a safe, healthy and very Merry Christmas! Glad to see you all have a new gig to ring in the new year too! I sincerely wish that 2009 brings you all continued luck, love, and success. Take care of yourselves! Cheers! :) My Best, ~Deb