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Taking Back Sunday is an American rock band from Amityville, New York, formed by guitarist Eddie Reyes and bassist Jesse Lacey in late 1999 before rounding out the band with vocalist Antonio Longo, lead guitarist John Nolan, and drummer Steven DeJoseph. The band's current members are Adam Lazzara, John Nolan and Shaun Cooper, accompanied by Nathan Cogan (guitar), Mitchell Register (drums), and former member Fred Mascherino for their live performances. The band's other former members include drummer Mark O'Connell, bassist Matthew Rubano, and guitarist-vocalist Matthew Fazzi.

Third Eye Blind (3EB) is an American rock band formed in San Francisco, California, in 1993. After years of lineup changes in the early and mid-1990s, the songwriting duo of Stephan Jenkins and Kevin Cadogan signed the band's first major-label recording contract with Elektra Records in 1996. The band released their self-titled debut album in 1997, with the band largely consisting of Jenkins, Cadogan, Arion Salazar, and Brad Hargreaves (drums). Shortly after the release of the band's second album in 1999, Blue, with the same lineup, Cadogan was released from the band under controversial circumstances.

Carmel Liburdi was born in Detroit, Michigan, on July 21, 1993. She graduated from Arts Academy in the Woods, a high school in Fraser, Michigan and is currently attending college at Wayne State University. While her major is film production she remains active musically and performs in the metro Detroit area while working on the completion of her third CD, Martyrs and Misfits. She began writing her own lyrics and music at age 13, (2006) around the same time she began playing guitar. Playing cover songs at coffee houses and open mics around town and eventually playing her own music. Her first copy written album was released in 2010, and was originally named "American Pride", after one of the ten songs it included. It was later changed to "Let's Take This Outside", for another song on that album. The album was recorded live at "Studio 1946" by Nathan Montgomery. All ten songs on that album were written between 2007 and 2010. Her next album, Daddy Shoes, was copy-written in 2011 and contains seven songs. These seven songs were written between 2010-2011 and recorded at Arts Academy in the Woods as part of her final project for graduation. Her musical influences are varied including artists like Say Anything, Billy Holiday, Queen, Muddy Waters, Fall Out Boy, Eminem and many other artists and genres. Carmel plays both guitar and piano. She studied guitar in high school but is self taught on piano. She plays both instruments on all three of her albums. Her albums are available on iTunes and CDbaby.com. Her merchandise can be purchased at Carmelliburdi.BigCartel.com.