When Lil Peep was a teenager, he called himself a loner who made a majority of his friends online. Inspired by underground acts like Seshhollowaterboyz and iLoveMakonnen. Peep was making music whilst residing in Long Island and lived temporarily with childhood friend Brennan Savage until both decided to move to Los Angeles.

Lil Peep left high school early to move to Los Angeles and meet up with online friends. Initially living in Skidrow, Los Angeles and dipping in and out of homelessness,^[31] staying in childhood friend Brennan Savage’s apartment whilst Savage pursued a degree, the two went separate ways and Peep eventually met up with Memphis producer JGRXXN and Florida rappers Ghostemane and Craig Xen, living with them while forming the collective Schemaposse. According to Lil Peep, he originally met Craig Xen online and was introduced to JGRXXN who needed a singer. Lil Peep also attempted to attend Glendale Community College during his first year living in Los Angeles. In 2015, Lil Peep released his first mixtape, Lil Peep Part One, which generated 4,000 plays in its first week. Shortly thereafter, he released his first extended play, Feelz, and another mixtape, Live Forever. Lil Peep began to grow in popularity soon after, with the song “Star Shopping” (later released as a single following his death) from Lil Peep Part One making waves in underground hip-hop circles. Lil Peep’s popularity continued to grow after the release of the song “Beamer Boy” which led to him performing live for the first time with the rest of Schemaposse in March 2016 in Tucson, Arizona. The following month, Schemaposse broke up and Lil Peep was not associated with any collective though they remained on good terms. Shortly after the breakup of Schemaposse, Peep remained living in Skidrow, Los Angeles though he had began to associate with Los Angeles-based rap collective, Gothboiclique, featuring members of the group on his full-length mixtape Crybaby.The group shared a squat in Skidrow with Peep and often shared beds. According to Lil Peep, Crybaby was recorded within the space of three days with an $150 microphone. He did a majority of the mixing and mastering himself. Crybaby was released in June 2016.

In June 2016, First Access Entertainment (FAE) partnered with Lil Peep on a joint venture to invest in and advise him on his career.

In addition to providing business guidance, co-founder/CEO, Sarah Stennett, was also a friend who gave both moral and financial support – helping Peep realize his vision. In September 2016, Lil Peep released Hellboy.Songs from Hellboy such as “Girls” and “OMFG” began to clock in millions of views and plays on SoundCloud and YouTube. The success from Hellboy led to Peep going on his first ever solo tour across the United States, called “The Peep Show” tour, starting in April 2017 and ending in May 2017. In May 2017, the band Mineral accused Peep of copyright infringement for including an unlicensed and uncredited sample of their song “LoveLetterTypewriter” in his “Hollywood Dreaming” track. Peep said that he was only trying to “show some love” with the sample.

Soon after the tour was done, Peep emigrated to London, England during a disentanglement with his collective Gothboiclique. In London, Peep began to associate with a new set of people encompassing of figures such as Atlanta rapper iLoveMakonnen and long-term friend Bexey (fka Bexey Swan.) Whilst living in London, Peep recorded Come Over When You’re Sober Pt, 1 and Come Over When You’re Sober, Pt. 2, an EP entitled Goth Angel Sinner and an untitled project with iLoveMakonnen. Peep released his debut studio album Come Over When You’re Sober, Pt. 1 on August 15, 2017. Lil Peep also announced and took part in his first World tour, starting in the UK in September and moving to Germany before finishing in the United States in November which was cut short due to his untimely death.

 

Martinez was born in Astoria, Queens, to parents Murcy Martinez and Jose Martinez who are of Dominican and Puerto Rican descent. Her family moved to Baldwin, New York, on Long Island, when Martinez was four. She listened to Brandy, Britney Spears, Shakira, The Beatles, Tupac Shakur, Biggie Smalls and Christina Aguilera growing up, and wanted to be a singer from a young age.

Martinez attended Plaza Elementary School, crediting her teacher Mr. Nadien with teaching her how to sing,and in kindergarten, Martinez began writing poetry. Martinez says she had few friends growing up and was a homebody, as she was “very emotional” and found it difficult to explain her feelings, crying when overwhelmed. She practiced photography and painting. Due to her emotionality as a child, she claims to have been referred to as a “cry baby” by others, which sparked the creation of the titular character of her debut album, Cry Baby.

At fourteen, Martinez taught herself how to play guitar by studying chord diagrams of songs she enjoyed, which she found online, and wrote her first song by adding her poetry to one of the chord diagrams, but claims that playing guitar “eventually got stale”. Martinez graduated from Baldwin High School.

Linkin Park was founded by three high school friends: Mike Shinoda, Rob Bourdon, and Brad Delson.The three attended Agoura High School in Agoura Hills, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. After graduating from high school, the three began to take their musical interests more seriously, recruiting Joe Hahn, Dave “Phoenix” Farrell, and Mark Wakefield to perform in their band, then called Xero. Though limited in resources, the band began recording and producing songs within Shinoda’s makeshift bedroom studio in 1996, resulting in a four-track demo tape, entitled Xero.Tensions and frustration within the band grew however after they failed to land a record deal. The lack of success and stalemate in progress prompted Wakefield, at that time the band’s vocalist, to leave the band in search of other projects. Farrell also left to tour with Tasty Snax, a Christian punk and ska band.

After spending a considerable time searching for Wakefield’s replacement, Xero recruited Arizona vocalist Chester Bennington, who was recommended by Jeff Blue, the vice president of Zomba Music in March 1999. Bennington, formerly of a post-grunge band by the name of Grey Daze, became a standout among applicants because of the dynamic in his singing style.The band then agreed on changing its name from Xero to Hybrid Theory; the newborn vocal chemistry between Shinoda and Bennington helped revive the band, inciting them to work on new material. In 1999 the band released a self-titled extended play, which they circulated across internet chat-rooms and forums with the help of an online ‘street team’. The band’s renaissance culminated with another change in name, this time to Linkin Park, a play on and homage to Santa Monica’s Lincoln Park (now called Christine Emerson Reed Park). The band initially wanted to use the name “Lincoln Park”, however they changed it to “Linkin” to acquire the internet domain “linkinpark.com”. The band still struggled to sign a record deal. Linkin Park turned to Jeff Blue for additional help after facing numerous rejections from several major record labels. After failing to catch Warner Bros. Records on three previous reviews, Jeff Blue, who had negotiated his employment contract with Warner Brothers to include signing Linkin Park, and was now the vice president of Warner Bros. Records, helped the band sign a deal with the company in 1999. Farrell returned the following year and the band released its breakthrough album, Hybrid Theory.

Tyler Joseph first met future bandmate Nicholas “Nick” Thomas at a young age while playing youth basketball in Columbus, Ohio. Thomas later transferred to Joseph’s middle school, and the two would remain friends through high school.

 

Joseph began playing music after finding an old keyboard in his closet, a Christmas gift from his mother, and started mimicking radio melodies. In 2007, Joseph recorded a solo album titled No Phun Intended in his parent’s basement. Thomas contributed guitar to several songs on the album, and collaborated on the track “Trees”, which would later become a signature Twenty One Pilots song.

 

While attending Ohio State University, Joseph met Texas-born future bandmate Christopher “Chris” Salih at a party. Noting the songwriter’s talent and creative energy, Salih consulted Joseph about starting a band. Impressed by the recording studio Salih had built in his house, Joseph agreed to play music together and began sharing his ideas for new music. Just before their first performance, Joseph invited Thomas to join the unnamed band as a bassist. In 2009, the group moved into a house of their own, where their first album was conceptualized and recorded in the basement.

 

The band initially played for a wide variety of audiences at clubs and venues around the Columbus area. Playing at metal, hardcore, and electronic venues influenced Joseph to incorporate these disparate styles with his songwriting. To catch the attention of unfamiliar or disinterested attendees and promoters, the band began to experiment with costumes and on-stage acrobatics.

 

Now going by “Twenty One Pilots”, the group released their debut, self-titled album, Twenty One Pilots, on December 29, 2009, and began touring the rest of Ohio. Their initial marketing was grassroots; Joseph’s mother would stand outside of Ohio State University giving away tickets to his shows.[11] During this time, the band participated in “Battle of the Band” contests at The Alrosa Villa and The Basement, important Columbus music venues. In 2010, the band posted two tracks to their SoundCloud account, a cover of “Jar of Hearts” by Christina Perri and a remixed interpretation of “Con te partirò (Time to Say Goodbye)” by Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman. The latter track would become the first song local drummer Josh Dun heard from the group.

 

Joseph, Dun, and Salih participated in musical efforts of a Columbus, Ohio church called Five14. They contributed to four of fourteen tracks of their album album Clear, with Travis Whittaker and the gospel band “New Albany Music.” In 2011, Joseph appeared in a 3-part video called “The (moderately inspiring tale of the) Longboard Rodeo Tango”, and sang “O come, O come, Emmanuel” in another video, Christmas With the Stars.

Panic! at the Disco is an American rock band from Las Vegas, Nevada, formed in 2004 by childhood friends Brendon Urie, Ryan Ross, Spencer Smith and Brent Wilson. Since 2015, vocalist Urie has been the only official member of the band, with drummer Dan Pawlovich, bassist Nicole Row, and guitarist Mike Naran accompanying him on tour. Panic! at the Disco recorded its first demos while its members were in high school. Shortly after, the band recorded and released its debut studio album, A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out (2005). Popularized by the second single, “I Write Sins Not Tragedies”, the album was certified double platinum in the US. In 2006, founding bassist Brent Wilson was fired from the band during an extensive world tour and subsequently replaced by Jon Walker.

Influenced by 1960s rock bands the Beatles, the Zombies and the Beach Boys, and preceded by the single “Nine in the Afternoon”, the band’s second studio album, Pretty. Odd. (2008) marked a significant departure from the sound of the band’s debut. Ross and Walker, who favored the band’s new direction, departed because Urie and Smith wanted to make further changes to the band’s style. The duo subsequently formed a new band, The Young Veins, leaving Urie and Smith as the sole remaining members of Panic! at the Disco.

Continuing as a duo, Urie and Smith released a new single, “New Perspective”, for the movie Jennifer’s Body, and recruited bassist Dallon Weekes and guitarist Ian Crawford as touring musicians for live performances. Weekes was later inducted into the band’s lineup as a full-time member in 2010. The band’s third studio album, Vices & Virtues (2011), was recorded solely by Urie and Smith in 2010, produced by John Feldmann and Butch Walker.

As a three-piece, Urie, Smith, and Weekes recorded and released the band’s fourth studio album, Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die!, in 2013. Prior to the release of the album, Smith unofficially left the band due to health and drug-related issues, leaving Urie and Weekes as the remaining members. The duo recruited guitarist Kenneth Harris and drummer Dan Pawlovich as touring musicians for live performances.

In 2015, Smith officially left the band after not performing live with the band since his departure in 2013. Shortly thereafter, Weekes reverted to being a touring member once again, leaving Urie as the only member of the official lineup. In April 2015, “Hallelujah” was released as the first single from Panic! at the Disco’s fifth studio album, Death of a Bachelor (2016).

In December 2017, Weekes officially announced his departure from the band. He was replaced in March 2018 by Nicole Row. Later that same month, the band released “Say Amen (Saturday Night)”, the lead single from their sixth studio album, Pray for the Wicked (2018), which was released in June. In September 2018, Harris was dismissed following multiple allegations of sexual misconduct, and was replaced by Mike Naran.

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