Allister Band

Allister is an American pop punk band from Chicago, Illinois. The four-piece formed in 1994 and were one of the first bands to sign to Drive-Thru Records. To date, they have released five studio albums – 1999's Dead Ends and Girlfriends, 2002's Last Stop Suburbia, 2005's Before the Blackout, 2010's Countdown to Nowhere, and 2012's Life Behind Machines.

 

I didn't see a thread dedicated to the band. Last Stop Suburbia is still an album I revisit for some pure pop punk nostalgia (and it holds up really well!), so I felt like they deserved some discussion.

 

Are they on hiatus again? I saw them in 2014 on a short run with MxPx and haven't heard from them since. They would have been perfect for Warped Tour this year.

 

They sort of went dark with updates a year or two go. Considering Scott released that album in Japan with Rivers Cuomo, I'm guessing they aren't focused on the band at the moment.

I also saw that show btw. Zebrahead was there too. I love all three bands, so I was pumped to see them all, but the Cincinnati show was a pretty empty turnout. It almost felt like a private show just for me though. Ha. When you tour and promote mostly overseas though, I guess that's what happens.

 

So pumped for this.

 

This is great! I really want to hear how they rerecorded and polished Dead Ends and Girlfriends tracks.