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Rock band from Houston, Texas USA

This article is about the American band. For the British ring of the same name, see Blue Oct (British band).

Blue October
Bluish Oct in 2009
Background information
Origin	Houston, Texas, U.Southward.
Genres	Alternative stone, art rock
Years active	1995–nowadays
Labels	RoDan Entertainment/Scoop Brando Universal Upwardly/Down
Associated acts	The Last Wish, Imogen Heap, Zayra Alvarez, Harvard of the South, Canvas, (a+)machines, Icarus Bong, The Meeting Place
Website	blueoctober.com
Members	Justin Furstenfeld Ryan Delahoussaye Jeremy Furstenfeld Matt Noveskey Will Knaak
Past members	Liz Mulally Brant Coulter C.B. Hudson Dwayne Casey Piper Skih Julian Mandrake Matthew Ostrander

Blue October is an American culling rock ring originally from Houston, Texas. The ring was formed in 1995 and is currently composed of vocalist/guitarist Justin Furstenfeld, drummer Jeremy Furstenfeld, multi-instrumentalist Ryan Delahoussaye, bassist Matt Noveskey, and lead guitarist Will Knaak. The band has had seventeen Top 40 singles on the culling rock chart over their past eight studio albums and are best known for their platinum singles "Hate Me" and "Into the Ocean" from their 2006 platinum album Foiled.

History [edit]

Early years [edit]

Blue October was formed by lead singer/songwriter/guitarist Justin Furstenfeld, his brother Jeremy and multi-instrumentalist Ryan Delahoussaye. The ring was discovered past former Kid Rock manager Michael Rand performing at the Pappadeaux Cafe in Houston in 1998. His agency proceeded to book over 350 dates on the group unsigned. All-encompassing publicity and artist development was regimented. This piece of work somewhen led to Michael bringing the band to Universal Music Group CEO Doug Morris under the direction of longtime A&R rep Reen Nalli. The group moved to San Marcos, Texas in December 1996 and were signed to Universal Records in 1999.

Managed past Justin and Jeremy'due south parents under the name RoDan Amusement, Bluish Oct released their first album, The Answers, in 1998, a well-received debut which sold over 5,000 copies in Houston alone.^[1] Due to a fan-based connectedness with ABC's KTRK-TV (Channel thirteen), Blueish October was able to schedule an early-morning news performance – the ring'due south first alive television set operation. Other unreleased songs from this period, such as "Rust", "Colorado 5591", "His Proper name Is Crazy", "Gun Metal Blue", "Dollar xxx Gravy", and "5 Day Walk", tin exist found on YouTube.

Blue October caught the attention of the major record labels while working with producer dB (Don Byczynski)^[ii] in early 1998. Pre-production started for getting Blue October a more "radio prepare" sound, with new songs and to rewrite cloth off The Answers. Tracking was done in a studio setup at Justin'due south home in San Marcos. The recordings were sent to Universal, and then in 1999 Blue October signed to Universal Records for the release of their 2d album, Consent to Treatment. The band was dropped by Universal Records in 2000.

After being dropped, the band recruited new guitarist C.B. Hudson and got back on the road. In November 2002 the band signed with Texas-based management company Rainmaker Artists. Rainmaker immediately signed to their tape label. Just before entering the studio Matt Noveskey left the band for personal reasons. The remaining ring members persevered, entering the studio to record what would get their 3rd album, History for Sale. The first single from History For Sale was "Calling You lot", released in February 2003. On March twenty, 2003 radio station "102.1 the Border" in Dallas added "Calling You" to regular rotation, and it began to spread to radio stations across the state receiving over 56,585 spins on the US airwaves. Rainmaker took the ring to New York, where the band played multiple alive showcases over a week in early May 2003 for Atlantic Records, Columbia Records and Universal Records. Blue Oct was then offered records deals by each company. Ultimately the band returned to Universal Republic Records in May 2003. History for Sale was and then re-released on Universal Republic in August 2003. History for Auction was largely a response to the control Universal had placed on the group during the Consent to Handling production procedure.^[three] This is evident in songs such as "Somebody" and "Inner Glow". "Calling Y'all" remained the grouping's largest mainstream success until their 2006 single "Hate Me".

2006–2010 [edit]

The ring fabricated their network boob tube premiere on Apr 14, 2006, performing "Hate Me", the first single from Foiled, on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. They appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on June 28, 2006. Blue October was too on Late Night with Conan O'Brien in 2006. On November 14, 2006 Blueish October opened for the Rolling Stones in Boise, Idaho. "Hate Me" was released to Modern Rock radio stations and quickly climbed to number two on Billboard 's Modern Rock Tracks chart. "Hate Me" remained in the top five of the Modern Rock chart for 20 directly weeks. While in the number ii chart position "Hate Me" was jumped over twice by both Pearl Jam and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. "Detest Me" would never reach number one. The music video for "Hate Me" debuted on VH1, later making a splash at No. 13 on VH1'due south user-controlled video countdown show VSpot Top 20 Countdown. It eventually peaked at No. ii for the week ending on May v, 2006. "Into the Ocean", the 2nd single from the anthology, was released on July 17, 2006. The music video for the song debuted at number iii on VH1 Top 20 Video Inaugural during the show's last calendar week of 2006 and reached the number one spot in mid-Feb 2007. "Into the Bounding main" hitting No. 20 on the Modernistic Stone Tracks. The next single from the ring was "She's My Ride Home", which they performed on Late Night with Conan O'Brien on April 25, 2007.

On February 22, 2007 Blue October'south quaternary album "Foiled" was certified platinum. "Foiled" went on to sell 1.4 million albums in the US. Both "Detest Me" and "Into the Body of water" were also certified as platinum selling singles. This was heralded as a special moment for the band, Rainmaker, Brando, and primal executives at Universal Republic who had signed, dropped and then resigned the band.

Every bit a issue of reaching a new audience that Blue October has found with its Foiled album, Blue October has recently^{[ when? ]} undergone an expansion of its tour locations. Originally restricted to Texas and parts of the Midwest and Southwest United states, Blue October began touring locations covering the entire continental United States, in addition calculation locations in Alaska, Hawaii, Canada, Mexico, England, France, Republic of ireland, Scotland, Germany and the Netherlands to their schedule.

In August 2008, Justin featured in a sold out iv-city bout with Stephenie Meyer, author of the Twilight series.^[iv] During this tour, Justin premiered ii new songs, "Blue Skies" and "My Never", which would exist included on the band'south fifth studio anthology. Twilight author Stephanie Meyer is a fan of Blue October, and their music has helped inspire part of the popular book series.^[iv]

The band'south fifth studio anthology, Approaching Normal, was released on March 24, 2009. Information technology was distributed via—every bit its predecessors—Universal. Rather than Justin Furstenfeld producing the anthology, Budgeted Normal was produced by Steve Lillywhite (U2, Peter Gabriel, Dave Matthews Ring). The album debuted at No. 13 on the Billboard 200 chart. The band released two versions of the album, each with a different bonus track: an "explicit" version, with "The End" every bit the bonus track, and a "clean" version, with "Graceful Dancing" as the bonus rails. "Graceful Dancing" was also released in tardily 2008 as a "special souvenir" to fans signed under the band's electronic mail list.

"Dirt Room" was the kickoff unmarried from the album, released on December 23, 2008. "Dirt Room" became Blue Oct's second Tiptop v Modern Stone single (fourth Height forty Modern Rock striking) peaking at number vii on April 8, 2009. "Say It" was released every bit the 2d single on April 24, 2009. "Say It" was Blueish October'southward fifth Top 40 Modern Rock hit peaking at number 29 on July 24, 2009. "Say it" also crossed over to the Hot Air conditioning radio format giving the band its quaternary Top forty Hot Air conditioning hit peaking at number 28 on October 13, 2009. The song was beginning performed at Edgefest 17 on April 27, 2008, in Dallas, Texas.

In May 2009, Blue Oct'south show in Pittsburgh was cancelled by the Burn down Align and the Pittsburgh Police Department due to overcrowding and dangerous conditions. Not wanting to disappoint fans, the band set upwards their gear on the corner outside the venue and played a mini-set to the delight of fans.

On October 22, 2009, Blue October appear that the rest of the tour had been canceled due to Justin Furstenfield suffering a severe mental anxiety assault. He returned to perform at Stubb'southward Outdoor Amphitheater in Texas a month or two later his assault.^[5] The tour was rescheduled in 2010.

In July 2010 Blue October played a serial of acoustic concerts that were recorded for a live unplugged anthology, entitled Ugly Side: An Acoustic Evening With Blue October, released on May 10, 2011. In February 2011, the band announced on their website that they will embark on an acoustic tour between March and May 2011.^[6]

2010–2019 [edit]

On June 1, 2010 the ring announced they were first pre-product on their adjacent studio album to exist produced by Tim Palmer. In late 2010 and early on 2011, they headed back to the studio to finish recording the album and debuted information technology Baronial 16, 2011. The title of the new album is Any Man in America.^[seven]

During the week of Feb 14–eighteen, Bluish Oct singer Justin Furstenfeld did a stint as a guest DJ on Austin's KROX-FM radio station. Justin previewed four new tracks on the air, presumably on the new anthology, titled "The Chills", "The Waiting, "The Getting Over It Function" and "The Flight (Lincoln to Minneapolis)".^[viii] On April 3, 2011 Justin Furstenfeld announced that the album would be distributed by RED Distribution, a Sony banner for independent artists. Their former label, Universal Motown, had offered them a 360 deal, which the band rejected, opting instead to go independent and form their own label, Up/Downwardly Records. On May 4, 2011 Blue October played the first full vocal of the new anthology live, called "The Feel Again". On May 6, 2011 Blue October played a 2nd vocal in Saint Louis, Missouri from their upcoming album titled "The Follow Through". Justin performed a duet with Patricia from the band The Soldier Thread for the song.

On July 25, 2011, the official music video for the showtime single, "The Chills", was released via the Vevo aqueduct.

On Baronial 16, 2011 Whatever Homo in America was released in the United states. On August 25, 2011 Any Man in America debuted at number 8 on the Billboard Album Sales Chart, giving Blue October their showtime top 10 anthology sales chart debut. On September 24, 2011 "The Chills", the kickoff unmarried from Whatever Man in America, peaked at number 26 on the Billboard Modern Stone Chart, giving Blue October their 6th Height 40 Modern Rock radio hitting.

In October 2012 Justin Furstenfeld had nigh completed writing the songs for Blue October's seventh album. He entered the studio with the band and producer David Castell (who also co-produced Foiled and produced History For Sale) at the beginning of 2013. The official release date was August 20, 2013.^{[9] [10]} The band released the first single from the album in February 2013. One song, "Low-cal You Upward", made its alive debut on October 7, 2012 in Millvale, Pa. On Tuesday, December 18, the ring released a new single called "The Scar", which is a Blue Oct rendition of a 5591 song.^[11]

Drummer Jeremy Furstenfeld announced on Twitter that the band started rehearsals for the new anthology on January 14, 2013. They ended rehearsals on January 30 and were prepared to enter the studio to start recording the anthology. On February 5, 2013, the ring entered the studio to outset recording the new album. Justin Furstenfeld divulged in an interview that the studio had been rented out to them for all of February and March.^[12] On his official Twitter account, Justin listed the songs being recorded for the new album, which include "Lite You Up", "Still Broken", "Sway" (the title track) and "Sorry Hearts". The song "Still Broken" was originally released equally a Last Wish song on their 1995 anthology The First of February, simply ultimately did not go far onto the anthology. The song "Sorry Hearts" was released on an accompanying EP, Debris.

The band finished recording the new album on March 27, 2013. The first unmarried, "Bleed Out", was released on June 17, 2013. Several songs were considered for the beginning single including "Bleed Out", "Angels in Everything", "Things We Practise at Night", and "Light Y'all Up". The anthology received positive critical acclaim, with Music Eyz^[13] citing "information technology'due south easy to see that our favourite tormented soul is on the mend and even so creating some of the well-nigh powerful and emotional music out there." On August x, 2013 they released a second unmarried, "Angels in Everything", for international markets.

The video for the song "Fear" was published on Nov 2, 2014 to Blue October's YouTube VEVO channel.

On November 20, 2015, the live DVD/album Things We Do at Nighttime – Live from Texas was released.

On February 13, 2015, the ring announced that they were starting work on their 8th studio album via their official Twitter feed. The band entered the recording studio in Baronial 2015 and finished recording the album in early on November. The band recorded xi songs for the new album, making this their shortest album to date. An acoustic version of one of the songs, entitled "Home", was played live in Las Vegas on September 19. The album, also titled Dwelling house, was released April 22, 2016. The title rail and offset unmarried "Dwelling" made its radio premiere December 16, 2015. The official video for "Home" was premiered on Billboard on April xiii, 2016.^[14] Tim Palmer, who worked on the albums Any Human being in America and Sway, co-produced and mixed the album.^[15] The song "Home" reached the top 30 of the US Adult Pop Songs nautical chart.

On February 28, 2018, Bluish Oct released a new unmarried called "I Hope Y'all're Happy." On Baronial 17, 2018, the ring released its ninth studio album, too called I Hope You're Happy.

2020–nowadays [edit]

Blue October started 2020 with the release of a new single chosen "Oh My My" on February 28—exactly two years subsequently the release of "I Hope You're Happy". The single is taken from the upcoming album This Is What I Live For. Justin Furstenfeld performed other songs off the album, such as "The Weatherman", "Fight For Honey", and "Just Lost is Found", acoustically at his solo Open Book shows or for radio promotional appearances. Recorded in the winter of 2019–2020, the anthology was released on October 23, 2020.^[xvi]

The Blueish Oct documentary Get Back Upwards was released worldwide on May 21, 2020. The ring had planned to tour starting in March 2020 but the bout was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. After playing a series of smaller outdoor acoustic shows in Texas in the summer of 2021, the This is What I Live For tour began in earnest in September 2021. In belatedly September Justin Furstenfeld and Matt Noveskey tested positive for Covid-19 and shows were cancelled for a week. After testing negative, the tour resumed on October 21. In 2022 the band plans to tour in Europe, then return to North America for a coast-to-coast amphitheater tour with the Goo Goo Dolls in summer.

Personnel [edit]

Current members

• Justin Furstenfeld – lead vocals, rhythm guitar (1995–present)
• Ryan Delahoussaye – violin, mandolin, keyboard (1995–present)
• Jeremy Furstenfeld – drums, percussion (1995–nowadays)
• Matt Noveskey – bass guitar (1998–2002, 2004-nowadays)
• Will Knaak – pb guitar (2018–present)

Former members

• Liz Mulally – bass (1995–1998)
• Brant Coulter – lead guitar (1999–2000)
• Cole Bradshaw – atomic number 82 guitar (2000)
• Dwayne Casey – bass (2002–2003)
• Piper Dagnino – bass (2003–2004)
• Julian Mandrake – rhythm guitar (2006), lead guitar (2011–2013)
• C.B. Hudson – lead guitar (2000–2010, 2013–2016)
• Matthew "Feathers" Ostrander – lead guitar (2016–2018)

Timeline

Blueish October was started by Justin Furstenfeld and Ryan Delahoussaye, who met in loftier school. Prior to forming the full band, the duo played together under the name Harvest with Justin singing and playing guitar and Ryan playing mandolin and violin and singing backup. Ryan was working at a eatery in Houston at the time, and invited eatery patron Elizabeth "Liz" Rapstein Phillips (née Mulally) to join on bass after striking up a chat upon noticing she had a drum tuning key on her keychain. Justin's older brother Jeremy was watching the grouping practice at Liz's firm ane day. Liz had a pulsate kit and Justin persuaded Jeremy to join in on drums, even though he had never played before. The band played their starting time show before long after Jeremy joined. Jeremy lived in San Marcos, and the other members (except Liz) moved to join him there in 1996. Liz left the band in 1998 and was replaced by Matt Noveskey. The band wanted to add together a second guitar thespian to allow Justin to focus more on singing during shows, and auditioned guitarists in 1999. Brant Coulter was chosen as lead guitarist; still, he left the band in late 2000 when Blue Oct was dropped from Universal Records. C.B. Hudson joined on pb guitar in late 2000 afterwards a chance coming together with Justin at a restaurant in San Marcos. At the terminate of the Consent to Treatment tour in 2002, Matt Noveskey left the ring due to health reasons and was replaced by Dwayne Casey. Dwayne and Matt both played on the ring's side by side album, History for Sale, and Dwayne toured with the band in 2003. In August 2003 Dwayne was replaced by Piper Skih Swinford (née Dagnino), who is married to one of Blue October'due south co-managers and is also an established professional person bassist. Piper toured with the band through 2004 and appeared on the alive album/DVD Argue With a Tree... During preparations for recording the band's side by side anthology, Foiled, Matt Novesky was called back in as the official bassist, thereby returning the ring to their most recognizable lineup. This lineup recorded and toured the side by side two Blue October albums. At the end of the Budgeted Normal bout, C.B. Hudson announced he was leaving the ring to focus on raising a family and pursuing his dream of owning a recording studio. C.B. was replaced by erstwhile Sheet guitarist Julian Mandrake, who had previously been a touring guitarist for Blue October in 2006, covering Justin's guitar parts while Justin was recovering from a articulatio genus injury. Julian played with Bluish October on their Ugly Side acoustic tour and also on the Any Man in America tour. During the recording sessions for Sway in early 2013, C.B. Hudson was asked to come up dorsum and play on the album and to play shows over mid-2013, one time again returning Blueish October to their previous lineup. C.B. recorded with Blue October for their 2016 album Dwelling and appeared in publicity photos with the ring, but he had to take leave from the ring due to a collarbone injury sustained during a clay bike accident and Matthew Ostrander filled in on lead guitar in 2016 for the Home tour. On April 13, 2016 it was confirmed that C.B. would not be returning.^[17] On Jan 24, 2018 Matthew Ostrander posted a video on instagram announcing he had informed the band ten days prior that he was stepping down.^[xviii] In February 2018, Will Knaak was announced as the new lead guitarist.

Lineups [edit]

Discography [edit]

Studio albums

• The Answers (1998)
• Consent to Treatment (2000)
• History for Auction (2003)
• Foiled (2006)
• Approaching Normal (2009)
• Any Human in America (2011)
• Sway (2013)
• Home (2016)
• I Hope You're Happy (2018)
• This Is What I Live For (2020)

Alive Albums

• Argue with a Tree... (2004)
• Teach Your Infant Well: Alive (2007)
• Ugly Side: An Acoustic Evening with Blue October (2011)
• Things We Practice at Nighttime (Live from Texas) (2015)
• Live From Manchester (2019)

References [edit]

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11. ^ ""The Scar" declaration page". Blueoctober.com. Archived from the original on March 30, 2016. Retrieved July 25, 2015.
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13. ^ Music Eyz review of Sway by Bluish October
14. ^ Garry Graf (April 14, 2016). "Blueish October's Justin Furstenfeld on Positive New Album 'Dwelling': 'I Feel Like I Got This Second Chance' (Video Premiere)". billboard.com.
15. ^ Matthew Keever (November 27, 2015). "A Clear-Headed Blue October Looks to the Future". Houston Press.
16. ^ Andy Thornley (March 11, 2020). "Furstenfeld is Dorsum on the Up". maximumvolumemusic.com.
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External links [edit]

• Official website

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_October

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