2c:T551,Canadian rap-rock group Down with Webster made their major-label debut in 2009 with the mini-album Time to Win, Vol. 1. Based in Toronto and founded when the bandmembers were in junior high school, the seven-man band was initially comprised of Bucky (vocals), Cam (vocals), Kap (vocals), Pat (vocals, guitar), Tyler (bass, keyboards), Marty (drums), and Diggy (turntables). After establishing themselves as an exciting live band on the independent music scene, Down with Webster were offered a recording contract with Universal Motown Records and shortly thereafter issued Time to Win, Vol. 1, a seven-track mini-album that spawned the radio hit "Rich Girls" (whose hook is an interpolation of the 1970s blue-eyed soul classic "Rich Girl" by Hall & Oates). Prior to the release of Time to Win, Vol. 1, the band joined the 2009 Vans Warped Tour for a series of summertime dates and later toured with fellow Universal Motown Records recording act Forever the Sickest Kids in the autumn. In 2011, Down with Webster announced that Kap had left the band due to creative differences. The single "She's Dope," from the band's forthcoming Time to Win, Vol. 2, was released in May of 2011. ~ Jason Birchmeier, Rovi2d:T476,After logging several years as the guitarist for My Favorite Highway, Virginia native Andrew Goldstein left the lineup to start his own emo-pop band. He formed Friday Night Boys in 2006 and rounded out the lineup with bassist Robby Dallas Reider, guitarist Mike Toohey, and drummer Chris Barrett. Shows were infrequent at first; Goldstein had recently relocated to Harrisonburg for college, and his studies prevented him from booking many shows. Friday Night Boys did spend time recording their own songs, however, which they subsequently uploaded to MySpace. An audience was born around those digital recordings, and one of the band’s newest fans -- All Time Low frontman Alex Gaskarth -- helped secure Friday Night Boys a record contract in 2008. Now signed by Fueled by Ramen, the band quickly released an EP, That’s What She Said, and returned one year later with the full-length Off the Deep End. ~ Andrew Leahey, Rovi

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