Artist description 3 piece pop punk rock unit from Olympia, Washington. Play mostly semi-hardcore semi-political punk rock in the style of NOFX and Anti-Flag.

Music Style PUNK

Musical Influences Good Riddance, Millencolin, Anti-Flag, Ten Foot Pole, NOFX

Similar Artists NOFX, The Deviates, Anti-Flag

Artist History AKA the Hat was formed in mid-1999 under the name "No Talent, Period." which was admittedly an accurate description since no one but Samby knew how to play their instrument. At the time we had a friend of ours, Max, do vocals until he left the band in mid-2000 because of "creative differences." The band started to build a web presence by uploading their second song ever "Small Box" onto Mp3.com, and after this there followed a number of extremely painful four track recordings which caught the ear of the webmaster of a notorious web radio station called "The Worst of the Worst." Obviously he thought No Talent, Period. were great material for his station, and proceeded to slap a "torture rating" of 9 on "Small Box" and make it available for download. The only upside to this was that the bad received a lot of attention as a result of their being featured, which eventually gained them $150 through the mp3.com payback for playback program, as well as a feature story on NPR (National Public Radio), and several scathing articles in local newspapers. Even under such bad publicity, the band continued to practice and write new songs, until summer of 2001 when they went into the studio for the first time. The band had progressed much since 2000, and laid down several decent tracks (some of which are on our demo) in two and a half hours (that's including mixing), recording most tracks on the first or second take. After the recording, No Talent, Period. began to play some shows. They played around Olympia and Lacey to a fairly good reception in early 2001. After practicing some more in between now and then, we played our first real show on November 30th at a local venue called the Midnight Sun. AKA the Hat played last and got a very good reception by the 80+ crowd (the event was organized by Javier and put on by TV Tentacles and AKA the Hat). It just weeks before the show that the band underwent the name change to AKA the Hat. since the great change we half played sevrel shows house partys, high schools old folks homes ect.... in mid mid august of 2002 aka the hat decided BEn wills was no long requiered in The hats music making procces.

Group Members Samby - Guitar + Vocals Eric - Bass + Some Vocals Javier - Drums

Instruments 1 Guitar, Bass, Drums

Location Olympia, Washington - USA

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