– From left to right, Jason Greenberg, Amy Meyer, Adam Benjamin –

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Origin: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Genres: Alternative rock, pop-rock, pop-punk, emo, rock
Years Active: 2010 - present
Labels: Nomad Records! (2011 -2012), North Hill Records (2012 - 2015) Studio60 Records (2015 - present)
Influences Blink-182, The Pretenders, No Doubt, Jimmy Eat World, U2, The Cure, Blondie, The Pixies, Stevie Nicks, Taking Back Sunday

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‘Riot! In The Boulevard’ is an American pop-rock band from Las Vegas, Nevada, formed in high school in 2008 by Amy Meyer and Justin Mullen. The band consists of Amy Meyer (lead vocals, keys, primary lyricist), Jason Greenberg (bass guitar), Justin Mullen (lead guitar), Nathan Mullen (drums, percussion) and Adam Benjamin (rhythm guitar). They all went to the same high school and formed a close friendship which eventually led to the formation of the band during their final year of high school.
As an alternative rock band, Riot! In The Boulevard draw influences primarily from 1990’s pop-rock and the pop-punk explosion of the 2000’s with their own modern spin. They’re main elder music influences are cited as bands like The Pretenders, U2, The Cure and Blondie. They’re also heavily influenced by modern bands like Death Cab For Cutie, Foo Fighters, Kings Of Leon, 30 Seconds To Mars and All American Rejects.

They signed their first record deal with the relatively unknown at the time indie label ‘Nomad Records!’ and released a demo/E.P titled ‘Sin City Serenade’ and began to rapidly gain a following after supporting ‘Fathers Of Fury’ on their UK tour in February 2011. With the release of two hugely successful singles in ‘Sweet Little Fantasy’s’ and ‘All The Non-Believers’ as well as a number of high profile performances at several music festivals the anticipation for the teenage band built quickly ahead of the recording and release of their self-titled debut album in July 2011. Their debut went straight to number #1 and went on to sell over 4 million copies worldwide and spawned another two huge hit singles in ‘Long Distance Conversations’ and ‘Something Old, Something New’. Within months of their debut album’s release the band had become one of, if not the most talked about rock band of recent memory, awards followed hit singles with the band achieving the prestigious ‘Best Band’ award at Chaos Awards 3 and 4 and ‘Best Live Act’ at Chaos Awards 3 as well as ‘Best Band’ at The Fans Choice Awards. For a first year in the music industry it was clear that they had made an impression.

In early 2012 they released their sophomore effort, ‘Cradle To The Grave’ with its blend of catchy pop-rock tunes and heavy guitar riffery it enhanced their reputation even further and the album has since become another number #1 hit, selling over 3 million copies to date. Lead single ‘Trying, Crying, Smiling And Dying’ was released as the lead single, the seven minute song peaked at #2 creating yet another hit single for ‘Riot!’ the single came amid speculation of in band difficulties which were later resolved and at just 19 years old it would appear that the band have a bright future ahead of them providing they continue in a similar vein.

Background: 2008 – 2010 – Formation

In 2008 at the age of 15, Amy Meyer was a high school student living in Las Vegas, Nevada, she wasn’t particularly popular in school, “I never got heavily bullied but I was just sort of invisible to most people at school.” She became friends with Jason Greenberg at the age of eight and she later became friends with Nathan and Justin Mullen at the age of eleven. This eventually led to the formation of Riot! In The Boulevard towards their final year of high school.
Each member had all separately learnt music instruments in their spare time and youth but it wasn’t until 2008 when Amy decided to form a band that they decided to think about a career in music professionally. They would spend almost all of their spare time in Jason’s parents garage practising and writing songs together, it became evident that Amy had a talented for songwriting, but they wrote the majority of the songs together, during this time they claim to have at least 20 songs written and spent the summer of 2009 and 2010 performing in shopping malls, café’s and teen dances within their hometown.
During the period between 2008 and 2010 they crafted their live performances and quickly became comfortable with performing live, however at this point they had never performed in front of more than 200 people.

Background: 2011 – present – Breakthrough

On March 4th 2011, Riot! Became part of the Underground.com, a scheme which helps unsigned acts get record deals and on March 13th, they were offered a two album record deal with the indie label Nomad Records which they duly accepted. The announced that they would begin recording an E.P on 15th March and expected the E.P to be completed within a week. They also confirmed that they would release a debut single, entitled Sweet Little Fantasy’s on 20th March 2011, after a string of festival performances the single peaked at number 2 on the Top20 Airplay Charts. Their first major televised performance was at the 21st IMA's where they performed Sweet Little Fantasy's and garnered praise for their energetic performance.
Their first major tour was in support of Fathers Of Fury, beginning on April 30th and ending on June 1st, it helped break the band in the UK music scene and despite them being an American band it was the UK where they first found fame. They then announced their second single All The Non-Believers on 6th May 2011 which was a moderate chart hit briefly before the single jumped from #20 up to #1 on the Top20 Airplay Charts following the bands announcement of their debut album and their televised performance at the Field Trip Festival 2011. They began recording their self-titled debut album in June 2011 and it was released on July 24, it peaked at number #1 and spent two weeks there following the release as well as going on to sell just under 5 million copies worldwide, making it one of the most successful albums of the year. They then toured alongside bands such as Suburban Sunrise, Big Light Show and Reported Failure. On August 7, 2011 the band released their third single Long Distance Conversations, the single peaked at number #1, continuing on from the success of previous singles, Sweet Little Fantasy's and All The Non-Believers. On September 25, the band released their fourth single Something Old, Something New which debuted at number #1 on the Top20 Airplay Charts, making it three number #1 singles in succession for the teenage rock band as the year came to a close, the band confirmed that they were working on a follow-up album.

They began writing and recording their sophomore album ‘Cradle To The Grave’ from November 2011 to January 2012 and it was released on February 5, 2012 with high expectations. They toured in support of Lily Abbott for the first half of 2012 as the album continued to sell in large numbers and became yet another #1 and has gone on to sell over 3 million copies and continues to sell in large number. They released the lead single in May titled ‘Trying, Crying, Smiling and Dying’ which peaked at #2 and proved that the band have the ability to have chart success without compromising their rock roots.
With another single to be released in the near future, a prestigious headlining slot at ‘Field Trip Festival 2012’ and each member still under the age of 20, it seems like there could be a lot more to come from Riot! in the future.

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Band Members
Amy Meyer – Lead vocals, piano, keyboard, guitar, songwriting (2010 – present)
Jason Greenberg – Bass guitar, backing vocals, songwriting (2010 – present)
Adam Benjamin – Rhythm guitar, keyboards, backing vocals, songwriting (2010 – present)
Justin Mullen – Lead guitar, backing vocals, songwriting (2010 – 2013)
Nathan Mullen – Drums, percussion (2010 – 2013)

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BAND PROFILE: J-U-S-T-I-N – M-U-L-L-E-N





Favourite Music: Mayday Parade, All American Rejects, The Offspring, Pearl Jam, Jacks Mannequin, Plain White T’s, The Who, Klaus Badelt, Suburban Sunrise
Favourite Movies: Trainspotting, Good Will Hunting, The Wrestler, Once, Ace Ventura, Road Trip, Schindler’s List, Shawshank Redemption
Favourite Places: Las Vegas, Wal-Mart
Favourite Quotes: “Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting” by J.M. Barrie
Hometown: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Interests: Music, Performing, Reading, Swimming, Hockey
What was the last book you read? Love In The Time Of Cholera by Gabriel García Marquez

BAND PROFILE: N-A-T-H-A-N – M-U-L-L-E-N





Favourite Music: Blink 182, Metallica, The Who, AC/DC
Favourite Movies: American Pie, Chucky, Flubber, Beauty And The Beast, Finding Nemo
Favourite Places: Home, Anywhere With Food
Favourite Quotes: “I don’t need to fight, to prove I’m right, I don’t need to be forgiven” by The Who
Hometown: Las Vegas, Nevada
Interests: Music, Food, TV, Sports, Drumming
What was the last book you read? The Perks Of Being A Wallflower by Stephan Chbosky

“WHERE DID ALL THE HERO’S GO??” …
“THEY’VE BEEN REPLACED BY NAMELESS CELEBRITIES ON TMZ AND TWITTER!”
Thursday 26th July, 2012


> Because our fans are more artistic than your fans ;) <

“Hey, where did Riot! go?” may be a question some have pondered during the past month, the replies probably go along the lines of “You mean that band with the tiny red haired chick? Maybe they peaked too soon” Well the truth is that we’ve took ourselves out of the music industry for the best part of a month, the timing was pretty great considering the way things have gone in the industry recently, don’t you find it pretty screwed up that the artists actually making the music are no longer getting the attention that their work so rightly deserves and instead it’s the people with the money? The word lawsuit has probably been mentioned more times in regards to the music industry in the past few weeks than a lifetime of conversations with a Yale graduate.

Seriously? How about we start paying attention to the actual music that is being made rather than the pathetic little drama’s going on via twitter and the ever so important “media”. Also whatever happened to grace and dignity and respect? That seems to have gone out of the window, didn’t people used to meet privately to discuss anything remotely business related? I guess things aren’t done the way they used to be, it’s a sad state of affairs that a twitter conversation gets more attention than the work that many musicians have spent months and months trying to perfect. People seem more interested to know who the famous are dating rather than the inspiration for their latest works. There’s also people out there who have the audacity to call themselves musicians despite the evidence being rather clear that they aren’t, how about you get yourself in a recording studio and make some music then? Seriously? You think just because you’ve got the financial backing of a record label that you don’t need to work hard? You're probably more interested in seeing your name on TMZ rather than on the cover an album, if you call yourself a musician then prove it!
We may only be 19 years old and we may have only been part of the music industry for just over a year but we’ve got two studio albums to our name, with combined sales of nine million and a bunch of hit singles, we’ve spent months and months in recording studios from morning to evening working hard on our music and then when we’ve finished with that we’ve spent practically all of our time on tour buses, millions of miles away from family, friends and any sort of normality because we believe in what we do and we work incredibly hard to achieve everything that we’ve managed to achieve, yeah the labels put the money into studio time and promotion and they do have an important role in the process but you’ve gotta put in the effort to make it successful.
So what I guess I’m trying to say is that if you’re gonna call yourself and artist then start acting like one and please for the love of god let the music industry be about the actual music once again, push the focus onto the people making the music not the people wielding the cash in their gigantic egotistical hands.

Onto more work related matters now, as a band we’ve taken a month out, we’ve enjoyed the downtime and our own little vacations but we’re ready to get busy once again and we have some news to give to our wonderfully insane fanbase. Firstly you may have seen our headline performance at the Field Trip Festival in June but for those of you who haven’t or just want to relive the experience then we bring you good news, we’ll be heading into a studio in the next week to begin production on a live CD/DVD of that performance, it will be our first concert release and so hopefully it will be something that you all enjoy, we’ll be hoping to have that particular release on shelves sometime in August.
Also I feel like we should mention the fact that this will be our fourth release and therefore the final release of our recording contract, what happens in regards to this and the future will remain to be seen but it’s something that we hope to get resolved sometime soon, having seen the ridiculous nature of such similar situations recently it’s something we’d like to avoid, right now we don’t have any preferences but we will listen to all offers should any come our way, we refuse to be part of any sort of media circus so we’ll hope to have things dealt with rather swiftly.

And finally and perhaps more importantly for our fans out there, we plan on heading into a recording studio around September/October to begin writing material for our next studio album, with the view to releasing some brand new material at the beginning of 2013, firstly we’ll be scouring the world to find a recording studio that impresses us and we’ll be keeping our eyes open over the coming weeks and months to find the producer of our next record.
We’ll hope to play some occasional shows throughout the rest of the year and look to debut new material, so keep an eye out on our official website for any future concert dates.

So until we meet again, I bid you a fond farewell. Peace and love, live long and prosper and other such life-affirming phrases ;)

Amy Meyer – xoxo