Imagine Dragons
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Imagine Dragons is an indie rock band based in Las Vegas, Nevada
.
After winning four back-to-back battles of the bands, the band entered the studio for the first time in 2009. They released two EPs titled Imagine Dragons EP and Hell and Silence EP (mixed in part by Mark Needham) in 2010, both recorded at Battle Born Studios
. Shortly, they were invited to fill in for Train
at the 13th annual Bite of Las Vegas food and music festival, dubbed "Most Requested Band of 2010" on LOCAL 107.9FM, chosen as a Vegas Music Summit Headliner, voted "Best Local Indie Band 2010" by Las Vegas Weekly
, and awarded "Best CD of 2011" by Vegas Seven Magazine.
Imagine Dragons signed to major label Interscope Records
in November 2011. They are working closely with GRAMMY winning producer Alex Da Kid
(Eminem, Rhianna, Paramore). They are endorsed by Blue Microphones
and their music has been featured on MTV
's World of Jenks
, The Real World: Las Vegas
, The Real World: San Diego
, CBS
's Around the World for Free
, TeenNick
's Degrassi
, AOL
Jobs, Windows Media Player
, MLS
' Real Salt Lake
commercials, American Idol
commercials, and notable hit predictors like CrazedHits.com.
In the autumn of 2010 the band entered Studio X inside the Palms Casino to record their independently released third EP entitled It's Time (mixed by Mark Needham).
Their music has been picked up by taste-making radio stations and the band have performed at various Las Vegas casinos including Caesar's Palace, Monte Carlo, Texas Station, Green Valley Ranch, Sunset Station, Mandalay Bay, OShea's, South Point, Hard Rock, etc.
Imagine Dragons played a handful of festivals in 2010 including SXSW Music Festival (BMI
Showcase), Neon Reverb Festival, Fork Festival (headliner), and New Noise Music Festival. In 2011, they also played at Bergenfest
in Norway, Sunset Strip Music Festival, and Bite of Las Vegas Festival 2011. They toured in fall 2010 with Nico Vega
and Saint Motel
. They toured in March 2011 with The Parlotones
.
The band have also played shows with: Weezer
, Interpol
, JET
, Blue October
, Kelly Clarkson
, Neon Trees
, Crash Kings
, Hot Chip
, The Temper Trap
, Foster the People
, The Presidents of the United States of America
, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
, O.A.R.
, Marcy Playground
, Awolnation
, Free Energy
, Hellogoodbye
, 100 Monkeys
, Los Campesinos, Los Lobos
, Andrew W.K.
, Parachute
, The Cab
, The Limousines
, Semi Precious Weapons
, Sweethead
, Paper Tongues
, Civil Twilight
, White Rabbits
, The Envy Corps
, and many more.
Nevada
Nevada is a state in the western, mountain west, and southwestern regions of the United States. With an area of and a population of about 2.7 million, it is the 7th-largest and 35th-most populous state. Over two-thirds of Nevada's people live in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, which contains its...
.
After winning four back-to-back battles of the bands, the band entered the studio for the first time in 2009. They released two EPs titled Imagine Dragons EP and Hell and Silence EP (mixed in part by Mark Needham) in 2010, both recorded at Battle Born Studios
Battle Born Studios
Battle Born Studios, located in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, is a recording studio owned by The Killers. The studio has hosted groups like Motley Crue, Elton John, The Killers, Envy Corps and the Imagine Dragons.- History :...
. Shortly, they were invited to fill in for Train
Train (band)
Train is an American pop rock band from San Francisco, California, formed in 1994. The band currently comprises a core trio of Patrick Monahan , Jimmy Stafford and Scott Underwood ....
at the 13th annual Bite of Las Vegas food and music festival, dubbed "Most Requested Band of 2010" on LOCAL 107.9FM, chosen as a Vegas Music Summit Headliner, voted "Best Local Indie Band 2010" by Las Vegas Weekly
Las Vegas Weekly
Las Vegas Weekly is a free alternative weekly newspaper based in Henderson, Nevada, covering Las Vegas arts, entertainment, culture and news. Las Vegas Weekly is published by Greenspun Media Group. The paper was founded in 1992 by James Reza as a free monthly publication called Scope covering...
, and awarded "Best CD of 2011" by Vegas Seven Magazine.
Imagine Dragons signed to major label Interscope Records
Interscope Records
Interscope Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group that currently operates as one third of UMG's Interscope-Geffen-A&M label group.-History:...
in November 2011. They are working closely with GRAMMY winning producer Alex Da Kid
Alex da Kid
Alexander Grant , better known as Alex da Kid, is a Grammy award winning English music songwriter and hip-hop producer.-Early life:...
(Eminem, Rhianna, Paramore). They are endorsed by Blue Microphones
Blue Microphones
Blue Microphones designs and produces microphones, recording tools, signal processors, and music accessories for audio professionals, musicians and consumers.-History:...
and their music has been featured on MTV
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
's World of Jenks
World of Jenks
World of Jenks is a documentary series starring Andrew Jenks. The series premiered on September 13, 2010 on MTV following 2010 MTV Video Music Awards. The show showcases the lives of inspirational young people from various locations of the United States...
, The Real World: Las Vegas
The Real World: Las Vegas (2011)
The Real World: Las Vegas is the twenty-fifth season of MTV's reality television series The Real World, which focuses on a group of diverse strangers living together for several months in a different city each season, as cameras document their lives and interpersonal relationships...
, The Real World: San Diego
The Real World: San Diego (2011)
The Real World: San Diego is the twenty-sixth season of MTV's reality television series The Real World, which focuses on a group of diverse strangers living together for several months in a different city each season, as cameras document their lives and interpersonal relationships...
, CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
's Around the World for Free
Around the World for Free
Around The World For Free aka ATWFF is an online/broadcast hybrid reality series based on the concept of whether a person can circle the globe without any money. The show follows a reality star, as they attempt to travel around the world without any money on hand...
, TeenNick
TeenNick
TeenNick, formerly The N, is an American television network aimed at the teenage market. TeenNick is owned by the MTV Networks subsidiary, Viacom. The channel was originally known as The N from its April 1, 2002 launch until September 28, 2009....
's Degrassi
Degrassi: The Next Generation
Degrassi: The Next Generation is a Canadian teen drama television series set in the Degrassi universe, which was created by Linda Schuyler and Kit Hood in 1979. Degrassi is the fourth fictional series in the Degrassi franchise, and follows The Kids of Degrassi Street, Degrassi Junior High, and...
, AOL
AOL
AOL Inc. is an American global Internet services and media company. AOL is headquartered at 770 Broadway in New York. Founded in 1983 as Control Video Corporation, it has franchised its services to companies in several nations around the world or set up international versions of its services...
Jobs, Windows Media Player
Windows Media Player
Windows Media Player is a media player and media library application developed by Microsoft that is used for playing audio, video and viewing images on personal computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, as well as on Pocket PC and Windows Mobile-based devices...
, MLS
Major League Soccer
Major League Soccer is a professional soccer league based in the United States and sanctioned by the United States Soccer Federation . The league is composed of 19 teams — 16 in the U.S. and 3 in Canada...
' Real Salt Lake
Real Salt Lake
Real Salt Lake is an American professional soccer club based in Sandy, Utah, a suburb of Salt Lake City. The team competes in Major League Soccer , the top professional soccer league in the United States and Canada. They currently play their home games at Rio Tinto Stadium. Real Salt Lake won...
commercials, American Idol
American Idol (season 11)
The eleventh season of American Idol is scheduled to premiere on Fox on Sunday, January 22, 2012 following the 2011–12 NFL playoffs. The show will air on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 8:00 PM/7:00 Central.-Judges and host:...
commercials, and notable hit predictors like CrazedHits.com.
In the autumn of 2010 the band entered Studio X inside the Palms Casino to record their independently released third EP entitled It's Time (mixed by Mark Needham).
Their music has been picked up by taste-making radio stations and the band have performed at various Las Vegas casinos including Caesar's Palace, Monte Carlo, Texas Station, Green Valley Ranch, Sunset Station, Mandalay Bay, OShea's, South Point, Hard Rock, etc.
Imagine Dragons played a handful of festivals in 2010 including SXSW Music Festival (BMI
Broadcast Music Incorporated
Broadcast Music, Inc. is one of three United States performing rights organizations, along with ASCAP and SESAC. It collects license fees on behalf of songwriters, composers, and music publishers and distributes them as royalties to those members whose works have been performed...
Showcase), Neon Reverb Festival, Fork Festival (headliner), and New Noise Music Festival. In 2011, they also played at Bergenfest
Bergen International Festival
Bergen International Festival is an annual international music and cultural festival in Bergen, Norway. The festival is the largest in the Nordic countries in its genre and has a large number of activities in music, dance, literature, visual arts, folklore etc...
in Norway, Sunset Strip Music Festival, and Bite of Las Vegas Festival 2011. They toured in fall 2010 with Nico Vega
Nico Vega
Nico Vega is an American rock band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 2005. The band consists of lead singer Aja Volkman, guitarist Rich Koehler and drummer Dan Epand. Comparisons have been made to The White Stripes in that they have never had a bass player...
and Saint Motel
Saint Motel
Saint Motel is an indie pop band from Los Angeles. They have been described as "garage glam", "hard pop", "indie prog" and more by those including The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times who wrote recently that they have "reanimated power pop"....
. They toured in March 2011 with The Parlotones
The Parlotones
The Parlotones is a rock band based in Johannesburg, South Africa. They have achieved multiplatinum-selling status in their home country. They experiment with their sound and various structures in their songs, incorporating the typical doo-wop or traditional folk structures. The Parlotones are...
.
The band have also played shows with: Weezer
Weezer
Weezer is an American alternative rock band. The band currently consists of Rivers Cuomo , Patrick Wilson , Brian Bell , and Scott Shriner . The band has changed lineups three times since its formation in 1992...
, Interpol
Interpol (band)
Interpol is an American indie rock and post-punk revival band from New York City. Formed in 1997, the band's original line-up consisted of Paul Banks , Daniel Kessler , Carlos Dengler and Greg Drudy . Drudy left the band in 2000 and was replaced by Sam Fogarino...
, JET
Jet (band)
Jet are an Australian rock band formed in 2001 while attending St Bede's College Mentone in Melbourne, . The band consists of lead guitarist Cameron Muncey, bassist Mark Wilson, and brothers Nic and Chris Cester on vocals/rhythm guitar and drums respectively...
, Blue October
Blue October
Blue October is a rock band from Houston, Texas. The band was formed in 1995 and currently consists of Justin Furstenfeld , Jeremy Furstenfeld , Ryan Delahoussaye , Matt Noveskey , and Julian Mandrake .-History:Blue October was formed by lead...
, Kelly Clarkson
Kelly Clarkson
Kelly Brianne Clarkson is an American pop rock singer-songwriter and actress. Clarkson came into prominence after becoming the winner of the inaugural season of the television series American Idol in 2002 and would later become the runner-up in the television special World Idol in 2003.In 2003,...
, Neon Trees
Neon Trees
Neon Trees is an American alternative rock band from Provo, Utah, with origins in Murrieta, California. The band received nationwide exposure in late 2008 when they opened several North American tour dates for the rock band The Killers. Not long after, the band was signed by Mercury Records and...
, Crash Kings
Crash Kings
Crash Kings is an American rock trio formed in Los Angeles, California in 2006. The members are vocalist-keyboardist Antonio Beliveau, his brother and bassist Mike Beliveau, and drummer Jason Morris....
, Hot Chip
Hot Chip
Hot Chip are an English electronic indie band. They have released four studio albums—Coming on Strong, The Warning, Made in the Dark and One Life Stand.-Formation:...
, The Temper Trap
The Temper Trap
The Temper Trap is an Australian indie rock band which formed in 2005. The core members are Jonathon Aherne on bass guitar and vocals, Toby Dundas on drums and programming, Dougy Mandagi on vocals and guitar, and Lorenzo Sillitto on guitar, keyboards and vocals. They are supplemented on tours with...
, Foster the People
Foster the People
Foster the People is an American indie pop band formed in Los Angeles, California in 2009. The group is composed of Mark Foster , Mark Pontius , and Cubbie Fink...
, The Presidents of the United States of America
The Presidents of the United States of America (band)
The Presidents of the United States of America, commonly referred to as Pot USA or "PUSA" or The Presidents, are a twice Grammy-nominated American alternative rock band. The band formed in Seattle, USA, in 1993. The three-piece group currently comprises vocalist and "basitarist" Chris Ballew,...
, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros is an American band led by Alex Ebert, vocalist of the power pop group Ima Robot. Their first full-length recording, Up from Below, was released July 7, 2009, digitally and July 14, 2009, physically on Community Records...
, O.A.R.
O.A.R.
O.A.R. is an American rock band composed of Marc Roberge , Chris Culos , Richard On , Benj Gershman , and Jerry DePizzo...
, Marcy Playground
Marcy Playground
Marcy Playground is an American alternative rock band consisting of three members: John Wozniak , Dylan Keefe , and Shlomi Lavie . The band is best known for their 1997 hit "Sex and Candy".-Early years:...
, Awolnation
AWOLNATION
AWOLNATION is an American alternative pop band, and is the solo project of Aaron Bruno, formerly of Under the Influence of Giants, Hometown Hero, and Insurgence...
, Free Energy
Free Energy (band)
Free Energy is an American rock band based out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The members include Scott Wells, Paul Sprangers, Evan Wells, and Nicholas Shuminsky.-History:...
, Hellogoodbye
Hellogoodbye
Hellogoodbye is a power pop band that was formed in Huntington Beach, California in 2001 by singer Forrest Kline. They were signed to Drive-Thru Records and released their first full-length album Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs! in 2006, in addition to their previously released EP Hellogoodbye...
, 100 Monkeys
100 Monkeys
100 Monkeys is an independent funk rock band from Los Angeles, California. The band name comes from the idea of the “Hundredth Monkey Effect” in which a learned behavior spreads instantaneously from one group of monkeys to all related monkeys once a critical number is reached...
, Los Campesinos, Los Lobos
Los Lobos
Los Lobos are a multiple Grammy Award–winning American Chicano rock band from East Los Angeles, California. Their music is influenced by rock and roll, Tex-Mex, country, folk, R&B, blues, brown-eyed soul, and traditional Spanish and Mexican music such as cumbia, boleros and norteños.-History:The...
, Andrew W.K.
Andrew W.K.
Andrew W.K. is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, entertainer, and motivational speaker. He is the host of the television series Destroy Build Destroy.-Early life & career:Andrew Wilkes-Krier was born in Stanford, California, and grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan...
, Parachute
Parachute (band)
Parachute is a rock band from Charlottesville, Virginia. The members graduated from college in May 2008 and since then have been touring and promoting their debut album Losing Sleep and sophomore album The Way It Was full-time.-History:...
, The Cab
The Cab
The Cab is an American rock band from Las Vegas, Nevada. Their debut album, Whisper War, was released on April 29, 2008. They have been called "The Band You Need to Know 2008" by Alternative Press magazine...
, The Limousines
The Limousines
The Limousines are an American indietronica band based out of California's San Francisco Bay Area. Made up of multi-instramentalist/producer Giovanni Giusti andsongwriter/vocalist Eric Victorino, the duo formed in 2007 and has since gained...
, Semi Precious Weapons
Semi Precious Weapons
Semi Precious Weapons is a rock band from New York City consisting of Justin Tranter on vocals, Stevy Pyne on guitar, Cole Whittle on bass and Dan Crean on drums. Pyne replaced former guitarist, Aaron Lee Tasjan, in November 2008...
, Sweethead
Sweethead
Sweethead is an American alternative rock group formed in 2008. The group's lineup consists of singer Serrina Sims, guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen , bassist Eddie Nappi and drummer Norm Block .To date, Sweethead have...
, Paper Tongues
Paper Tongues
Paper Tongues is an American rap rock band from Charlotte, North Carolina. The band consists of Aswan North , Devin Forbes , Joey Signa , Daniel Santell , Luke Anderson , Clayton Simon , and Cody Blackler...
, Civil Twilight
Civil Twilight (band)
Civil Twilight is a three-piece rock band from Cape Town, South Africa. They are signed to Wind-up Records, and have released their self-titled debut album, Civil Twilight.-Origin:...
, White Rabbits
White Rabbits (band)
White Rabbits is an American six-piece indie rock band based in Brooklyn, NY, originally from Columbia, Missouri. The band released its debut studio album, Fort Nightly, on May 22, 2007. They currently record for TBD Records.-History:...
, The Envy Corps
The Envy Corps
The Envy Corps are an American indie rock band from Ames, Iowa. The band are known for their atmospheric-meets-pop sound, attracting comparisons to Radiohead, Doves, New Order, Dinosaur Jr., and Modest Mouse...
, and many more.
EPs
- Imagine Dragons (2010)
- Hell and Silence (2010)
- It's TimeIt's Time (EP)It's Time is an EP by Imagine Dragons, released in March 2011. It was recorded inside of Studio X at the Palms Hotel and Casino. All songs were written by Imagine Dragons...
(2011)
Music videos
| Year | Video | Director | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | "America" | YouTube | |
| 2010 | "It's Time" | YouTube | |
| 2011 | "It's Time" (acoustic version) | Matt Eastin & Isaac Halasima | YouTube |