The Playing Favorites is an American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 indie rock

Indie rock

Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...

 band, working as a side project of several punk rock band members. The band members are Joey Cape

Joey Cape

Randal "Joey" Cape is an American singer, songwriter and producer. Active since 1989, Cape is best known as the frontman of the seminal California punk rock band Lagwagon....

 (Me First and the Gimme Gimmes

Me First and the Gimme Gimmes

Me First and the Gimme Gimmes is a punk rock supergroup and cover band that formed in 1995. The Gimmes work exclusively as a cover band. The band is named after a children's book of the same name by Gerald G. Jampolsky and Diane V. Cirincione...

, Lagwagon

Lagwagon

Lagwagon is an American punk rock band originally from Goleta, just outside Santa Barbara, California. They formed in 1990 and went on hiatus and reunited several times over the years...

, Bad Astronaut

Bad Astronaut

Bad Astronaut is an American indie/punk rock band founded in 2000 by Joey Cape, singer from Lagwagon. In Bad Astronaut, Joey Cape explores a new style of pop, with lyrics often about deep and intricate personal matters....

), Luke Tierney (The Penfifteen Club, Silver Jet

Silver Jet

Silver Jet was a SoCal powerpop band consisting of Luke Tierney on vocals and guitar, Jeff Gross on bass and vocals, and Grant Conway on drums and vocals. The band's debut album Pull Me Up...Drag Me Down was produced by Tim Palmer who also produced Sponge....

), Tim Cullen (Summercamp

Summercamp

* Please note Summercamp are a different band from the English indie pop duo Summer Camp.Alternative rock quartet Summercamp hailed from Santa Barbara, California, United States, where, in 1987, vocalist/guitarists Tim Cullen and Sean McCue met in high school...

), Marko DeSantis (Sugarcult

Sugarcult

Sugarcult is an American rock band from Santa Barbara, California formed in 1998. The band currently consists of Tim Pagnotta , Airin Older , Marko DeSantis , and Kenny Livingston .-Formation :Tim Pagnotta met ex-drummer Ben Davis during a cigarette break at school...

, Bad Astronaut

Bad Astronaut

Bad Astronaut is an American indie/punk rock band founded in 2000 by Joey Cape, singer from Lagwagon. In Bad Astronaut, Joey Cape explores a new style of pop, with lyrics often about deep and intricate personal matters....

, The Lapdancers) and Mick Flowers (Popsicko, The Rentals

The Rentals

The Rentals are an American rock band fronted by vocalist Matt Sharp, best known as the former bass player for rock group Weezer. The band is best known for their mid-1990s hit single, "Friends of P.". The group has released two albums, Return of the Rentals and Seven More Minutes on Maverick...

, The Lapdancers). The band originates from Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara, California

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, CA.

The band's debut album, I Remember When I Was Pretty

I Remember When I Was Pretty

I Remember When I Was Pretty is the debut album of American indie rock band The Playing Favorites, which features members of Lagwagon, Sugarcult, Bad Astronaut and Popsicko...

, was released in 2007. The songs were recorded in a period of 5 days.

Studio albums

Date of Release	Title	Label
4 December 2007	I Remember When I Was Pretty I Remember When I Was Pretty I Remember When I Was Pretty is the debut album of American indie rock band The Playing Favorites, which features members of Lagwagon, Sugarcult, Bad Astronaut and Popsicko...	Suburban Home Records Suburban Home Records Suburban Home Records and Distribution is a record label based in Denver, Colorado, United States. The label was founded in 1995 by Virgil Dickerson, and is known for focusing on vinyl releases and bands in the pop-punk and alt-country genres. Its roster has included Two Cow Garage, Drag the River,...

EP's

Date of Release	Title	Label
TBA	The Ramones Are Dead	Suburban Home Records Suburban Home Records Suburban Home Records and Distribution is a record label based in Denver, Colorado, United States. The label was founded in 1995 by Virgil Dickerson, and is known for focusing on vinyl releases and bands in the pop-punk and alt-country genres. Its roster has included Two Cow Garage, Drag the River,...

External links

• The Playing Favorites Official website
• The Playing Favorites MySpace page
• Band page on Suburban Home Records website