BIO:

Throughout their already illustrious history, Buckcherry has never been a group to chase trends or fashions. "There's always a void open for a rock band like us to fill," says Josh Todd. "I don't think anyone else does quite what we do. Hey, it's not that we're re-inventing the wheel, but we've been doing this for over a decade now and part of what makes it work is our chemistry as a band. We don't sound like anyone else. We sound like Buckcherry. We also don't put a lot of bells and whistles and samples in our music, and so what you see is what you get."

Still, it's been an intense journey for Buckcherry to get to this point and kick off their second decade as a recording and touring rock band. The group first formed as Sparrow back in the mid-Nineties in Southern California, eventually choosing a new name inspired by an early transvestite fan and a great Chuck Berry quote. They hit hard right out of the box with their first album (1999's Buckcherry) that featured such notable rock hits as "Lit Up," "For The Movies" and "Check Your Head." 2001's Time Bomb would prove less successful, and soon early original band members left Buckcherry. Josh Todd and Keith Nelson soldiered on for a time, but in 2002, Todd decided to leave the band, suggesting that Buckcherry was done.

Then in 2005, Todd and Nelson decided to revive Buckcherry with a new lineup and together staged a truly remarkable second coming. Released in April, 2006, the band's acclaimed, platinum album 15 contained its biggest rock hit yet in "Crazy Bitch," as well as Buckcherry's first ever Top 10 hit "Sorry." 15 went on to spend an impressive 98 weeks on the Billboard's Top 200. The band's 2008 follow-up Black Butterfly debuted at #8 on Billboard and became a #1 rock album.

All Night Long was produced by Keith Nelson with Marti Frederiksen, who's served as a valued collaborator for Buckcherry since 15. "Marti is a great outside party to have involved," says Nelson. "I try to take off my band member hat and put on the producer hat, and it helps to have Marti there to bounce things off of. He's really invaluable, like a sixth member."

As Nelson explains, recording All Night Long was about Buckcherry showing up at his home studio and working, literally, all night long "without anybody looking at the clock. The process was long by our standards -- three months, but it was a totally different approach. The longer we do this, the more we're inclined to keep re-writing and re-examining what works in a song. But I'm a lifelong believer in the art form of making records. That's a part of my old school can't-let-it-die mentality, and we're going to keep fucking making records."

Expect the solid diversity for which Buckcherry has come to be known on All Night Long - from the classic arena-sized rock and roll party of the album's title track to the straight ahead rock of "Our World," which was rewritten to include lyrics specific to the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, to help draw attention to the cause.

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