The Jealous Sound

<a href="spotify:artist:0GUAlx0AH7yqFXg2U6nzQU">Sunday's Best</a>'s Pedro Benito (guitar), John McGinnis of Neither Trumpets nor Drums (bass), ex-<a href="spotify:artist:7kcgO0DTza7One0HqXRIH7">Knapsack</a> singer/guitarist Blair Shehan, and former <a href="spotify:artist:1D20Qqq2BnfaShwNDb00KU">Pulley</a> drummer <a href="spotify:artist:7ckIXb7RrlBGxAsBz5B8sa">Tony Palermo</a> began their journey as the Jealous Sound at the tail-end of the 1990s. They signed with <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Better+Looking%22">Better Looking</a> in summer 2000 and quickly issued a self-titled EP; it went on to sell 11,000 copies and to gigs with <a href="spotify:artist:5E2rtn57BM2WPjwak4kGd5">At the Drive-In</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:54Bjxn26WsjfslQbNVtSCm">the Get Up Kids</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:5li5GfWFVl73vu7r2bGitu">the Promise Ring</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:0YrtvWJMgSdVrk3SfNjTbx">Death Cab for Cutie</a>, which made the band's buzz soar. SPIN magazine praised the Jealous Sound as "the rock you must have." The next year, <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Mojo+Records%22">Mojo Records</a> offered the foursome a contract, but after weeks of making a deal, the label lost their distribution. The Jealous Sound were without a label, but pride didn't stop them from getting back with <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Better+Looking%22">Better Looking</a>. Plans for a proper studio full-length came together in late 2002; the band headed into the studio with Tim O'Heir (<a href="spotify:artist:73ITRDqlSE4huQlrKuqrBU">Lou Barlow</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:3QgSmABpItIdj908ek80n5">Morphine</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:4L1danWWAgSc0b7nBgY9CB">Juliana Hatfield</a>); Adam Wade of <a href="spotify:artist:3PP5Hnii2zI9Ufm7jFkers">Shudder to Think</a> stepped in for the departing <a href="spotify:artist:7ckIXb7RrlBGxAsBz5B8sa">Palermo</a> before the year's end. A full, heavy rock sound was found on the Jealous Sound's long-awaited full-length debut, Kill Them with Kindness, which appeared in June 2003 and coincided with North American dates with the <a href="spotify:artist:7jy3rLJdDQY21OgRLCZ9sD">Foo Fighters</a>. Three years later, rumors circulated that the band had split, but by 2008, they returned with the Got Friends EP and the following year supported <a href="spotify:artist:2lZkXWxkZsZzBocxMjN1or">Sunny Day Real Estate</a> on their reunion tour. This tour led to a musical partnership with SDRE/<a href="spotify:artist:7jy3rLJdDQY21OgRLCZ9sD">Foo Fighters</a> bassist Nate Mendel, who contributed his writing and performing talents (as well as a year to work in the Foo Fighters' Studio 606) to the Jealous Sound's sophomore full-length, A Gentle Reminder, which arrived in early 2012. A deluxe version of that album that included the Got Friends EP appeared on Rise Records a year later. ~ MacKenzie Wilson, Rovi