Biography
John-Allison Weiss first drew attention toward the close of the 2000s through gritty yet melodic indie pop compositions, quickly establishing an early foothold as a crowd-funding trailblazer whose D.I.Y. principles have shaped every phase of the career. After carving out space in the punk underground, Weiss became a regular on the Warped Tour while issuing well-regarded albums including Say What You Mean in 2013 and New Love in 2015. Road work alongside Laura Jane Grace, Matt Pryor, and the Front Bottoms ran parallel to songwriting partnerships with Tegan Quin and Kevin Devine. A live album and the 2021 Death Valley Demos EP preceded a move to Get Better Records, which released the single "Different Now."
Weiss began performing music while still a teenager in Flowery Branch, Georgia. Pop-punk sounds and the turbulence of youthful relationships prompted original folk-inflected pop-punk material created under a self-sufficient approach that remained constant. The first release, the 2007 EP An Eight-Song Tribute to Feeling Bad and Feeling Better, was followed a year later by the concert album Live at Sidewalk NYC. In late 2009, after two further EPs, a highly successful Kickstarter campaign financed the debut studio album ...Was Right All Along and attracted prominent coverage from The New York Times and Wired that cast Weiss as a leading example of internet-era promotion. The resulting visibility fueled extensive tours, interviews, and a panel appearance at SXSW in Austin. Over the next two years additional EPs and a single appeared while songwriting and touring stayed central. A second crowd-funding effort financed the follow-up studio album Say What You Mean along with its acoustic companion Sideways Sessions. Weiss joined No Sleep Records in 2013, and both records came out that year. The third studio album, New Love, arrived in 2015 on SideOneDummy Records in Los Angeles, produced with contributions from Hellogoodbye's Forrest Kline and Now, Now's Bradley Hale.
To mark the tenth anniversary of the debut album, Weiss recorded the live in-studio set ...Still Right All Along in 2019. Smaller releases continued in subsequent years, among them the 2021 Death Valley Demos and the 2022 single "Different Now."
Weiss began performing music while still a teenager in Flowery Branch, Georgia. Pop-punk sounds and the turbulence of youthful relationships prompted original folk-inflected pop-punk material created under a self-sufficient approach that remained constant. The first release, the 2007 EP An Eight-Song Tribute to Feeling Bad and Feeling Better, was followed a year later by the concert album Live at Sidewalk NYC. In late 2009, after two further EPs, a highly successful Kickstarter campaign financed the debut studio album ...Was Right All Along and attracted prominent coverage from The New York Times and Wired that cast Weiss as a leading example of internet-era promotion. The resulting visibility fueled extensive tours, interviews, and a panel appearance at SXSW in Austin. Over the next two years additional EPs and a single appeared while songwriting and touring stayed central. A second crowd-funding effort financed the follow-up studio album Say What You Mean along with its acoustic companion Sideways Sessions. Weiss joined No Sleep Records in 2013, and both records came out that year. The third studio album, New Love, arrived in 2015 on SideOneDummy Records in Los Angeles, produced with contributions from Hellogoodbye's Forrest Kline and Now, Now's Bradley Hale.
To mark the tenth anniversary of the debut album, Weiss recorded the live in-studio set ...Still Right All Along in 2019. Smaller releases continued in subsequent years, among them the 2021 Death Valley Demos and the 2022 single "Different Now."
Albums
Singles
