Artist's albums
Alone in a Dome
2021 · album
Stuck in the Winter
2021 · single
Halos
2021 · single
Live in Italy 2019
2020 · album
Welcome Wagon
2019 · single
Report
2014 · album
No Knocks
2014 · single
Shit's Fucked
2013 · album
North Sentinel Island
2011 · album
Crutches - Single
2011 · single
The Copyrights & The Brokedowns
2009 · single
Learn The Hard Way
2008 · album
Make Sound
2007 · album
Mutiny Pop
2006 · album
Nowhere near Chicago
2005 · EP
Button Smasher
2004 · EP
We Didn't Come Here to Die
2003 · album
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Biography
The Copyrights play a stripped-down version of pop-punk in the tradition of fellow Illinois bands like Screeching Weasel and the Methadones, with old-school punk and pop influences ranging from the Ramones and the Undertones to Sound Affects-vintage Jam and the first couple of Cheap Trick albums. Formed in the small southern Illinois city of Carbondale (much closer to St. Louis, MO, than Chicago) in 2002, the Copyrights originally consisted of bassist and primary lead singer Adam Fletcher, guitarists/vocalists Brett Hunter and Ken Clifford, and drummer Luke McNeill. Signed to the Washington, D.C., indie Insubordination Records, the Copyrights released their debut album, We Didn't Come Here to Die (produced by Illinois pop-punk legend Mass Giorgini), in 2003. It was subsequently followed by two EPs, 2004's Button Smasher and 2005's Nowhere Near Chicago (both through It's Alive Records). Replacing the departed Clifford with new guitarist Nick O'Neil, the Copyrights returned with their second album, Mutiny Pop, in May 2006. Not wasting any time, various shows followed before the guys (now with Jeff Funburg on board in place of O'Neil) were back in the studio by the start of 2007 to commence recording their next album; Make Sound surfaced that spring via Red Scare. ~ Stewart Mason, Rovi