Jarrod Alonge

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Jarrod Alonge
Jarrod Alonge at the Alternative Press Music Awards, 2015.
Jarrod Alonge at the Alternative Press Music Awards , 2015.
YouTube channel (comedy, music)
language English
founding 02/27/2009
channels Boketo Media
Subscribers over 200,000
Calls over 35,000,000
Videos over 300

Jarrod Alonge (born March 25, 1993 in Orlando , Florida ) is an American web video producer and comedian , who is mainly active on the video platform YouTube .

His channel has over 200,000 subscriptions and over 35 million views. He is known for his parody videos , in which he parodies today's music scene, but above all that of hardcore , pop-punk and metalcore . He is also a maker of Misheard-Lyrics videos.

In 2015, Alonge released Beating a Dead Horse, a music album that entered the US comedy charts, which are determined by the music magazine Billboard . A few months later the album was reissued with bonus material. He was also awarded a Kerrang in 2014 ! Award nominated and honored as "Best Comedian". On April 1, 2016, the second album Alonges was released with Friendville . This is the first release by his fictional pop-punk band Sunrise Skater Kids .

Life

Jarrod Alonge was born on March 25, 1993 in Orlando , Florida . He later moved to Tennessee . where he attended high school and later college .

Career

Videos

Alonge started his YouTube channel at the beginning of 2009. Initially, his videos revolved around stupid skits about ghostly roommates and criticized bad Hitler memes. At the beginning he also published "Guitar Covers", videos in which pieces of music are covered with electric guitar. He later published his video Every Pop Punk Vocalist , which is the most watched video alonges with one and a half million views. He also published with Every Hardcore Vocalist and Every Metalcore Vocalist , two videos that follow a similar path and have since received two more episodes.

He published several Misheard-Lyrics videos (in German, for example: "misunderstood song texts"), in which he published lines from pieces by various artists, mainly from punk and metal , with misunderstood texts. He also brought out a similar section called How To Pronounce Band Names . Alonge has worked with several well-known musicians on the rock music scene, such as Kellin Quinn from Sleeping with Sirens or the band Issues . He also had the opportunity to work with other artists, such as The Devil Wears Prada , Letlive , Chiodos , Beartooth and Man Overboard , which sometimes failed.

In 2015 Alonge was a member of the record label Fearless Records on the entire Warped Tour . He also announced collaborations with artists such as Blessthefall , Pierce the Veil and August Burns Red .

His influences as a comedian include Louis CK , Jerry Seinfeld , Larry David , Demetri Martin and Connor O'Brien .

music

Jarrod Alonge released the first song, Pop Punk Pizza Party , in which Patty Walters, singer of the British pop-punk band As It Is, was a guest musician. Pop Punk Pizza Party is also the first release by his fictional band Sunrise Skater Kids.

In 2014 Alonge started a crowdfunding campaign to finance his debut album, which could be financed up to 150 percent after completion. This album is called Beating a Dead Horse and was first released digitally on May 26, 2015. Alonge parodied several artists on this album, including Of Mice & Men , Attila , Bring Me the Horizon , Attack! Attack! , We Came as Romans and Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! . The album debuted at number 1 on the US comedy charts and number 18 on Billboard's Heatseekers charts . The album was reissued in December of the same year as a deluxe edition with additional material, this time also as a sound carrier. Guest musicians include Mattie Montgomery from For Today , Johnny Franck (formerly Attack! Attack!), YouTuber Jared Dines , Mike Semesky and Dave Days on the album.

With the song 12 Days of Pop-Punk Christmas Alonge was part of the compilation series Punk Goes Christmas , which was released on November 27, 2015 via Fearless Records .

At the beginning of 2016, Jarrod Alonge announced another campaign, this time on Indiegogo , in order to be able to realize a complete album by his parody band Sunrise Skater Kids. The minimum goal was achieved after just four days. At the end of the campaign almost USD 29,000 had been raised. On this album, Alonge is also supported by various musicians, including JB Brubaker from August Burns Red , Dave Stephens from We Came as Romans and Patty Walters from As It Is . The album, which bears the name Friendville , was released on April 1, 2016. Like the previous album, Friendville was also able to position itself at number 1 on the US comedy charts.

Together with Lauren Babic, Alonge founded the post-hardcore band CrazyEightyEight at the end of 2016 , with whom he released several cover EPs. Patty Walters , singer of As It Is and former YouTuber, has been active as bassist in the group since January 26, 2018 . A crowdfunding campaign was started on Kickstarter.com to finance the production costs of the debut album. On December 14, 2018, the album was released under the title Burning Alive .

Discography

solo

Albums

  • 2015: Beating a Dead Horse (album by Alonges parody groups Sunrise Skater Kids, $ wagCh0de, Chewed Up, Rectangles, Canadian Softball, Vermicide Violence and Amidst the Grave's Demons )
  • 2016: Friendville (album by parody band Sunrise Skater Kids )
  • 2017: Awkward & Depressed (album by parody band Canadian Softball )

EPs

  • 2016: Space Zombies (EP by parody band Amidst the Graves's Demons )

Sampler contributions

With CrazyEightyEight

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. YouTube : Channel info: Jarrod Alonge
  2. a b Chart tracking: US
  3. a b Anthony Barnes: The Independent : Kerrang! Awards 2014: Winners list in full
  4. a b c Sameer Nao: Vice : AN INTERVIEW WITH JARROD ALONGE, THE GUY WHO MADE THOSE POP PUNK VIDEOS YOU LOVE SO MUCH
  5. a b c d Emily Swanson: Blunt Magazine : So You Want To Be A… YouTube Comedian
  6. ^ Adriana Sanchez: Infectious Magazine : Jarrod Alonge To Join Vans Warped Tour
  7. Emily Carter: Kerrang : JARROD ALONGE UNVEILS COMEDY ALBUM, BEATING A DEAD HORSE
  8. Chelsea Renee Scofield: Alternative Press : Jarrod Alonge's 'Beating A Dead Horse' tops Billboard charts, No. 1 comedy album
  9. Tyler Harris: Sound Fiction : JARROD ALONGE ANNOUNCES DELUXE OF DEBUT ALBUM “BEATING A DEAD HORSE”
  10. Tyler Sharp: Alternative Press : Jarrod Alonge parodies metalcore, pop-punk, more on debut album, 'Beating A Dead Horse' — full stream
  11. Jake Hanson: Alternative Press : Punk Goes to release deluxe Christmas edition
  12. Idobi Radio : 5 Times My Fans Were Cool As Shit: Jarrod Alonge
  13. Alternative Press Japan : 【NEWS】 Jarrod Alonge に よ る ポ ッ プ パ ン ク ・ パ ロ デ ィ ー ・ ア ル バ ム 「Friendville」 の リ リ ー ス 詳細 が 公開, Set It Off, As It Is 等 が 参加ゲ ス ト (Japanese)
  14. Chart tracking (SSK) : US
  15. Rob Sayce: Rock Sound : JARROD ALONGE ON NEW BAND CRAZY EIGHTY EIGHT: “WE'VE NEVER BEEN IN THE SAME ROOM TOGETHER!”
  16. ^ Maggie Dickman: Alternative Press : As It Is' Patty Walters joins new band, CrazyEightyEight
  17. Jarrod Alonge: Kickstarter : CrazyEightyEight - Debut Album 2018