Lifehouse
Lifehouse, which includes singer - song writer Jason Wade,  bassist Sergio Andrade and drummer Rick Woolstenhulme - went from playing a few college shows to sharing the road with Pearl Jam, Fuel, Everclear and Matchbox Twenty and touring all over North American and Europe.

Perhaps even more incomprehensible is how this once obscure Los Angles band scored a #1hit on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart, with first radio cut Hanging By A Moment, only 10 weeks after the release of their debut album, the now-double-platinum No Name Face (issued Oct. 31, 2000, on DreamWorks Records).

Jason, Sergio and Rick were equally incredulous when the song soared to the #2 spot of the Hot 100 and the Top 10 of the Mainstream Rock Tracks list, sending No Name Face to #6 on the Billboard 200 album chart. The Hanging By A Moment video, meanwhile, earned a place on MTV's "Total Request Live" and was #1-most-played on VH1 for six straight weeks.

Sick Cycle Carousel, the follow-up to Hanging By A Moment, quickly leapt onto Modern Rock charts when it was introduced to radio. The clip for that track - which Jason calls "part Tim Burton fantasyland, part reality" - was overseen by acclaimed director Marcos Siega (Blink 182, Papa Roach, Weezer). The band performed Sick Cycle Carousel on "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno," as they had Hanging By A Moment. Audiences attending a taping of "The Late Late Show With Craig Kilborn" had also been treated to a live version of Hanging By A Moment.

The members of Lifehouse have even read about themselves in a Rolling Stone feature (June 7, 2001), and the Boston Globe's Steve Morse called No Name Face a stunning debut for a band just out of their teens," describing it as "a collection of disarmingly open, innocent, questing, melodic rock songs filled with internal dramas and alternative edges" (March 9, 2001).