In late fall 2010, Shiny Toy Guns announced a planned December 2010 release of an LP tentatively named “III”. According to Jeremy, fans “will fall in love with what we [Shiny Toy Guns] are just now starting to work with on this record.” On their Facebook, Shiny Toy Guns announced…
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On December 15, 2009, the remix album Girls Le Disko was released on Ultra Records. Near the end of January 2010, ” Rocketship 2010 ” was released as a free Myspace download featured on Coca-Cola’s Formula for Happiness weekly download. Also, at the end of January, Shiny Toy Guns teamed…
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At the end of March 2009, the band performed a cover of Peter Schilling ‘s ” Major Tom (Coming Home) .” Initially used in a television commercial for the 2010 Lincoln MKZ , the song was released as a single on May 5, 2009. In September, the band covered Blue…
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In February 2009, the band introduced their Fancorps Street Team as a way for their fans to become more involved with the band. In March, the band released their first animated video for their single, ” Ghost Town. ” The animation was completed by well-known illustrator Glen Hanson.
On September 2, 2008, ” Ricochet! ” was released as the first single. It hit No. 17 on the Alternative Songs Chart , the highest the band has ever reached with a single on the Alternative Songs chart. Shiny Toy Guns released their second Season of Poison single, ” Ghost…
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In August 2008, it was revealed that Carah Faye Charnow was no longer part of the band and had been replaced by Sisely Treasure , whose vocals are featured on the band’s second album, Season of Poison . Carah Faye Charnow pursued a new band, Versant , in Sweden. Season…
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On October 29, 2007, the band appeared as “The Shinys” on the children’s television series Yo Gabba Gabba! . They performed a sequence called The House of Spooks . We Are Pilots received a Grammy Award nomination on December 6, 2007, in the Best Electronic/Dance Album category but lost to…
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Shiny Toy Guns gained popularity in California and on the internet through networking on their MySpace page. In January 2005, they released their first album, We Are Pilots , through the record company Stormwest International. That summer, they toured the United States in support of their album. We Are Pilots…
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The band was founded in 2002 by bassist and keyboardist Jeremy Dawson and vocalist and guitarist Chad Petree. Both knew each other for years growing up in Shawnee, Oklahoma , and they had worked together on previous music projects such as Cloud2Ground and Slyder. After these projects, they went underground…
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