2002
Jan 01
Rickard left the band in 2000 and was replaced by Sean McArdle. Two years later, the band released their only full-length studio album, Chimera , on Lookout! Records. Allmusic’s Erik Hage called the album a “tightly played and aggressive effort that succeeds most when it steers clear of the doomier,…
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1999
Dec 31
Oakland natives and childhood friends Stephen Loewinsohn and Shaun Osburn met Michael Hoffman in middle school. The three of them began playing together in various bands in the early 1990s before adding vocalist Laird Rickard and performing as The Cost for the first time on New Year’s Eve 1999. Later…
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