Treble Charger

Punk Rock

1997's Maybe It's Me was the band's major label debut. It featured a more polished, commercial sound than the band's earlier albums, and launched the hit "Friend of Mine". Soon afterward, MacGregor replaced Palter as the band's drummer.

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Wide Awake Bored, released in 2000, completed the band's evolution to a punk rock style. This album also featured the hit singles "American Psycho" and "Brand New Low".

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Wide Awake Bored - 2000

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In 2002, Treble Charger also released Detox featuring singles "Hundred Million" and "Don't Believe It All".

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2002 - Detox

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Bill Priddle, identified with Treble Charger's early indie rock direction rather than the later pop-punk, left the band in 2003. Initially, it was said he was taking a break from the group http://www.chartattack.com/DAMN/2003/09/2903.cfm, but it later came out the departure was permanent, and Nori had asked him to leave sooner than Priddle had intended. He told Chart:

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2003 - Chart

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:"I was always into music for music?s sake, when it got all corporate and about gimmicks and imaging and wearing the right clothes and having the right lingo, that kind of rubbed me the wrong way. We had a market of 16-year-old kids and we had to try to guess what our fans wanted. Which is really the opposite of where I was coming from. I?ve always thought the best music was, obviously, done by people that did music for themselves." http://www.chartattack.com/DAMN/2003/10/2301.cfm

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However, Priddle continues his collaborations with Broken Social Scene.

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By this time, their work with and the success of their proteges Sum 41, who Nori produced, had started to eclipse Treble Charger's own career. In late 2004, it was reported that Treble Charger itself were on hiatus, but an animated version of the group, including Priddle, would appear, with Sum 41, on the Comedy Network series Kevin Spencer. http://www.chartattack.com/DAMN/2004/10/1907.cfm

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Sum 41 - 2004 - Comedy Network - Kevin Spencer

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However, message posted on July 20, 2004 on their official website said they were continuing to record and the band is still together. It has been said that a new album may arrive in mid-2005.

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July 20 - 2004 - 2005

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