The Airborne Toxic Event
The Airborne Toxic Event is an alternative rock band that formed in Los Angeles,… Read Full Bio ↴The Airborne Toxic Event is an alternative rock band that formed in Los Angeles, California, United States in 2006. The band consists of Mikel Jollett (vocals, guitar), Steven Chen (guitar, keyboards), Anna Bulbrook (viola, keyboards), Noah Harmon (bass) and Daren Taylor (drums). The band is best known for their single "Sometime Around Midnight", which was a hit in the U.K. as well on American alternative radio in 2008 and 2009.

Named after a section of the book 'White Noise', written by postmodernist author Don DeLillo, the group incorporates string instruments and keyboards along with a standard rock lineup of guitar, drums, and bass guitar. Their style takes in a variety of influences from classic rock and roll to arcane-sounding art rock to tuneful indie pop and more. They have been signed to Majordomo Records for many years; on March 4, 2009, the band signed to Island Records.

Formed in the wake of a series of personal tragedies in the life of front-man Mikel Jollett, the band has gathered a reputation for one of the most exciting and energetic live shows in years. Stomping, screaming, wailing, crooning through bony rock songs and enormous dark anthems, the band embodies the desire to live life fully in the face of a world saturated with media and fear. The Cali five-piece's eponymous debut EP includes nods to rock music's most transcendent tidbits: subtle references to the sad-eyed melancholy of The Cure, the balled-fist intensity of The Fall, and the art school disaffection of the Velvet Underground.

The Airborne Toxic Event released their second album, All At Once on April 26, 2011. Songfacts reports the band explaining: "It's called 'All at Once' because the songs deal with the idea of sudden change—how life generally doesn't change incrementally. Your parents die, a child is born, the airplane shakes, a former love from a former life walks casually by you on the street, and suddenly everything is different. We live in the quiet passages between these extraordinary moments of change. It's exhilarating. It's terrifying. It can be monstrously disfiguring. It can be potentially redemptive."
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The Airborne Toxic Event Lyrics


A Letter To Georgia How can I explain to you the picture of this…
All At Once We were born without time, nameless in the arms Of a…
All For A Woman All of these grateful looks All these grateful eyes All th…
All I Ever Wanted I can only say these things to you while you're…
Boots Of Spanish Leather Oh, I'm sailin' away my own true love, I'm sailin' away…
Bride & Groom This city is haunted by the ghost of failure I am…
California Someday they’re going to write about us, Living here in the…
Chains Midnight I stare out the window from my room I hear the…
Changing All these buckets of rain, I've heard enough about. You say…
Come On Out Black lungs, headlights Heading off to the city tonight, out…
Do You Remember Rock Rock'n, rock'n'roll radio Let's go Rock'n, rock'n'roll radi…
Does This Mean You And the funny thing is it has no end I try…
Does This Mean You're Moving On? And the funny thing is it has no end I try…


Dope Machines You keep me up some nights, trying to figure what…
Duet I've been away for far too long I've had my mind…
Elizabeth There's a distance in your eyes That's why a smile is…
Gasoline Five, six, seven, eight! All the time, awake You're still o…
Gasoline ) Five, six, seven, eight! All the time, awake You're stil…
Goodbye Horses You told me, I've seen it rise But it always falls I've…
Half Of Something Else On the night that we met You said that you wanted Something…
Happiness Is Overrated And speaking of Little Miss Catherine I feel swell, oh well …
Hell And Back I held on as long as I could possibly My…
Hollywood Park A73-581 was the number They burned it in my brain I could…
I Don't Want To Be On TV It's late now, I think I'm gonna need this So what,…
Innocence Well, I lost my innocence today I could feel her in…
It Doesn I never knew my mother I can't say it was so…
Missy Missy got off the bus one day In a crowd of…
My Childish Bride Have you ever seen a map laid flat, four corners…
Neda I held my head in my hands, and I trembled. The…
No More Lonely Nights I can wait another day until I call you You only…
Numb I've been in a daze It seems like days that I've…
One Time Thing When I woke up today I got your message on my…
Papillon All dressed up, no place to run No car, no girl,…
Safe It was early for a summer All the people and the…
Something New What's passed these hands? All these drugs and one night sta…
Something You Lost She will never know When she tells you goodnight The feeling…
Sometime Around Midnight And it starts Sometime around midnight Or at least that's wh…
Strange Girl It was an old song, From "Kiss me, Kiss me, Kiss…
The Book Of Love The book of love is long and boring No one can…
The Fifth Day And I was alone On the fifth day since you've gone This…
The Girls In Their Summer Dresses It's so quiet on these windswept days The city lights, the…
The Graveyard Near The House The other day when we were walking by the graveyard…
The Kids Are Ready To Die All these inanimate places feel like there changing And the …
The Secret The sound of the engine The feel of the tires Your hands…
The Storm Before I took in, I tried to think of something…
The Thing About Dreams The thing about dreams, Is that everything seems, Like you'r…
The Winning Side Well I've made some mistakes At least privately, in takes …
This Is London This is London, the place where you're a god or…
This Is Nowhere We all sit on the curb And we stare at the…
This Losing Standing at your doorway My stomach all tangled and tight …
Time to be a Man You’re wide awake tossing And you can’t even sleep, With a…
Timeless As she disappeared alone in the darkness, I felt her spirit…
True Love My heart, my head My head, my head This blood, this bed This…
True. It sure seems clear to me As far as I can…
Welcome To Your Wedding Day Well it's another fine day of the nation building Well let'…
What's in a Name? There was nothing you could do but turn away They told…
Wishing Song I wish I had a coat of silk, the color…
Wishing Well Standing on a bus stop Feeling your head pop Out in the…
Wrong You keep me up some nights, trying to figure what…


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