Tilly's Presents The Outsiders Tour w/ The Ready Set & Metro Station

Jordan Witzigreuter was only 20 when it all happened. Nearly overnight, the young Indiana-born musician—who
had spent the better part of his teens writing an arsenal of illegally catchy, electro-pop songs—was plucked from
near obscurity and thrust into the spotlight. “I started playing shows to a couple people in someone’s basement,”
Witzigreuter remembers. “Then, a year and a half later, I was playing radio festivals with Maroon 5 to 10,000
people.”
It’s the ups and downs of life, love and music that inspired the singer’s latest and long-awaited album, The Bad And
The Better, out May 20 on Razor & Tie. “To me, my whole life, my whole career—the good and bad—has been about
taking things as they come,” waxes The Ready Set centerpiece. “Everything goes up and down like a rollercoaster.
You just have to go along with it and not hang on too tight to anything. You have to let life happen and enjoy it.”
Five years have passed since the release of TRS’s debut album, I’m Alive, I’m Dreaming, which hit No. 3 on
Billboard’s Heatseakers chart, thanks to the platinum-selling success of the LP’s first single, “Love Like Woe”—and
a lot’s happened to Witzigreuter since. Lucky for fans, you can hear the singer’s ongoing evolution—both
personally and musically—in each of the 11 songs on The Bad And The Better, produced by Ian Kirkpatrick (Neon
Trees, Young The Giant, Breathe Carolina).
“When my first song, (“Love Like Woe”) did really well, people kept telling me, ‘Do that again.’ After a while, it

The electro-rock outfit Metro Station is comprised of Trace Cyrus (vocals, guitar), Blake Healy (keyboards, synthesizer), Mason Musso (vocals, guitar), and Anthony Improgo (percussion). As is often the case in the band's native Hollywood, Metro Station owes its formation to a handful of well-placed connections. Co-frontman Cyrus is the stepson of country star Billy Ray Cyrus, and his half sister, Miley Cyrus, plays the title character on Disney's Hannah Montana. Similarly, Musso's younger brother plays the role of Oliver Oken in Hannah Montana, and the two older-sibling musicians met at the urging of their respective mothers. After adding keyboardist Healy to the lineup, the trio recorded a single -- the teenage anthem "Seventeen Forever" -- and were surprised by its sudden chart success at MySpace.com. The group's Internet presence attracted the attention of percussionist Improgo, who took note of the band's mix of '80s-styled electro and pop. Improgo soon joined Metro Station as the band's drummer, and the group set off to play shows in the L.A. area. However, it was MySpace that would (again) prove to be their biggest asset, as an intern at Red Ink discovered the band while perusing the website's music listings. A record deal with Red Ink followed in late 2006 -- the very same year as Metro Station's formation -- and the quartet headed to New York City to record its first full-length album. Featuring production from Motion City Soundtrack's Josh Cain and Justin Pierre on the leadoff single "Kelsey," Metro Station's self-titled debut was released in September 2007.