Hugely popular 2000s band offering to play at YOUR house party this summer... here's how to sign up

Daily Mail​

22-05-2025

They may have rejects in their band name, but iconic 2000s group The All-American Rejects are anything but with their latest tour.
The band - known for hits such as Move Along and Gives You Hell - announced they'll be going on a 'House Party' tour - giving nostalgic fans the opportunity to sign up and have them play at venues of their choosing.
The band, led by front man Tyson Ritter, have been popping up in gigs since April, with ecstatic fans taking to social media to share their delight over their resurgence.
To host the pop-punk band at your place, fans can sign up via a link on their Instagram.
Longtime listeners have taken to social media to share their enthusiasm over their marketing strategy and intimate concert setting - as well as the hopeful resurgence of the Millennial house party.
'The combination of 1) leaning into nostalgia and 2) going direct to fans makes for one of the best marketing strategies I've seen in a while,' gushed one fan, adding: 'They're doing this exactly right.'
'The amount of virality from user-generated content that they'll get will probably be more eyeballs than a stadium tour,' agreed another.
'Recession indicator,' joked another.
In April, a video from a house party featuring a teenage-cover band went viral on TikTok, with the clip amassing 2.7 million views.
In the clip, the cover band was playing the memorable opener of Move Along at the University of Southern California for a local college radio station at the start of the month, when the band walking though the backyard, much to the excitement of partygoers.
Ritter explained the inspiration of the tour came from the 'inaccessibility' of concerts in 2025, with exorbitant ticket prices and lack of tickets stopping longtime fans from attending their favorite artist's shows.
'We took $50,000 out of our own pockets, booked a bus, put the crew salary on, and started this wild sort of ride,' he told Vulture.
He continued: 'I recently read something about people financing festival tickets, the complete inaccessibility of the concert experience in 2025, and how it's juxtaposed against these wild and weird economic times. It blows my mind that our shows can still work.'
Ritter added playing in pop-up house party scenarios is a 'full-circle' moment for them band.
'The spirit of where we started was we were four kids that weren't cool and got to play at a high-school party,' the singer explained to the publication.
'And that night at USC, we felt cool. Kind of like when kids would pass a tip jar around for us to be able to pay for gas to get there and back,' he joked.
Longtime listeners have taken to social media to share their enthusiasm over their marketing strategy and intimate concert setting - as well as the hopeful resurgence of the Millennial house party
They were an iconic band of the 2000s, and now The All-American Rejects are gaining a new generation of followers thanks to a clever tour idea
Ritter added the band were making an effort to play in locations locals hang out in, declaring live music is dying due to social media.
'That language for gestating and creating a space for local live music is dead now because every young artist thinks they have to have a TikTok video,' he said passionately.
'Rock and roll was not born on TikTok. Music shouldn't have to be born in a social-media environment. It should be fostered in hometowns with local followings.'
Earlier this month, the band stopped by a house party in Columbia for a surprise pop-up performance.
Ritter made the announcement on social media hours before the band was set to play with fans rushing to get to the location in time.
However, the musicians were halted in their tracks when police officers moved to shut down the impromptu show.
Thankfully for fans, the group was allowed to wrap up the gig with one final song - the 2008 hit Gives You Hell.
The band will be opening for the Jonas Brothers at their stadium tour later in the year, and released their latest single Sandbox, earlier in May.