Show Hailing The Cab Ani Arakelian Managing Editor The new arrivals on the rock scene are making their way to Utah The Cab who released their first CD Whisper War earlier this year will be opening for Live on Thursday The Cab was formed in 2005 by y lead singer Alex Deleon and bassist Cash Colligan in their hometown of Las Vegas NV They started by writing their own songs and uploading them to When youre you're on youre you're just a few clicks away f from om anyone in the world and they are able to access your music built says Deleon We slowly these fans from and then those kids started coming to shows and you know we got bigger They now have over friends on The members of the band came together from different backgrounds Drummer Alex Johnson was in a hardcore band before The Cab stole him The pianist Alex Marshall was in another band that was breaking up and guitarist Ian Crawford was introduced to them by Panic at the Disco It took three years from the The Cab Continued on AS The Cab Continued from A Al Altime 1 time the band was formed until they nationally released an album We UWe just took our time trying to find the right chemistry with the band mates and trying to find the right sound says DeleonI Deleon I just started singing so Im I'm still kind of learning We were just trying to figure out what we wanted to sound like and what we really wanted to do as a band The bands band's name was picked for its simplicity We didn't want a super weird name says Deleon We didn't want something that made no sense or something that's super emo like Oct October ber Meets Suicide We Ve wanted our music to speak for it self Deleon says the band name is short and simple It UIt kind of gives us a chance to let the music make a name for us not our our band name name was not the only helping hand The Cab got Spencer Smith the drummer from Panic at the Disco introduced them to Crush Management Crush has since picked them up and launched Whisper War for them Live features headliners Panic at the Disco Dashboard Confessional and Plain White Ts Deleon is excited to be touring with the group that helped them get started Opening for Panic and being able to watch them and being able to watch Dashboard and everything is the most surreal thing ever says Deleon because two years ago I would have been in inline inline inline line for this show The Live concert is on Thursday Oct 16 at the E Tickets are 25 from com corn comI I 11 i |