All Time Low: 'We Are A Haircut Band'

The group made a 'conscious effort to kind of try and grow outside the box a little bit' on new album, frontman Alex Gaskarth says. By James Montgomery All Time Low Photo: adamelmakias.com Plenty of people write nasty stuff about All Time Low , whether it's dismissing their goofy videos with stuff like "the only way this clip could've been more offensive is if they would've performed it in blackface," or writing off their music as nothing more than generic pop-punk written by four dudes with swooping, fashionable haircuts. Frontman Alex Gaskarth has read (and heard) it all, and he'll actually agree with most of it. But he's more than willing to try and change people's minds. "We are a haircut band, for sure. We've been lumped into that category, but what a lot of people don't realize is that we've been doing this since we were freshmen [in high school]," Gaskarth told MTV News. "This is, like, our sixth year of this band now. We definitely notice it too, and ... (link)