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All Day Sucker
12+ albums
power poprockindiepoppop at its finest
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ALL DAY SUCKER DRAWING ON A COLORFUL HISTORY ON THE ROCK SCENE IN LOS ANGELES, THE WITTY, MUSICALLY ECLECTIC DUO FASHIONS A NEW AND SOPHISTICATED, MELODIC ROCK-DRIVEN ‘CALIFORNIA SOUND’ ON ITS ODE TO ‘THE BIG PRETEND’ If you’ve always wondered how bands get their clever monikers, check out the way things went down in 2006, when lifelong friends and musical compadres Morty Coyle and Jordan Summers—collectively known as All Day Sucker--decided to start writing and recording again after a several year hiatus. They couldn’t go back to calling themselves iMPOSTERS, the name they had while playing on Los Angeles’ thriving club scene in the late 80s and 90s, when they scored major label deals with Elektra and Interscope. Elvis Costello was using it for his backup band. Some time earlier, they nearly gave away “All Day Sucker,” the name they ultimately chose, to reflect the refreshing, sophisticated and melodic new “California Sound” they were after. “It was the title of a Stevie Wonder song that we thought would be a great name for our next project,” says Summers. “At the same time, we were friends with Maroon 5, who were originally known as Kara’s Flowers—but they didn’t like their name. All of us jammed at Canter’s Kibitz Room, and a lot of us still do. We told them to use All Day Sucker, but they told us to use it. It went back and forth for a while until we settled on our respective names.” Former Maroon 5 drummer Ryan Dusick is
