After the success of 2005's multiplatinum Move Along, All-American Rejects spent "a year and a half of writing reflecting on the last three years of our lives," guitarist Nick Wheeler says. Their third set includes a collaboration with Southern folk-pop sisters the Pierces on "Another Heart Calls," which frontman Tyson Ritter describes as "our little 'Time After Time,' with a lot more energy." The album was partially recorded at Barefoot Studios in Hollywood, home base for producer Eric Valentine (Maroon 5, Queens of the Stone Age), who got the band accustomed to working 12-hour days. "It was great because we could all live at this house right between the Roxy and the Whiskey, right behind Sunset Boulevard. That was the most Hollywood rock star thing," jokes Wheeler, "without Hollywood rock stars in the house."

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