Meet Me @ The Altar on Tour
The pop-punk renaissance leaders Meet Me @ The Altar are fresh, fun and poised to shake up the norms of the punk rock world.
The band released their first EP, Red Walls, in 2015. They followed that with Changing States in 2018 and Bigger Than Me in 2019. Their hit single "Garden" was released in 2020 and re-released in 2021 under their new label, Fueled By Ramen, along with "Hit Like a Girl," named by Loudwire as one of the Best Rock Songs of 2021. Their first EP for Fueled By Ramen was Model Citizen, released in August 2021. The EP received critical support, scoring 85 out of 100 on Metacritic's site, earning a user score of "universal acclaim."
They gained notoriety in 2020 when Alex Gaskarth (All Time Low) and Dan Campbell (The Wonder Years) heard their single "Garden" and publicly endorsed the group on Twitter. This caught the attention of A&R exec Johnny Minardi and a contract with Fueled By Ramen (owned by Warner Music Group) soon followed. Meet Me @ The Altar are the first all-female Black and Latinx band signed to Fueled By Ramen.
In the summer of 2022, the band opened for Green Day and Weezer on select dates in Europe, and as of 2023, they are off on their very first headline tour of the U.S.
Téa Campbell, the band's guitarist, said in a YouTube video on the making of Model Citizen that the band writes most songs to a BPM that is easy to jump to just for live shows. They want their live shows to be fun, inclusive and one big party. Get tickets to see Meet Me @ The Altar when they come to a city near you.
Meet Me @ The Altar Live in Concert
The trio that makes up Meet Me @ The Altar is Edith Johnson (vocals), Téa Campbell (guitar, bass) and Ada Juarez (drums). The band was formed in 2015 after Campbell and Juarez connected on YouTube over Juarez's cover of a Twenty One Pilots song. They held online auditions for a vocalist and eventually landed on Johnson. At the time, they lived in different areas of the country and collaborated remotely, writing songs using voice notes. The trio now lives together in Florida.
In an interview with Rolling Stone they explained the band's name: "I just started naming off Mortal Kombat characters, and I got to Sub-Zero -- which is Téa's favorite character," Juarez says. "I told her it was mine too, and she said, 'Marry me.' I responded in all caps: 'MEET ME AT THE ALTAR.'"
A few of their biggest musical influences include Paramore, Twenty One Pilots and Fall Out Boy.
