The Cab

About The Cab

The Cab started in Las Vegas around 2004, which makes sense given how theatrical their pop-rock eventually became. Singer Alex DeLeon and guitarist Ian Crawford were high school friends who decided to form a band at exactly the right cultural moment—emo was peaking, Fall Out Boy was everywhere, and Pete Wentz's label Decaydance was signing anything with eyeliner and hooks.

They caught Wentz's attention through MySpace, because that's how things worked in 2006. The connection led to opening slots on major tours and eventually a deal with Fueled by Ramen. Their debut album "Whisper War" dropped in 2008 and did exactly what it was supposed to do—slick pop-rock with enough guyliner energy to fit on Warped Tour but polished enough for radio. "I'll Run" got some traction, and "One of Those Nights" featuring Fall Out Boy became the kind of song that defined a very specific mid-2000s vibe.

Then things got complicated. The Cab left Decaydance and Fueled by Ramen, signed with Universal Republic, and took their time with album two. When "Symphony Soldier" finally arrived in 2011, the band had shed most of its pop-punk skin for something more Bruno Mars than Brendon Urie. The shift was jarring. "Bad" and "Angel With a Shotgun" leaned hard into radio-ready pop with big choruses and bigger production. "Angel With a Shotgun" actually found an audience, racking up millions of streams and becoming their most recognizable track, even if it confused fans who showed up for the first album.

The lineup shifted throughout this period. Original bassist Paul Garcia and drummer Jared Bowersock left. Cash Colligan remained on keys for a while. By the time they were working on new material in the mid-2010s, The Cab was essentially DeLeon's project, with Crawford still involved but the band existing in an increasingly undefined state.

They released an EP called "Lock Me Up" in 2014 that continued the pure pop direction, then mostly went quiet. DeLeon started making music under his own name and later as Bohnes, leaning into darker electronic pop. The Cab never officially broke up—there was no announcement, no farewell tour. They just sort of stopped, the way a lot of bands from that era did when the scene that birthed them evaporated.

They've played a handful of shows in recent years, enough to suggest the name isn't completely retired. But The Cab mostly exists now as a time capsule of a very specific moment when emo kids were learning to make pop music and labels were throwing money at anyone with a good hook and a decent jawline. "Angel With a Shotgun" still shows up in playlists, which is probably more than most of their peers can say.

Their shows are compact and deliberate. The crowd knows the words and isn't shy about it. There's a real dance-rock energy rather than the typical mosh pit intensity, people actually moving and singing along rather than just thrashing. They lean into the synth-pop side of their sound live, which gives things an almost New Wave charge.

Known for Whisper Campaign, La Di Da, Stay Happy There, Beat Down, One of Those Nights

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