Bowling for Soup

Bowling for Soup has been a band for more than three decades, which is a ridiculous sentence even to the fellas in Bowling for Soup.

They have played on the backs of trucks and inside record stores. They have slept on floors, run out of gas, driven across the country in a series of increasingly questionable vans and accepted gigs for $50, four hamburgers and a case of beer. They have also been nominated for a Grammy, sold millions of records, accumulated more than a billion Spotify streams, played some of the biggest festivals in the world and headlined Wembley Arena.

And somehow, after all of that, Bowling for Soup is not winding down.

The band—Jaret Reddick, Gary Wiseman and Rob Felicetti—is playing some of its biggest shows ever. New generations keep discovering songs that were written before they were born. Old fans are bringing their kids. Phineas and Ferb has introduced the band to an entirely different audience. Social media has given them another way to do what they used to do with flyers, hand-addressed postcards and record-store popups: find people, make them laugh and invite them onto “the winning team!”

The guys have also finished a new album, made in a way no Bowling for Soup album has ever been made before: produced collectively by Bowling for Soup with Dan Malsch, with Gary and Rob fully involved in the process, Rob co-writing extensively with Jaret, longtime collaborator Linus of Hollywood contributing songs, and Jaret writing again with Butch Walker more than two decades after the partnership that helped create some of the band's biggest hits.

Thirty-two years in, Bowling for Soup is still figuring out new ways to be Bowling for Soup.

Which is fitting, because there was never much of a plan in the first place.