Musically, Katie Ellen isn't entirely removed from Pyle's work with Chumped—due in part to Chumped drummer Dan Frelly joining her here.
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"I wanted to help, and I chumped it," she added.
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I think Chumped did exactly what it needed to do.
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So much of my personal identity was tied to being in Chumped.
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Noisey: Chumped caught on pretty quickly and that was your first real musical project.
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Avery Bradley is on my personal short list of dudes who I like to see get chumped.
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I'm waiting to see Chumped, one of my favorite young punk bands, play one of their final shows.
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Yannich also released an EP with Anika Pyle of Katie Ellen/Chumped, and his beloved, defunct band The Ergs!
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Yeah, I mean, everyone in Chumped has been very emotional about ending the project because it totally changed our lives.
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This isn't a record just about losing a partner—or, to a certain degree, Chumped, which ended, quite literally in tears.
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But where Chumped sped it up, turning in records that could have fit in the Lookout Records catalog, Katie Ellen's sound predates pop punk almost entirely.
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The experience of being in a band like Chumped is very rare, and I understand that, and have a lot of respect and gratitude for that.
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After beloved pop punk wunderkinds Chumped tearfully called it a day last year, guitarist Drew Johnson packed up and left New York for his home of Colorado.
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"I wanted to help, and I chumped it," she continued, adding that it wasn't going to stop her from trying to address difficult political moments in the future.
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And though Pyle doesn't sound giddily ebullient like she did with Chumped, it's impossible not to see the joy that comes from her finding a new version of herself with Katie Ellen.
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An opening act is playing pretty, slow indie music — which I'm fine with, but it feels a bit like the wrong kind of setup for the breathless set I'm expecting from Chumped.
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Their song "Can't Wait"—which the Akergirls perform in full during the otherwise distressing studio sequence—was written by musician Anika Pyle, of the indie-punk bands Katie Ellen and (previously) Chumped.
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Cowgirl Blues was recorded in June of 2016, and the songs started coming together well before that, with three of them originally released on the Wild <3 Demo before Chumped even called it quits.
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And Pyle was able to move on artistically and write songs independent of her pop punk frontwoman persona in Chumped for a new project called Katie Ellen, with which she plans on releasing an album this fall.
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Cayetana is playing a release show for the record in Philly on January 23 with Mannequin Pussy and Katie Ellen (featuring former members of Chumped who will be playing their own final show in Brooklyn next month).
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To say that she's transparent about the break-ups fueling the record—both a romantic relationship, and that of her beloved pop punk band, Chumped—implies that she exists in another mode, one where honesty isn't the driving force.
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"It's literally within the last, I think, two or three sentences of the piece that I chumped it, I screwed up, and the implication was that I was telling people to give up and not be active, and to not fight," Fey told David Letterman during an interview on his Netflix series My Next Guest Needs No Introduction.
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Teenage Retirement is the only studio album by American rock band Chumped, released on November 18, 2014, through Anchorless Records.
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After Chumped parted ways at the end of 2015, Anika Pyle and Dan Frelly formed the initial two-piece incarnation of Katie Ellen. Pyle named the band after the broadcasting name of her great grandmother - a journalist and radio host on KTLN in Colorado who was sued by her station after continuing to use the name in other aspects of her career. While Chumped leant toward pop punk in their style, Pyle has said that for Katie Ellen she was looking more to '60s girl groups, Patsy Cline, and Amy Winehouse for influence. NPR later compared them to Swearin' or P.S. Eliot.
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Both bands released a new original song on the split, along with a cover of one of the other band's songs. The Menzingers covered "Kate is Great" from The Bouncing Souls, and The Bouncing Souls covered "Burn After Writing" from On the Impossible Past. On November 29, 2013, while performing at the Bowery Ballroom, Greg Barnett said that the band had just come out of the studio. The new album, Rented World, was released on April 22, 2014. A music video for a song from the new album, "In Remission", was released on February 18, 2014. The band spent 2014 and 2015 touring North America, Europe, and Australia with a variety of acts as both support and a headline act, including The Smith Street Band, Off With Their Heads, Lemuria, Chumped, Taking Back Sunday, mewithoutYou, Pianos Become the Teeth, letlive.
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