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Thursday is an American post-hardcore band from New Brunswick, New Jersey that has released four full-length albums. The band's name comes from their desire to not be automatically associated with any particular musical style

Thursday was formed in 1997 by vocalist Geoff Rickly, guitarist Tom Keeley, guitarist Bill Henderson, bassist Tim Payne, and drummer Tucker Rule. 

Thursday began playing basement shows in New Brunswick and surrounding New Jersey and New York areas. Thursday played their first official show on December 31, 1998 in Rickly's basement alongside Midtown, Saves the Day and Poison the Well.

Thursday recorded demos to hand out at shows, and in the summer of 1999, Thursday teamed up with MP3.com for their first official release, the 1999 Summer Tour EP, which featured demos of songs that would be soon be found on their debut album, Waiting, released January 18, 2000, on northern New Jersey-based Eyeball Records without any singles nor radio or television support.

Hesitant to join a larger label, but with full support from Eyeball Records, Thursday signed to Chicago-based label Victory Records and released Full Collapse on April 10, 2001, without much radio or television support, but in a way that Thursday had not originally intended. Victory Records removed the lyrics from the packaging against Thursday's wishes in order to cut costs.

Thursday toured in support of the album, including a tour with Saves The Day that caught the attention of Victory Records. Victory Records filmed a music video for Understanding In A Car Crash consisting of live footage of the band and marketed the song as Thursday's first single, without Thursday's authorization. A second single, Cross Out The Eyes, would follow, but it received much less attention.

Thursday was routinely upset at Victory Records over the use of Thursday's image and promotion, including the label's attempts to distribute Thursday-themed whoopie cushions. Thursday's newfound popularity and disgust with the label led to internal problems that bred the Five Stories Falling EP, a release Thursday used to fulfill contractual obligations with Victory Records. At live shows, Thursday routinely told fans not to purchase the EP, but instead to download "Jet Black New Year", the one new song found on the EP amidst live performances of four Full Collapse songs and the first song created since Full Collapse, a time during which Thursday almost broke up.

Having parted ways with Victory Records and joining Island Records, Thursday issued their major label debut War All the Time on September 16, 2003. The entire writing and recording process took only six months; Thursday has claimed they almost forced themselves into a contained sound on the album. The album's title, coupled with it being released approximately two years after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, led many critics to believe it was a political album; however, Rickly has denied this on many accounts, instead claiming that he is speaking about love being a war. War All the Time features Andrew Everding on keyboards, though he would not become an official member of Thursday until December 26, 2003, when he was officially welcomed into Thursday at the band's Christmas holiday shows held at Starland Ballroom in Sayreville, New Jersey.

War All The Time spawned two singles, "Signals Over The Air" and "War All The Time", though the latter received considerably less attention due to MTV banning the video for controversial material involving a fake news feed that appeared to be real and teenagers being weapon targets.

Thursday toured extensively to support War All the Time through many dates with acts such as AFI, Thrice, and Coheed and Cambria. On these tours, Thursday performed many in-store acoustic sessions at various Tower Records stores and other record stores. Thursday also recorded a live acoustic session for Y100 Sonic Sessions, a radio program on the now defunct Philadelphia-based radio station, Y100. The live acoustic version of single "Signals Over The Air" was used on Y100 Sonic Sessions Volume 8.

Following War All The Time, Thursday released two EPs. The first was Live From The SoHo & Santa Monica Stores Split EP and sold exclusively on iTunes; the second was a promotion found in Revolver Magazine, Live In Detroit EP.

Thursday went on an indefinite hiatus in 2004 but returned once again for a charitable cause to save New York City's CBGB, on August 25, 2005. This performance was streamed live through the CBGB's website. At this show they performed two songs that have not been released.

In Fall 2005, five Thursday demo songs were stolen from My American Heart's tour manager's iPod. Rickly had recently collaborated with My American Heart for the track "We Are The Fabrication". Thursday issued a statement on their official website stating that they were disappointed the unfinished products leaked, but that they were glad that people take that much interest in their music. Thursday confirmed the title of one demo, "At This Velocity" and promised it would make their upcoming album. Three other songs ("The Other Side Of The Crash/Over And Out (Of Control)", "Telegraph Avenue Kiss", and "Autumn Leaves Revisited") would also make the album; the demo versions of these songs are quite different.

Thursday originally toyed with the idea of double album to follow up War All The Time, but scrapped that idea, reporting on their website that not even The Beatles could properly fill two discs with enough worthy material.

Dave Fridmann-produced A City by the Light Divided followed War All the Time and is is Thursday's first full-length album not produced by Sal Villanueva. The title is influenced by a poem from Octavio Paz--Rickly combined two lines from one of his poems to create the title. The album was officially previewed on the band's MySpace on April 18, 2006, and officially released May 2 on Island Records in American and Hassle Records in the UK.

A City by the Light Divided spawned two singles, "Counting 5-4-3-2-1" and "At This Velocity", though the latter received considerably less attention.

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