Karate High School

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Karate High School

Background information
Origin	San Francisco, USA
Genre(s)	Pop punk, post-hardcore
Years active	2004-present
Label(s)	none
Website	http://www.karatehighschool.com
Members
Paul McGuire Ray Bautista Aaron McVeigh Geoff Garnett

Karate High School is an American pop punk band from the San Francisco Bay Area of California, fronted by multi-instrumentalist and producer Paul McGuire. On March 21, 2006 the band released their debut album, Arcade Rock. Karate High School's second album, The League Of Tomorrow, was released on September 4, 2007, which further honed the band's layered, keyboard-driven style of alternative rock. The band played all of the west coast dates in America and Canada on The Warped Tour in 2007 on the Ernie Ball Stage.

1 Style
2 Members
3 Discography
4 Trivia
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Style

Their style has been described as an "aggressive blend of poppy punk, hyper post-hardcore, and eight-bit blips" ^[1]; the band describes their style as "Arcade Rock", which is also the name of their debut album.^[2]

[edit] Members

Karate High School was formed by Paul McGuire, and he writes all the music and lyrics for the band. Ray Bautista is the only other founding member of the group, and has been in the band since Arcade Rock. For recording purposes, Paul produced both records and played all the instruments on The League Of Tomorrow. For touring purposes, the lineup has changed dramatically over the course of the last two years, with various people filling the roles of drummer, bassist and guitarist. Karate High School's current lineup is:

Paul McGuire - vocals, keyboards, guitars, producer
Ray Bautista - keyboards
Aaron McVeigh - drums
Geoff Garnett - guitars

[edit] Discography

Arcade Rock (2006)
The League of Tomorrow (2007)

[edit] Trivia

The origins of the band's name was revealed in an interview with Paul McGuire, "I'm a huge fan of terrible, campy science fiction and horror movies. From Ed Wood to the Troma films, it's an admitted guilty pleasure. With that said, I chose the name because I wanted something that would evoke that type of imagery. The second runner-up was Cannibalistic Underground Humanoid Dwellers, but I figured since that was already the name of a great movie, I'd get my pants sued off. Thus, Karate High School was born and the world has been a better place ever since."^{[citation needed]}