When Chris Roberts moved to Reno from Los Angeles in February, he knew he wanted to start a pop-punk band of his own. Roberts, who played guitar with his former band in Southern California, decided to post an advertisement on Craigslist in search of potential bandmates. T. J. English, a Reno guitarist, responded to the ad, and soon after the two found bassist Mike Fitzsimmons, drummer Chris Archuleta and vocalist Tony Deputy.
Although All Hype, No Heart has only been together for three and a half months, the group has released a single, “Wasting Time,” and is in the process of mixing and mastering their first album, to be released this fall.
All five band members come from musical roots. They each have at least one family member who was a musician, and all the band members started playing music during childhood after a family member bought them their first instrument.
Their musical style is heavily influenced by ‘90s and early 2000s pop-punk bands like Green Day, Blink 182, Fall Out Boy and Sum 41, along with contemporary punk bands like City Lights and Trash Boat.
Deputy remembers when he first met Roberts, and they discovered they had the same taste in music.
“When me and Chris met each other, we were the only two people who were like ‘Dude, you listen to the same kind of music as me,’” said Deputy. “It was kind of mind-blowing at first.”
Roberts made “Wasting Time” as a demo two years earlier, but the band completely redid it for its upcoming album, its own sound to the previously recorded track. “Wasting Time” and the other four songs on the album were recorded at the Musician Rehearsal Center in Sparks with the help of Alan Terry from Lion Fist Recordings.
According to Deputy, the songs on the album were inspired by getting fucked up with their friends and being sad.
“I pretty much like the self-destructive factor of being depressed and how you kind of act out on your emotions and kind of do things that you wouldn’t with a stable mind, if you will,” he said.
In “Wasting Time,” the lyrics “I drink all night, and I sleep all day/I feel like such a waste of space/I just sit and wait/For something that’ll never change” pairs with upbeat rhythm and fast guitar strumming—giving it that classic pop-punk feel.
The band members write songs at the Musicians Rehearsal Center in Sparks. “Counting Days” is about wanting to leave a hometown. “Stuck in Park” is about getting high in the middle of the night with friends. “I’ll Wait” is about resisting change. The band’s most recent song—still in progress—is about being in a relationship that doesn’t work because life is different for both people in the relationship, but neither one seems to care enough to fix it.
“There’s usually a moment when we’re doing something, and we all look up at each other at the same time and are like, ‘That was just amazing what, we just did. Let’s try to continue that,’” said Archuleta.