The Return of Jack’s Mannequin

According to Entertainment Weekly, alternative rock band Jack’s Mannequin has reunited to commemorate the tenth anniversary of their very first album, Everything in Transit, released in 2005. Their first show was on New Year’s Eve in Anaheim, California.   

The band’s frontman, Andrew McMahon, played a key role in writing the songs on the band’s albums. Everything in Transit features hits like “Dark Blue,” “The Mixed Tape,” and “Bruised.”

McMahon, pictured below, was also a member of the rock group Something Corporate, which formed in 1998.

After releasing this album in 2005, McMahon was diagnosed with Acute Lymphocytic, Leukemia (ALL). Filming soon began on “Dear Jack,” a documentary film (now available on Netflix) following McMahon as he tries to balance treatment and Jack’s Mannequin’s first tour. The Dear Jack Foundation explains that McMahon started the organization in order to provide assistance to adolescents and young adults who have cancer.  

McMahon’s treatment proved to be effective and his recovery allowed the band to start producing and releasing music again in 2008 with an EP titled The Ghost Overground and followed by the full album The Glass Passenger, and then another EP in the same year, In Valleys.

The band released People and Things in 2011, which debuted at #1 on the alternative rock charts, featuring hits like “My Racing Thoughts”. Billboard called it “the most classic-rock-oriented outing yet from Jack’s Mannequin.”

Finally, the band’s last album was a live recording titled Live from the El Rey Theatre in 2013.  

The band’s reunion tour will make it to Washington, D.C. on Jauary 27, 2016, at the 9:30 club. But tickets are selling out fast, so be sure to get yours here before they’re all gone.

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