The four-piece band from Mesa, Arizona, has released ten albums and toured over the past three decades, both headlining and opening for bands such as Foo Fighters, Weezer, Blink-182, Green Day, Incubus, and most recently Fall Out Boy.

Their breakthrough album, 1999’s Clarity, the band’s third album and the first to feature Jim Adkins on lead vocals instead of guitarist Tom Linton, was the band’s first breakthrough, and songs like “Lucky Denver Mint” were frequently played. But it was not a major commercial success, and then-label Capitol Records dropped the band in August of that year.

It wasn’t until their next album, Bleed American, on DreamWorks Records in 2001 that Jimmy Eat World reached the mainstream, propelled by their biggest hit, “The Middle,” an ode to the outsider kid struggling to fit in, and other singles like “Sweetness,” “Hear You Me,” and the album’s title track.