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  Jukebox Jury: Travis McCoy, Paul F. Tompkins Rate 2008's Hits

  December 29, 2008 – As the host of VH1's Best Week Ever, dapper comedian Paul F. Tompkins makes a living siccing his snark on cultural ephemera. Gym Class Heroes frontman Travis McCoy does much the same via his witty rhymes on songs like "Drnk Txt Rmeo" and "Cookie Jar," both from 2008's The Quilt. …
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  Video! Gym Class Heroes Live in L.A.

  December 3, 2008 – On Nov. 13, Gym Class Heroes played for a die-hard group of fans in the second installment of the SPIN, Citi, and adidas Originals' sponsored Ruby series at Los Angeles' Key Club. SPIN has an exclusive clip of the performance! Check out our footage of Disashi Lumumba-Kasongo kneeling at the edge of the stage for an epic guitar solo.Watch it now! …
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  Video! Gym Class Heroes Get Silly with adidas Originals Correspondent

  November 24, 2008 – On Nov. 13, Gym Class Heroes dared the crowd to stay quiet -- unsuccessfully -- at the second installment of the SPIN, Citi, and adidas Originals' sponsored Ruby series at Los Angeles' Key Club. The feel-good tunesmiths brought T-Pain to the stage with them and even inspired undie tossing (that still happens?) from the crowd!Before the show, the guys clowned around backstage with aspiring journalist and contest winner Brianna Conway. …
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  Gym Class Heroes Rock L.A. at SPIN Show!

  November 17, 2008 – Fronted by the tattooed, pierced and suspendered Travis McCoy, Gym Class Heroes are known for hip-hop smashups with catchy choruses, and last night's show at L.A.'s Key Club - part of SPIN, adidas Originals, and Citi Private Pass' Ruby Series partnership -- was no exception. The band kicked off the show with "Home," a song of their new album, The Quilt. …
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  Buy Tickets to Exclusive Gym Class Heroes Concert!

  October 20, 2008 – Las Vegas' Gym Class Heroes will play the second gig in the second season of SPIN's Ruby concert series Nov. 13 at West Hollywood's Key Club -- and Citi Private Pass has exclusive presale tickets and VIP passes for sale beginning today! To buy tickets to the event -- launched in 2007 in partnership with adidas Originals and Citi Private Pass to showcase the best in new indie music -- click here. …
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  Travis McCoy Talks Making of 'Live Forever' with Daryl Hall

  September 12, 2008 – A truly special moment in the creation of The Quilt came when Travis McCoy got to collaborate with one of his heroes, Daryl Hall of Hall & Oates fame. "At the end of the song [when they were recording it in Hall's studio], [Hall] did this stream of consciousness, freestyle improv thing," McCoy recalls. …
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  Video: Haitian Usher (picked by Gym Class Heroes)

  September 12, 2008 – While working in a Miami studio with Cool & Dre -- who produced a number of tracks on his band's new album, The Quilt -- Gym Class Heroes frontman stumbled across a YouTube favorite, thanks to a tip from Cool. In the video, a parody of Usher's "Confessions, Part II," Usher discovers he has Haitian heritage, and fears it's the end of his career; McCoy, whose father is Haitian, got a big chuckle out of it. …
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  Go Inside Gym Class Heroes' SPIN Photo Shoot

  September 12, 2008 – On a rare off-day from this summer's Warped Tour, SPIN met Gym Class Heroes in Las Vegas to shoot the band for their feature in our September issue. As photographer Ben Watts snapped away, the band used our video camera to document their own experiences, from posing in suits against a desert backdrop to diving into a motel pool for some wet t-shirt action. …
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  Video: The Thermals' "Pillar of Salt" (picked by Gym Class Heroes)

  September 12, 2008 – While in Vegas last year for the VMAs, Gym Class Heroes bassist Eric Roberts discovered a new favorite band -- the Thermals -- via a music video channel playing in his hotel room at the Palms. …
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  Metric (picked by Gym Class Heroes)

  September 12, 2008 – After discovering Metric via an MTV show on new bands, Gym Class Heroes guitarist Disashi Lumumba-Kasongo went straight to the almighty Internet to learn more. "I liked them so much that I bought their albums," he tells SPIN.com. Find out what Disashi loves about Metric -- from frontwoman Emily Haines' lyrics to Jimmy Shaw's angular guitar riffs -- in the video blog below. …
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