The Front Bottoms are an American Indie rock band originating in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey in 2006. The band consists of Brian Sella (vocals, guitar) and Matt Uychich (drums). They have a subgenre group of Indie rock, folk punk, acoustic rock, emo and pop punk. They are signed to Bar None Records and Fueled by Ramen.

In August of 2007, after Brian Sella (vocals, guitar, lyricist) finished his first year of college, he and childhood friend Matt Uychich (drums) began playing music together under the name The Front Bottoms. Soon after, Uychich’s brother Brian Uychich began sitting in on their practices. Brian asked to join the band, playing an old keyboard found in the attic, and this completed the original setup with which the first two albums and EP were recorded.

The Front Bottoms spent the next few years playing locally around New Jersey and eventually doing extensive tours around the country. In between tours, Sella worked at a grocery store and Uychich worked in landscaping. During this time, they put out a self-released album titled I Hate My Friends in 2008, an EP titled Brothers Can’t be Friends the same year, and a second album in 2009 called My Grandma vs. Pneumonia. Additionally, a 5-song cassette was handmade by the band in 2009 called Calm Down and Breathe which features three songs that would later be on their self-titled album (“Father,” “Swimming Pool,” and “The Beers”) as well as two other tracks (“More Than It Hurts You” and “The Bongo Song”). Only 30 of these tapes were made.

Around 2010, the band started writing material for what would become their self-titled album. They released an EP called “Slow Dance To Soft Rock” which contained six tracks later remastered for the LP. A second EP, “Grip N Tie”, was planned to be released later that year but was cancelled. The songs that were on it were instead combined with the previous EP to produce an entire album. In late 2010, the band filmed a music video for “Maps” and posted it to YouTube, which gave them great exposure. On June 2, 2011, the band had announced they had signed with Bar/None Records and would release their self-titled debut studio album on September 6, 2011.

As of fall 2010, Brian Uychich left the band to concentrate on school full-time. He then started a band known as Zak Spade and the Love Enemies, of which Sella, Matt Uychich, and Lee Hartney are alleged members. The Front Bottoms replaced Uychich with a new touring member, Drew Villafuerte, who also played bass in addition to keyboards. In 2012, Villafuerte stopped touring with the band as well, citing the extensive touring was too difficult. He was replaced with Tom Warren and Ciaran O’Donnell.

In march of 2013, The Front Bottoms released a music video for their song “Twin Size Mattress” on Youtube in promotion of their next record. The Front Bottoms’ second studio album, Talon of the Hawk was released on May 21, 2013. On June 17, 2014, the band released an EP entitled Rose, a six-track record that contains six songs previous heard on their early independent releases which were re-recorded. As Sella claimed, “These are the songs that people ask for when we’re on tour. They’re songs that we’ve either played at live shows or we’ve had kicking around that we couldn’t let go of. These songs were also Matt’s grandmother Rosemary’s favorite songs, so it was kinda fittin that we named this EP Rose.”

On April 18, 2015, Run For Cover and Bar/None Records released two songs by the band, and two songs by the rapper GDP on a split EP entitled “Liberty and Prosperity”. It features the songs “Wolfman” and “Handcuffs”. In June 2015, it was announced they had signed to the label Fueled By Ramen. The Front Bottoms released their third studio album “Back On Top” on September 18, 2015, via Fueled By Ramen. On March 7, 2016, The Front Bottoms released a new song titled “Noodle Monster” on the Fueled By Ramen Youtube channel. The Front Bottoms announced their fourth studio album, “Going Grey”, on August 24th 2017 for release on October 13th. The news was accompanied by the release of a new single, “Raining”.