Gym Class Heroes Take Over SPIN.com!

Find out the details about Travis, Matt, Disashi, and Eric's guest-editing stint at SPIN.com HQ!
Travis McCoy, online in the SPIN.com offices / Photo by Eric Nowels

Gym Class Heroes were the guest editors of SPIN.com on Friday, September 12!

New Albums From Calexico, Gym Class Heroes, Kimya Dawson, and 9 More

Get SPIN's take on the best and worst releases of the week -- and hear a few new songs, too!
Calexico / Photo by Aubrey Edwards

Here's a rundown of the essential albums available online and in record stores today:

Gym Class Heroes: High Rollers

Pop success. Tabloid romance. Blunt-clouded bus rides. From the Las Vegas desert to a Warped Salt Lake City, Matt Diehl charts the raucous rise of emo-rap sensations Gym Class Heroes.
Photographed for SPIN by Ben Watts

Fear and loathing in Las Vegas are in notably short supply during Gym Class Heroes' show in late June at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino. "I've had problems with pharmaceuticals for ten years, and I stand in front of you four and a half months sober, and I feel good as fuck!" exclaims frontman Travis McCoy to the roaring crowd.

Gym Class Heroes Map Fall Tour

In support of their forthcoming new record, entitled The Quilt, the hip-hop and indie-pop crew plan a lengthy U.S. jaunt with the Roots.
Gym Class Heroes' Travis McCoy/Photo By Erika Goldring

Who? Emo/hip-hop/indie-pop hybrid Gym Class Heroes, headed by MC (and boyfriend of "I Kissed a Girl" songstress Katy Perry) Travis McCoy. Hot on the heels of an unsavory tiff on the road, McCoy and co.

Turn Up the Vote: Gym Class Heroes

Backstage at the Warped Tour '08, frontman Travis McCoy weighs in on the forthcoming presidential election and its most important issues.
Gym Class Heroes

As we travel around the country this summer from festival to festival, one of the topics at the forefront of everyone's mind from roadie to fan, journalist to musician is the upcoming presidential election. And with this new feature, SPIN.com chats with artists backstage, gathering their opinions on the most important issues in '08.

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Gym Class Heroes Urge You to Vote

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