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Wild Party is an American pop-rock band from San Antonio, Texas, whose members include Lincoln Kreifels, Lucas Hughes, Ethan Kaufmann, and Cary LaScala.[9]
Lincoln and Hughes became friends in the seventh grade and went to middle and high school together.[8] They both played middle school football and met each other in a football locker room.[9] The two began producing demos on their laptops in their bedrooms, and produced their first song soon after.[8][1] After deciding to pursue music more seriously in their senior year of high school, they recruited Lincoln's brother Jake to play bass. Jake introduced Kaufmann to the band after Jake sent a demo of a song the two had started. The trio then worked on music for about a year before playing live. Kaufmann played in a band with LaScala before, and invited him to join.[10]
Lucas and I used to have hour-long conversations spitting out band names back and forth in high school. We were bored as shit and didn’t have anything else to do, got to Wild Party and thought, hey that might work. Didn’t realize we’d have to live up to that name someday! But l like that it’s kind of ballsy. It makes us have to be confident. People are interested: "Who’s got the balls to call themselves Wild Party?"
Lincoln Kreifels says their songs are about "dreams versus reality."[9] Hughes says their songs are "both introspective and extrospective."[8]
In 2011,[b] the band toured with The Wombats in Europe for two weeks.[9] At the time, Lincoln Kreifels was 19, and had previously only played two live shows.[13][11][non-tertiary source needed][14] The band was connected through a mutual friend in the music business.[6]