To Make a New Album, Tyson Ritter Had to Learn to Love All-American Rejects Again

All-American Rejects haven’t put out an album since 2012’s Kids in the Street, and for a while, frontman Tyson Ritter thought it might be their last. They spent time on the state-fair and casino circuit, and Ritter says he got to the point where he “really didn’t give a shit about my band.” But at 2022’s We Were Young festival, the crowd screamed along to the band’s deepest cuts, convincing band members that their music still mattered. All-American Rejects refocused, started playing innovative house-party shows (with more…