Ace Enders
Background information
Birth name	Arthur Carl Enders III
Born	(1982-04-19) April 19, 1982 (age 30)
Origin	Hammonton, New Jersey, United States
Genres	Alternative rock, indie rock, folk
Occupations	Singer, songwriter, instrumentalist, record producer
Years active	1999–present
Labels	Vagrant, Drive-Thru, Regular Music
Associated acts	The Early November, I Can Make a Mess Like Nobody's Business, Ace Enders and a Million Different People

Arthur Carl "Ace" Enders (born April 19, 1982 in Hammonton, New Jersey) is an American musician. Enders is the lead singer and guitarist of the band The Early November. He is also the lead musician, songwriter and co-producer in his side project, I Can Make a Mess Like Nobody's Business. He has also released music under the name Ace Enders and a Million Different People. In 2010, Enders returned to the I Can Make a Mess name for a second studio album, entitled The World We Know. Enders is known for recording different versions of songs from The Early November and Ace Enders and a Million Different People under the name I Can Make a Mess Like Nobody's Business.

Biography[link]

Introduction to music and The Early November[link]

Enders began playing guitar after being inspired by watching his step dad, Robert Gazzara play in a band. Enders taught himself how to play his step dad's old guitar.^[1]

In February 2001, Enders along with guitarist Jim Sacco, bassist Sergio Anello and drummer Jeff Kummer formed The Early November. In 2003, after the release of their first two EPs For All Of This, and The Acoustic EP, the band released their debut full length album The Room's Too Cold.

In 2004, Enders started his own solo project I Can Make a Mess Like Nobody's Business, releasing the self-titled album on October 26, 2004. Enders has stated that I Can Make a Mess Like Nobody's Business "was a one-album thing".^[2]

Recording of the third Early November album began in February 2005. The album, titled The Mother, the Mechanic, and the Path, was a triple disc concept album with an entwining plot of a torn family, from the perspective of a growing child. The album took over a year to complete due to a multitude of issues. Before conceptualizing The Mother, the Mechanic, and the Path, Enders contemplated leaving the music business and possibly going into retail or construction.

Enders, along with the rest of The Early November, have reunited and began playing shows, as well as begin working on a new album due out in the Spring of 2012.

Ace Enders and a Million Different People[link]

Enders performing at Australian music festival, Soundwave, in Melbourne, 2009.

Ace Enders announced in Alternative Press magazine that he planned on recording a solo album,^[3] and began a new project named Ace Enders and a Million Different People.

In the summer of 2007, Enders took out a loan to build a studio in the basement of a shopping center. After three weeks of work, building finished and Pink Space Recording was created. After the studio was finished, Enders spent two straight days making demos that would later be named "From a Daze" and "Emergency". Enders signed on with manager Lucas Keller to work on Ace Enders and a Million Different People. He opened for the full Angels & Airwaves US tour in early 2008. On June 13 of that year, Enders put out an 8-track album called The Secret Wars available for free download on Fuse TV.^[4] He recorded them in his own studio.

In December 2008, Ace Enders and a Million Different People released the single "Bitter Sweet Symphony", a cover of The Verve song, on the iTunes Store. The song involves multiple artists including Mark Hoppus, Aaron Marsh, Craig Owens, Alex Gaskarth of All Time Low, Bryce Avary, Kenny Vasoli, Matt Thiessen, and Duane Okun. All of the proceeds from the song went to VH1's Save the Music Foundation.

Ace Enders and a Million Different People released its second album, Enders' third solo album, on 17 March 2009, through Vagrant/Drive-Thru Records. The album is titled When I Hit the Ground.^[5]

Ace Enders and a Million Different People went on tour with The All-American Rejects on the I Wanna Rock Tour starting in early April 2009.

Return to I Can Make A Mess Like Nobody's Business[link]

Enders released his second album under the I Can Make a Mess Like Nobody's Business name on March 23, 2010, entitled The World We Know.^[6] Afterwards he went on tour to promote the album.

On September 16, Enders released the third Mess album "Dust'n Off The Ol' Guitar". The album featured redone versions of many Early November songs, as well as a couple Ace Enders & A Million Different People songs. The album also featured a new song titled "Growing Pains". There's also three songs from the album that will be released once the sales reach 5,000. These songs include "Pretty Pretty", a remix of "1000 Times A Day", and a full length version of "Decoration".^[7][8]

On December 15 Enders released a Christmas-oriented EP titled "Happy Christmas". The EP contains one original song titled "Season's Greetings", as well as a cover of "Christmastime Is Here" from the film A Charlie Brown Christmas, and a cover of Charles Brown hit Please Come Home For Christmas. The EP was released Digitally.^[9]

Enders released the fourth "I Can Make a Mess Like Nobody's Business" album, “Gold Rush” on May 5, 2011.

Other projects[link]

Ace Enders runs a studio in his home town named The Living Room. Ace has recorded bands such as Backseat Goodbye and Move Out West (among many more).^[10]

Discography[link]

The Early November[link]

Albums[link]

• The Room's Too Cold (2003) US #107
• The Mother, the Mechanic, and the Path (2006) US #31

Extended plays[link]

• The 5 Song EP (2001)
• So is This Fun? (2002)
• For All of This (2002)
• The Acoustic EP (2005)
• The Early November/I Am the Avalanche (2005)

I Can Make a Mess Like Nobody's Business[link]

• I Can Make a Mess Like Nobody's Business (2004)
• Their cover of the song "Positively 4th Street" appears on Listen to Bob Dylan: A Tribute (2005), a tribute album.
• The World We Know (March 23, 2010)
• Dust'n Off The Ol' Guitar (September 16, 2010)
• Happy Christmas (December 15, 2010)
• Gold Rush (May 5, 2011)

Ace Enders and a Million Different People[link]

Studio albums[link]

• The Secret Wars (2008)
• When I Hit the Ground (2009)

Extended plays[link]

• The Australian EP (2009)

Ace Enders[link]

Extended plays[link]

• Share With Everyone EP (2012)

Unreleased[link]

• The Lost Album (2008)

Other work[link]

Featured in[link]

• "Please Me" by Car Party^[11]
• "These Are The Days" by Just Left
• "On My Own" by Just Surrender

References[link]

Matthew Pryor is an American musician who lives in Lawrence, Kansas. Pryor was in the band Secret Decoder Ring, and through playing shows in the Kansas City area, met the members of his future band, indie rock group The Get Up Kids, which was formed in 1995. While he was in The Get Up Kids, Matt started his side-project The New Amsterdams which released its first album Never You Mind in 2000. Since The Get Up Kids' retirement in 2005, The New Amsterdams have become Matt's primary focus. The New Amsterdams has an "alter-ego" called The Terrible Twos, who occasionally perform songs from their children's album If You Ever See an Owl... released in 2006.

On May 8, 2008, it was announced that Pryor would be releasing a solo album entitled Confidence Man, on Vagrant Records on July 29, 2008.^[1] Pryor toured in August and September 2008 with Kevin Devine in support of this record.^[2]

Pryor is releasing his second solo effort in January 2012. May Day was recorded in May 2011 with the support of a Kickstarter campaign. Pryor says that he is also working on more tour dates with GUK, another Terrible Twos release, a New Amsterdams compilation and another project of sorts with friends^[3].

Discography[link]

with The Get Up Kids[link]

• Four Minute Mile (1997)
• Something to Write Home About (1999)
• On a Wire (2002)
• Guilt Show (2004)
• There Are Rules (2011)

with Reggie and the Full Effect[link]

• Greatest Hits 1984-1987 (1998)
• Promotional Copy (2000)

with The New Amsterdams[link]

• Never You Mind (2000)
• Para Toda Vida (2002)
• Worse for the Wear (2003)
• Killed or Cured (2005)
• Story Like a Scar (2006)
• At the Foot of My Rival (2007)

with The Terrible Twos[link]

• If You Ever See an Owl... (2007)
• Jerzy the Giant (2008)

As Himself[link]

• Confidence Man (2008)
• May Day (2012)
• Still, There's A Light (2012)

References[link]

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