How a '90s Punk Band Found Its Way Back Together Nearly 30 Years Later Liz LindainOctober 23, 2025 at 9:35 PM 0 Brigitte Engl/Redferns When Chris Sheppard, Hannah Vogan, John Beachboard, Collins Kilgore, Lee Buford and Matt Bradley formed their punk emo band, Everyone Asked About You, as high sc...
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Liz LindainOctober 23, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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When Chris Sheppard, Hannah Vogan, John Beachboard, Collins Kilgore, Lee Buford and Matt Bradley formed their punk emo band, Everyone Asked About You, as high schoolers in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1996, they never expected to reunite 23 years later after disbanding in 2000.
The band spoke with Rolling Stonelast week to discuss the process of reuniting as a band decades later, what it was like playing their first shows and the resurgence of punk rock and archival culture in the 2020s. Now, Everyone Asked About You has been gaining new followers and fans, thanks to social media and TikTok.
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After graduating from high school, the members moved on with their lives and eventually stopped speaking to each other. Sheppard became a swimming coach, Vogan became a nurse and Buford became the drummer for the experimental metal band The Body. Meanwhile, Bradley became a production designer based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Kilgore moved out to California to become a lawyer and Beachboard stayed in Little Rock to open a brewery.
When they were a band, Everyone Asked About You put out a few singles and one full-length, all on vinyl. They probably only sold a few hundred copies of each, selling them through the mail or by hand around Little Rock. But years after the band broke up, their music began to take on a life of its own online. As fans of 1990s emo and indie dug through old records and uploads, Everyone Asked About You started gaining a quiet but passionate following on sites like YouTube and Reddit — long after the members had moved on from their teenage project.
Eventually, in 2019, a YouTube video caught the attention of Ken Shipley, the co-founder of an archival record label called Numero Group based in Chicago. He reached out to Buford multiple times, asking for the band to sign on with him. He shared the emails with the rest of the band members, but they declined. After two years of Shipley reaching out and begging, Beachboard was in and eventually convinced the rest of the band members.
Over Christmas 2022, the band spent four days together rehearsing and helping each other relearn to play guitar, to sing, to be a band; trying to reconnect with their distant and younger selves.
"When we first got together to play these songs that none of us had even really thought about or listened to in that 25 years, it took me straight back there to what it was like to play them and feel those things the first time," Kilgore told Rolling Stone. "Even our group dynamic kind of reverted back to the way that we talked to each other back then. It was fun. It was crazy. It was weird. It was a very strange experience, because I hadn't experienced anything like that in my life."
In February 2023, Everyone Asked About You played their first gig in 23 years at The Palace Theater in Los Angeles. They were opening for Unwound, another band that's signed with Number Group, which was celebrating its 20th anniversary. Most of the audience was there to see Unwound, and were actually confused why EAAY was on the setlist, recalled Sheppard.
"When we started playing the first note, they were thrown out of the way by kids immediately moshing and dancing," Beachbord remembered. "As soon as we walked out onstage, it was a bum rush of hundreds of teenagers and young 20-year-olds just running to the front of the stage," Sheppard added.
Since then, the band has started performing in more venues around the country and even released a new album titled Never Leave in 2024. Over the past couple of years, the band has attracted new fans and followers, thanks to social media. Last week, the band embarked on their first tour, playing shows in their hometown of Little Rock and around Texas.
"We're all rapidly approaching 50 years old, rekindling friendships from junior high," Beachbord said. "I mean, nobody gets that opportunity.… Who gets these opportunities? It's not a story I've heard that many times before."
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