Their second self-released album, Creative Control Sessions, featured popular songs "Sleeping Giants" and "Gus" and was produced by Scott Coslett.
The tour will be supported by Vancouver band The Bleeding Horse Express[6] which has a forthcoming album produced by Rathbone.
[7] The Tour kicked off with an album release party in Cincinnati, Ohio, and will wrap up exactly two months later in San Diego, CA.
100 Monkeys toured the west coast during April 2012 in support for their new single, "City Of Bones", which debuted March 12, 2012.
Two new members, Matt Black and Rob Coonrod, have joined the band since it was announced that Jackson Rathbone and Jerad Anderson were leaving.
He is also the lead vocalist for the band Mechanical People, which also included Ben Johnson and friend Jake Miller.
Jerad is owner of Wayne/Lauren Film Company which in 2010 produced the movie Girlfriend, starring Evan Sneider, which co-starred Anderson and Rathbone and was scored by the band.
M. Lawrence "Uncle Larry" Abrams is the band percussionist, and plays flute, bass, saxophone, and occasionally vocals.
[1] 100 Monkeys performs an improvised song at each concert, based upon an audience idea and chosen by Jerad Anderson.
Lyrics are typically created by Jackson Rathbone in real time with all band members varying on which instruments they play.