Better Luck Next Time (often shortened to BLNT) is a 4 piece American pop punk band from Los Angeles, California, United States.

Better Luck Next Time was formed in 2003[1][2] by original members Brian Bortoli, Matt Fuzzo, Chris Lucas, and Leston Derrick.

The band came to be when Brian was added to the line-up of Snapout (the current project of Matt, Chris, Leston, and John).

The band held auditions to find a replacement lead guitarist, which led them to Danny Cassese.

Third Time's A Charm caught the attention of InYa Face Records in Tokyo, Japan, who signed the band and released it as a self-titled album in 2006.

In September 2006, Better Luck Next Time was chosen as 1 of 10 local bands out of 2,500 in Southern California given the chance to play KROQ-FM's Inland Invasion, in which they placed 2nd.

This time around, however, the album was taken to Scottsdale, AZ, where it was mixed by Ryan Greene (formerly of Motor Studios in San Francisco, California).

[4] In October 2007, just months after the release of Start From Skratch, they headed back to Japan for another tour in support of the album with the Mad Caddies.

Upon the release of Hybrid in the United States, the decision was made to continue Better Luck Next Time as a four piece again without the keyboards being present in the line-up.

Instead of doing it entirely by themselves as they had done in the past, the band hired Steve Kravac (Blink-182, Less Than Jake, MxPx) to record, engineer, produce, and mix.

The album was tracked and mixed at Gourmet Sound in Encino, California (which is owned by both Steve Kravac and guitarist Greg Hetson of Bad Religion).

A summer tour with The Vandals and the Voodoo Glow Skulls was scheduled in Japan supporting the release of the album, however Brian fell ill to a rare occurrence known as Meckel's diverticulum and Better Luck Next Time was forced to cancel.

In April 2010, Better Luck Next Time announced they had signed with Kid Tested Records for the distribution of the album.

After the demo, the band decided that they wanted to revert to their DIY roots going forward, meaning they would record, engineer, produce, and mix on their own once again.

This period would prove to be a very difficult time for Brian, as he was going through a lot of personal struggles throughout the entire process of the album's production.