After the second album, Langland-Hassan left the band, which led to the inclusion of Sean Eden and Barbara Endes.
[1] In 2018 Elk City signed with Bar/None Records and released "Everybody's Insecure" and the adjoining EP, Souls in Space, before shuffling their line-up again for 2020.
[2] The name refers to Elk City, an unincorporated community in Barbour County, West Virginia.
Ketchem, a West Virginia native, drove past the town's sign one day, and he thought it would make a good name.
[4] When they started, the band's only instruments were an electric guitar and drums, played by Langland-Hassan and Ketchem, respectively, while LoBue and Langland-Hassan shared the lead vocals, but shortly after LoBue started playing bass on a Novation Bass Station analog synthesizer.
[5][6] In November of that same year, London-based label Earworm Records released "Freeze Two Over Eight", one of the songs from Status, as a 7" single.
In 2005, Sean Eden, ex-guitarist of Luna, and Barbara Endes, ex-bassist of The Lovelies, joined the band.