Led by the single "Don't Stop", the band experienced moderate success on the Billboard Modern Rock chart, where the song peaked at number 32.
The band also had several songs prominently featured in and on the soundtracks to the films Never Been Kissed, Teaching Mrs. Tingle, and Scary Movie.
Mead then recruited Woolstenhulme, McGee, and Snyder as band members and they released an extended play titled Black Out the Sun in 2006.
[1] Upon arrival, Mead became acquainted with guitarist Chris Hower and bassist Bobby Stefano while visiting a Guitar Center store.
[2] The band circulated demos locally, which ultimately ended up in the possession of RCA Records' senior vice president Bruce Flohr in July 1998.
[3] After signing to RCA, the band met drummer Kane McGee and discarded all of their prior recorded material in order to start fresh with this new, completed line-up.
The extended play was made available for digital download from Alternative Addiction and could be ordered in a physical format as a CD from the band's official website.
Unlike the solitary recording process of Sleepwalker, Mead collectively worked on Black Out the Sun with the band's touring members from the previous two years.
Billboard senior editor Chuck Taylor described the band's musical style as "neatly walk[ing] the line between the accessible teen appeal of [M]atchbox 20 and the more credible rock antics of Third Eye Blind.