Letlive

Letlive
Letlive performing at 2014's Summerblast Festival in Trier, Germany. (LtR: Jean Nascimento, Ryan Johnson, Jason Butler. Obscured: Loniel Robinson, Jeff Sahyoun)
Letlive performing at 2014's Summerblast Festival in Trier, Germany. (LtR: Jean Nascimento, Ryan Johnson, Jason Butler. Obscured: Loniel Robinson, Jeff Sahyoun)
Background information
OriginLos Angeles, California, U.S.
Genres
Years active2002–2017, 2024–2025
Labels
SpinoffsFever 333
Members
Past members
  • Ryan Jay Johnson
  • Jeff Sahyoun
  • Loniel Robinson
  • Keeyan Majdi
  • Alex Haythorn
  • Christian Johansen
  • Ben Sharp
  • Craig Sanchez
  • Adam Castle
  • Omid Majdi
  • Brenden Russel
  • Anthony Paul Rivera
  • Jean Francisco Nascimento

Letlive, stylized letlive.,[1] is an American rock band from Los Angeles, California. The band's final lineup consisted of lead vocalist Jason Aalon Butler (son of Aalon Butler, vocalist and guitarist of the soul group Aalon), guitarist Jeff Sahyoun, bassist Ryan Jay Johnson and drummer Loniel Robinson. Butler was the band's only constant member.[2] The band has released four full-length albums and one EP, with their final album If I'm the Devil being released on June 10, 2016. The band was last signed to Epitaph Records.

Letlive released their first EP Exhaustion, Salt Water, and Everything in Between in 2003 and their first LP Speak Like You Talk in 2005. Their second album, Fake History was released in 2010. Upon its re-release on Epitaph in 2011, the album received critical praise and was also added to Rock Sound's 101 Modern Classics.[3] Their third album, entitled The Blackest Beautiful was released on July 9, 2013 and on June 17 was streamed on Epitaph Records' YouTube channel.[4] On April 28, 2017, the band announced via social media that they had broken up. In 2024, however, Butler announced plans to revive the band to end it on better terms.

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  3. ^ "Rock Sound's 101 Modern Classics: 74 - 50". Rock Sound. Freeway Press. June 27, 2012. Retrieved July 10, 2012. Few albums encapsulate the idea of a modern classic quite as perfectly as this one. The essence of hardcore distilled by five LA lifers, 'Fake History' is at once a howl of vulnerability and a fuck-you-you-will-never-break-me clarion call of utter defiance. Truly, genuinely thrilling.
  4. ^ letlive. Hit The Cover Of Rock Sound Magazine, Out Wednesday June 19th! | News | Rock Sound. Rocksound.tv. Retrieved on August 6, 2013.