It’s been 7 years since Tim Ouyang and Andrew Chae began Tim Be Told out of a college apartment in Charlottesville, VA. They recorded their first album, “Getting By” in a tiny living room to the dismay of their adjacent neighbors. From there the band’s music started to spring up all over the country through word of mouth and grassroots efforts. One of their songs was even featured in an international film in Taiwan. The band was growing steadily as they released their second record “From The Inside” in 2009 which featured their popular single “Analyze”. They were well on their way as they signed with the booking agency William Morris Entertainment and were in talks with various record labels. But in 2011, someone filed a lawsuit against the band. For the next few years immediately following the release of their 3rd record, “Humanity”, the band went underground. They stopped all their publicity, all new releases, and halted any major tours in an attempt to weather out the storm without making their legal situation a public spectacle. But the litigation did not end and it only got more expensive. Realizing they could no longer sit and wait for the situation to resolve itself, they fought back with the only they could: music. At the end of 2013, the band reemerged with a brand new album, Mighty Sound. In the face of unending and expensive litigation, TBT enlisted the help of their friends and community to record their 4th album. Composed out of the frustrations of time lost and tears shed, they resolved not to make the album a lament about the past 3 years. Instead the sound would be triumphant. And so the band birthed anthemic songs like, “Fools Marching”, “Wasted”, “Mighty Sound”, and “The Battle Hymn.” This year, Tim Be Told launched their 1/52 Project. They will release something new every week for the coming year as a deliberate response to the time they lost in their 3 years of silence. It is a testament to the band’s mantra, “hope is alive.”