- Relient K released a Christmas album called Let it Snow, Baby... Let it Reindeer.
- Relient K had first formed between the band's junior year in high school, and their time at Malone College in Canton, Ohio.
- Be My Escape is featured on Now! 19
- Relient K is signed on with Capitol Records and Gotee Records.
- The band's song Be My Escape has recently been featured in the 2006 Men's U.S. Open Tennis Championship, with the song's opening guitar solo playing as the event headed into a commercial.
- Relient K has a book out called The Complex Infrastructure Known as the Female Mind.
- Matt Thiessen was raised in Ohio, but born in Canada.
- The band has released three singles from their album Five Score and Seven Years Ago.
Must Have Done Something Right
Forgiven
The Best Thing
- Relient K's album Five Score and Seven Years Ago 64,000 copies in its first week of sales.
- Their album Five Score and Seven Years Ago debuted at # 6 on the Billboard 200 chart.
- Their album Five Score and Seven Years Ago sold over 100,000 copies in its first month.
- Relient K performed on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno on April 12, 2007.
- Relient K performed on Late Night With Conan O'Brien on March 2, 2007.
- In 2005, Relient K was nominated for Artist of the Year and Band of the Year at the 2006 Gospel Music Awards.
- Matt Thiessen and Matt Hoopes have known each other since the second grade.
- Relient K performed a rendition of the song The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything from the popular Biblical-based childrens TV show Veggie Tales.
- All of Relient K's band members list the band Switchfoot as a major influence.
- In 2005, Relient K they toured with Good Charlotte and Simple Plan to promote their album Mmhmm.
- They won a Dove Award in 2005 for the Rock Album of the Year for Mmhmm.
- This is Relient K's videography:
My Girlfriend
Pressing On
Chap Stick, Chapped Lips, and Things Like Chemistry
Be My Escape
Who I Am Hates Who I've Been
Must Have Done Something Right
The Best Thing
- Relient K drummer Dave Douglas has two solo projects. They are titled Agnes and Gypsy Parade.
- These are the former members of Relient K:
Todd Frescone (drums)
Stephen Cushman (drums, vocals)
Jared Byers (drums)
Brian Pittman (bass)
- These are the singles from Relient K's album Mmhmm:
High of 75
Be My Escape
Who I Am Hates Who I've Been
- Relient K made a cover of Weezer's song Surf Wax America.
- Matt Thiessen has a side project called has Matthew Thiessen and the Earthquakes.
- Relient K had a large plastic buffalo, named Dermike Mabado.
- In 2006, Relient K released two Gold versions of their best selling albums. They were Two Lefts Don't Make a Right... But Three Do (Gold Edition) and The Anatomy of the Tongue in Cheek (Gold Edition).
- Jonathan Schneck of Relient K was born on August 18, 1981.
- John Warne of Relient K was born on June 27, 1979.
- Matt Hoopes of Relient K was born on February 15, 1981.
- Dave Douglas of Relient K was born on August 19, 1979.
- Matt Thiessen of Relient K was born on August 12, 1980.
- The following are Relient K's EP's:
2000 A.D.D.-2000
The Creepy EP-2001
Employee of the Month-2002
The Vinyl Countdown-2003
Apathetic-2005
- In 1998, they released a demo called All Work and No Play
- The band's first single was Getting into You.
- Their single Be My Escape was certified Platinum by the RIAA.
- Their album Mmhmm has sold over 800,000 copies to date.
- In 2006, they went on the Nintendo Fusion Tour with Hawthorne Heights, Emery, Plain White Tees, and The Sleeping.
- All of the band members are Christians.
- In 2003, Relient K got a a Grammy nomination for Best Gospel Modern Rock Album.
- Their song Pressing On was on the soundtrack for the video game Big Air Freestyle.
- This is Relient K's discography.
Relient K - 2000
The Anatomy of the Tongue in Cheek - 2001
Two Lefts Don't Make a Right... but Three Do - 2003
Mmhmm - 2004
Five Score and Seven Years Ago - 2007
- Relient K's fifth album will be titled Five Score And Seven Years Ago. It will release on March 6, 2007 from Gotee Records. A special edition of the album will also release that day.
- Relient K records under the labels Gotee Records and Capitol Records.
- Relient K has three albums that are certified gold. They include Mmhmm, The Anatomy of the Tongue in Cheek, and Two Lefts Don't Make a Right... But Three Do.
- The band purposely misspelled the word "reliant" to avoid trademark issues with Plymouth and kept calling themselves "Relient K" because they think the misspelling is funny.
- The band got its name from the Plymouth Reliant K car that guitarist Matt Hoopes' owns.
- Matt Hoopes: (referring to working with producer Howard Benson) I was honestly pretty nervous. We'd never really worked with any other producer beside Mark Townsend - he did everything from our first demo, all the way up to the last album. But it was a good experience working with Howard.
- Matt Thiessen: (referring to some of Relient K's darker songs) We're all doomed to make mistakes and to try to recover, But I prefer to look at it from the positive, and refer to it as a grace kind of thing.
- Matt Thiessen: I always write about what I'm going through and I can't avoid the fact that I'm just really happy and there are some good things going on.
- Matt Thiessen: I really love to not be serious all the time, even when I am being serious.
- Matt Thiessen: Our main incentive is to meet new people and for our music to be a positive influence on people.
- Dave Douglas: The Living End, roll on, are one of my favorite bands. They’re so cool. They’re from Australia. Amazing guitar work, guy’s got a great voice and really surprisingly impressive songs and arrangements. Really good band.
- Dave Douglas: I think that people should check out our music because I think it’s a little bit different than people would typically consider a typical pop-punk, kind of post-punk band, especially because of the piano.
- Matt Thiessen: You can call us a Christian band, you can call us a rock and roll band, we can tour with this band, we can tour with that band. But, we don't care, we just write about what we want to write about. Which, most of the time, is our Faith.
- Matt Hoopes: One thing we’ve learned is that there are things that look like great opportunities; but, at the end of the day, they don’t gel with our vision for the band
- Matt Thiessen: Over time, our influences have changed, but also, spiritually, I wanted to write a record that meant a little more to me than earlier stuff.
- Dave Douglas: Making it in the music industry is tough, but I never gave up because because I knew that was what I wanted to do.
- Dave Douglas : If I wasn't pursuing a music career right now, I would probably be pursuing a career as an aircraft pilot.
