Stutterfly was a post-hardcore

Post-hardcore

Post-hardcore is a genre of music that developed from hardcore punk, itself an offshoot of the broader punk rock movement. Like post-punk, post-hardcore is a term for a broad constellation of groups...

 band

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 formed in 1998, originally named Uncle Ed's Private Jet. In February 2007, the band changed its name to Secret and Whisper

Secret and Whisper

Secret and Whisper was a post-hardcore band from Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. Secret and Whisper formed after the band Stutterfly changed its name. Their first album, Great White Whale was released on February 12, 2008. The band's first single was "XOXOXO" followed by "Vanishings"...

 due to the replacement of their founding vocalist and the corresponding changes in their musical style.

The band started in Kelowna

Kelowna, British Columbia

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, British Columbia

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, Canada

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, with four members: Chris Stickney (vocals), Jordan Chase (bass, vocals), Bradyn Byron (guitar, vocals), and Craig Langerud (drums). In 2003, Jason Ciolli (guitar) joined the band, and the next year Ryan Loerke took over on drums. 2006 saw Stickney leave the band, to be later replaced, after a brief open competition for the job, by Charles Furney who left another Kelowna-based band, The Bleeding Alarm.

History

Stutterfly's demo, Hollow, sold over 3,000 copies at their shows alone. Broken in Pieces, their first full-length album, was released in 2002 (to later be re-released on the bands' own label, The Elysien Project).

Stutterfly was well established at MP3.com and was a popular download. With the help of Los Angeles

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-based Freeze Management, Stutterfly made a deal with Madonna's

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 Maverick Records

Maverick Records

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 in the summer of 2003, and later toured with fellow labelmates Story of the Year

Story of the Year

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. Working with producer Ulrich Wild

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, the band released And We Are Bled of Color

And We Are Bled of Color

And We Are Bled of Color was the second full length album from theband Stutterfly. This album features 13 tracks. The single off of the album, "Gun in Hand", was featured on the House of Wax soundtrack, and the Warped Tour 2004 Tour Compilation....

, which contained new versions of several songs from Broken in Pieces..., on June 21, 2005. Music videos were also produced for the songs "Gun in Hand" and "Fire Whispers".

Some time after releasing And We Are Bled of Color, Stutterfly was dropped from Maverick, with lead singer Chris Stickney leaving the band amicably in August 2006. Charles Furney, formerly of thebleedingalarm

Thebleedingalarm

Thebleedingalarm is a band originally from Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada which formed in the summer of 2003. They disbanded in the summer of 2007.- History :...

, joined as the new vocalist later in 2006.

On Stutterfly's Myspace page they announced that Stutterfly is no longer a band. Former members of the band including Bradyn, Jordan, Jason and Ryan are now in a band with Charles Furney, called 'Secret And Whisper', and Chris is doing a project in his spare time dubbed 'Oceans Apart'

Discography

Year	Title	Type
2000	Hollow	Demo tape
2002	Broken in Pieces	Studio album Studio album A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...
2005	And We Are Bled of Color And We Are Bled of Color And We Are Bled of Color was the second full length album from theband Stutterfly. This album features 13 tracks. The single off of the album, "Gun in Hand", was featured on the House of Wax soundtrack, and the Warped Tour 2004 Tour Compilation....	Studio album