Heffron Drive was an American duo formed by Kendall Schmidt and Dustin Belt, both originally from Kansas.[1][2] It was originally formed in 2008 after Kendall and Dustin met each other by chance and realized they lived on the same street, Heffron Drive, in Burbank, California.[3]
In 2008, Kendall Schmidt and Dustin Belt formed the band Heffron Drive. The name refers to the street on which both members lived, Heffron Drive, in Burbank, California.[4] The duo began releasing music on MySpace and soon gained attention on the internet.[3] However, in 2009, Schmidt joined the boyband Big Time Rush and Heffron Drive was on a break.[3] Subsequently, Belt joined as the group's touring guitarist.[4] In May 2013, after Tanya Chisholm said that the series Big Time Rush was not being continued, Heffron Drive was revived.[5] The duo soon started working on and recording new material.[4]
On October 17, 2013, it was announced that Heffron Drive would be going on a winter tour; it started in Houston on November 23, and ended on December 22 in Los Angeles.[6] In March 2014, the duo released their debut single, "Parallel".[7] The song peaked at number 25 on the iTunes Pop charts.[8] On July 29, 2014, Heffron Drive announced their debut studio album, Happy Mistakes, as well as an international tour in support of the album.[9] On August 4, the duo premiered the track, "One Track Mind" live.[10] The album was officially released on September 9.[11] Happy Mistakes peaked at number 84 on the Billboard 200.[12]
On January 14, 2017, the band released a new song and music video for their single "Living Room". Their next release was on January 19, 2018, when they released a new song and music video titled "Mad At The World", and later "Separate Lives".
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [12] |
US Indie [13] | |||||||||||||
| Happy Mistakes |
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84 | 19 | |||||||||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. | ||||||||||||||
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Heat [14] | ||||||||||||||
| Happy Mistakes: Unplugged |
|
16 | ||||||||||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. | ||||||||||||||
| Title | Album details |
|---|---|
| The Forthcoming |
|
| The Slow Motion EP |
| Song | Year | Album |
|---|---|---|
| "Parallel" | 2014 | Happy Mistakes |
| "Happy Mistakes" | 2015 | |
| "Art of Moving On" | Unplugged | |
| "Eyes on You | Non-album singles | |
| "Rain Don't Come" | 2016 | |
| "Don't Let Me Go" | ||
| "Living Room" | 2017 | The Slow Motion EP |
| "Slow Motion" | ||
| "One Way Ticket" | Non-album singles | |
| "Mad at the World" | 2018 | |
| "Separate Lives" | ||
| "Hot Summer" | ||
| "Black on Black" |
