Heffron Drive

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]

Heffron Drive
Belt and Schmidt in 2014
Background information
Origin	Burbank, California, U.S.
Genres	Pop rock indie rock[1]
Years active	2008–2009 2013–2018
Labels	TOLbooth
Past members	Kendall Schmidt Dustin Belt
Website	heffrondrive.com

History

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".

Discography

Studio albums

List of studio albums, with selected chart positions

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions
		US [12]	US Indie [13]
Happy Mistakes	Released: September 9, 2014 Formats: CD, digital download Label: TOLBooth	84	19
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Live albums

List of live albums, with selected chart positions

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions
		US Heat [14]
Happy Mistakes: Unplugged	Released: April 28, 2015 Formats: Digital download Label: TOLBooth	16
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Extended plays

Title	Album details
The Forthcoming	Released: April 1, 2009 Formats: Digital download Label: TOLBooth
The Slow Motion EP	Released: February 10, 2017 Formats: LP, Cassette, digital download Label: TOLBooth

Singles

List of singles

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"

Tours

• Winter Tour (2013–2014)^[6]
• Happy Mistakes Tour (2014–2016)^[9]
• Summer Tour (2016)^[15]
• The Slow Motion Tour (2017)^[16]
• One Way Ticket Tour (2017–2018)^[17][18]