The year? 2010.
The season: Summer.

Warped Tour (The Original Version) is still real, the planet has only just started to crumble, and 3OH!3 is releasing the highly awaited follow-up to their breakout first official release, WANT. 

While Streets of Gold was technically the duo’s third album, following a self-release and their first official signed release, the streets were hot to hear the follow up to the album that had the crunk-emo scene jamming for two straight years. No one questions, even in 2025, the staying power of “DONTTRUSTME.” Worth noting, the album does have a couple tracks produced in partnership with Dr. Luke, noted felon and absolute loser (more on that here). Other less horrible producers on the album include longtime collaborator Benny Blanco and legend of the era Matt Squire. Streets of Gold still stands as 3OH!3’s highest Billboard charting record, landing at #7 on the US Billboard 200 and #1 on the US Top Dance Albums rankings.

With tracks like “House Party” that got a party-banger remix from Andrew W.K., and “Touchin On My,” the album’s tracks are still a staple in today’s 3OH!3 setlist. Of the time, (we love a song with a date), “Love 2012” grew on the signature 3OH!3 sounds, while making sure you knew it was a track about the then nearing future. Because every album has to have a track with emotions, even for these two, “I’m Not The One” brings a love song in their own voice, “You’re way too young to be broken/you’re way too young to fall apart” – yeah, sometimes you have to cry in the club while you’re dancing to the beats. I wrote about the correlation of “I Can Do Anything” to a The Lonely Island track a few weeks ago for our Saturday Song Sisters series, and that track went triple platinum in my 2008 Chevy Malibu on the mean streets of Indianapolis back in the day.

An album that makes you happy and dance is timeless, and Streets of Gold achieves that vision. 3OH!3 continue to rock venues with these songs and, nostalgia bait notwithstanding, they can take you back to a time when life felt less crazy, when the most important thing was rolling your windows down and cruising the town with this album blasting – proving to anyone that could hear it how cool you were for being a fan. 

3OH!3 are appearing on the remaining dates of the 30th Anniversary of Warped Tour this year and supporting Simple Plan on the Bigger Than You Think Tour with dates across the US.