JUST LIKE EVERYONE formed in Nashua, New Hampshire in the fall of 2000. The band started when Rachel says to Mike one day "let's start a band". A couple of weeks later she starts talking to some kid in her school who had just moved from Ireland and he mentions that he plays guitar. And so Lee joined the band. After auditioning a few lame ass vocalists, Rachel and Mike decided that Lee could sing and put a microphone in front of him.

After screwing around for a few months the band finally got somewhat serious about their music, started writing songs, gave themselves a name and played their first show in the spring of 2001.

Listening to JLE you may hear influences of NOFX, Rancid, MXPX, Pennywise, Nirvana, Bad Religion, etc, but the music we make is just what comes naturally and what we want to hear. JLE is just a band doing what we do which is making music for us and no one else and we're planning on doing it as long as we can.