Elliot James

Elliot James Mulhern (born September 29, 1989) known professionally as Elliot James, (or artist alias Baallet) is a British musician best known as the drummer and founding member of the rock band Hey Monday. He was born in London and is the son of renowned British interior designers Denis Mulhern and Jude Mulhern of Marzipan. James began playing drums at private school studying jazz and hip hop, all before moving to the United States of America at 13. Before Hey Monday's inception in 2007, James was a fixture of the South Florida music scene as drummer of Easton, a project which he would later re-ignite. He owns a music publishing and production company Fever Mint. He left Hey Monday at the end of 2009 and toured with The Scene Aesthetic. His Spotify featured playlist 'Weak by Week" releases a new personally curated set of songs every Monday. James received an RIAA certified platinum plaque for his work on the vinyl release of Songs About Jane by rock/pop band Maroon 5. The vinyl was pressed by ETR & Brookvale Records and featured a remix by Kanye West of the Grammy winning song "This Love". At the beginning of 2016 he received his 2nd RIAA Gold Plaque for the release of Nickelodeon's, Best of Nick Toons. He is the owner of record label, Blossöm Records.

Hey Monday (2007 - 2009)

James was a founding member of Hey Monday (previously named Blake). He met Cassadee Pope through the local music scene in South Florida and were friends for years before forming a project. The band were signed to Columbia Records via A&R Jay Harren. Hey Monday recorded their debut album 'Hold On Tight' with iconic producer duo "S*A*M* & Sluggo", better known as Sam Hollander and Dave Katz. The album was released by Columbia Records and Decaydance, a label owned by Pete Wentz. Their single "How You Love Me Now" was the first song to go to Top 40 radio. In Support of their debut album, the band toured extensively with Fall Out Boy and The All American Rejects internationally on the Believers Never Die Tour.

The band continued the second leg of the tour joining Fall Out Boy, Cobra Starship, 50 Cent, Metro Station and All Time Low on the Believers Never Die Tour Part Deux. James left the band the band in 2009. He later revealed that he had chosen to depart the band to pursue other musical interests.

Break Blossom (2011- 2013)

In the beginning of 2012 a leaked demo of the yet to be announced project was posted on the internet. The project was later announced to be Break Blossom and had been in the works for quite some time after turning down High School Musical broadway adaptation in the UK. Pete Wentz, a previous venture supporter and friend of James had been involved early on during the carnation of the band. They released the debut EP Last Night of Your Life on May 15, 2012. Their music video for "Dirt" was featured in Journey's Shoe stores in support of the EP release. Break Blossom supported A Day To Remember for a thanksgiving show in A Day To Remember hometown Ocala, Thanksgiving of 2012, it would end up being the bands final show.

Production Music (2014 - Present)

In October, 2014 James announced the release of his first volume for the publishing company Big Idea Music. The album titled "BIM045 Indie Chillwave" was featured on Big Bang Fuzz.

Baallet & NTRL RBLS (2015 - Present)

James sound evolved from pop music to his urban pop, electronic blend in 2015 when he began releasing music under the moniker Baallet. Guest features led to the release of "Out Of My Mind (Honest)", which was distributed via his publishing company Fever Mint. Following "Out Of My Mind (Honest)", James premiered the song "Honey", produced by Drew Gilbert and Julio Traverez of As Tall As Lions, with Twist magazine at the end of the year. NTRL RBLS formed as a collaborative DJ duo in the spring of 2015 with the release of single "All Your Love". It was announced on Dash Radio's "FeelGoodSound" show that the duo had worked on the song with Grammy winning engineer and Producer Evren Göknar at Capitol Records in Hollywood, CA. Göknar was made famous by his work with Tupac Shakur, KISS, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Good Charlotte, Mariah Carey, Iggy Pop, and NWA. Doranto, Baallet's partner, is the founder and CEO of Milky Agency, a Los Angeles-based creative firm. The duo have their own streetwear brand of the same name, NTRL RBLS. The brands flagship clothing store and tattoo studio is located on Hollywood's renowned shopping street, Melrose Ave.