Allister is an American pop punk band from Chicago, Illinois.The four-piece formed in 1994 when the original band members were still in high school, and was originally named Phineas Gage. In 1998 Allister became one of the first bands to sign to Drive-Thru Records.They went on hiatus in 2007, then reunited in 2010, and have been touring and recording again since.They have released six studio albums: Dead Ends and Girlfriends (1999), Last Stop Suburbia (2002), Before the Blackout (2005), Countdown to Nowhere (2010), Life Behind Machines (2012), and 20 Years and Counting (2019).The band also made a cameo appearance in the 2004 film Sleepover.