 Fowles has played live and/or recorded with a myriad of other projects, typically spanning the genres of pop punk and alternative rock.While attending high school in the mid 1990s he played in the bands CleanX and D-cons.In late 2000 he formed a short-lived 1980s pop tribute band called The Electric Youth that featured friends from Esperanza High School Brandon Saller of Atreyu and Nathan Willett of Cold War Kids.