ANAHEIM, Calif. — There’s a reason Jimmy Eat World has been such a constant presence in Southern California over the three decades since the alternative rock band formed in Mesa, Arizona, in 1993.
Just look at a map, singer-guitarist Jim Adkins explains.
“I mean any tour that we would do, that’s the first place we would drive,” he says on a recent call. “Because like if you head east, I think that’s like five hours to El Paso but then it’s like 14 hours to anywhere else in Texas, and the drives get so long.
