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Dallon Weekes

American musician and singer-songwriter (born 1981)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 14, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Dallon James Weekes is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. He is the frontman of the indie pop band the Brobecks, which temporarily operated as a solo project through the late 2000s. He was then a member of Panic! at the Disco from 2009 to 2017, performing in the band as a bassist, keyboardist, and backing vocalist. Weekes currently performs as the frontman of I Dont Know How but They Found Me.

Editorial summary

“Dallon Weekes” enters the record as american musician and singer-songwriter (born 1981). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Dallon, Weekes and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2009, 2017—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Dallon, Weekes and American.
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Why this record matters

“Dallon Weekes” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Dallon, Weekes and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 14, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2009 and 2017.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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Questions for further research

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This entry incorporates text from “Dallon Weekes” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.