After releasing their first album independently, 8stops7 was signed to Reprise Records (under Time Warner) and released their sophomore effort In Moderation in 2000. It achieved moderate success, selling over 100,000 copies and having two of its songs reach the top 40 on Billboard’s Rock, Alternative and Adult charts. Apple included the music video for “Question Everything” on the Mac OS 9.1 CD, and later included the song with the PowerMac G4 Cube.

Unfortunately, the band was one of many who were unceremoniously dropped from Time Warner’s roster (along with Poe, Orgy, Cowboy Mouth and Wilco, among others) during the company’s infamous disastrous merger with AOL in 2001. The sole criterion used to determined which bands to keep or drop was whether or not a band’s current album had sold a million copies or not.

The merger was later called ‘the biggest mistake in corporate history’ and the dumped bands (including 8Stops7) were left spiraling back down to relative obscurity while trying to pick up the pieces and re-establish themselves for several years. 8Stops7 spent the next few years separating from their manager. Finally In 2006, the group was able to release their third album Bend.

In 2012, the original lineup reunited and dropped their fourth album Fables. In 2014, frontman Evan Sula-Goff shared a lengthy post on Facebook titled “It Seems Bands Don’t Make Money Off Touring Either” that explained why the band only toured for one week the previous year, and included suggestions regarding ‘rejuvenating a dying (music) scene’ and what to do ‘if you want your favorite starving artist to continue producing recorded music’. In 2014, Sula-Goff posted unreleased tracks from 8Stops7 and side projects of its members on Bandcamp.

In 2017, the band announced a new record deal, the writing of several songs for a new album and plans of studio time on their official Twitter account, but as of early 2023 songs had been recorded but not finished.