The Asphalt have played at South by Southwest in both 2006 and 2007. The band performed at Edgefest 2007 in Queen Creek, Arizona for a crowd of over 14,000 with bands Social Distortion, Bad Religion, Flyleaf, The Bravery, Authority Zero, and many more. The band opened for Bad Company in a somewhat strange booking during Laughlin River Run 2008, played alongside another interesting pairing in The Doobie Brothers at the Tempe Insight Fiesta Bowl Block Party on New Year's Eve 2009, and opened the main stage for rock superstars Jimmy Eat World at the same New Year's Eve event in 2010.
The band were famously involved in a plagiarism dispute in 2008after creating and posting a video on youtube.com comparing their single "Tonight" with the single "Feels Like Tonight" performed by Daughtry and written by Dr. Luke and, suggesting that the chorus of "Tonight" was substantially similar to that of "Feels Like Tonight." The video went viral after being picked up by aol.com, VH1, popeater.com, Perez Hilton, Adam Carolla Show, and dozens more websites and broadcasts, resulting in over 250,000 views in 72 hours. The fallout from the video resulted in plagiarism lawsuits being filed by both parties in federal court in both New York City and Arizona. The disputes were ultimately resolved outside of court and the pending lawsuits were then dropped by both parties.
The band wrote, produced and directed a pilot for a television show in January 2010. The show, entitled "Outside The Box: With The Asphalt" is based around the combining of the Food Network show "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives" with Guy Fieri, and the movie Almost Famous. The band filmed the pilot episode in Wikieup, Arizona at Eat At Joe's BBQ.
The band were seen with a film crew in Anaheim, California in January at NAMM Show 2011 apparently filming segments for Future episodes of Outside The Box. The band and film crew were spotted later that weekend at the restaurant Tinga, in Los Angeles, California. The band were at the restaurant for several hours filming yet another segment for the TV show.
In spring 2013 the band announced the start of tracking on yet another studio album, this time being recorded at the private studios of Grammy Award-winning Producer and Engineer Jeremy Parker, with vocal production assisted by Kris Roe of veteran rock band The Ataris. Rumors have placed Stephen Egerton of The Descendents and All fame as mixing the album.
