The Rise of the Broken was founded by Kevin Rodriguez while being on his journey for a year in Germany. He started learning how to play the acoustic guitar so he could play along with his friends and bond with them. He started writing a couple songs to express himself and to perform to people. He then recorded demos of a couple songs and he quickly started getting people's attention in Germany and back in the U.S. through the web. He then started playing many shows, both in Germany and in the U.S., to spread his love for music. He home-recorded an EP that was released in the summer of 2010 called "The Two Sided Story." All his time and effort spent on his music set out to transform his old songs into something new and wrote new songs to make them into a full band set to make his new album called "Nickled-and-Dimed." He now begins a new journey in his life with this album that he feels blessed to be on and feels blessed to be able to share it with everyone.