In 2001, IfIHadAHiFi released
Ones and Zeroes, their debut album, on Milwaukee's No Karma Records. The album was reviewed favorably in
Pitchfork,
Milk Magazine,
Splendid and
Slide the Needle. It was after this album that NoiseLesion left the band and RenoLoner joined the group. Shortly afterwards, the group began regularly touring the US. Their second album,
No More Music, was released on No Karma in 2004. It received strong reviews from
Rockpile,
Read Magazine (where it was an Editor's Pick),
Devil in the Woods,
Skyscraper, and
Splendid. Following
No More Music,
Alternative Press named IfIHadAHiFi as one of their "Bands You Need to Know" in 2005. Crustacean Records released
Hot Nuggets!, an IfIHadAHiFi/Modern Machines split CD/LP, in 2006. Each band performed six songs – one new song, one cover of the other band, and four additional covers. In 2007, RenoLoner was replaced by RevEver and the group started work on a planned EP,
Tragedy Breeds Success, throughout 2006 and 2007, but these recordings were shelved in favor of a new album.
Fame By Proxy was recorded in late 2007 and released the following year on
Latest Flame Records. While writing new material, the band learned that
Nada Surf had named their next album
If I Had a Hi-Fi; in return, IfIHadAHiFi announced that their next album, planned for 2011 but finally released in January 2012, would be titled
Nada Surf. At
Die Kreuzen's 2011 induction into the
Wisconsin Area Music Industry (WAMI) Hall of Fame, they cited IfIHadAHiFi as a current band that they thought "should be in consideration for a WAMI." During the massive
Madison protests against Wisconsin governor
Scott Walker, the band quickly released a single titled "Imperial Walker," with all proceeds from the sale going to benefit
Progressives United. IfIHadAHiFi was prominently featured in the Cedar Block show ''Sexy Results: Cedar Block's Dig for the Higgs and How the Quest Was Won'', for which they composed and performed six brand-new songs. The songs were also recorded and released as a digital download, as well as a handful of hand-dubbed cassette tapes. The band released ''We're Never Going Home'' in 2019 and won a WAMI award in response to it as "Punk Artist" of the year by the
Wisconsin Area Music Industry. They had accepted an invitation to play the WAMI Awards ceremony, but the ceremony was cancelled and the winners were not announced until 18 months later. == Discography ==