The Huntingtons origianally formed under the name Cricket in July of 1993, with Cliff Powell (vocals & guitar), Mike Holt (guitar), Mike Kepka (bass guitar) and Luke Keneske (drums).

The guys only played 5 shows together before the lineup was rearranged. This time, Cliff Powell stayed on vocals and guitar, but Mike Holt took up the bass guitar, Luke Keneske and Mike Kepka left the band and Mike Peirce joined to take on the job of the drums.

Still named Cricket, these guys began their first studio recording in California, engineered by Randy Rose. This rough-mix-only demo was good enough to land the band a 5 album recording contract with Flying Tart Records.

But then, the lineup changed again, with Cricket adding another bass guitarist named Marty Shneider. Mike Holt switched back to guitar from the bass guitar, but the rest of the band remained at their previous posts.

With this, the third lineup, the band went back into the studio to do some more demos with Chris Colbert. These demos didn't turn out too well, however.  Flying Tart Records had hoped to put out these recordings someday, but now that The Huntingtons are no longer on that label, this will be impossible.  

Soon after this recording, Marty Shneider left the band and Mike Holt took over lead vocals while retaining the role of bass guitar, Cliff Powell played all guitars, BGVs, and some songwriting. Mike Peirce stayed at drums. With this lineup the band started to lean towards a more punk-oriented sound.

In early 1996, Cricket began getting pressure from the estate of Buddy Holly for using the name Cricket, since there had already been a band called The Crickets. The band willingly changed their name, being as they hated the old name anyway.

This was a problem though. It was only two days before all information for the upcoming album, Sweet Sixteen, was to be mailed to the record company for promotion and distribution. The band had to come up with a new name fast. But all was not to be lost. Mike Pierce knew of a housing development called The Huntingtons, and the band thought it sounded like a cool name, so was to be new name of the band formerly known as Cricket.

The Huntingtons continued playing shows all over the pace, gaining many fans with their aggressive punk rock. In early 1997 The Huntingtons decided to beef up their guitar section, so they let Brad Ber of Kingpin/Philibusters fame join in on rhythm guitar. So, the lineup was Mike Holt (vocals & bass guitar), Cliff Powell (guitar & vocals), Mike Peirce (drums) and Brad Ber (guitar).

Then, Brad (guitar) left the band to pursue other things in life, and has been replaced by A.J., the guitar player for Speedy Delivery.

The band changes have not stopped yet. Mikee Peirce (drums) left the band and was replaced by Davey (last name and previous band unknown). Most lately, Davey left to play for Squad Five-O and was replaced by J Jay.