The Tens began their musical conversation in the 2010s while busking in Los Angeles. Late night performances on the street corner gave the band the freedom to improvise funk, blues, country and whatever. The band eventually picked up shows around town. In the following years, they toured the U.S. and Mexico, appearing over 500 times.

On their first tour in 2016, The Tens tracked a direct-to-vinyl, double-LP at Welcome to 1979 in Nashville. Each side of the record was cut in a single take.

In 2019, the band met producer and owner of Pattern Recording Studio, Thomas Rojo (The War Toys). Rojo and The Tens spent the next months writing and tracking their first studio LP, Broken Romantic. The album is a temporal trip through the disillusionment of dream and reality. The record was mixed by J.J. Blair (June Carter Cash, Rod Stewart) and mastered by Peter Doell (Miles Davis, James Brown).

The Tens are currently writing their next album on a farm in California.