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DARLINGS
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Darlings formed in the front room of an apartment on Bleecker Street in New York City. Peter Rynsky, Matt Solomon, Maura Lynch and Joe Tirabassi all met while they were killing time in college. They practice a brand of guitar pop that's equal parts sun-soaked '60s melodies and the noise of their hometown.
New album IF THIS IS LOVE out Fall 08
CLOSESNAKES SAY HISSS!
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"We're pretty hot. There's really no way around it," says Jamie Ayers, the 20-year-old Philadelphia native looking up from his astrology homework. Ayers and Sam Skarstad, also 20, met in September 2005 and began writing and recording songs recounting young summers spent sitting around watching the real world and dancing complex coordinates to other drones. Since then they have settled into a sound that combines synth pop and graham crackers in a raw contemporary rockand roll honeycomb structure. "We like raw pollen and we like hard work, our queen is very proud", chirps Ayers.
After a number of small and scattered releases, Snakes joined up with Famous Class and decided it was time to create a full-length record, hence the sweaty, sweet "I'll Be Lovin' You", the debut album which was recorded shirtlessly over a period of two weeks in a wooden attic in Philadelphia various summers ago. "We wanted to create something exclusively for teenage girls. There's not enough out there for them these days", says Skarstad, adjusting his cashmere scarf and platinum ski goggles. After four sleepless nights and one nervous breakdance, the album wasfinished. "The driving synths and heavy beats combine with the spastic live show to create some sort of new experience", says Ayers, staring longingly at an aged waitress. "We've all heard so much about the missing discourse of desire", he gestures broadly with a flourish of his gaudily bejeweled prosthetic hand, "I think it literally boils down to the fact that everybody is insanely jealous of me."
New Album NO MORE TEARS
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BOOGIE BOARDER
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Boogie boarder started out playing shows online mostly in chatrooms, mostly ps3 pre-release rumour sites. we had all met on a pretty great dating site, blueatthemizzen dot com actually it's like a social network for swingers who are into frigate-in-bottle models, anyway, it turned out that everybody in our fantasy league was totally into what we were all about and then I guess it was right at the end of last preseason we signed the deal to do charleen's office party superbowl halftime show and everything pretty much took off from there.
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HUXTABLES
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Huxtables is a four-person, guitar, drums, bass, keyboard, vocals, TV band and when we play live we wear costumes to help us with the songs. Right now we are working on another album, thinking wistfully about the first one. Last month we had a rude surprise: we saw our future selves hanging around outside a music shop in DC, pretty obviously buying weed from the UPS guy. No idea what we were up to or what the future is like; we pretended we didnt see us and justkept walking. I guess in the future one of us is like a person that is only 3 feet tall, with one arm that's about 11 inches long and three other arms like an octopus with a pet ferret giving the orders. The other one of us is like a shark that can walk on land. New Album THE MERE PRESSURE OF MY HAND out Fall 08
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THREE PIRO PIZZA HERO
"Shapiro's pen moves with delicacy and clear intent- leaving us images that both haunt the heart and warm the butt. His latest collection of work, Tales from the Bottom, show him at his best: tackling the psychology of the pizza-pie boy with purpose and great importance."
-Former Poet Laureate, Robert Pinsky
Daniel Shapiro was born October 19,1985 in Yonkers. His work encompasses themes as wide ranging as the Jewish-American experience, external fountain soda refill stations and dejection. Shapiro drives a black 2000 Toyota Camry LE given to him by his parents and likes the shade. And has to go to work and can't write anything more. He currently works and resides in Portland, OR.
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