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Now Hear This: Sarandon: No Cardigans Please, Twee is Simply Awful

The UK’s Sarandon like to call themselves a pop band with a short attention span.  The name of their latest album, Kill Twee Pop, (released in the U.S. on Slumberland Records), seems to say it all: this is no cutsie neo-folk act, but rather, a spastic, twitching garage punk act that delights both in mashing […]

24 Jun 2008 | More
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Switches Are At Full Tilt

This young UK act has no need to switch it on. They’re already on fire, stirring up our stages and television screens across America. Not only have they already played Jimmy Kimmel Live, but their single “Drama Queen” is the theme to the MTV show Legally Blonde: The Search for the Next Elle Woods and […]

4 Jun 2008 | More
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Now Hear This: Dasher

Some bands may flaunt the cliché “we’re big in Japan” even if they’ve played there once to an empty room, but Brooklyn’s Dasher can honestly boast about something far more exclusive–the fact that they were recently number one on the charts in Peru. Their current lineup came into being in spring 2007 in NYC, having […]

12 Feb 2008 | More
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Brooke Miller : Sentimentalist Magazine Interview

When did you put the current band together?
We started playing together officially on June 4th. that was our first gig. the day prior we had a 6 hour rehearsal. I remember cause it was the 2nd wedding anniversary for Don and I. June 4th.
(photo by Amber Rima McLinn) 
How did you meet the band members?
The gene […]

18 Oct 2007 | More
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The Voyces : Sentimentalist Magazine How Hear This

What year did the band form.
My answer would be 2006, but it’s up for debate.
How did all the band members meet?
Jude and I met at an open mic in New York City. Frank and I met while we were in a Manhattan Bodega, reaching for the same package of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. The […]

22 Sep 2007 | 5 comments | More
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The Shackeltons : Sentimentalist Magazine Now Hear This

What year did the band form?
Dan Schuchman: January 2005…that was when Justin’s brother, Josh played bass, and our friend Jonathan Slick played drums, Sean and Justin entered the band in early September of 2005.
(photos by Tear-n)

22 Sep 2007 | 6 comments | More
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Dragons Of Zynth : Sentimentalist Magazine Now Hear This

What year did the band form?
Akwetey: 2005
How did all the band members meet?
Aku and I were kicking each other in the womb, yes, we are twins. Autry we met off the street in Brooklyn. He was all jive talkin’, sayin ‘I just got here from ATL, skip skap where the party at?!’ Bzza is our […]

22 Sep 2007 | 1 comment | More
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Blacklist : Sentimentalist Magazine Now Hear This

Photo by Scott Irvine
What year did the band form?
Josh Strawn: We were founded in the year of the Indian Ocean earthquake, the assassination of Theo Van Gogh, the burglary of The Scream, the Abu Ghraib incident, the Madrid train bombings, and the re-election of a certain former governor of Texas.
How did all the band […]

22 Aug 2007 | More