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Less the band

All the robots stand and cry!!

About Me

With no front man, Less is a collaboration of five New York City artists where the music stands in the center. As gnome-like tinkers they like to crack open the circuitry of the emblematic android of modern culture and with a post-punk scalpel and space-rock suture attempt to graft the tin man a heart. Some of them have been on TV or in films and you might say "oh, that guy", you may have picked up a book or two by one (one is banned by the Pennsylvania school system), or seen another play with other world famous bands. Here their work is to bring harmony and dynamics to 3 guitars, bass, drums, effects, and a chorus of vocals coming from a spectrum of influences, colliding in the center. Straying toward the satisfying riff yet detesting sugar they invoke the sensation of a person on a diet being tempted by desert, binging then purging.

Born out of necessity in Fall of '04 (for the portrayal of a rock band in an Off-Broadway play) and thriving to maturity on their creative work ethic, Less has surpassed their origin playing venues throughout the country and the world with bands such as My Morning Jacket, Red Romance, Richard Swift, Arizona, Nervous Cabaret, Dawn Landes, Amps II Eleven, etc. In spring of '06 they released their first full length "Bear" recorded at Soma Studios in Chicago with Tim Iseler, (engineer for Tortoise, Wilco, Rachels), and then in New York with engineer Kevin Meeker (Dr. John, Liz Phair), which has since been receiving radio play across the country. They collaborated with artist Danica Novgorodoff on the graphic novel "A Late Freeze" based on the characters and story appearing in their music which became winner of the 2006 Isotope Award. Then in the summer of '06 the play which birthed Less, "Finer Noble Gases", was resurrected thru the life of the band and became the dark horse hit of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival winning numerous awards and accolades.

Their pace isn't slowing with a second album mastered and awaiting release, songs from both albums appearing in upcoming film soundtracks, and an animated music short of "A Late Freeze" in the works. Less are also founding contributors of "Motherlodge".

You can get the debut album "Bear" here:

http://cdbaby.com/cd/lesstheband

or download from itunes.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/25/2005
Band Website: lesstheband.com/
Band Members:

Adam Rapp: guitar, vocals.

Michael Chernus: Bass, vocals.

Paul Sparks: guitar, drill, vocals.

Ray Rizzo: drums, sampler, vocals.

Rob Beitzel: guitar, science, vocals.

Scrod: moral support


Influences: trains overhead - the echoes of the saltmines - the joyous laughter of children - slow driving communists
Sounds Like: "Theyre bluesy like Captain Beefheart, with all kinds of weird barking vocals that play like percussion, and a Sonic Youth sense of noise parameters. Cord on Rat, a disjointed paranoid fantasy a la Radiohead or Pink Floyd (lyrically), jumps with the unbounded energy of a child first discovering open spaces. I Dont Know You Now does the Flaming Lips (just for, like, 30 seconds) better than the Flaming Lips do." - Louisville Eccentric Obsever.

"If science-fiction author Philip K. Dick had formed a rock band, it probably would've sounded like Less the Band.", "With obvious influences ranging from Public Image Ltd. to Sonic Youth and the Pixies, Less the Band embody the damn the mainstream attitude which sparked post-punk in the first place." - www.whisperinandhollerin.com


Record Label: us
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Four - In every verse and measured pour

Nightly slide shows of photos taken during the day are starting to suggest some greater story transpiring while we reside in Auld Reekie. I cannot tell what it is yet. These have been the first t...
Posted by Less the band on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 08:47:00 PST

Three - Saturday Night Bongo

Our show ends each night at 8:30. by 9 we are upstairs at Bongo Club checking e-mail, having drinks, hugging our ladies. Ahhh...the life of rock and roll sensations. Tonight I can barely think of a th...
Posted by Less the band on Sat, 12 Aug 2006 01:53:00 PST

Two - From Bed to the Internet Cafe (Living Room)

Walking to the bar after Friday's show, Chernus and I admired the staggering presence of Edinburgh Castle in the middle of the city. "Its like Disney", Chernus said, "only its real."Edinburgh is beaut...
Posted by Less the band on Sun, 06 Aug 2006 09:14:00 PST

One - From Newark to the Bathroom

Walking down the aisle of the plane to our seats, we were stopped in the passage that cuts between the stewardess station. I took a little bottle of Bombay Sapphire from the parked drink cart. I was c...
Posted by Less the band on Sun, 06 Aug 2006 08:36:00 PST

Less the band Electronic Press Kit inside

View LESS THE BAND's ElectronicPressKitgo visit please...
Posted by Less the band on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 11:44:00 PST

and the bless

hello discerning myspace obsessives, this is my first time on the blog and so prepare... as a lay a log. we (less the band) are gearing up for a "bit of time" (translation august) in edinburgh pronou...
Posted by Less the band on Fri, 12 May 2006 08:33:00 PST