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The Quills

About Me

    ·The Quills·Quinn Alison, Ben Egner and Tyler Bender. The three piece cut their teeth on local stages – entertaining diverse crowds – until the sound was complete, sculpted carefully into gestures and colors.
    Tyler Bender on drums is articulate with a cymbal but not unlike a certain Muppet in a frenetic flurry; Ben Egner on bass provides relentless rhythm interspersed with call-and-response, bungee-chord-like expressions, displaying frequent lightning leg kicks; Quinn Alison is an animated front man who grins at a harmony and snarls with a guitar, keeping one ear out for the sigh of an analog synth. Their performance is meticulous and rambunctious, melodic and desulotry.· ·The Quills· ·
    are invested in many projects – on stage, in the studio, and all avenues between. "Force each members' diverse background to speak up for itself," the music says. "The SoCal punk can play nice with the NYC jazz; The synthpop can sip tea with psychedelic guitars; androgynous thespians smash bottles and the fresh-faced boys sweep it up. Try to harness and expose some of that," the style of The Quills suggests.
    Quinn Alison offers two sides to every story and can't refuse a little flattery...
    The Quills are a gracious guest and look forward to big opportunites in the near, blinding future. They appreciate all requests to appear and any opportunity to further spread their music.

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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/23/2006
Band Website: "www.myspace.com/quinnalison
Band Members:

    ·THE QUiLLS·
    Quinn Alison,
    Ben Egner,
    and Tyler Bender.

Influences:

    The Clash, Pixies, The Decemberists, David Bowie, NOFX, Tom Waits, Misfits, Fruit Bats, Bad Religion, Queens of the Stone Age, The Cure, The Police, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Old 97's, Wilco, Kings of Leon, The Beatles, Spoon, Pinback, Notwist, The Buzzcocks, Liam Lynch , The Descendents, Bill Withers, Loretta Lynn, Pavement, Bauhaus, Stellastarr*, Joy Division, Radiohead, Woody Guthry, Green Day, Devotchka, Death Cab For Cutie, Bloc Party, Interpol & all things Doo Wop

Sounds Like:

    An easy decision



Record Label: WE'VE GOT SOME NEW SONGS AND PICS FROM THE STUDIO!

My Blog

The Quills ¡tonight! at Lions Lair

The Quills will be at Lion's Lair tonight with Deadbubbles, The Vergers and Calvin Locklear. Show starts at 9pm and we'd love to cram all you guys in!See you tonight!
Posted by on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:39:00 GMT

THE QUiLLS @ the HI-DIVE

The Quills are playing Tuesday night, February 5th, at the Hi-Dive with The Roman Numerals. $6 at the door or buy tickets from the Hi-Dive website. Our friends from Kansas City are going to help us ...
Posted by on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 13:24:00 GMT

Rock & Roll Grill Tonight

We're playing an all ages show tonight at the Rock & Roll Grill in Denver. 1531 Champa. Come on come on! Let's rock ROCK!
Posted by on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 12:29:00 GMT

Melvin & The Fence

This is a true story.The following characters are not paid actors.No animals were harmed during the making of this true story.Melvin went to his grandmother's for Christmas. She lived in West Texas No...
Posted by on Tue, 01 Jan 2008 21:33:00 GMT

darrel learns nothing

DARREL LEARNS NOTHING·"··"··"··"··"··"··"··"·There are a lot of people on the road to Colorado. Lots of traffic in the daytime snow. He is spat out of the canyon in the southern part of the state and...
Posted by on Mon, 24 Dec 2007 14:37:00 GMT

I WISH I HAD A WISH...

I WISH I HAD A WISH...I WISH I HAD A WISH...Bill Steeps had a Christmas party to attend. Well, it was a Company Christmas party. Bill Steeps was very hard to please. He wasn't sure if he would go or...
Posted by on Sat, 01 Dec 2007 16:19:00 GMT

¡MERRY HO HO YEAH!

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Posted by on Sun, 25 Nov 2007 18:17:00 GMT

A MINOR A MAJOR

I'm not convinced there is any separation between work and play, between business and fun. It is all blurring together. I blink once and another week is over. I blink again it's 5 am and I'm strum...
Posted by on Sun, 18 Nov 2007 17:47:00 GMT

The Honest Eye

The Quills are looking for a fan with a video cam. On Tues. the 13th we're looking for a photographer and videographer. Up to the job? Let us know. We'll do our best hot-shit-hair toss.We'll wear ...
Posted by on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 07:02:00 GMT

Money in the bank

When I was young, growing up in the South Bay area of Las Angeles, a bicycle meant everything. Well, any small vessel of transportation meant everything, really. As long as it had wheels and I had t...
Posted by on Sat, 27 Oct 2007 09:04:00 GMT