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CDs AVAILABLE !
CD BABY!: http://cdbaby.com/cd/dailyafflictions
DIGSTATION: http://www.digstation.com/AlbumDetails.aspx?albumid=ALB00000 8935
If you're in the Denver/Boulder area, we have CDs at Virgin Records, Twist & Shout, Independent Records, Albums on the Hill, Wax Trax, & Bart's CD Cellar. Or, just stop on by our house, and we'll barter...
It makes sense that The Daily Afflictions have a diverse sound; their brew of eclectic, exploratory blues-tinged rock finds unexpected muses in indie, country, and even punk rock to create one manifestation of four very different people.
The Daily Afflictions were borne from the minds of Timothy Dean and Khurrum Ansari, during a chance meeting in Crested Butte, Colorado two years ago.
Dean draws upon his traveling salesman and professional drinking career to conjure bluesy, whimsical sonic fantasies about beaches, paradise, and the perfect woman in the vein of Tim Buckley.
Ansari, a rocket scientist by day (seriously), adds fuzzed-out mind trip electronics for a little extra fever. Both play lead and rhythm guitar, creating a communal onstage dynamic that sometimes shines the most during their intimate acoustic sets.
Then Western Homes brings the heat. An entertainment and sports journalist, as well as an audiophile, Homes beats out slapdash, energetic indie and punk rock bass lines, fevered backup vocals, and in-heat harmonica solos.
Finally, Alex "Schooled But Not Fooled" Venetucci, thrums out a concoction of rhythm on drums and congas, as well as backup harmonies. Along with the earth and trees, The Daily Afflictions share Ventucci with another band of note, the Orphaned Gears.(www.myspace.com/orphanedgears).
The resulting blues-infused rock is exploratory, electric, rambling and reminiscent, then tumultuous and revelatory – all steeped in the Boulder scene for a uniform sound.
Discogrophy:
Preemptive 2006
Magnolia Mt. Festival Compilation 2006
Immersive Studios Compilation 2007
Dive on In 2007

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Member Since: 08/09/2006
Band Website: http://www.thedailyafflictions.com/ "http://www.thedailyafflictions.com/
Band Members:

Accomplice

the alumni (aka, the lucky ones...)
Chase McQuade
John Romono

All songs written, recorded, and produced by Khurrum Ansari, Timothy Dean, Western Homes, Alex Vennetucci, Mutron Five!, & Robot


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Influences: beatles. velvet underground. ween. tortoise. sonic youth. elvis costello. tim buckley. neil young. the smiths. pavement. portishead. joy division. duke ellington. django reinhardt . and so on... and so... and ....

Sounds Like: GINGER + CARROT JUICE.



Record Label: Represented by Dave Cissell, and D.M. Levine

My Blog

Picture pages! Picture pages! Time to get...

..yer crayons and yer pencils!Alrighty, pictures, band, music; you get the drift:Trilogy show:www.pbase.com/blind_sublime/trilogyOur pseudo-band road trip to utah:www.pbase.com/blind_sublime/enter_san...
Posted by on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:52:00 GMT

Monolith + Photos + Red Rocks + Madness!

Yeah, that's right... a somewhat non - tDA related post.  Thanks to Billboard & Westy, I managed to swindle myway into a photo/press pass for The Monolith Music Festival at Red Rocks.  C...
Posted by on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 22:21:00 GMT

2 NEW LIVE TRACKS!

The DA delivers the goods kideos.  2 brand new tunes we played at our CD release party for you all to listen to.  "Progressive Rock Me" & "Going Stag to the Alternative Lifestyle Prom".&...
Posted by on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 15:45:00 GMT

RECAP ON THE MADNESS...

It needs to be said... our friends who came out to see us at The Walnut Room are amazing.  Thank you all so, for making our CD Release such a special night for us.  Major props to Jason Hand...
Posted by on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 07:46:00 GMT

See Dee? Everything works out in the end....

There are CDs....  Many many CDs.   CDs we'd like for all to have.  Please have one.  We have plenty for you.  August 11th at The Walnut Room.  We'll bring music and merc...
Posted by on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 10:26:00 GMT

Official Website Launched!

www.thedailyafflictions.comIt's a shell of what it will one day be, but our official website is up and running.  A place to gather all those fragmanted DA pieces of our band scattered about the w...
Posted by on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 23:21:00 GMT

Photos from Immersive Studios

Friends, family, and stalkers...During our last day of recording at Immersive Studios, I took some pics of our band inbetween takes for shits and giggles.  They can be found at my photog website:...
Posted by on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 14:49:00 GMT

CD Release Extravaganza!

After a year of fiddling in the studio, one complete album re-write, and dozens of wildly varying versions of each song (including one song that we spent 3 months recording and completely ditched), we...
Posted by on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 10:55:00 GMT

The Skinny on Sally

Sally Go 'Round is a song that is very near and dear to our hearts.  Tim and I have been playing it live ever since we were the two man acoustic troubadours in 2005.  The song is originally ...
Posted by on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 10:44:00 GMT

Thank you...

... to all of our friends, old and new, for coming to the Cervantes show Memorial Day.  What a blast it was to rock that stage, and the energy everyone bought was fantastic.  So kudos, for p...
Posted by on Mon, 28 May 2007 19:25:00 GMT