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Abner Trio

About Me

We hardly ever check this damned myspace anymore, so if you would like to get in touch please email us here: [email protected]

From Joyful Noise Recordings:
"There is nothing more annoying in music today than hearing an up-and-coming band described only in terms of what city they're from. "This is New York PUNK at its finest!" or "The DEFINITIVE freak-folk band of Austin". Perhaps there are sounds you can imagine hearing from these cities, but truly such descriptions mean nothing if you do not reside in such metropolitan hotspots. True, spirited music, especially rock 'n roll, has no boundaries.
And this is where Abner Trio comes in. This is no typical Pavement or Sonic Youth rip-off; no key-changing math-punk or over-wrought crooning post-rock, though one could arguably hear all these elements and far, far more interwoven within their style. They are not simply of-their-city. But enough hyphens. The genuine wit of Daniel Paquette, the sharp and experimental guitar playing of Clinton Hughey, and perhaps the only jazz-metal drummer to have ever lived, Karl Hofstetter, muse together for this project to put forth only...themselves! Yet this is still highly achieved stuff. This is a band with a BIG sound, simply put. This is guitardrumandbass music that far out reaches the limits of such a banal term.
When you hear them, there are no comparisons; there is no question that you are in fact listening to a group for any age, to remember and to just plain rock out: The Abner Trio."

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Member Since: 09/03/2005
Band Website: www.joyfulnoiserecordings.com
Band Members: Clinton Hughey - guitar & voice
Daniel Paquette - bass & voice
Karl Hofstetter - drums
Sounds Like: [Listen to the songs]

Record Label: joyful noise recordings
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Razorcake HATES us!

Check out this review. It is amazing how our music truely infuriates some people... usually crusty punks. ABNER TRIO/ MAN AT ARMS:Split: CDAbner Trio: pretentious, wimpy emo. I hate it. "Thought...
Posted by on Sun, 08 Apr 2007 21:38:00 GMT

Check out this great review from Ink 19!

Abner Trio & Man At Arms Joyful Noise During my tenure as a reviewer for INK19, my luck has been roughly 50/50 that a split I've chosen to critique will be consistently good. Even if it's not a du...
Posted by on Sun, 08 Apr 2007 20:41:00 GMT

We're in Copper Press

Yep, a two page spread no less. Pick up a copy of the newest Copper Press wherever quality music and books are sold. It's a great mag, even in the issues where they don't feature Abner Trio. Also, th...
Posted by on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 05:41:00 GMT

New songs in honor of Detroitians

thanks to our sing-along of "you can be anything" the other night, we have uploaded Span to the page along with the secret secret Batty Bat. Thanks to everybody that made our weekend with Man at Arms ...
Posted by on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 19:52:00 GMT

We have a new release!

It's a split CD with our Michigan friends Man at Arms; contributing 4 songs each. The album will be out November 14, right about the time of all those show dates you see with us and Man at Arms. You c...
Posted by on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 19:07:00 GMT

we are the luckiest band in the world!

We are in Rochester, New York. We played at the Bug Jar last night with horrible, horrible and Epylogue. Lost of people said we were "sick" and we "destroyed," This means we are like a wave of pow...
Posted by on Thu, 16 Mar 2006 09:23:00 GMT

For our biggest fan(you know who you are)

We played in Bowling Green, OH on Saturday and turned out all the lights and scared people.  Then there was a banana toast by Hundred Year Hex and it was forever!  The bands all shown g...
Posted by on Sun, 12 Mar 2006 23:39:00 GMT

Were going to be touring soon...

Why don't you come see us. If your a promoter, feel free to get in touch about booking a show.
Posted by on Fri, 30 Dec 2005 12:05:00 GMT

Brighton is Tighton

Wow, what an amazing show in Cincinnati!   The incredible people who are involved in making a little creative community there in the middle of the city in Brighton are to be commended for their h...
Posted by on Sun, 24 Jul 2005 17:37:00 GMT

Info about new album...

Here is the label onesheet for our new album. the record is available here: http://joyfulnoiserecordings.com/releases_jnr08.php The AbNER-Trios new album puts the NERT back in the grim iNERTia of o...
Posted by on Mon, 18 Jul 2005 12:17:00 GMT