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About Me

Controlled Storms is an experimental indie-rock band from Philadelphia, PA. On stage, the three members shuffle instruments, moving from the standard drums, bass, and electric guitar to dual basses, acoustic guitar, keyboards, sampler, and the occasional trumpet or balafon. Although some songs have vocals, the band creates moods and tells stories without a voice or particular instrument taking the lead. Controlled Storms songs often conjure up elements of post-rock, progressive, ambient, jazz, and world music, but their members have referred to their elusive style as "Paranormal Blues" or "Weightless Metal." They released a full-length album, "Abandoned Amusement Parks," in 2008 and successfully embarked on their national "From First Flights" tour in June of 2009.Booking/General Inquiry- [email protected] or [email protected]

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 14/09/2006
Band Members: current:brandon-drums/bass/keys**** ben wilson-bass/keys****/steve-guitar/samples/vox**** ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------previous (and always welcome) :josh/casey/aj/nickman/will
(all the) abandoned amusement parks/538-75 (live) from controlled Storms on Vimeo .
Influences: books, films, periodicals, essays, conversations, man's inhumanity towards man (and especially towards women),parents, life spans, friends, well-layered nachos, life's quicksand, contradictions, profitable irony, small greetings, all 5 senses
Sounds Like: see above
Record Label: Epicurator records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Tour Update #2

Right-0, Left-1Well we are technically back but...The A/V onslaught i wanted to present isn't quite as near completion as I had hoped so I will just give the 2nd tour update as if after Chicago I had ...
Posted by on Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:18:00 GMT

1st Tour Update

Ahoy hoy!!!The road has been quite enjoyable so far.  Good weather, good peeps, and good playing.Baltimore's the Hexagon was a great fit, and an excellent night of music, curated by Carlos (of Expan...
Posted by on Sun, 14 Jun 2009 07:56:00 GMT

"From First Flights Tour 2009" Official Tour Declaration

Greetings, thanks for tuning the dial to the Controlled Storms frequency.As the subject suggests we are beyond pleased to present to you the official announcement of our "From First Flights Tour" of 2...
Posted by on Tue, 26 May 2009 09:03:00 GMT

march lunacy

Hello inner-net viewers,Live from misleading weather capital of the world, Philadelphia.How are you?We are furiously attempting to book our summer tour, still working on new material that may or may n...
Posted by on Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:24:00 GMT

Damn, missed January but hey happy almost Valentines Day

Greetings folks,So a quick update on the storm front:Writing is going really well, we've had lots of good, exciting sessions in the lab and will continue on and hopefully have something for you in the...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:50:00 GMT

Holy Satan 666 friends (at the time of this post) or the year end wrap up

Ahhh snap.Hello,Just a quick update, since there hasn't been one for a couple of months.We have been playing lots of shows and hitting the road and just wanted to thank everyone that has come out and ...
Posted by on Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:05:00 GMT

BRAND NEW RECORD!!!!

Thank Gary its Friday!So last Saturday night on top of the Whole Foods at South and 9th at 630, us and our good friends Toy Soldiers and Power Animal, pushed our strange sounds up in to the atmosphere...
Posted by on Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:19:00 GMT

A bite of a big apple, a new record, and some shows Survey says: This Blog!

Greetings again from the controlled storms center:We played last weekend at Rehab in Manhattan (not brooklyn, my mistake, my mistake) and want to thank all who came out to check us out and took our 3 ...
Posted by on Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:42:00 GMT

FRIENDS AND FOES AND BROS AND HOSE AND NO MO SHOWS (for now)

Mutha funk!!!!!!!!!!!!!So, I type in sincerest sadness to inform all pittsburgh and ohio folks that our tour for the western pa/eastern oh is not going happen. I worked and worked and called and emai...
Posted by on Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:21:00 GMT

olly olly oxen free!

Greetings,Been a spot of time since the last getting bloggy with it. I figure clever ways of introducing blogs have all but dried up so we have harkened back to old reliable, west philly representin&...
Posted by on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:58:00 GMT