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About Me

who is umberto?

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/22/2005
Band Website: iamjanet.com
Band Members: umberto: gina pensiero

players: emily "god made you a special lady" bate, jon "jing-a-ling" lango, sean "i'msocolithurts" lango, cara "copkilla" kendall, alexis "alsy walsy" "i played bass once" jakobson, kenny "krand" "i can play bass but never do" roebuck, ryan "have you ever heard me whistle?" fitz gibbon
Influences: john vanderslice, the smiths, david bowie, liz phair, lispector, the greys, cat power, mirah, the fiery furnaces, super jib kidder, joy division, belle and sebastian, elvis costello, sufjan stevens, the beatles, destroyer, elliott smith, early r.e.m., early 10,000 maniacs, folk implosion, archers of loaf, bruce springsteen, pavement, sleater-kinney, aimee mann, the magnetic fields, neutral milk hotel, jon brion, beulah, patti smith, pj harvey...
Sounds Like: awesome.
Record Label: we're twins!/iamJANET!
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

!!! NEWSFLASH !!!!!! RIP UMBERTO !!! (sort of)

umberto is going on hiatus. umberto may continue to be the vehicle of release for gina pensiero's gritty lofi solo creations, but the polished and professional new release offspring of umberto's origi...
Posted by umberto on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 01:42:00 PST

i never posted my teeterview

so here it is!be warned, bill clinton is fake. don't worry if you fell for it; so did i.
Posted by umberto on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 07:44:00 PST

aa news house show story

http://www.mlive.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/features-1/11 5787198850430.xml&coll=2
Posted by umberto on Sun, 05 Nov 2006 08:03:00 PST

where to buy umberto albums:

brick and mortar locations:encore records//ann arborwazoo records//ann arborunderground sounds//ann arborvirtual world:we're twinshenrietta fahrenheiti am janet [coming soon]other:out the truck of my ...
Posted by umberto on Sun, 16 Jul 2006 07:42:00 PST

umberto in the ann arbor observer

http://www.arborweb.com/event-reviews.html
Posted by umberto on Thu, 29 Jun 2006 01:21:00 PST

a little more info about umberto:

you can buy umberto's new album, there, a somewhere lies on the we're twins website at www.weretwins.com. the album is also available in some of ann arbor's finest record stores--encore, underground s...
Posted by umberto on Tue, 16 Aug 2005 10:28:00 PST