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About Me

Old friends are the best kind, and we oughta know. We invite you to join in - especially on the choruses. There's some drinking implied, but we're sure you can handle it. We have dual-citizenship in Philadelphia and Brooklyn, which is just the way we like it. We all play in other bands, but we're trying to make this one the most fun. So, let the tubes warm up and here we go... (There's an in-depth bio and lots of other stuff on our website too, if you want.) xo/ the 'chairs...

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/10/2006
Band Website: www.swivelchairsmusic.com
Band Members: Jason Brown - guitars, bass, keys, vocals, percussion, etc. Jeremy Grites - guitars, bass, drums, vocals, banjo, mando, percussion, jv pedal steel.Additional members are too numerous to list, but here are 'the Big 3' : Mike Kennedy, Ed Hogarty, Steve Cawley. Hell yes.
Influences: archers of loaf, beatles, sonic youth, zombies, flin flon, elvis costello, mo-town, supercunk, byrds, pavement, chet baker, the deathray davies, kinks, audible, james brown, wishniaks, the police, unrest, duke ellington, lefty's deceiver, john fahey, portastatic, sneetches, beck, big star, stax, mppa, tom waits, the soft boys, america, the clean, beach boys, butterglory, televsion, +/-, burt bacharach, wire, versus, zepplin, death cab, devo, hem-fir, neko case, the low road, GBV, stevie wonder, the feelies, whiskeytown, minutemen, wilco, johnny cash, yo la tengo etc.
Sounds Like: we're having fun.
Record Label: Transit of Venus
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

thanks etc...

Hey!  Thanks to everybody who came out for last night's show at the M Room!  We had a great time and we hope you did too...  Thanks also to Dancer vs. Politician for the bass drum and t...
Posted by on Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:38:00 GMT

2 upcoming shows...

hey all,wanted to let you know that we've knocked the rust of the old machine and have booked a couple of shows to play for you. they are:sun Nov. 9 @ the M Room with the awesome new Philly band In G...
Posted by on Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:59:00 GMT

Swivel Chairs live this Thursday!

Hey All!Just wanted to let you all know that we'll be playing this thursday night at the Khyber Pass in Philadelphia!  Doors are at 9, we play around 10 or so.  Also on the bill: the New Mot...
Posted by on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 14:19:00 GMT

In-store this thursday in Philly!!!

Hey everybody!We're doing an in-store performance this coming thursday at the new FYE store at Broad and Chestnut sts. in Philadelphia!  Stop on by after work - we'll be going on at 6pm, so as no...
Posted by on Sun, 26 Aug 2007 18:25:00 GMT

Thank you Thank you Thank you

Just wanted to thank everyone soooooo much for coming out and supporting us at our record release party last saturday in philly!  It was an awesome night and we all had a blast!!  Thanks onc...
Posted by on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 08:38:00 GMT

Our new record is out today!

Hey everyone!Our new record, "The Slow Transmission," is out today on Transit of Venus records!  It's available through Red Eye and Insound distribution as well as at shows and (hopefully) your l...
Posted by on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 05:39:00 GMT

Slow Transmission Record Release Party!

Hey Everybody,Well, our new album comes out next week on Transit of Venus records, and we're gearing up for our record release show at Johnny Brenda's in Philly on Sat. August 11th!  We are reall...
Posted by on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 07:29:00 GMT

The Slow Transmission - available 8/7/2007!

Our latest recording, "The Slow Transmission," will be available on August 7th, 2007.  It is being released on the Philadelphia-based label Transit of Venus and distributed through Red Eye.New bu...
Posted by on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 09:27:00 GMT

playin'

Rehearsals have begun in earnest with the new 'live' crew (Mike, Ed & Steve) and they have surpassed everyone's expectations!  This is our first time playing as a 5 piece and it's like a drea...
Posted by on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 09:07:00 GMT

new photos people

hey all,we had our very first "photo shoot" this past weekend and just got some of the samples back. we posted a few in our pics page, so check 'em out and let us know how we did. it was harder than...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 13:00:00 GMT