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About Me

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We live in Pennsylvania. That's not nearly as bad as it sounds, honest. We get to travel and play fun places like New York, Chicago, DC, Los Angeles. We like to write kinda brainy pop songs and then play them loud and fast. We've got a really good keyboard player, and he has an old Korg analog synth, so sometimes we sound like the Cars (even though people tell us we sound like Fountains of Wayne, we're BOTH ripping off the Cars). People who have really great record collections tell us we sound a lot like The Jam, unless Michael wears his glasses, then they say we sound like Elvis Costello & the Attractions. We are on a really cool little label out of Los Angeles, TallBoy Records, with a bunch of other cool bands. We heart Anna and TallBoy Records. We released our first album, "Oblivious" in 2005, and we sold them all. They played some of the songs from that record on VH-1, and "Joan of Arcadia". God likes cool indie rock, I guess, but that didn't stop them from canceling the show anyway. We released our second one, "Perpetual Limbo", in 2005 and we've almost sold all of all of those, too. Our favorite bands haven't made a record in 25 years. That makes us either really cool, or really snobby...or both.

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Member Since: 5/4/2005
Band Website: parallaxproject.com
Band Members: Michael Giblin - Bass, Vocals, Project control//Paul Murr - Drums, Jim Beam inventory management//Jimmy Patton - Guitars, Vocals, Tone Chaperone//Matt Thomas - Keyboards, Vocals, Manual reading
Influences: Elvis Costello, The Kinks, The Jam, The Who, The Clash, The Faces, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Neighborhoods
Sounds Like: Our last album, and the next one, too.
Record Label: www.tallboyrecords.com
Type of Label: None

My Blog

The Red Chuck Concert Series

Happy summer everybody. We hope your summer is as full of fun and music as we plan for ours to be. We're starting with a House Concert and Songwriting Workshop with Peter Case on Saturday, June 23rd. ...
Posted by Parallax Project on Tue, 15 May 2007 03:54:00 PST

Hail, Hail Rock & Roll Pt. 3

Part 3 of the November Plimsouls Tour Diary.Friday 11/17 - We woke in a Rodeway Inn somewhere in Central Jersey. You know, Jersey and Philly have a lot in common...they are both one dimensional,...
Posted by Parallax Project on Fri, 24 Nov 2006 12:05:00 PST

Hail, Hail Rock & Roll Pt. 2

Part 2 of the November Plimsouls Tour Diary.Tuesday 11/14 - I headed down to DC to pay the piper, while the boys went up to Hoboken to record a live set for WFMU. I'm really sorry I missed it, b...
Posted by Parallax Project on Thu, 23 Nov 2006 08:06:00 PST

Hail, Hail Rock & Roll, Pt. 1

I'm supposed to be too old for this. I'm glad I don't really believe that.Last week we climbed in the van and went on a week long tour of the Northeast with one of my most formative and profound...
Posted by Parallax Project on Thu, 23 Nov 2006 04:34:00 PST

SXSW

March 22, 2006 - SXSW. Good God. Whose idea WAS this? This should be a disaster. Take about 5,000 musicians and put them in one town for 4 days, and say, "get to work". This was our second year playin...
Posted by Parallax Project on Wed, 22 Mar 2006 08:31:00 PST

This is why rock critcs should all be lined up and shot....

THE HOLD STEADY Separation Sunday (Frenchkiss) Confession booths are for rosary twiddlers, but Bible lore is as American as Sunday school, so I take the scriptural references as tokens of Craig Finn...
Posted by Parallax Project on Thu, 09 Feb 2006 01:22:00 PST

It's Official....I'm completely Irrelevant...

Yesterday I read through the entire Oscar ballot for this year, and I have seen exactly THREE of the nominated films:Charlie & The Chocolate Factory - Costume DesignStar Wars, Episode III - Makeup...
Posted by Parallax Project on Tue, 07 Feb 2006 05:38:00 PST

Pittsburgh...Rock City.....

Pittsburgh. God bless blue collar towns and their love of Rock & Roll. We played in the Steel City for the first time last weekend, and it was (for me, at least) one of the best shows we've ever p...
Posted by Parallax Project on Tue, 24 Jan 2006 10:08:00 PST

So This is Christmas....

And look what you've done...Another year over, a new one just begun. What a fantastic year. Full of highs and lows, swoops and dives, triumphs and regrets. The high point was finally getting the...
Posted by Parallax Project on Tue, 20 Dec 2005 12:58:00 PST

What am I, nuts?

5 sets, 3 different bands. One long day of rock & roll. Everyone kept talking to me like I was trying to swim the English Channel, but it was no big deal. If I hadn't played so m...
Posted by Parallax Project on Sun, 16 Oct 2005 07:50:00 PST