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The Black and White Years

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The Black & White Years are NEW and PATENT PENDING! Now WITHOUT the antiseptic smell, the Years do WONDERS in under FIVE MINUTES! Simply apply a liberal amount to the affected area, with no regard to timing of meals! *DO NOT apply to the EYES, LIPS or GENITALS*. The Black & White Years understand that savvy consumers of musical product demand the highest QUALITY. So with everything we do, we AIM to meet those HIGH standards. That's why NOW and NEVER BEFORE*, we invite YOU the CONSUMER to ask QUESTIONS, leave COMMENTS or BECOME FRIENDS OF THE COMPANY. Still not convinced The Black & White Years are right for you and your family? Well, we are so CONFIDENT that you'll love the product, that we made FREE samples AVAILABLE for LISTENING!* DO NOT apply to the EYES, LIPS, or GENITALS.* The Black & White Years thanks you again for your interest in our NEW and PATENT PENDING musical products. Please VISIT us AGAIN soon!
48 hours, a keg of beer, a one car garage, and 17 lime green shirts later...
Team FOGAR presents its latest joint...a music video for
The Black & White Years' "Power to Change"
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/10/2005
Band Website: theblackandwhiteyears.com
Band Members:

For Sale:
New Record!!

iTunes:

New Shirt!!

Scott Butler: Being Lousy, Cosby sweaters
Landon Thompson: Calorie Counting, Tight Pants
John Aldridge: Hair, Non Sequiturs
Billy Potts: Chilean Sea Bass

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Influences:

Talking Heads, Beck, Of Montreal, Prince, Spoon, The Smashing Pumpkins, Belle and Sebastian, David Bowie, Wilco, The Bees (UK), Rufus Wainwright, Steely Dan, XTC, Andre Popp, Pink Floyd, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Elliot Smith, Bob Marley, The Meters, Bob Dylan, Alfie, Stephen Sondheim, The Police, Johnny Cash, Stevie Wonder, The Beatles, Master Shake, Herbie Hancock, Depeche Mode, Wolf Parade, Jorge Ben, I Am Kloot, Martin Denny, Joy Division, The Crystal Skulls, Disney songs, the music of Brazil, NES, RPGs, Negro spirituals, old country shit, books, Shakespeare, Brock Sampson, porn addiction, Bill Hicks
Sounds Like:

killer mustache party. golden glow of cowboy sunrise.ruins of factories.electric light and humwords you thought to say after.the words you said.a smokea last night and a late night and a book.religious stories involving lions.a beverage with lime.barklings of far off dogs.a memory with a woman.a man.a dash.a period.the dreams you remembered.early and late.mother, father, etc.vests and ties.vestigial years.'this is,' they said, 'all black and white.'

Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Austin Chronicle Reviews BWY

Click HERE to read Austin Powell’s review of The Black and White Years’ debut LP....
Posted by The Black and White Years on Sat, 15 Mar 2008 01:15:00 PST

Debut Record Available Now!

New Record!! ..New Shirt!!Thanks to all who came out to Stubbs to celebrate with us:...
Posted by The Black and White Years on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:46:00 PST

Andy Langers Best New Local Act

We are honored to announce that Andy Langer picked us as his favorite new local act in the Top 10 of 2007 Austin Chronicle critic's poll. Be sure to tune into 107.1 KGSR for his new show Monday - Fri...
Posted by The Black and White Years on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 12:44:00 PST

Top 10 on WEQX: Albany

Thanks to all that have called/emailed to request us on WEQX. We've climbed to the TOP 10!!! Call this and get on the air: 802-362-1027!CLICK BELOW TO REQUEST ONLINE:...
Posted by The Black and White Years on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 03:06:00 PST

The Onion says......

 True to its name, The Black And White Years treads a fine line between soulful funk and reggae (the black) and twitchy art-rock (the white), much like its obvious forebears in Talking Heads. Fit...
Posted by The Black and White Years on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 12:46:00 PST

Recording w/ Jerry Harrison of The Talking Heads

The Black and White Years are excited to announce that we will be recording with first class producer and Talking Head, Jerry Harrison. We are set to begin recording sometime in the middle of April, s...
Posted by The Black and White Years on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 02:19:00 PST

LYRICS the black and white years EP

I had several folks ask me where they could get the lyrics at the last show, so these are the lyrics for the all the songs we are currently putting on our EP.  Some of them are already posted on ...
Posted by The Black and White Years on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 10:36:00 PST

Endings, Beginnings

This week has been a mindfuck.  Tuesday, our house was ransacked and our musical equipment, computers, etc. were stolen.  The band was at its bleakest.  Today, we have all-new equipment...
Posted by The Black and White Years on Sat, 24 Feb 2007 07:56:00 PST

Austin Sound Review

New write up about The Black and White Years @ www.austinsound.netBe sure to check it out along with articles about many other great Austin bands.Cheers!B&WY...
Posted by The Black and White Years on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 01:24:00 PST

Back in the saddle again

Indeed, we are back in the saddle.  We played our first show - minus a drummer, plus a synth- in several months.  After such a long hiatus, it felt extaordinarily refreshing to step bac...
Posted by The Black and White Years on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 09:13:00 PST