Music:
Member Since: 06/05/2007
Band Website: youtube.com/apartmentmusic
Band Members: Sharon Van Etten, Luke Temple, Forest Fire, Ching Chong Song, Shilpa Ray of Beat the Devil, Mia Riddle, Scary Mansion, Rebecca Schiffman, Chris Garneau, James Levy, This is Ivy League, Creaky Boards, Turner Cody, Michael Leviton, The Babyskins, Dawn Landes, Rob Bronco, She Keeps Bees, The Beets, The Lisps, Huggabroomstik, Josh Ritter, Patrick Cleandenim, The Bones of Davey Jones, Kyp Malone, The Wowz, Au Revoir Simone, Eliot Krimsky, The Minetta, Chris Van Voorst Van Beest, Nicole Atkins, Cat Martino, Dibs, Balthrop Alabama, Air Waves, MGMT, The Flesh, Magic Magic, Gabriel Kahane, Caley Monahan-Ward, Aerial East, Gregory and the Hawk, Arizona, Salt and Samovar, Jason Trachtenberg, This Frontier Needs Heroes, Looker, Toby Goodshank, The Jones Street Boys, Dan Fishback, La Laque, The Subjects, Damon MacMahon, Cameron Hull, John Southworth, The Shaky Hands, The End of the World, and all the many others who have attended/played our apartment.
Influences: Mia Riddle's backyard party/show, Lach's Christmas Party 2003, Pop-In, The Sidewalk Cafe Open Mike 2002-2004, Blogotheque, "The One that Got Away" from the 1954 "A Star Is Born", the secret music party in "The Phantom Lady", Dylan vs. Donovan in "Don't Look Back", R. Crumb's illustrations of musicians playing together at home before recorded music or touring, Brian Wilson's solo "Surf's Up" in his house, that old footage of Django Reinhardt and Stephan Grappelli playing in an apartment while friends play poker, the KP Nuts Pete Dougherty/Kate Moss youtube video...
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Record Label: labels are too closed-minded to sign apartments