Alameda

Music:

Member Since: 6/21/2005
Band Website: alamedaband.com
Band Members: Allison - vocals, piano, keyboards * Christopher - vocals, guitar, mandolin * Lee - bass * Suzi - drums
Influences: These are but a few drops in our rock-n-roll ocean: the Kinks, Replacements, Guided By Voices, Pixies, Elliott Smith, Yo La Tengo, Ida, Rainer Maria, Gram Parsons, Wilco, Camper Van Beethoven, New Pornographers, the Zombies, M. Ward, Magnetic Fields, Husker Du, the Clash, Belle & Sebastian, Death Cab For Cutie, My Morning Jacket, Centro-matic, Ben Folds, Rilo Kiley, the Who, Big Star, Elvis Costello, Le Tigre, Prince, Minutemen, White Stripes, Rolling Stones, X, Descendents, the Hold Steady, Sleater-Kinney, Portastatic, Flaming Lips, Sun Kil Moon, Holly Golightly, Pavement, Magic Numbers, Dressy Bessy, Bright Eyes, Jonathan Richman/Modern Lovers, Sly and the Family Stone, Low, Slumber Party, Ramones, Velvet Underground, Jens Lekman, Curtis Mayfield, Otis Redding, Camera Obscura, Smokey Robinson, Aretha Franklin, Tom Waits, Cat Power, Nick Drake, Beatles, Home, the Pogues, Son Volt, Jenny Toomey, Tsunami, Jayhawks, Liz Phair, Fishbone, Buffalo Tom, Half Japanese, thee Headcoatees, Mission of Burma, Bob Dylan, Mike Watt, Sufjan Stevens, Iron & Wine, Buzzcocks, Clientele, Arcade Fire, Uncle Tupelo, Archers of Loaf, Crooked Fingers, Neil Young, Foo Fighters, Bikini Kill, Mason Jennings, George Harrison, the Creation, Lemonheads, Thelonius Monk, Superchunk, Tulip Sweet and Her Trail of Tears, Daniel Johnston, John Coltrane, Shins, Pee Shy, Consonant, K./beekeeper, Dinosaur Jr., R.E.M., Jimmy Cliff, Scout, the Go-Betweens, Shuggie Otis, Now It's Overhead, Bob Marley, Them, Stereolab, Built to Spill, Robyn Hitchcock, Miles Davis, the Breeders, Isobel Campbell, Pretenders, the Soviettes, Decemberists, Spinal Tap, the Catheads, Joan Jett, Bjork, XTC, Violent Femmes, Sam Cooke, Nirvana, Marvin Gaye, Tegan and Sara, Five-Eight, Spinanes, They Might Be Giants, Superdrag, James Brown, Tobin Sprout, Sonic Youth, Patti Smith, Bloc Party, Juliana Hatfield, P-Funk, Jen Wood, Skatalites, T. Rex, Joseph Arthur, Ray Charles, Comet Gain, Mirah, Alex Chilton, Bob Mould, Paul Westerberg, Ben Lee, Ween, Sean Na Na, Har Mar, Television, Postal Service, John Vanderslice, Sinead O'Conner, Spoon, Ani DiFranco, Cure, Sloan, Police, Jack Logan, Thin Lizzy, Detroit Cobras, Preston School of Industry, U2, Talking Heads, Queen, David Bowie, Dismemberment Plan, DEVO, Tall Dwarves, Johnny Cash, Sebadoh, Merle Haggard, Metric, Jimi Hendrix, Beastie Boys, Van Halen, the Kills / Discount, Willie Nelson, the Raveonettes, Radiohead, Led Zepplin, Stereolab, AC/DC, Matthew Sweet, Shadows of Knight, Mercury Rev, Motley Crue, Beethoven, Richard Thompson, Public Enemy, Monkees, RATT, Etta James, Captain Beefheart, Iggy Pop, Weezer, the Supremes, Jesus & Mary Chain, KISS, Frank Zappa, the Donnas, Outkast, Mekons, Roy Acuff, Sex Pistols, Billy Bragg, Dropkick Murphys, Peter Murphy, the Fall, Interpol, Bill Monroe, the Scorpions, Tito Puente, Pink Lincolns, the Queers, the Smears, the Beautys, Jimi Hendrix, Black Sabbath, Strokes, the Bugaloos, Circus Monkey, Sarah Silverman, community radio, found sound, bad karaoke, birds chirping, motorcycle hum, kitty purrs, and crashing waves on a beach.
Sounds Like: Piano, cello, mandolin flavored rawk! Alameda is an indie five piece rock and roll band and are versatile performing from small coffee house gigs and clubs to full on rock shows and concerts complete with windmills, scissor kicks, and some pogo. The band can also break it down playing acoustic shows of upbeat heart-on-sleeve pop songs for anyone who will listen.Songs: Go ahead and download them if you dig it. We'll change the tunes out from time to time. Stream us, make copies for your friends, play us on yer radio show, put us in yer indie movie soundtrack - VIVA LA FREE MUSICA!!Book us, put out our next recording. Drop us an email.Rock on Twin Cities! Roll Over Tampa Bay! I got my layout at 123layouts.com , andcheck out these Myspace Codes!

Record Label: Facefirst Records
Type of Label: None