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About Me

Timesbold pairs vivid, cunning lyrics with music that skillfully balances the rickety with the rich and the raucous with the ruminative. Lead-vocalist/lyricist Jason Merritt (a.k.a. Whip ) and multi-instrumentalists Tony San Marco, Tony "Levon" Leva, Jesse Sparhawk and Max Avery Lichtenstein (who also handles production duties) congregate in and around Tin Drum Studios just outside New York City, where they conjure up their compelling atmospheres of tone, texture, melody and noise. They draw from a palette of instruments that includes mellotron, mandolin, harmonium, horns, banjo, vibraphones, concert harp, bowed saw, lo-fi electronics, old vinyl and much more...

Timesbold / Jesse Sparhawk archived live performance on WNYC's SPINNING ON AIR

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/23/2005
Band Website: timesbold.net
Band Members: Tony Leva
Max Avery Lichtenstein
Jason Merritt
Tony San Marco
Jesse Sparhawk
Influences: garbage collectors, ditch diggers, chairs and feet, fruit and poision, leadbelly and the ol' soft shoe, barbed wire and clogged sinks, the descent of allette, check mate
Sounds Like: trees being felled on the moon, falling up...or the sound of chopping off your feet, and trying to dance
Record Label: tin drum recordings, zealrecords, glitterhouse
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

booking inquiries

for timesbold:US- [email protected] Henning Beste- proton booking      [email protected] for whip:US- [email protected] zeal records    ...
Posted by timesbold on Mon, 03 Sep 2007 02:47:00 PST

new timesbold tune

as promised, here is the completed studio version of the once hinted at"when i come around"....consider it a nod (and a bow) to the late mr. cash.....we'll leave up the DEMO version up for a little bi...
Posted by timesbold on Fri, 04 Aug 2006 06:16:00 PST

whip page

www.myspace.com/whiptimesbold in an effort to seperate church from state, there is now a whip page we think... you never know with that guy...
Posted by timesbold on Wed, 03 May 2006 08:59:00 PST

Timesbold live on WNYC radio & wnyc.org

WNYC (93.9 FM) is New York City's flagship public radio station, and we're honored that "Spinning On Air" host David Garland invited us into the studio to play a short-but-sweet set featuring some o...
Posted by timesbold on Thu, 23 Feb 2006 08:44:00 PST

about "Goodnight Irene"

back in early January the whole band was together at Tin Drum Studios to continue the work on our latest record. one evening a mighty rainstorm blew in, and with it came a funny little mood. so we d...
Posted by timesbold on Tue, 07 Feb 2006 11:38:00 PST

Timesbold is now available on iTunes...

dear friends, a good portion of our back catalog, including "Eye Eye" (which was never released in the U.S) and the hard-to-find "Once We Were..." 2004 tour e.p. are now availableĀ on iTunes and othe...
Posted by timesbold on Wed, 14 Sep 2005 09:55:00 PST

about the "When I Come Around" DEMO

we thought we'd shine a little more light on our creative process... this is a rough guitar demo J recorded (with Tony on banjo) of one of the song we're working on for the new record. come the 1st ...
Posted by timesbold on Wed, 24 Aug 2005 06:09:00 PST

about the "Fence Post" PREVIEW TRACK...

so, as a little experiment we've decided to post a "work-in-progress" version of one of the songs we'll be putting on our next record... we kinda like the idea that you can hear what we're working on...
Posted by timesbold on Mon, 22 Aug 2005 09:07:00 PST

latest mailing

hello dear friends... it's been a while since our last mailing, 'cause we believe in keeping quiet until the making of noise can be used to the greatest effect... but now there's a flurry of activit...
Posted by timesbold on Mon, 22 Aug 2005 08:58:00 PST

new record

so last weekend we started our new record.  it's going to be great.  we're very excited.
Posted by timesbold on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST