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Stefanie Smith Band

About Me

The Ovenbird EP -- coming soon to a Stefanie Smith Band myspace page near you!! Keep checking.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 04/07/2005
Band Members: Stef Smith: acoustic guitar, vocals, piano

Amy Pardo: bass

Steve Pardo: lead guitar

Brian Fitch: drums

Influences: Fleetwood Mac,
Aimee Mann,
Wilco,
Sam Phillips,
Ben Folds,
The Beatles,
Iron and Wine,
Sufjan Stevens,
David Bazan,
Kathleen Edwards,
Hanne Hukkelberg,
Bjork,
Brandi Carlile,
Nickel Creek,
Jann Arden,
Death Cab for Cutie,
Sea and Cake,
the Weepies,
Joni Mitchell,
Bob Dylan,
Feist,
Damien Rice,
Rufus Wainwright,
Nick Drake,
Elliot Smith,
Billie Holiday,
Jim O’Rourke,
Carole King,
Ryan Adams

Sounds Like: heartbreak, marshmallows, and lazy afternoons.
Record Label: My Basement

My Blog

Coming Soon: The Ovenbird EP... get pumped up!

Hey all,Haven’t blogged for quite a while, so I figured it was about time to revisit my virtual journaling past. For those of you who don’t know, I have an EP due out within the next month...
Posted by on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:50:00 GMT

mysterious

- Below is an excerpt from an essay by Albert Einstein. Just sharing it because I find it beautifully eloquent, surprisingly poignant, and most of all, true. Anyone who has time to read the essay in i...
Posted by on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 16:58:00 GMT

good new and old things

the following are some of the better new things i've encountered recently...musically.-- the frames. awesome band out of ireland that i've listened to for a while, but just now am starting to apprecia...
Posted by on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:34:00 GMT

dreams

there's this poem by yeats...when you are old... it's what i thought of after this dream i had recently. in it, i was old and sitting in this equally old rocking chair on a porch somewhere in rural am...
Posted by on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 22:48:00 GMT

kerouac, dylan....generation beat superheroes

I've been reading Kerouac's On the Road, again... there was so much I missed the first time. And it hit me last night how much of his writing is just brilliant. His phrasing, the words he chooses to s...
Posted by on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 21:00:00 GMT

i want to fight

i've recently realized that there are so many people floating around that have no idea what they want... what they want out of life, out of faith, out of their friendships and out of their relati...
Posted by on Tue, 15 May 2007 07:55:00 GMT

david bowie as ziggy stardust

so, i got to see a fairly well known band (of montreal) tonight play at a fairly well unknown venue (studio a), and i came away with a musical dilemma - which, besides spiritual, is arguably the ...
Posted by on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 22:23:00 GMT

passion

i feel like blog space ends up being more of a "bitching" space. but so be it. i came to the realization today that it seems living with passion is a much more novel idea for many people than it is a...
Posted by on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 06:50:00 GMT

slime

let me preface -- this is not meant to be offensive to the entire male gender. just the marginal percentage to which it applies....which is quickly becoming the majority. well. alright then. to whom i...
Posted by on Sun, 10 Dec 2006 23:13:00 GMT

simplicity

simple music is sometimes so beautiful.  i.e., coldplay's x&y album, til kingdom come.  gorgeous.  i get so caught up in trying to write complex, intricate songs that i sometimes fo...
Posted by on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 19:39:00 GMT