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Sweetness

Biff bang pow pop etc etc etc

About Me

From the land of sun and surf comes Sweetness. Three guys and a gal who ruthlessly pillage from only the finest pop music of the last five decades, strip it down to its essential hooks and curves, and meld it with lyrics about the longings, the pains, and the stupor of euphoric bliss that is life-in-your-twenties. No styles are safe; Motown meets indie rock, folk meets honky tonk. It’s not pure confectionary syrupy pop, it’s shiny and dirty, all about the highs of the young squandering life. It’s like The Replacements tearing through the Belle & Sebastian songbook.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/2/2004
Band Website: sweetnesstheband.com
Band Members: Chente Marie Ryu Hinjoo
Influences: Adams Albarn Armstrong Baker Baptista Beattie Blake Bowie Bragg Brownstein Brubeck Butler Byrd Campbell Chilton Cobain Cocker Costello Coxon Dando Davies Drake Dylan Edmonds Everly Fletcher Fogerty Frehley Gallagher Gaye Getz Gilberto Ginn Gore Green Guthrie Hatfield Hendrix Holly Jagger Jamerson Jobim Joel Know Lara Lee Lennon Linton Love MacGowan Marr McCartney McGinley Momtchiloff Morrissey Murdoch Nelson Parsons Powell Regina Richards Robinson Robuck Rose Sandoval Shields Slash Smith Smith Squire Stinson Stradlin Sumner Tucker Waits Ween Weiss Westerberg Wilson Yorke Young
Sounds Like: Heavenly vs. Satanic Majesty's Replacements
Record Label: CBK
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Live at Hot Monkey Love Cafe

Videos by vMix Member: Sweetness...
Posted by Sweetness on Fri, 16 Jun 2006 01:36:00 PST

taking this month off

sweetness won't be playing shows for a few weeks because sweetness has been a bad girl and now sweetness has to stay home and stay in her room.  expect new songs when sweetness re-emerges.  ...
Posted by Sweetness on Mon, 10 Oct 2005 10:10:00 PST

100 days of sloth

It's just about 100 days till my birthday... my one wish is that I knew how to be productive at work rather than just drone constantly on the intraweb. This, dear friends, is how our culture removes y...
Posted by Sweetness on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

attn: friends

This is Chente. Rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated. To those that miss me, I miss you even more. And though the two-headed dragon of corporate employment has tried to destroy me, and...
Posted by Sweetness on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

""

How many times have I wondered if it is really possible to forge links with a mass of people when one has never had strong feelings for anyone.... If it is possible to have a collectivity when one has...
Posted by Sweetness on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Hollwood pwn3d by Sweetness.

  Well, not really.  But take a gander at these developments: 1) For the second straight release, the inimitable Rodney on the ROQ, the Mayor of the Sunset Strip, is playing one of our songs...
Posted by Sweetness on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Buy a CD!!

http://hotfridge.com/sweetness/?affID=swe283
Posted by Sweetness on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Ashtray Floors CD

It's made, it exists, please listen to it if you can.  I would try to explain it but I don't quite understand all of it yet myself.  But, I should tell you it is dedicated to the breathless,...
Posted by Sweetness on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

tour

portland, davis, sacremento, berkeley... maybe seattle.
Posted by Sweetness on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

ichi

we're going to LA in the morning to be on TV, on the USA Netowrk... too bad it's not with Rhonda Spheers on "USA UP! All night"
Posted by Sweetness on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST