Member Since: 6/9/2004
Band Website: jetscreamertx.com
Band Members: William Kapinos (guitar, vox) Samantha Moss (guitar)
drummers past, permanent or just doing us a favor, include: Alex Maples (SuperLoveAttack, Spitfire Tumbleweeds) John McCane (Zest of Yore) Billy Myatt (Dokodemo Doa) Justin 'J.C.'Collins (Burnt Sienna Trio, Spitfire Tumbleweeds) Mike Melendi (the Skin Trade, Polyphonic Spree) Jason McMullen (Raised By Tigers)
Influences: music we like to listen to in no form or order: noise, frequencies, feedback... sandy bull, beatles, dead c, mance lipscomb, new order, sonic youth, the fall, the ex-warlock trilogy (zz top, grateful dead, velvet underground), depeche mode, American Routes radio show on NPR, bobby dylan, clotaire k,ornette coleman, nick cave, birthday party, don cherry, billy holiday, pavement, neil young, the band, braintax, old country, mississippi john hurt, roky erickson, scratch acid, butthole surfers and basically anything in the long tradition of texas weirdness, joni mitchell, silver jews, mogwai, throbbing gristle, stravinsky, alan lomax recordings, my bloody valentine, charlie parker, sufjan stevens, einsturzende neubauten, hawk and a hacksaw, the stooges, (vo)boredoms, yo la tengo, the cramps, bluegrass gospel, brigitte fontaine, neil young, blue cheer, u.s.a, the cure, good hip hop, led zep, the smiths, outsider music,dirty three, harry pussy, kraftwork, miles davis, luna, bauhaus, cocteau twins, bobby bare, willie nelson, primal scream, teenage fanclub, smithsonian folkways label, 60s french pop and yé yé, talking heads, paul slaven's radio show sunday nights on KERA 90.1, faust, brian eno, sublime frequencies label, van halen, spacemen 3, francoise hardy, spiritualized, stockhausen, e.a.r., warda, wire, royal trux, joy division, radiohead, too short, johnny cash, guns n roses, charlambides, pavement, ghost, black dice, buffalo daughter, camper van beethovan, animal collective, trans am, the ramones, us maple, just about anything on drag city, loren mazzacane connor, gang star, opera, thinking fellers union, matt johnson (the the), heart, scraping metal, cocteau twins, tom waits, psyche rock, jackie o' mutherfucker, cat power, t rex, will oldham projects, merle haggard, knife in the water, wilco, enon, red house painters/ mark koselek, swans/gira, merzbow, pulp, de la soul, sun city girls/alan bishop, tindersticks, carter family, the tuna helpers, indian music, traditional and world music and everything else we like
we also want to say that denton music is where it's at
Sounds Like: what's been said by various critics, but we prefer you judge for yourself...
swervedriver, my bloody valentine, sonic youth, al jourgenson, led zeppelin, miss. john hurt, swamp rock, the gun club, some whisky addled blues guy in a knife fight with sonic youth, a swarm of bees, the breeders and ac/dc, motorhead covered by loop, mudhoney, the white stripes, the flamin' groovies, bill hick's waco routines, Lightnin' hopkins, psychedelic blooze rock, psychedelic desert music, chainsaw/powerdrill/electricity pylon, the janitors, a frankenstein mix of slowdive, 1000 homo djs and all of robert johnson's illegitemate children, muddy waters covered by big black, mogwai on steroids,Moins "hype" que The Kills, moins "low-fi" que The Immortal Lee County Killers, moins seuls que Bob Log 3, moins "root" que The Black Keys et moins exp�riment�s que le John Spencer Blues Explosion, frank black, queens of the stone age, danzig, the stooges with straw under their boots and a modern day steppenwolf, several people telling us we sound like we're on serious speed or psychedelics.
Record Label: starhead-BellaUnion, Hinterland-none
Type of Label: None