About Me
You may have heard The Swear on these TV shows:
Smallville (The CW), Rescue Me (FX), Roswell (The WB), Reunion (FOX), Life As We Know It (ABC), Wanted (TNT), Outward Bound (The Discovery Channel), various MTV programs, UPN Atlanta, Comcast On Demand and YouTube's most-watched web series, Lonelygirl15.
In these films:
Surreal (2007 New York International Independent Film & Video Festival), The Delivery Boy Chronicles, Cross Country and By Chance.
And live on these stages (partial list):
Vans Warped Tour, Red Gorilla Music Festival (Austin), Pianos (NYC), Arlene's Grocery (NYC), Snitch (NYC), Trash Bar (Brooklyn), Mobfest (Chicago), BMI's "8 off 8th" at Mercy Lounge (Nashville), Exit/In (Nashville), Gaylord Arena (Nashville), Bluebird Cafe (Nashville), Georgia Theater (Athens), 40 Watt (Athens), Jack Rabbits (Jacksonville), Fred's Speakeasy (Asheville), The Nick (Birmingham), New Brookland Tavern (Columbia), A1A Music Hall (Lexington), Blue Cats (Knoxville), The Handlebar (Greenville), Music Midtown (Atlanta), The Grammy Block Party (Atlanta), Atlantis Music Conference (Atlanta), Center Stage (Atlanta), The Masquerade (Atlanta), The Roxy (Atlanta), The Loft (Atlanta) with bands such as Paramore, Foo Fighters, The Living End, Bowling for Soup, Crossfade, Courtney Love, Concrete Blonde and The Subways.
The Swear is proud to be endorsed by:
Rolling Stone/Ray-Ban "Never Hide Your Music" finalist ++ John Lennon Songwriting Contest Grand Prize Winner ++ International Songwriting Competition Finalist and Honorable Mention ++ The UK Singer/Songwriter Awards Runner-up ++ BMI's "8 off 8th" showcase artist (Nashville) ++ Chosen by Billboard Magazine two years in a row as one of the top six independent artists in the South (for the Discmakers Independent Music World Series) ++ Taste of Chaos/MySpace Finalist for the Taste of Chaos Tour ++ Movie Tunes Indie 101 Featured Artist in Atlanta, NYC and LA ++ Arizona Jeans Radio Free Arizona Featured Artist ++ Top 50 Qualifier in the American Music Awards presents the Coca-Cola New Music Award ++ Ernie Ball Battle of the Bands 7 Finalist ++ Featured/Spotlight Artist on XM Radio, Sonicbids.com, Garageband.com, Buzzplay.com, NumberOneMusic.com and FreshTracksMusic.com ++ "Deadfall" demo charted in the Top 20 on FMQB, Clear Channel's The Album Network and UNCLE commercial specialty show playlists
Check out some recent press:
"Sometimes you just dig a good pop song where the guitarists are punching and jabbing through the melody and groove in a way that truly lifts things up. In this regard, Elizabeth Elkins and Jeremy Zamora are rock warriors with total command of meaty riffs, feedback swells, dynamics, and churning, crunching chords."
-Guitar Player
"Top Music Pick of the Day. The Swear's taut crunch and hooky howling has them well set up for a mainstream-radio future. Tracks like 'Chicago' and 'January' stand on a trad, concise but attitude-driven riff-rock foundation, singer Elizabeth Elkins offering a sliver of Distillers snarl doused in a bucket of '80s-prog vibrato."
-The Nashville Tennessean
"One of the top indie records of the year. A trend we'd like to see is Atlanta getting one of its many stalwart rock bands - Second Shift, The Whigs and The Swear come to mind - into the upper reaches of the charts. The Swear is terrific. Memorable guitar riffs and a thundering rhythm section careen behind Elizabeth Elkins' forceful vocals. The songs paint vivid portraits of envy, jealousy and the things we do for love and lust."
-Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"One of the year's Top 25 albums. Solid, scorching and sensual. So much power and ferocity...there's more emotion on this collection than a half-dozen major label releases from new, inferior bands. A breathless and mournful good time."
-Georgia Music Magazine
"One of the year's Top 17 albums (also featured in the Best of Atlanta 2006 and 2007). A combustible presence."
-Creative Loafing
"One of the Top 10 albums of the year. Wicked."
-Punk Globe (UK)
"Although, at first glance, they appear to be in a niche akin to The Sex Pistols, they are, in fact, a sensible bunch of instrumentalists with as much flare for song as any Nashville staffer. Everything about them screams loud but they are not noisy and could pull off an MTV Unplugged as gracefully as Nirvana."
-Lior Shamir, We Are Listening (UK)
"The Swear write some of the best songs in rock today."
-Aaron Hickman, Project 961 FM, Atlanta
"It's dark, it's real and it hits home. Elizabeth Elkins is a top songwriter on the verge of big things."
-Lollapalooza promoter Kip Schaumloffel, Chicago
"Number 47 on the Atlanta "It" List (joining Outkast, Sugarland, Ludacris and TI as the only musical acts on the list). This quartet turns out smart, catchy rock songs, as they proved on their punchy debut CD. Elizabeth Elkins nails down her tough-girl stance like a 21st-century Suzi Quatro; her slightly frayed delivery lends an extra note of authenticity to the memorable chorus of 'The Sleep Inside,' which favorably recalls Liz Phair's accessibly edgy moments. Jeremy Zamora confidently peels off sharp, catchy riffs, offsetting the radio-friendly polish of 'Last Breath'."
-The Sunday Paper
"It was less than a full song into The Swear's show opening for The Subways before I was sending off text messages to friends in other states reading 'I've found the new Brody Dalle'. If you've ever been a fan of a song, only to delve into it later and find that the lyrics and melody continue to come back to haunt you, you've found a new band to obsess on. 'January' has been that to me. It's one of those choruses made for nights when the rain literally saps the light from outside."
-Resonator Magazine
"Elizabeth Elkins is a force whose delivery and lyrics on songs like 'The Sleep Inside', 'January' and 'Deadfall' are as good as anyone in the rock game today."
-Earvolution.com
"The Swear's ballsy debut album hits with a mega-ton blast of guitar, drums, and Elkins' razor-edged vocals. Rough, demanding and alternately soothing and antagonistic, The Swear is unapologetically rock and roll, and Every Trick's A Good One is their declaration of such."
-Performer Magazine
"Thank God there is a rock band in town with enough balls to act like a rock band should. And it took a woman to do it. The Swear is fronted by Elizabeth Elkins, the no bullshit queen of the Atlanta scene. With vocals falling somewhere between Love and Stefani, Elkins leaves the Prada and the Prozac out in favor of the rock."
-Civilian Magazine
"Catchy, angular rock. The ferocious quartet is a heavy-handed punch in the gut and rocks much harder than many of the so-called 'heavy' bands on the map today."
-Flagpole
"Punky smashchords and Elizabeth Elkins' growl evoke the immortal Joan Jett."
-Macon Telegraph
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