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Giftshop

About Me

Hailing from New York City, Giftshop originated in the summer of 2007 as a collaboration between Meghan Taylor (lead vocalist for the Rochester-based band, Bee-Eater) and the former members of The Hi-Scores Matt Santoro (guitar), Damian Eckstein (bass) and Joel Basciani (drums). Their hybrid of indie and punk with pop hooks bring to mind powerful female fronted groups such as Joan Jett, Pat Benetar, Be Your Own Pet, The Devotchkas, and The Lunachicks. The newly minted foursome landed in Warren Street Studios which has produced hot tracks for artists such as Trent Reznor and Cyndi Lauper. It was there they recorded Peach Girl, Purchase, Boomer and 800 Million.
Giftshop is currently working on their Second EP.
Underground Photoshoot - by Damian Eckstein

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 09/08/2007
Band Website: www.giftshopnyc.com
Band Members:Meghan Taylor
Vocals
Matt Santoro
Guitar
Damian Eckstein
Bass
Joel Basciani
Drums
Jason "Sucksteak" Szkutek
Guitar
Influences: You're a smart person. I'm sure you can figure it out.
Sounds Like: music
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Help us win the New York Press - Best Local Band Poll!!

http://nypress.com/flex-126-new-music-competition.htmlIt takes but a few seconds to vote so please do so and help us win this thing. We will love you in more ways that I can post here legally. Giftsho...
Posted by on Fri, 11 Sep 2009 08:54:00 GMT

SEMI-FINALISTS

We've apparently won the last round of something of other and now we're going to the semi-finals, whatever that means. A humungous thank you goes out to all the beautiful folks who have been coming ou...
Posted by on Wed, 07 May 2008 14:39:00 GMT

Ok folks we’re on to round 3!

We won the last round in the Original Sesssions band contest thanks to all the great people who came out to show some love. Now we go on to round 3 where things get REALLY interesting. So come on out ...
Posted by on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:06:00 GMT

We won... on to round 2!

Thanks to everyone that came out to support us on Saturday for our Original Sessions Battle of the Bands contest. I'm pleased to tell you that we won and will be going on to round two of the competiti...
Posted by on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:17:00 GMT

Our First Gig!

Our first gig will be at The Lucky Cat in Williamsburg on November 3rd. Wish us luck!
Posted by on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:40:00 GMT

800 Million

Hey Y'all,Matt is going in to the studio tonight to record the guitar parts for the new Giftshop song, "Eight Hundred Million". Let's hope he doesn't f*ck it up.Giftshop
Posted by on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 09:23:00 GMT