Member Since: 8/18/2007
Band Website: http://www.purevolume.com/federalstatelocal
Band Members: NATHAN "Yip Yap" FLECKENSTEIN:
Piano, organ, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, mandolin, singing, claps, ooohs and ahhhs.
MATHEW "Knapsack" WOJCIK:
Acoustic guitar, electric guitar, singing, organ, claps, harmonica, ooohs and ahhs.
GIANNI "Race Track" SARMIENTO:
Acoustic guitar, singing, harmonica, piano, claps, ooohs and ahhhs.
BRENNA PRITCHARD:
Violin, backing vocals, oohs and ahhhs, claps, harmonies.
PHIL AULIE:
Drums, uke, some backing vocals, oohs and ahhs, claps, harmonies.
DOUG PENA:
Bass, backing vocals, oohs and ahhhs, claps, harmonies.
Influences: Matthew Squires, Philip Woodbury, SuperHouse, Bridges, Marcus Rubio, Oh No! Oh My!, Okkervil River, Bye Bye Tiger, Electric Toy Danger, The El Guapos, Little Islands, Little Triggers, Bob Dylan, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Beach Boys, They Might Be Giants, of Montreal, Beirut, Arcade Fire, Franz Ferdinand, The Killers, Shiny Toy Guns, Angels and Airwaves, The Beatles, The Long Goodbye, The White Stripes, Rocco Deluca, Andy McKee, Wolf Parade, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Final Fantasy, The Velvet Underground, Peter Paul and Mary, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, The Moldy Peaches, Kimya Dawson, Pete Doherty, Adam Green, Donovan, The Unicorns, Islands, Belle and Sebastian, Cat Stevens, Charles Manson, Daniel Johnston, The Flaming Lips, The Magnetic Fields, The Mountain Goats, The Shins, Sufjan Stevens, The Zombies, Page France, Death Cab For Cutie, Beat Happening, The Libertines, Dirty Pretty Things, The Dandy Warhols, Frank Sinatra, Baby Shambles, Margot & The Nuclear So and So's, Blitzen Trapper, Noah & The Whale, Islands
Sounds Like: nothing you've ever heard before... but not in a pretentious kind of way, we just sound really weird.
Record Label: none
Type of Label: Unsigned