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About Me

A controlled insanity, grrRoPoLis, has been creating music since 2004. They started as an indie reggae cover band and morphed into an experimental garage blues band. grrRoPoLis has played many venues from NYC to Chicago, and we're ready to come to your town. Email us at grrropolis{at}gmail.com for booking or just send us a message. Our new album will be officially released in September. GrrRoPolis

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Member Since: 6/20/2004
Band Website: grrropolis.net
Band Members: Michael F.H. Cunningham - (vocals, guitar, keys, whimsy) Ryan Eardley - (bass, thunder, vocals, historian) Pat Wieland - (hits pots, pans and other stuff) Dustin Anderson - (guitar, white-noise, wonderment)
Influences: Big Daddy Kane, Nate Mahren, Tones On Tail, Queen, RL Burnside, Otis Taylor, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Television, Jim O'Rourke, Serge Gainsbourg, Blossom Dearie, '70's Local Newscast Rock & Roll backround music from hard hitting news teams, Iggy Pop, The White Stripes, Butter 08 (especially the song "Degobrah"), Grandaddy, Earlimart, Elliott Smith, TMBG, Ween, Wire, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Part 6, Bill Cosby, Bing Crosby, Jeff Buckley, Jeff Beck, Beck, Cake, Suzanne Vega, The Moldy Peaches, Toby Goodshank, Jeffrey & Jack Lewis, The Webb Brothers, The Jam, Led Zeppelin, The Make Up, Jimi Hendrix, Motherbird, Quasi, Fela Kuti, Bob Marley, Juana Molina, Lach, Dust A.C., our folks, our mates, our loves, family, topical issues, topical creams, elvin time, the 70's, the 80's, the 90's, the 00's, the tv show "Perfect Strangers", Joe K, Compton A$$ Larry, Patti Smith, Talking Heads, Throbbing Gristle, the word "redonkulous", the word "schpadoinkle", mota, Random-McNally, Rastafarians, grease lightning.
Sounds Like: self-medication and jollies, don't forget to get your jollies
Record Label: Punching Bee Music Collective
Type of Label: None

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Interview - Recoil Magazine

grrRoPoLisinterview by Nick StephensonGrand Rapids rockers GrrRoPoLis could have an "R" in their name for each incarnation the band has gone through since high school friends Michael Cunningham and Ry...
Posted by grrRoPoLis on Sat, 08 Sep 2007 05:10:00 PST

Nate Mehren produces our music and he can produce your’s too! And your’s! Hey, good to see you!

Nate Mehren produced our first 5 song e.p. Werk In Prague in 01/05. He was done with it quick fast and we were pleased as plums to have music to hand people at shows. We then started to play...
Posted by grrRoPoLis on Sat, 18 Aug 2007 01:08:00 PST

icon dance party

    dance bitches dance
Posted by grrRoPoLis on Sun, 27 May 2007 05:41:00 PST

Top 4 ?

We love all of you. One at a time.
Posted by grrRoPoLis on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 08:01:00 PST

Mr. Michael Cunningham interviewed and quoted in G.R. Press

Jammies honor Joneses for best local album Wednesday, February 14, 2007 By Troy Reimink The Grand Rapids Press A popular phrase Tuesday night was, "Who needs a Grammy when you can have a Jammie?" ...
Posted by grrRoPoLis on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:22:00 PST

A little less grain alcohol a little more fun Interview - Annex 22

http://www.annex22.com/01.30.07--GrrRoPoLisInt.html Let me take inventory while I piece back together the bits of brain I have left from my interview: J-Lo is talent-less and needs an auto-tuner const...
Posted by grrRoPoLis on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:33:00 PST

Shows, shows, and more shows

We are given the masses of West Michigan many free shows in October and November. Including, a Katrina relief show at the Emerald Theater in Detroit ($10, but these people still need your help), The ...
Posted by grrRoPoLis on Mon, 17 Oct 2005 08:05:00 PST

We're not fucking robots

Just to clear up any misconceptions.
Posted by grrRoPoLis on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Contact us via e-mail

To contact us: Email - [email protected]
Posted by grrRoPoLis on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST