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Trolley

It's a PowerPopMod Explosion!!!

About Me

Trolley is a power pop mod combo based out of Milwaukee, WI, that regularly tours the midwest and beyond. They have toured with the likes of New Found Glory and Reel Big Fish and have shared the stage with Dick Dale, Los Straightjackets, Cotton Mather and many like-minded pop-freak outfits. Trolley has played Austin's South By Southwest and Toronto's North By Northeast, as well as Milwaukee's Summerfest and Chicago's International Pop Overthrow. With four cds and one 45 to their credit, Trolley entered Madison's Smart Studios to complete mixdown on their latest cd, "Last Chance Dance", with engineer Mike Zirkel, who has worked with Garbage and The London Suede. Combining all the great influence of sixties pop and mod along with seventies punk and new wave, "Last Chance Dance" is truly a gem for the ages. Trolley is currently working on their as-yet-untitled third full-length cd with Ryan Weber and Nick Sanborn of Milwaukee's Decibully. With a kitchen-sink production and Trolley's trademark melodies, harmonies and charging guitars, this one's gonna be a BLOWUP!!!

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Member Since: 7/31/2005
Band Website: cdbaby.com/cd/trolley1
Band Members: Nick Zahn - Traps, Terry Hackbarth - vocals and bass, Mike Perotto - vocals and guitars, Paul James Wall - vocals and guitar
Influences: Big Star, Beatles, Bangles, Buzzcocks. anything that start's with a "B".
Sounds Like: The Shins, Cotton Mather, The Buzzcocks, The Byrds, The Beatles, Blondie, The Bee Gee’s, Elvis Costello and the Attractions, The Turtles, The Jam, Big Star, The High Dials, The Lilys, Badfinger, The Beach Boys, The Zombies, The Hollies, Buddy Holly, The Ventures, Phil Spector, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Blur, The Last, The La’s, Joe Jackson Band, The Purple Hearts, The Buckinghams, The Beau Brummels, The Rain Parade, Let’s Active, The dB’s, Guadalcanal Diary, Guided By Voices, The Ceasars, Redd Kross, The Posies, Sloan, Apples In Stereo, The Undertones, The Raspberries, The Ramones, 20/20, Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians, R.E.M., Plasticland, The Kinks, The Sorrows, The Move, Mojave 3, The Creation, The Who, XTC, The Smoke, Squeeze, Magazine, The Monkees, Ennio Morricone, Nino Rota, Martin Newell, Nada Surf, Lulu, Sandie Shaw, Ronettes, The Shangri-la’s, Flamin’ Groovies, Green, Teenage Fanclub, Bruce Springsteen, The Clash, The Only Ones.
Record Label: Easter Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

New Christmas cd review!

This Milwaukee-based band contacted us to make sure we knew they were out there with this six-song holiday EP, apparently first released way back in 1997. Despite all the time gone by, they're still w...
Posted by Trolley on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 11:52:00 PST

Locust St. Festival

Vital Source Magazine just had a mention in the paper about our show at Locust St. Fest: "The next few hours pass in an undistinguished blur; nevertheless, a few highlights manage to pull away from th...
Posted by Trolley on Sun, 02 Jul 2006 02:36:00 PST