Member Since: 9/4/2007
Band Website: myspace.com/blacktopmusical
Band Members: Christopher Belanger, Jake Neher, Ron Mallinger, and Ryan Lane
Influences: Elliott Smith, Damien Rice, Sufjan Stevens, Josh Ritter, Gregory and the Hawk, The Beatles, Thrice, Pedro The Lion, Bright Eyes, Cursive, Good Old War, Dustin Kensrue, The Cure, The Dears, Arcade Fire, Ben Folds, The Swell Season, Ingrid Michaelson, Imogen Heap, Buddy Holly, Simon and Garfunkel, Denison Witmer, Circa Survive, Iron and Wine, Paperface, Okkervil River, Stevie Wonder, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Danny Elfman, The Smoking Popes, William Fitzsimmons, Joshua Radin, Bayside, Craig's Brother, No Use For A Name, The New Amsterdams, Jeremy Enigk, David Bazan, As Tall As Lions, Horse Feathers, MeWithoutYou, The Snake The Cross The Crown, The Weepies, Douglas Coupland, Albert Camus, Franz Kafka, Kurt Vonnegut, C.S. Lewis, Gregory Galloway, Nick Hornby, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Knut Hamsun, Friedrich Nietzsche, Immanuel Kant, Barack Obama, Aristotle, Plato, Socrates, Johannes Brahms, Ayn Rand, George Orwell, J.D. Salinger, Richard Linklater, Cameron Crowe, Michel Gondry, Tim Burton, Zack Braff, Woody Allen, Charlie Kaufman, Diablo Cody, Fred Savage, Rob Bell, Judd Apatow, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Bret the Hitman Hart, Julie Delpy, Donatello, Herman Hesse, Dan Brown, Eddie Money, and Michael Bolton.
Sounds Like: The universe expanding
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None