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Richard Turgeon

Slacker rock for the masses.

About Me


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Member Since: 9/2/2005
Band Website: This is the official website for RT music.
Band Members: Johnstown is:
Richard Turgeon working on recordings for the time being.
Influences: '90s indie rock like Nirvana, Dinosaur Jr., Pavement, Breeders, Sebadoh, Weezer, Juliana Hatfield, Replacements, Foo Fighters, Green Day, Urge Overkill, Flaming Lips, GBV, Luna, Modest Mouse, Sunny Day Real Estate, They Might Be Giants, Veruca Salt. Timeless bands like Sun Kil Moon, Karate, Wilco, R.E.M., Police, Ramones. Solo heroes like Jonathan Richman, Tom Petty and Johnny Cash.
Sounds Like: A loserish white guy making rock songs about failure, inadequacy and discontent.
Record Label: Autogod Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Watch our new video on YouTube - both versions

The longer version is our attempt at sketch comedy, then it leads into the music part of the video--the "director's cut."The shorter version is just the straight-up music video--the "theatrical releas...
Posted by Richard Turgeon on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 04:13:00 PST

New EP "Penultimate" now available

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Posted by Richard Turgeon on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:22:00 PST

Photos from 12-9-06 Hotel Utah show with Eric Gaffney/Sebadoh and Johanna Kunin

Click here or copy/paste the following link into your browser's address field:http://web.mac.com/turg2323/iWeb/Johnstown/Hotel%20Uta h%2012-9-06%20with%20Eric%20Gaffney-Sebadoh%20and%20Johanna% 20Kunin....
Posted by Richard Turgeon on Sun, 10 Dec 2006 01:56:00 PST

Johnstown and Tenderfew Interviewed on Tower Records Podcast

Hostess Misha interviewed Johnstown's Rich, Chip, Jason and Peter about love, life and song on "Belly of the Bay," a Bay Area live music scene podcast hosted by Tower Records. Also featured on the sho...
Posted by Richard Turgeon on Wed, 04 Oct 2006 10:52:00 PST

Johnstown's now on LastFM

I just posted the whole J-Town catalogue to LastFM, a very nice UK music community site. Please visit this page and (free) sample J-Town songs to help spread the word about our very important cause--R...
Posted by Richard Turgeon on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 12:55:00 PST

San Fran Chronicle gives Johnstown 'Download of the Week'

Scroll to the end of the link below for the write-up, or read the excerpt below.Thanks, Bill Picture, Pop Beat columnnist for the SF Chronicle:http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2 006/07/...
Posted by Richard Turgeon on Sat, 15 Jul 2006 02:48:00 PST