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Sweet sweet tunes with beautiful double vocals are well showcased on The Only Sound, which is a gorgeous song perfect for a wintry day. Understated indie-jazz style is perfect and old-style beautiful in 'So Much For Romance'. It's impossible not to love this track and as it travels to it's big build up end, senses are filled with Paris in Springtime and black and white movies, making it a sure treat for the ears. -- The Jude
Remember that time the Cardigan's broke into the Velvet Underground's heroin stash and fell asleep winding up a music box and tinkering on a toy piano? The Antivillains do. In an age where girl-boy pop duos are the hippest of the hip, The Antivillains have a leg up on 'em all with the eerily similar, hauntingly gorgeous melodies of the brother-sister duo of Ben and Sarah Cohen. The two — along with drummer Sam Woldenberg — craft almost surreal, spacey, touching tunes that sparkle with charming pop hooks while drawing on a whole history of classic American music. Both vocalists have studied under Toledo's resident vocal jazz legend Jon Hendricks, and the careful precision of fine art jazz radiates throughout The Antivillains songs, providing a simultaneous feeling of fragile, yet well stacked musical composition.- ryan bunch music writer
"They offer something rarely seen in the clubs of Northwest Ohio. Something which I believe is technically referred to as, 'talent.' I immediately found their sound lovely and autumnal and smelling distinctly of something that is sweet."--John the Dog

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Member Since: 9/6/2005
Band Website: theantivillains.com
Band Members: Sarah Cohen, Ben Cohen, Sam Woldenberg, Mike Rogers and Nathan Cogan
Influences: Shared the stage with bands such as / the Twinemen / Saturday Looks Good To Me / Those Transatlantics / the Drawers / The Homeville Circle / the Dials / The Thunderbirds are Now / Stylex / Javelins / Oh My God! / many more
Sounds Like: Remains of The Grande Ballroom Detroit

Record Label: easy reader
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Record

...recently back in production... dont lose hope... songs sound like they need to... enduring quality and so on... to life.
Posted by the Antivillains on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 04:34:00 PST

AN OPEN LETTER TO GARRISON KEILLOR AND THE MIDWEST

It's been a quiet week in Toledo on the banks of the Maumee.Some of my earliest memories start with a line very similar to that. My sister Sarah and I were born in the early 1980's into a happy young ...
Posted by the Antivillains on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 08:33:00 PST

Interview with John the Dog

You can read the interview here.interview
Posted by the Antivillains on Sat, 24 Mar 2007 06:51:00 PST