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Member Since: 8/3/2004
Band Website: eisley.com
Band Members:
Gritty pic from Spring tour. Click to read what's going on w/ Eisley.
Seattle - near Chop Suey..
San Fran. Great American Music Hall gig.
Full Band Live (electricity and distortion) Standard tour mode.
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Acoustic. Sundance/Fuse.
ACOUSTIC TOUR CLIP - CHICAGO
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Clip from Eisley's only ACOUSTIC tour - sandwiched in between The Fray & Mute Math Tours - Fall '07. This was one of 2 sold out shows back to back in Chicago. Note: Shot w/ cheap Sony camera. enjoy.
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Chauntelle DuPree Guitars
Garron DuPree Bass
Sherri DuPree Vocals/guitars
Weston DuPree Drums
Stacy DuPree Vocals/keyboards
Short Bio:
Eisley: Considered an indie on a major. Formed in 1997 in their bedroom after youngest sibling wrote their first song at 8, performed first show in '98, grow in local coffee house/rock venue, played 100's of shows as unsigned indie for 4 years ('98 - '02) in Texas, found and audience in Deep Ellum with Dallas, TX fans where label scouts sent rep's to see the band live showcasing in LA/NY Eisley signed w/ Warner Bros.2 EP's + 2 Full Lengths (+ several B-side) later, Eisley's steady growth and credibility as writers / performers comes from the live side (touring). The band's undaunted commitment to their own unique, visually imaginative brand has, perhaps, curbed access to mass homogenized portals such as FM radio, though, single - "Telescope Eyes" charted on Dallas rock radio (102.1 The Edge) as 24th most played song in 2003. Indifferent to industry boundaries / conventions, Eisley continues their expansion (invasion :-) centered around adherence to the their own creative style, devotion to song-crafting, commitment to on-line (relational, tangible) marketing, and an unquenchable passion for touring.Past tours include: Coldplay (Rush of BTH US/Canada tour), Brand New (Deja Entendu Tour), Snow Patrol (Final Straw Tour), Yahoo Sponsored Eisley headlining tour, New Found Glory (Catalyst Tour - 60 shows), Switchfoot (Nothing is Sound Tour), Taking Back Sunday (Louder Now Tour - Aus/UK), The Fray (How to Save a Life Tour), Mute Math (Reset Tour), plus TONS of Eisley headlining tours (Spring '08 "Combinations" tour) and festivals: Coachella, V-Fest (UK), Voo- Doo Fest, Reading and Leeds Festivals - UK. Eisley made their TV debut on Conan O'brien in August '07. Eisley is currently writing songs for record 3.
Influences:
Hey Panera Bread. Build one of your fine eateries in Tyler, TX, pls!
A Fraction of the music we listen to: Bands are listed in no order: The Beatles, Bjork, Radiohead, Jeremy Enigk, Pink Floyd, Mew, Kashmir, The Shins, Paul McCartney, Roy Orbison, Coconut Records, Midlake, Fleetwood Mac, The Cardigans, Travis, The Beach Boys, Deathcab, The Decemberists, Brighten, Bob Dylan, Arcade Fire, Jimmy Eat World, Sunny Day Real Estate, Neutral Milk Hotel, Movie sound tracks, 20's-30's-40's-50's-60's music, Neil Young, Bread, Eagles, Joni Mitchell, Coldplay (no matter how big they get, they still have cred' w/ us), Bright Eyes, Taking Back Sunday, Aaron Sprinkle, Sufjan Stevens, Richard Swift, Kent, Feist, Steely Dan, Modest Mouse, Billie Holiday, crickets at night :-), Sparklehorse, Coldplay, The Traveling Wilburys, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Say Anything, Kenny Loggins, Damien Rice, Kings of Convenience, fun pop music of any kind, Glenn Miller, Simon and Garfunkle, Phil Collins, Imogen Heap, The Format, Led Zeppelin, Iron and Wine, Envy Corp, Ben Folds, Portishead, Kings of Convenience, Sigur Ros, Rufus Wainwright, old movies, The Elected, Keane, Rilo Kiley, Etta James, Danny Elfman, James Taylor, the Judds, Elton John, Weezer, Third Eye Blind, Kenny Logins, The Judds, Gino Vanelli & Herbie Hancock (Weston:-), The Flaming Lips, all kinds of indie rock - pop, some classic rock, pop rock...on and on and forever.
Sounds Like: "INVASION"
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-----------Indie Rock, (on a major; but that's just a style vs status issue). Emotional but not Emo (stop saying emo). Pop but not so popular (Warhol did pop in a commercial way. Rauchenberg did pop in fine art way). Soul-ful but not Soul,Dream-pop, but not a Dreamsicle (well, maybe... if dark chocolate replaced the vanilla interior). Alt (because AP magazine says so.) but not alternative...Maybe if the Fathers of "Alt" endorsed it, but Stipe or Cobaine will never agree. Haunting but not in an evil way; not like a scary, scary clown. Folkish (sometimes) but not country. Catchy - like when you catchy a fishy. Moody but not e-winey. Melodic - yes.very. Rock but take it out of the rock-tumbler after only 3 days (more than that and they get too polished. some disagree. we like guitars in tune and all that shizzle)Radio Rock? Not so far; the machine says they're not "broad" enuf' lyrically, so maybe that's good; Radio = dumbie downio. sorry, but eisley's music does not compare to the man-rock drawl that dominates the current dying, radio regime (dominion?).College Radio? - yes. Web Radio? - yes. Some Serius and XM. Modern Rock? - hmmm... Modern Art began late 1800's and ended in the 1970's; Music and art are typically joint manifesto's. Organic: yes, but if an organ - a heart (aww...). Punk Rock? not, because yesterday, a punk rock fan left a message saying, "your music sucks, eat s___ and die"... nevertheless, it seems that the pop part of punk resonates w/ lots of pop-punkers.
Sounds like: a deep woods troll (a kind one; not mean) who was kicked out of his evil hovel (insubordination)... and, while wandering about the forest floor, he stumbled upon the one and only Elf tree (Keebler) in the thick, dark enchantment. He knocked and knocked, and finally heard a shout from above:"hey...don't you know there are grizzly's out there?" and just threw him a mint chocolate cookie. After eating the cookie, the Troll felt safe...so he sojourned on - deep, deep into the forest where he wallowed out a beautiful little home (a pine bed for slumbering); but rest assured, he always kept his GrizBlade 6000 zirconium coated machete blade beside him...just in case ole' Grizz' came a paw-flashin' in the night. "With lightbulbs in our pockets, we light the darkened forest".
INDUSTRY REVIEWS:
Entertainment Weekly Review "...the DuPree kids expand their sound - contrasting soaring, Radiohead-aping vocals with big-bottomed prog-rock grooves."- Kerrang London, England. "The girls' voices are as angelic as they are disturbing, pitch perfect - amazingly so, in fact - but their harmonies full of spectral sorrow and deep-rooted despair"- Texas Monthly "Combinations: is album two, and it's the proverbial time to deliver. That they do..."- Spin Magazine "Remember the '70s? Neither do they (eisley), but that doesn't stop 'em." Throughout Combinations, the DuPree sisters augment the slow-moving indie pop of their 2005 debut full-length with dramatic prog-guitar lines and shades of Fleetwood Mac's warm soft-rock glow."- Pop Matters "The album proves Eisley to be masters of melody, strong lyricists, and capable of evoking a whole combination of emotions."-Boston Globe Review "...Eisley is a darker and more aggressive than ever before..."-AP Magazine "Lone Star's plaintive pop stars muscle up, but stay lovely."-Houston Chronicle "...dirgelike lyricism against thrashing instrumentation that could fill an arena."-Absolute Punk.net "...Combinations proves to be their best work to date. ...Combinations proves to be the perfect end of summer/beginning of fall album. "
EP Releases "Laughing City" - 2003 Record Collection,
"Marvelous Things" - 2003 Warner Reprise.
"Room Noises" - 2005 Warner Reprise.
"Combinations" - 2007 Warner Reprise.
While in New York at the Filmore for CMJ (also during the Mute Math/Eisley tour), RecCenter did some sweet, intimate, lo-fi, live taping in a nearby park before moving to the Ben Sherman offices (yeah!) for the interview. clickpic.
No more will tour pics be buried in the depths TrolleyWood. Here are some "best of" moments from our happy tour with the beloved Mute Math's. It's a fat download so...wait for it. Feel free to use the pics as you wish. Thnx.
120 Seconds on Eisley. View and leave a comment pls. Thnx.
Sherri interview and video outside the Avalon in LA!
The tour w/ Mute Math was the best. Tons of sold out shows. A great music loving fanbase. Thanks for coming out - fans of both bands.
People Magazine "The best song, "Ten Cent Blues," could easily pass as a track from Rumours..."
Entertainment Weekly Review "...the DuPree kids expand their sound - contrasting soaring, Radiohead-aping vocals with big-bottomed prog-rock grooves."
Filter Magazine Clip "An inteview in NYC. See clips from acoustic show at Joe's Pub."
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AP Review "Lone Star's plaintive pop stars muscle up, but stay lovely."
Amazing review of Eisley show from Karrang in England.
Eisley was blasted into 1.5 million homes. The mix wasn't so great but, meh...par for late night TV. It was a blast.
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Stacy Interviews Stevie Nicks.
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Stacy was privileged to get to interview her favorite female artist - veteran Reprise label-mate... the legendary Stevie Nicks from Fleetwood Mac. FOAM Magazine (who r eisley fans) and WB made it happen. Pick up a copy to read the entire unedited interview.
Record Label: Warner/Reprise
Type of Label: Major
