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About Me

The New Messengers rock. They have great songs with the stuff most rock bands forget to include, like melodies and harmonies, and lyrics that go beyond boy girl problems. Its obvious what their record collections are full of: the solid classics- Neil Young, Big Star, Television, and the hippest indies- Pavement, Belle & Sebastian, the Flaming Lips, but they somehow manage the neat trick of sounding like contemporaries, instead of derivative.

I saw them four times while I was [in Chicago], and they were great every time. They seem to not only rock, but to actually have fun doing it, which is surprisingly contagious.

Cotton Percy - Release Magazine

Photos by Motionsharp Photography

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/21/2005
Band Members:
C. Fraher - ex Technical Jed (spinArt), Dynamic Truths (Merge); guitars, vocals.... Jamison Spencer– bass, vocals.... Jessica Fitzgerald - keys + percussion....Kris Scott – trap and vox....plus Frankie and Kenny, aka the Horns of Plenty
Influences: Adios Pantalones, Can, Concrete Blond, Dim Sum Clip Job, Dynamic Truths, Hotel Lights, Hippy with Flower, Kinks, Big Star, Flaming Lips, Beulah, Television, Mahalia Jackson, Polvo, Joe Strummer, Neil Young, Miguel Urbiztondo
Sounds Like: "...if the Archies had been the band that hung out with Andy Warhol..." - Ritt Deitz
Type of Label: None

My Blog

New tune up "Beauty and Light"

It's a little rant called "Beauty and Light".The myspace copy is shit. You'll want this copy for the ipod:http://thebellavia.com/taxi/audio/beautyandlight.mp3
Posted by the New Messengers on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 01:43:00 PST

Kris Scott in the house

So, we lost Erik in a beer garden accident (more on that later) and have enlisted Kris Scott of the Tables as our new skinmeister. He's a wildcat from Houston (just like aforementioned E.) and swings ...
Posted by the New Messengers on Thu, 24 May 2007 11:50:00 PST

Tabitha got horny

I just posted a remix of Tabitha featuring horns, jaw harp, and bass harmonica tracks courtesy of Paul Von Mertens of Poi Dog Ponder, Brian Wilson and a miliion other cool studio gigs. It's available ...
Posted by the New Messengers on Tue, 01 May 2007 11:43:00 PST

New tune up

There's a new tune up. It's called "Tabitha".
Posted by the New Messengers on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 06:32:00 PST

French Kiss Coma

the French Kiss Coma boys drove up from Charleston, S.C., to document their rockness here last week. We spent 4 days to track and mix 9 songs. I went back a few days later and mixed the thing from sta...
Posted by the New Messengers on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 01:39:00 PST

Blood brothers

The winter doldrums have set in here and we've lost a tach of momentum. That's not enough news to merit a blog post, so I'll share a story about my cat.So, I guess any of you who have a cat can attest...
Posted by the New Messengers on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 09:42:00 PST

French Kiss Coma

French Kiss Coma will be coming to Chicago to record their next record with me in my studio. Tracking will begin on or near the 29th of Dec and wrap up on or before the 6th January. We're also doing a...
Posted by the New Messengers on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 10:25:00 PST

Another new one + yacht rock

Here's one we did earlier tonight in rehearsal, "Displacement".enjoy...and this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnqOg6F9lak
Posted by the New Messengers on Thu, 16 Nov 2006 09:59:00 PST

New song up

It's called "the Albatross" and can be downloaded temporarily.
Posted by the New Messengers on Fri, 10 Nov 2006 12:58:00 PST

a song for Becky

Back in like February, I did a madlib love poem. It had been recommended in a blog by our myspace friend Becky. She asked me to make it into a song, and I finally had time to work on it. The lyrics ar...
Posted by the New Messengers on Mon, 23 Oct 2006 10:03:00 PST