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Ash Avenue

About Me

Ash Avenue at Wise Fools' Pub 7/2006
Ash Avenue formed in April of 2005, but their history spans over a decade. Rob Merz, Jim Brennan and Chad Noyes met in college at Iowa State University in 1994. They immediately clicked over a mutual love for music and quickly started playing in a few bands together, eventually forming their first successful band, Good Things in 1996.
After a year of local touring, Good Things recorded their debut album, Fit the Groove, in 1997. They found some success throughout Iowa, Chicago, Missouri and Minnesota and also saw some radio play on college and small market stations across the mid-west. After a year or two of touring to support Fit the Groove, Good Things split up due to members in the band relocating to separate cities.
In 2001, Rob and Chad both moved to Chicago and right away they hooked up with Jim to start something new. While searching for a new drummer and singer, they were lucky enough to find two talented individuals; one being amazing drummer Michael Mooshey, formerly from the Chicago band The Fez (and before that Seventh Heaven). After several months and several arguments, Rob, Chad, Jim and Mike started to realize that their new singer had differences in the artistic direction in which to take the band, so they decided to part ways. As fate would have it, Jim was living with a friends younger brother, Johnny Alletto.
Johnny was the lead singer of the band Jank, was a trained accapella singer and had been performing acoustic shows for several years around the Chicago-land area. The five of them hit it off and started jamming on songs they had written over the last few years. After a couple months, a good collection of an albums-worth of songs had been born. They decided to name themselves after where it all started ... Ash Avenue; the street where Rob, Chad and Jim lived in college.
Unfortunately, the final band member line up was not settled completely. In the summer of 2006, Mike Mooshey decided to hit the road with a previous band and left Ash Avenue, remaining a great friend to the band. With multiple shows quickly approaching during the summer busy season, Ash Avenue needed a drummer fast. The band was connected with Eric Ellis who had recently moved to Chicago from Cincinnati where he had played in numerous local bands. Once in Chicago, Eric hit the ground running with Ash Avenue, and never looked back.
Ash Avenues brand of rootsy pop-rock has recently started to grab quite a following and their new, debut CD "And Then We Ignite" has garnered numerous rave reviews.
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Member Since: 02/10/2005
Band Website: www.AshAve.com
Band Members: John Alletto (lead vocals)
Rob Merz (guitars, vocals)
Jim Brennan (guitars)
Chad Noyes (bass)
Eric Ellis (drums)

Influences: We alll listen to a wide range of music, here are just a few: Wilco, Coldplay, Guster, The Beatles, Ryan Adams, Radiohead, Train, Goo Goo Dolls, Beck, Death Cab for Cutie, Weezer, The Grateful Dead, The Allman Brothers Band, The Killers, Pearl Jam, The Shins, The Strokes, Ben Folds, and many more
Sounds Like: Our sound varies from song to song, but the comparisons we get the most are: Gin Blossoms, Wilco, Guster, Pat McGee Band, Pete Yorn

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Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

New Song Posted! - "On a Cloud"

Hey Everyone, We're on cloud 9...The powers that be at MySpace have let us post a new song...thanks Tom!  The song is called On A Cloud - hope you like it! -The boys of Ash Ave    
Posted by on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:29:00 GMT

Ash Ave. featured on IndieRadioChattanooga.com!

Whats up Everyone, IndieRadioChattanooga.com featured "Mistake Me Home" on a show called The 6 Pack.  Check it out!http://tlpshow.com/2008/02/08/6pk-042/6pk-042: Coming In from ChattanoogaFe...
Posted by on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:07:00 GMT

FREE Download - Ash Ave. featured Rock artist @ myCoke.com

Hey Everyone! Check out myCoke.com - Ash Avenue is the featured Rock artist! You can go to the website and download FOR FREE the song "Collapse" off of our new CD "And Then We Ignite" between now and...
Posted by on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 14:54:00 GMT

CD of the Day!

Hey Everyone, Or debut CD "And Then We Ignite" was recently reviewed by AbsolutePowerpop.com.  Check it out!  
Posted by on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:54:00 GMT

Ash Ave. on iTunes!

Friends of Ash Ave.An exciting day is upon us.  Our debut CD "and then we ignite" is now available on iTunes!  Click on the link to access the iTunes Store and download your favorite Ash Ave...
Posted by on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 20:50:00 GMT

3rd Eye Blind Tickets for July 24th at The Rave in Milwaukee

We are playing a show with 3rd Eye Blind at The Rave in Milwaukee on Tuesday night July 24th. We have tickets available for $20. Feel free to contact us and we can go through the details of payments...
Posted by on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 09:14:00 GMT

Ash Avenue filming for Design on a Dime this Friday

Our guitarist, Rob, is going to be on the HGTV network show, Design on a Dime.  They incorporated the band into the show and did some filming of us at our last show.  Now they want...
Posted by on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 11:13:00 GMT

In the Studio Recording Our First Album

Wanted to let everyone know that we started recording our first full length studio album.  We started on it in November and will be working on it for the next couple of months.  We are plann...
Posted by on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 18:43:00 GMT