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Boy In The Bubble

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About Me

“Boy in the Bubble play an arresting game of musical hopscotch…Alternating between soft and sighing, loud and sloppy, [singer Josh Seidenfeld] knows exactly where he's going—and he's intent on taking us with him. Call Songs From the City on the Sun indie-rock at a burlesque show. Call it David Bowie on the verge of a meltdown. Call it what you like, but don't miss this Sun set.”– Performing Songwriter

Boy in the Bubble is rough-around-the-edges indie rock that's sometimes ferocious, sometimes tender, and always compelling. This is music for art's sake that also knows how to shake its ass. BITB combines ambitious songwriting and immediately distinctive vocals with an engaging, energetic stage show. Download record that KCRW's Nic Harcourt has been playing on "Morning Becomes Eclectic" right here:

V4.4

Or, order the real deal, a CD of "Songs from the City on the Sun" --

Download a ringtone of "Handy"!
Handy

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/17/2004
Band Website: boyinthebubble.org
Band Members: Josh Seidenfeld: Vocals and Guitar; Oliver Future on everything else. OF is: Noah Lit, guitar, backing vox, and production; Jesse Ingals, bass (electric and upright) and absolute sense of musical direction; Jordan Richardson, drums and oh my god it hurts in the most delicious way; Josh Lit, keys and gorgeous sounds; check them out at http://myspace.com/oliverfuture
Influences: bowie, tom waits, louis armstrong, beatles, white stripes, the flaming lips, david garza, fiona apple, aphex twin, duke ellington, john stewart and stephen colbert, rufus wainwright, iggy pop, m. ward, franz ferdinand, the clash, wilco, jimi hendrix, muddy waters, radiohead, dylan, stones, pj harvey, mingus, black crowes, oliver future, billy joel, coltrane, guns and roses, old lenny kravitz, the pixies, blur, bjork, hank williams sr., robert johnson, the mountain goats, phillip glass, prince, queen, django reinhardt, sigur ros, stevie wonder, U2, andrew lloyd weber
Sounds Like:

Boy In The Bubble plays with one foot in the present and another planted solidly in the past. About half of the songs are raw rockers -- imagine a West Side Story knife fight between the children of Bowie, the Beatles, the Kinks, the Stones and T. Rex in one gang and Beck, Rufus Wainright, Radiohead, the White Stripes and PJ Harvey in the other (its sweaty and it might hurt a little, but its mostly just for fun.) ///---/// The rest of the songs are quieter: songs like "Stroll the Sun" are, well, a little like walking in space. That means lyrics that are both ambitious and simple, and songs that feel like the Flaming Lips, M. Ward, Josh Ritter, and sometimes even Joanna Newsom.
Record Label: Red Cat Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

East Bay Express Review!

This is from today's East Bay Express, the local weekly:"Frontman and sole songwriter Josh Seidenfeld delivers a fine surprise. Boy in the Bubble's distillation of glam, vintage pop, and '70s adult-or...
Posted by Boy In The Bubble on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:22:00 PST

Great Review in Performing Songwriter!

Performing Songwriter featured "Songs from the City on the Sun" this month. Here's the review, by Mare Wakefield:From the melancholy accordion line of "When You Walk Around This City" to the marching ...
Posted by Boy In The Bubble on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:39:00 PST

Free MP3s on Freeindie.com

Freeindie.com has us as a feature: "Kings of the Bay Area, Boy In The Bubble manages to maintain an edgy rock sound in their light folk songs. Lead singer Josh Seidenfeld belts out deep lyrics over a ...
Posted by Boy In The Bubble on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 10:07:00 PST

Viper Room Show with ATN Management!

Very excited to be playing next week at the Viper Room at an ATN Management showcase! My backing band will be Oliver Future and there will be some great bands like the Forward.And, well, in case you h...
Posted by Boy In The Bubble on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 06:30:00 PST

City Section Page One Photo in SF Chronicle!

I played at the Panhandle Bandshell, which is a really cool project where they made very nice bandshell out of dead cars and planted it in Panhandle Park, the coolest park in SF. This was more like b...
Posted by Boy In The Bubble on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 07:33:00 PST

KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic plays Handy!

Extremely exciting news: Nic Harcourt's "Morning Becomes Eclectic," a venerable show on LA radio station KCRW has been playing "Handy" from "Songs from the City on the Sun!" Nic's also mentioned the b...
Posted by Boy In The Bubble on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 03:45:00 PST

The Bay Bridged Love(d) BITB!

Catching up on my blog posts here...very exciting recent news that the Bay Bridged, one of the Bay Area's fabbest music sites/podcasts, featured Boy in the Bubble in its March Mix! Check out the show,...
Posted by Boy In The Bubble on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 03:37:00 PST