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High School Sweethearts

'Get With It!'

About Me

The High School Sweethearts got started in the late 1990s with our rock n roll/power pop-garage single "Find A Way b/w Single White Female' (Get Hip Records) and have made it our mission to have a down and dirty good rock ‘n roll time ever since. We pack our raucous guitar fueled rock ‘n roll with hooks and riffs, sweeten it with catchy 'Brill Building' melodies and refuse to sacrifice either. Most of all we respect the importance of a good song, without ever taking ourselves too seriously to have a good time. Our 50's pop, 60's garage and 70's punk influences converged on our our well received debut full length "Passing Notes" (Get Hip Records) , and we can also be heard on several compilation offerings including the 'A Fistful of Rock n Roll 4' series (TeePee Records), the 'Rock n Roll Au-Go-Go' series (Devil Doll Records), ‘How Many Bands Does It Take To Screw Up a Blondie Tribute?’ (Sympathy for the Record Industry), ‘Garage Justice Volume 1’ (Deep Eddy Records) and the Brutarian Magazine comp, " It Came From Beyond". Our latest album 'HEELS 'n' WHEELS' ( Get Hip Records) was a Little Steven's Underground Garage favorite and is available through the label (www.gethip.com) and through various distributors such as Bomp!, amazon.com etc, or lo and behold you can even just ask for it if you shop for music the old fashioned way- in a record store!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/25/2004
Band Website: hssweethearts.com
Band Members: CYNTHIA SANTIGLIA- Vocals/ tambourine/JOHN STEELE-Guitar / PAIGE SIXTEEN-farfisa/backingvocals/ BILL GILL-Guitar/SPECIAL GUEST SWEETHEARTS: DAVE RICK-bass/ROGER MURDOCK-drums............................................... ............................................................ .........................................................ALU MNI (and occasional HS Sweethearts) include:.........................................JEN BROWN, currently of The Priscillas, on Farfisa--- DAVE WECKERMAN, currently of The Gillmen and formerly of The Feelies, Wake Ooloo, Yung Wu etc, on Drums---- JAHNA RAIN, currently of The Demands and The Miscreants, on Bass--- DENNIS ZYLA, currently of The Shaveks, on Drums--- ARI KATZ, currently of Ms TK and The Revenge, formerly of Lifetime and ZeroZero on Drums--- TANNIS KRISTJANSON, currently of Ms TK and The Revenge, formerly of ZeroZero on VoxOrgan/Farfisa---
Influences: 50's pop, 60's garage, 70's punk........................................................ ......... ............................................................ ....................................................We've been honored to share stages with rock n roll legends, exciting contemporaries, and some of the very best up and comers. Among them are......................................................... .......................................... The Dickies, The Fleshtones, Electric Frankenstein, Robert Gordon, Dead Moon, The Charms, Flat Duo Jets, The Martinets, The Swingin' Neckbreakers, Cherry 13, My Chemical Romance, The Woggles, The Creatures, The Upper Crust, The Insomniacs, Wide Right, D Generation, The Downbeat 5, The Kowalskis, Jayne County W/The Amazing Cherubs, The Lawn Darts, Hasil Adkins, The Cynics, The Toilet Boys, and The Queers
Sounds Like: "Farfisa-fueled garage pop that takes Spectorian girl-group anthems and swathes them in armor instead of basting them with a thin candy shell. John Steele (Electric Frankenstein) writes hook-filled punk pop gems ala Sex Pistols and Ramones that are the perfect vehicle for co-writer/vocalist Cynthia Santiglia's Blondie-tough persona..."----- Bill Holmes (Bucketful of Brains, 2000)
Record Label: Get Hip Records www.gethip.com
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Website Adieu

It wasn't our intention to lay to rest the High School Sweethearts' website. I know I like to look at sites for bands that aren't all that active or have evolved or morphed...so I wanted to keep ...
Posted by High School Sweethearts on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 05:00:00 PST

Have a great 2008!

  It's been awhile since we posted anything here ...so what better time than now! We wanna wish you all a really happy new year filled with fun, good health, good head, excellent weather, ch...
Posted by High School Sweethearts on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:33:00 PST

The Royal Purple

Cynthia joined The Royal Purple to sing a tune, ' I Tried To Make You Happy',  on their latest recording: Transcendental Medication!  Check out The Royal Purple here! www.myspacehttp:/...
Posted by High School Sweethearts on Thu, 22 Jun 2006 01:02:00 PST

HSS LIVE on WFMU SATURDAY 7/16

Check out our  live set on WFMU! Terre T's Cherry Blossom Clinic Saturday 7/16/2005  3-6 PM.  91.1 FM in the NY metro area, or online from anywhere at www.wfmu.org.  (s...
Posted by High School Sweethearts on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Heels n Wheels LP

If you want it on vinyl, it's available now. Ask at a store that still orders LPs ( often too hard to find lately!!) or directly from the label: www.gethip.com Thanks!  ...
Posted by High School Sweethearts on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Site back up

The High School Sweethearts website is finally back up ! I'll be updating soon but if you haven't seen it at all yet, at least the basics are there.... www.hssweethearts.com
Posted by High School Sweethearts on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Wow! What a great night

Thanks to all who came out to our record release party for Heels n Wheels! The bands were all fantastic and The Woggles kept the party going till the wee hours. We played thirteen songs, some old and ...
Posted by High School Sweethearts on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Record Release Show This Friday!

Celebrating the release of HEELS 'n WHEELS Friday 4/22 At Maxwell's in Hoboken NJ www.maxwellsnj.com With tiger tiger, the priscillas, the ribeye brothers, the woggles. Our set is at 10. S...
Posted by High School Sweethearts on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Heels 'n' Wheels out now!

Our new album HEELS 'n' WHEELS is out now!! . Please ask for it at your record store, or order it directly from Get Hip Records at www.gethip.com We'll have some on hand at a special price for...
Posted by High School Sweethearts on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Cherry Hi-Way 'Coolest Song in the World" this week !

Little Steven's Underground Garage named 'Cherry Hi-Way' the Coolest Song in the World this week! This is the second tune from our new album 'Heels 'n' Wheels' to be honored with the title-the first w...
Posted by High School Sweethearts on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST