Member Since: 07/06/2008
Band Website: stay tuned
Band Members: Howard Kluger - Drums, Brian - Guitars/Vocals, John (Doc) Taylor - Guitars/Bass/Vocals, Ian Wilson - Guitars/Bass/Vocals
Influences: Anything with a Dead Beat Groove:
Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, Luna, Galaxie 500, XTC, Kurt Vonnegut, The Jam, The Beatles, The Byrds, The Monkees, The Hollies, The Beach Boys, the Who, the Stones, the Zombies, Andy Kim, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Teenage Fanclub, Teenage Head, Teenage Symphonies to God, The Long Ryders, Billy Bragg, The Cure, Cocteau Twins, The Smiths, Television, U2, Guided by Voices, Robert Pollard, Tobin Sprout, Echo & the Bunnymen, REM, The Talking Heads, Andrew Cash, the Skydiggers, Miles Davis, Wes Montgomery, The Nazz, The Clash, Sex Pistols, Ramones, New Order, Joy Division, Men at Work (that's right Men at Work & you just stop your snobfest because they are awesome) 1960's/70's REGGAE/SKA, Los Lobos, Big Country, The Pretenders, Cat Stevens, Cat Power, Squeeze, Prefab Sprout, Scam Artists (2nd best Toronto band ever), Sour Landslide (also the 2nd best Toronto band ever), Violent Femmes (and not so violent ones), Joni Mitchell, Mitch Mitchell, Sing along with Mitch and the Guy Lafleur learn to skate Disco LP in Ozzie's closet. And books...lots of books see.Oh, and Robert Buck's guitar...10 000 ManiacsOh, and i forgot our manager Imad Chaudhary...who's disapperance from the face of the earth is correlated with the non-arrival of our Factor Cheque. Which isn't meant to imply he took it and moved to the Fiji Islands...correlation does not equal causality....Howie?...How? Howard? (sorry for the inside jokes...no not the music...just trying to see if Howie reads this far...)
Sounds Like: like a bunch of self taught, melodic, energetic, joyful, sad chaps
actually what do you think it sounds like?post anarchist new punk that's hip with the biggies.also sounds like THE (lack of) COMMITMENTS
Record Label: bam records
Type of Label: Indie