music.for.headphones was started by Jonathan Allen as a recording project in Athens, Georgia in the summer of 2000. Over the last 8 years, many members have come and gone (and come back again) and the band has made a home-base of at least 3 cities. For the most part, the band wasn't much of an organized outfit until Allen moved to Philadelphia and reconnected with his friend Aaron Aleiner (b) in 2006. Allen's brother, Patrick Richardson (d) joined them, and the band started to perform and record more seriously.
To this day, there's not much in the way of a permanent lineup as members come and go from time to time creating a fluctuation of style spread amongst the bands recordings. Sound and style has ranged from Rugby space rock to London shoegaze, ("go.see.girls.rock" 2006), from delay-drenched Creation sounds ("Kosmonaut" 2006) to a more aggressive, American-psych inspired sound ("Frequency of Oscillation" 2007). music.for.headphones' most recent EP, "Preface/Alternate", was released January 30th, 2008 and starts bringing all of the it together.
The current line up, Jonathan Allen (g/v), Aaron Aleiner (b), Patrick Richardson (d), and Phil Watson (k), is the strongest yet. The foursome are practically living in the studio, working on a full length album.
