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email:
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Bio:
Jonathan Edelstein (guitar / vocals), Lucian Buscemi (bass / vocals) and Julian Bennett Holmes (drums) are Fiasco, a Brooklyn punk trio who have been playing together since 2003. Their debut album, God Loves Fiasco, was released on Beautiful Records in June, 2007, and entered its second pressing in August. Fiasco has played at venues in New York including CBGB, the Knitting Factory, Southpaw, and Studio B, and also at the Sarajevo Film Festival in Bosnia.
Press:
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God Loves Fiasco, a 23-song debut on the band's own Beautiful imprint, is a startlingly good way to get your teenage kicks.... Incendiary guitar work, drum thrashing and perceptive lyrics... echo everyone from a hormone-drenched Sonic Youth to a youthful-sounding Slint. Standout "Nothing to Lose" trods on classic indie rock aesthetic a la Pavement... proving that punk rock and teenage boys go together like PB & J."
- Spin
"God loves Fiasco, and so does Insound. These three NYC teens are creating ferocious punk with completely tight time signatures that sounds well beyond their years. Sonic Youth meets Shellac meets Lightning Bolt meets awesome. They destroy live too!"
- Insound
"Brooklyn's Fiasco rock the rapid-fire punk strums played at eighty-eighty miles per second... to create orchestrated chaos.... There are 'kid bands' and then there are bands who happen to be kids. Fiasco are the latter. This is no Menudo.... Make no mistake, this is punk rock. But there's definitely a Strokes-y element to their vocals that make their noise pretty melodic, too.... If Thurston Moore likes Be Your Own Pet (which he does, since he signed them) then he will LOVE these guys."
- Oh My Rockness ("Band We Like")
"On the surface, Fiasco could easily be described as Brooklyn’s answer to Be Your Own Pet; the high school aged punk trio blast out fun rock with a barrage of energy. However, where Be Your Own Pet have a knack for the in-your-face live performance that sometimes takes away from the music, Fiasco seem focused on some pretty complex guitar riffs and drumbeats while still putting forth all they can."
- CMJ
"In 2005, Fiasco performed at a block party, playing fairly obscure early-eighties punk covers—Flipper, Minor Threat, Bad Brains—that were met with slack-jawed astonishment by several wizening hipsters in the crowd."
- New York Magazine
Fiasco are “the kingpins of the Park Slope scene.â€
- The New York Times
"Fiasco are a bunch of teenagers that truly rock. They aren't just some other kids that happen to be in a band, they are a band that happen to be young. Their music is obviously influenced by the noise of the late 80's and the early 90's, most notably bands like Sonic Youth and that's enough to get me pretty excited!"
- Pop Tarts Suck Toasted
Nylon Guys Magazine ( 1 , 2 )
