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The Dad In Common

Songs for Reagan Babies.

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Member Since: 2/1/2006
Band Members: Jesse Ackerley (guitar, bass, charango, noise, vocals), Andrew Berg (violin, vocals, bass, guitar), Andrew Clayton (drums, vocals), Alexandra St. Germain (cello, bass, vocals), Andrew Peterson (banjo, guitar, harmonica, bass, broken keyboards, vocals), Joe Selinski (guitar, bass, broken keyboards, spiritual advising, vocals).
Influences: The Band, Bob Dylan, Captain Beefheart, cLOUDEAD, Pere Ubu, Howlin' Wolf, Television, Hank Williams Sr., Randy Newman, Ornette Coleman, Silver Jews, De La Soul, Fog, Gastr Del Sol, Bruce Springsteen, John Fahey, Minutemen, Freestyle Fellowship, Why?, Marc Ribot, Phillip Jeck, Albert Ayler, Tom Waits, Dave Van Ronk, Bo Diddley, Kate Bush, The Fugs, Brian Eno, Themselves, Carla Bozulich, Curtis Mayfield, Eric Dolphy, Art Bears, Sole and the Skyrider Band, Sonny Sharrock, etc....
Sounds Like: The Fugs became Promise Keepers.
Record Label: Self-Released
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

lyrics

Selected lyrics from our forthcoming EP and the Various Moms LP: Death of a Hologram:   Let old age strip all vanity, let werewolves wander home. Scalp-sick cowboy traces are rays of light in the...
Posted by The Dad In Common on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:58:00 PST

What’s Dad up to?

For those that are curious, a brief update on what we're up to: - we have relocated band activities from our longstanding base at the Leego House to a state-of the art, unheated room nestled away in a...
Posted by The Dad In Common on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 08:46:00 PST

THE DAD IN COMMON

you can purchase our debut album "various moms" at the finer twin cities record stores (cheapo in uptown, treehouse on lyndale, electric fetus off franklin) + more stores soon.
Posted by The Dad In Common on Wed, 31 May 2006 12:21:00 PST

VARIOUS MOMS

on may 12 at the turf club in shots paul, the dad in common release "various moms." 48 minutes of broken folk/nostalgiac country pop/agit-prop rock/drone jamz. please join us, malachi constant, fog, a...
Posted by The Dad In Common on Sat, 06 May 2006 11:55:00 PST

Mi & L'au Triple Rock Review

Mi and L'au (Thursday, February 9, 2006, Triple Rock, Minneapolis) By Bob Longmore Mi and L'au - Photo by Bob Longmore Whether due to the fact that Mi and L'au played at the Turf Club the night...
Posted by The Dad In Common on Mon, 20 Feb 2006 02:46:00 PST

"the place i'm going to is a nice place"

the dad in common's album is finished and will not be coming out until we are able to release it with the care (money) we feel it deserves. Until then we have a 5 song ep of noisy death knells, rants ...
Posted by The Dad In Common on Sat, 04 Feb 2006 03:16:00 PST