Hey!!!! Guess what.... We are no longer a band.... so stop sending us friend requests and/or demands/offers to play your show. we dont want to play with you. We're perfectly happy to be done with this. The only reason this is here is because I cant bring myself to delete it. Please stop. We dont want to play with you.... we dont care who you are, what label you are on, who you have played with, what bands your tuba player has been in, when you're going to play in Columbus or why that is important to you, what awesome club you're playing at, who your booking agent is, what your influences are, how many good memories you have of columbus, what you're trying to do for the local venues of the world, who produced your album, what your stupid fucking band name means, how many good write-ups you've had, what magazines sort of liked you, and most importantly, how many free iPods you've received. Rreally, dont waste your time. Oh, and if you're one of those hangers-on who still has us as a friend and doesn't really need us to be there, by all means, delete us. And now, for the old stuff:DOOOOOOOOOOO DOOOOOOOOOOOOOO DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUMB.
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Young bands are generally a sorry lot, all juvenile angst and self-conscious posturing while they rehash albums in a performance we've all seen before. Finding something nice to say about any one of them is normally a chore.
Then you've got the Squares.
Barely a year and change old and they've managed to seal up a rabid local fanbase, pop their big time touring cherry and toss out a couple of records. And they do it all without breaking a sweat.
When you're this good, however, shit like that happens. How guitarists Jeremy Pifer and Dave Busbey and the rhythm section of Matt and Aaron Shaver managed to wrestle all of their disparate influences into as solid a whole as the Squares is a mystery.
The four embrace the catchiness of power pop without all the frills and baggage, indie rock without the emo leanings and grad school pretensions and punk without all of the fake rebel posturing and knee jerk politics. The boys from Bellevue have taken all this and fashioned a sound thats as deep and substantial as it is wildly entertaining. Its fun music for smart people.
The Squares and their pals in the Columbus Discount Recordings crew have breathed a new life into the music scene, encouraging new bands to get their shit together and old bands to do what they do best, a cross-generational Perestroika that has lifted the dark cloud that has engulfed the scene and made catching a band a joy again.
That warmth and camaraderie shines through in everything the band does and puts them a good country mile ahead of the pack.
