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About Me

Portsmouth, NH -- Seattle, WA -- Urbana, IL -- Portsmouth, NH (honorable mention to Oakland, CA) -- Seattle, WA
"Jarid del Deos trio Unbunny has somehow flown under the radar through a gradual migration from Washington state to New Hampshire, releasing a series of pleasingly folk-tinged lo-fi discs on a parade of small labels along the way. Influences are displayed prominently on sleeves with the bands fifth LP, Snow Tires: the stark acoustic strumming of Nightwalking and I Knock Things I Havent Tried is a direct lift from the Elliott Smith fake book, while del Deos nasal voice nods to Neil Young, particularly on understated full-band workouts like the piano-laced Nothing Comes to Rest. But what initially seems an impressive style-exercise gradually reveals Unbunnys unique charms, largely through cryptic poetry and personal lyrics. On Pink Lemonade, del Deo repeatedly pleads, Dont leave me with the shakes to a melody reminiscent of the Beatles Dont Let Me Down. His appeals apparently rebuffed, the closing title track finds the narrator unable to summon more than a whisper as he hauls boxes from his girlfriends garage and frets over the condition of her tires. Surveying his small towns Main Street Christmas decorations, he mumbles Do they really think a string of colored lights is gonna rescue me? Del Deo may not be the sunniest sort, but Snow Tires is the best kind of bummer." -- CMJ New Music Monthly
Snow Tires, much like the previous full-length Black Strawberries, is drowsy country-rock guitar with twinklings of orchestral pop, its spare poignancy touching the soul. -- Neumu
[T]he fifth album from the circa-America based Unbunny is one of the most beautiful records of the year, evocative of Elliot Smith and Neil Young but with more heartbreaking fragile chord changes of the kind Mark Linkous used to do so well with Sparklehorse. -- Americana UK

My Interests

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Member Since: 11/19/2004
Band Members: James Ess, Koko Taylor, Steve Haruch, Jarid del Deo
Influences: Roy Orbison, Bob Flanagan, The Typing Explosion, AC/DC, Maisy Buttercup, Joseph Cornell, Eartha Kitt, The Late Matt Jasper, Muhammad Ali, Ken Burns, Paxil
Record Label: Important,Parasol,TwoTonSanta,Trayful of Lab Mice
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Italia

What's wrong with Mike Piazza playing for Italy? Anyway, here is an Unbunny interview from the Italian label Awful Bliss, who are just now releasing a two-CD compilation called Songs for Another Pl...
Posted by Unbunny on Sun, 12 Feb 2006 09:37:00 PST

www.unbunny.com

We've switched our hosting, so the official site is down temporarily. Our email has also been directed into the void for an unknown number of days, so if you've tried emailing us, please resend to 123...
Posted by Unbunny on Sun, 12 Feb 2006 09:27:00 PST

None

The Typist EP is sold out. Thanks to everyone who ordered one.
Posted by Unbunny on Sat, 29 Oct 2005 05:32:00 PST

Location Scout

Charles Spano of Common Deer will be directing a video for "Casserole." Click here to see some of their past work. ...
Posted by Unbunny on Wed, 12 Oct 2005 02:13:00 PST

Video

Our people are talking to their people. Actually, no, we're talking directly to a producer who wants to shoot a video for "Casserole." Neat. We'll let you know if it comes to fruitio...
Posted by Unbunny on Wed, 31 Aug 2005 09:47:00 PST

Slides from coast to coast

Steve made a slide show of the road trip. So, yeah, check it out. Okay. Thanks. ...
Posted by Unbunny on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Quickly

A very quick summary of the last week goes something like this: Jarid leaves Portsmouth in the 'Stang. Jarid plays a house party in Columbus: very nice. Thanks to R. for the hospitality, and to ...
Posted by Unbunny on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

The last week of July, part deux

Looks like Eux Autres will be joining us in San Francisco, which makes us very happy. Stay tuned for the actual venue, which we are still working out. Oh, they have a MySpace pag...
Posted by Unbunny on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

The last week of July

Unbunny will be performing in Columbus, OH, Urbana, IL and San Francisco, CA. Details soon.
Posted by Unbunny on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Music

Just wanted to let you know that downloadable mp3s and a live bootleg (RealAudio) are available at the band website, unbunny.com. You can also play dominoes....
Posted by Unbunny on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST