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PiNE TARTS

Pine Tarts are Green

About Me

A lust for all that is lovely and loamy and slippery and sun-licked coupled with the fervent desire to crawl all over peoples of this same persuasion, inspired these kids to attempt to make contact with kindred spirits through the mass-communication possibilities of a dusty little scrum of a rock n roll band. Too impatient to learn their instruments, they instead forced their instruments to learn what their fingers could already do, and immediately began recording demos. Too poor to afford proper gear, they were forced to use ghetto blasters as amps, and rather than replace strings as they broke on their no-name guitars they simply fiddled with the tuning. Finally one day they took the bottles back and bought a used rental 4-track. Pine Tarts are Mess, Jenny Pie, Jester Suzuki, Adam, and Laurie. They are ever searching for the sounds to fill joydrunken hearts with love and fire. They want small shows, not big ones, they want to drink wine in the parking lot with the audience after the gig and jump in lakes with all the beautiful boys and girls they meet. They have been spotted, on midsummers' eve, when the green aurora casts its claws above Cascade, on Banff Avenue with an elk skeleton. ** * * * * * * * * * *

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/19/2006
Band Website: myspace.com/pinetarts
Band Members: JJ Powell -- vocals, guitar; Jester Suzuki -- bass; Prince Adam -- drums; Laurie Fur -- vocals, guitar, keys; Jenn Pauli -- vocals (on the EP)

LAYOUTS, CONTACT BOXES, GLITTERS, AND MORE AT BLINKYOU.COM

Influences: Sex Pistols, Ramones, Blondie, Nena, Beach Boys, Libertines, Weezer, The Rentals, Leonard Cohen, Pulp, Stone Roses, Gordon Lightfoot, Wire, The Modern Lovers, The Dishrags, The Strokes, Pixies, Elastica, Boney M.
Sounds Like: The lovechild of Nena and Sid Viscious.
Record Label: none
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Pine Tarts appear at the Number 29 spot in Marchs Chart Magazine!


Posted by PiNE TARTS on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 04:45:00 PST

Pine Tarts on facebook

yeah. it’s less colourful and less chaotic but what the heck. Cum find us and let’s go down to the river.
Posted by PiNE TARTS on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:20:00 PST

New Recordings

Just wanted to letcha know that we’re back in the studio at the end of April, with hopes of a summer 7" to follow. Come fall there could be an LP. We’ll keep you posted.
Posted by PiNE TARTS on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:30:00 PST

Yeeaaaay!!! Pine Tarts debut EP cracks the February National Top 50!

Thank you everyone who's played it! We will have a new 7" record out this summer, and an LP before Christmas we hope! We love you, and are coming to visit you all, starting with you B.C. beauties this...
Posted by PiNE TARTS on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:22:00 PST

Pine Tarts still hangin’ in there in Toronto

..> ......by a thread!!!   CIUT 89.5 MHz - TorontoTop 30 For the Week Ending: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 Other CIUT charts: Top 30 Hip Hop International Other Top 30 charts: !earshot | CFBU...
Posted by PiNE TARTS on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:16:00 PST

Yeay Nelson! Number 16! And stayin in there at 26 in Toronto

..> ..> ..> CJLY 93.5 MHz - NelsonTop 30 For the Week Ending: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 Other CJLY charts: Top 30 Other Top 30 charts: !earshot | CAPR CFBU CFBX CFCR CFMH CFMU CFOU CFRU CFUR CFUV ...
Posted by PiNE TARTS on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 05:44:00 PST

What!? We got to Number 9 on the national campus/community chart one week and didn’t notice?

..> Top 50 For the Week Ending: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 Other charts: Top 50 Electronic Hip Hop International Jazz Loud Folk/Roots/Blues Reporters: !earshot | CAPR CFBU CFBX CFCR CFMH CFMU CFOU...
Posted by PiNE TARTS on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 11:55:00 PST

Webzine feature: "The Tumultuous Story of The Pine Tarts" @ offthedial.ca

Here's an actual article on us! Only the second ever! http://www.offthedial.ca/?p=18 It's pretty fun; a little bit scandalous, there's some dirty laundry, and it might make some people who don't know ...
Posted by PiNE TARTS on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 03:29:00 PST

Woohoo! Pine Tarts charting in Toronto finally! Number 8 on CIUT

And Ottawa likes us again too! ..> ..> ..> CIUT 89.5 MHz - TorontoTop 30 For the Week Ending: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 Other CIUT charts: Top 30 Hip Hop International Other Top 30 charts: !earsh...
Posted by PiNE TARTS on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:04:00 PST

We made it to Number 75 on the national chart for January! Also found a review from long ago..

!earshot charts - January 2008 - top 200 Asterisk (*) denotes Canadian artists. All !earshot charts in this issue reflect actual airplay on campus/community stations during the month of January 2008....
Posted by PiNE TARTS on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:39:00 PST