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The Color Guard

The Color Guard

About Me

The band's fourth release, Cornucopia, pairs an amazing six-song CD with a live show DVD. The new EP radiates with color, fragrance, and a multitude of shapes. The song "Capture" unites an exciting arithmetic rhythm with a glorious pop verse that takes a snapshot of a perfect day. The garage walls shake during "I Had a Dirty Dream About You" and "Unloaded Gun". A harp spreads angelic sweetness across the palate in "Heavenly Feeling." A new love affair becomes an "Experiencia Exotica" as Lalena rolls her tongue around the Spanish she learned while living in Mexico. Perhaps the most surprising dish, "Kick Ass Instrumental" loads hearty helpings of grinding rock trippiness onto the platter, in tribute to some of The Color Guard's noise-metal tour friends in Providence. Call it a six-course feast.
Download Cornucopia from iTunes store (search for "the color guard cornucopia"), or order a CD/DVD from our website, www.thecolorguard.com.
The Color Guard has scored praise from Entertainment Weekly and four stars from Allmusic.com. They release all their work on the Suziblade Music label.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/5/2004
Band Website: thecolorguard.com
Band Members: Lalena Fissure-Vocals and Guitar ... Jeanne Gilliland-Bass and Vocals ... Josh Zisman-Guitar and Vocals ... Joe Salvati-Drums and Vocals ... Dark Pop also included Guardians Caryn Havlik, Norie Manigault, and Jake Alrich. And on Speech For Heated Hearts, Jake Alrich and Nina57.
Influences: The Gathering, Queens of the Stone Age, The Breeders, The Mars Volta, The Cocteau Twins, Bjork, Lacuna Coil, Swans, Kate Bush, Opeth, Jethro Tull, Cibo Matto, Nina Hagen, Big Black, Bauhaus, Katatonia, Kraftwerk, Kittie, Melvins, Butthole Surfers, Duran Duran, The Police, Cab Calloway, Paco de Lucia, Bach, Willie Nelson, The B52's, Drain STH, Pat Benatar, Abba, Harry Belafonte, Judy Garland, Un Chien Andalou, Caravaggio, Francisco Goya, Yayoi Kusama, Matthew Barney, Frida Kahlo, Betty Boop, The Electric Company, Soundtracks of War of The Worlds (1978), Jesus Christ Superstar, The Point, and Hair.
Sounds Like: Absolutely nothing like Heart, Evanescence, Rasputina, The Pixies, PJ Harvey, Jefferson Airplane, Queen, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Veruca Salt, the Au Pairs, Hole, The Breeders, or Lush....
Record Label: Suziblade Music
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Order your CD/DVD, or download "Cornucopia" from iTunes!

Download Cornucopia from iTunes store (search for "the color guard cornucopia"), or order a CD/DVD from our website, www.thecolorguard.com....
Posted by The Color Guard on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 08:12:00 PST

CD Release Party and Film Festival!

Come out for The Color Guard's CD/DVD listening party for "Cornucopia" and Suziblade's Mini-Festival of Short Film!Wednesday, April 25, at 7:00 p.m. (happy hour)Slainte, 304 Bowery, across from the la...
Posted by The Color Guard on Sun, 22 Apr 2007 07:07:00 PST

Our YouTube channel!

Watch some clips from our new live DVD, shot at CBGB's Gallery (R.I.P.), on our YouTube channel! Plus our other favorite videos:http://www.youtube.com/suziblade
Posted by The Color Guard on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 06:02:00 PST

"Cornucopia" out now!

Our new CD/DVD "Cornucopia" is out! http://suziblade.com/thecolorguard/Music.html--FREE T-SHIRT OR PANTIES with the first 25 orders! While supplies last, that is! Details on that same page, along wit...
Posted by The Color Guard on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 06:34:00 PST

Audio clips from Cornucopia!

Audio clips from all the tracks on our upcoming CD "Cornucopia" are now up on the MUSIC page of our website! http://suziblade.com/thecolorguard/Music.html
Posted by The Color Guard on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 06:43:00 PST

YouTube videos!

"Cornucopia," our new CD/DVD release, is being mastered as we speak! Video segments from the DVD are up on YouTube for you to preview--links below. The live video was shot by Josh's brother Aaron and ...
Posted by The Color Guard on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 07:37:00 PST

The Color Guard Radio!

Listen to The Color Guard Radio! We designed our own internet radio station on Pandora.com with a bunch of our influences and favorite artists, plus whatever else Pandora thinks is similar. It's fun! ...
Posted by The Color Guard on Sat, 07 Oct 2006 09:38:00 PST

EP/DVD news

We're just about finished mixing our new, six-song EP "Cornucopia"! It's scheduled for release in January 2007, packaged with a DVD of our show at CBGB's Gallery. We've been working at Josh's home stu...
Posted by The Color Guard on Sat, 07 Oct 2006 09:36:00 PST

Download for your dog

Howdy there, just letting all our four-legged fans know that we posted "My Domesticated Beast" on our website homepage:www.thecolorguard.comArf!
Posted by The Color Guard on Sat, 06 May 2006 10:06:00 PST

EP news, free mp3, and Walmart!

Me and Josh and Jeanne and Joe are frolicking about in the April flowers during breaks in work on our upcoming EP. Meanwhile, keepin' the love alive: FREE DOWNLOAD for April is "Damn You, Hope!" (Beca...
Posted by The Color Guard on Mon, 03 Apr 2006 05:13:00 PST