Member Since: 3/21/2006
Band Website: You are here.
Band Members: John Hawthorne: Lead Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards/Eric Empson: Vocals, Guitar/Rick Camburn: Vocals, Bass/Landon Ewers: Drums and Percussion
Influences: ABBA, Ryan Adams, Air, Air Supply, American Music Club, Aztec Camera, the Beatles, Bedhead, Beethoven, Belle & Sebastian, Big Star, Black Sabbath, Black Flag, Blur, David Bowie, Glenn Branca, James Brown, Jeff Buckley, Captain Beefheart, Cat Power, Cheap Trick, the Clash, John Coltrane, Crowded House, the Cure, Devo, Ani DiFranco, Eric Dolphy, Bob Dylan, Elvis Costello, Ella Guru, Existential Angst (that's not a band but we're definitely influenced by it), the Flaming Lips, the Fall, Fleetwood Mac, Genesis, God Speed You Black Emperor, Guided By Voices, Jimi Hendrix, Bill Hicks, Husker Du, Ivy, Iron & Wine, the Jam, Jellyfish, the Jesus Lizard, the Kinks, the Knack, Fela Kuti, Love (both the band and the actual thing called love), Low, the Magnetic Fields, Charles Mingus, the Minute Men, the Modern Lovers, Thelonious Monk, Muse, My Bloody Valentine, Neutral Milk Hotel, the New Pornographers, Nirvana, Sinead O'Connor, Oasis, Ocean Blue, Outkast, Charlie Parker, Michael Penn, Pixies, the Police, the Pogues, Prince, Pink Floyd, Q Burns, Quasi Modo, Queen, Radiohead, REM, the Replacements, PJ Harvey, Sigur Ros, Slabs, Slug Bug, Elliott Smith, the Smiths, Sonic Youth, Soundgarden, Regina Spektor, the Stooges, Sun Ra, Television, Throwing Muses, TOOL, U2, Uncle Tupelo, the Velvet Underground, Tom Waits, the Waterboys, Lawrence Welk, Wilco, Hank Williams, Wire, X, XTC, ZZZZZZZ's (and lots of 'em), Frank Zappa, the Zombies, and anybody else who we might've forgotten but made us jump and laugh and dance and sing and think that that was how life ought to be.
Sounds Like: Radiohead, The Police, XTC, Crowded House, Nirvana, Guided by Voices, Genesis (Gabriel era), The Pixies
Record Label: www.marathonrecords.com
Type of Label: Indie