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WonderGround

Only reason I'm here is to find a way out

About Me

Hello, I'm WonderGround. I'm a singer songwriter from St. Louis, MO. I used to skip rocks in the Mississippi River and catch lightning bugs in jars. Via Paris, Seoul, Milan, and Urbana, IL, I found my way to sunny Los Angeles, the hardest town ever to leave.
My band and I have just finished our second release, "The Winter '07 Inch." It's two winter themed songs on white vinyl, available for your taking at any of our shows. We also have an EP called "Become Water." This was our first recording and happened somewhere between 2005 and 2006. The EP led us to play some really cool shows, do some radio interviews, and be featured on the Phil Jupitus show on the BBC 6 in the UK.
In May '08 we will be going into the studio to record our first full length with our friend Aaron Espinoza of Earlimart. You can read reviews of our EP and learn more about us at these fine locations:
"Some of the catchiest tunes ever penned in the indie rock universe"- Smother
"A very impressive debut album indeed"- BluesMatters UK
"Low budget takes on the free-form organic experimentalism that The Beta Band produced on their first three EPs mixed with a slight Beatles obsession"- Joyzine UK
"Intelligent pop that's true to an indie-rock spirit"- 3Hive
"I want Wonder Ground to have a full length out soon; the EP is great.""- NeuFutur
"Become Water—the band’s debut EP—is five songs with a lo-fi pop fuzz to them, reflecting an almost slacker feeling that invokes Douglas Coupland or Jim Jarmusch rather than David Byrne."- Pop Matters

Click HERE to buy the EP!!!
Our first release: "Become Water" (5 song ep)
Our second release: "The Winter '07 Inch" (7" on white vinyl)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/10/2005
Band Website: wondergroundsound.com
Band Members: paul, etc.
Influences: Neutral Milk Hotel, Hayden, Blur (Damon in general), Grandaddy, Badly Drawn Boy, Elliott Smith, Pulp, Bobby Zimmerman, Oasis, The Arcade Fire, The Stone Roses, Air, Supergrass
Sounds Like: footsteps. thunder. waves. breathing. silence. wet streets. memories. solitude. train stations.
Record Label: Snow Day Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

The Winter ’07 Inch

We're still alive.  Most animals hibernate in winter; the summer is the most uncomfortable for me.  In celebration of the upcoming winter months, we have decided to put together a 7 inch wit...
Posted by WonderGround on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 09:09:00 PST

Radio show, etc.

Just wanted to tell y'all about our first venture in to "live on the radio" world. It started off with some bad news that a couple of people in our band couldn't make it out to the show... but it's co...
Posted by WonderGround on Sun, 25 Jun 2006 12:28:00 PST

New review from the UK

The kind folks at the UK based ezine have written a nice review of our demo.  Check it here. www.speakerspushtheair.com We're working hard on the new record, it's been alot of fun but tiring at t...
Posted by WonderGround on Thu, 20 Oct 2005 01:10:00 PST