Silent Agency (NOW ON iTUNES)

About Me

..We are a new band from Minneapolis, and have created a unique sound. This crazy indie punk music all started almost five years ago when Evan Bakker asked Andy Lesser to pick up a bass guitar and play for the fifth grade talent show. After that complete disaster Evan and Andy continued to improve their musical ability by playing guitar together. While Evan and Andy continued to jam together without having an appearant direction, Zack Arostigui had a plan. He decided that he wanted to create a band to play in the eighth grade talent show. Zack started by asking Ian Deneen to be in the band because he could sing and was just starting to play guitar, just as Zack was starting to play the drums. Missing another guitarist and bass player, Zack asked Evan if he wanted to be in the band. Evan accepted and brought Andy into the band also. One year after the eighth grade talent show and of parting ways with Ian Deneen (for his lack of ability), Silent Agency has become an extremely musical and highly energetic band. On Oct. 16th, 2006, Zack left the band for pointless reasons I'm still trying to figure out, but ultimately it probably will help us in the long run. On December 3, 2006, we found a new drummer who didn't fit in with the band's style of music well, but our new drummer, Matt, is a great, intense drummer that fits in perfectly with the band. We will be releasing an EP with him in 2007. Our objective is not only to create music, but intellectual music. We want to get you, and keep you thinking once the song is over. Rather than leaving you with a nostalgic feeling of joyous and comfortable stupidity, we try to arise a sense of thought and questioning in you, the listenter. We want to make you feel happiness, anger, sadness, in different songs, but also to inspire you afterwards. We create catchy and hard-hitting experimental rock, but we throw in well-thought out, unique, and above all, powerful and moving compositions.
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Member Since: 5/7/2006
Band Members: Evan Bakker- Guitar/Vocals. ever since he was 10 years old, Evan has been shredding away on the guitar. He didn't have a complete influence until Blink-182 came along. This band has changed his guitar playing for the better. Other influences include Thursday, Motion City Soundtrack, The Replacements, basically punk music. It was the first kind of music that "spoke to him". He creates interesting and catchy guitar parts that go along with his amazingly catchy singing parts, which is something alot of teen bands lack. Andy Lesser-Bass guitar. When he was 11 years old, in the 5th grade, Evan asked him to play bass guitar for their school's talent show. He had never picked up a bass at this point, but learned quickly. The talent show was somewhat of a disaster, but he and Evan continued to jam, and he rapidly got better. One of his early influences were the Red Hot Chilipeppers, which give him his funk bass parts. Currently he has drifted into Ambient music and more mature forms of rock. Influences include Sigur Ros, Radiohead, Muse, Mogwai, Explosions in the Sky, and other forms of interesting rock.
Matt Cassada-Drums-- Matt started playing drums when he was 15 years old. Right now he has only been playing about a year and a half. Matt loves playing his drums and it is his biggest passion. He first got into it by one of his friends giving him theyâ€™re old set. Since then, he has been Rockin on them every day. He started getting into the whole band gig by joining the seasonal temporary bands that he was placed in at the place he takes his drum lessons. after about a half a year he joined his church's band and has been playing in that since. Matt has been influenced mostly by his Idol Travis Barker. He loves to listen to Travis barker in any band, mostly Blink-182(his favorite band) and in + 44, Box Car Racer, The Aquabats, The Transplants, or anything that Travis drums for. His favorite bands are Blink 182, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Quietdrive, and some Offspring but he will pretty much listen to any alternative or rock. Matt got into silent agency after being recommended to them by his drum lesson teacher. Matt couldnâ€™t be happier that he got into this band, he loves it and is looking forward to continuing.Overall, the band works together really well, all with lots of musical expereice. If you plan to listen to our music, then plan to experience the best time of your life.
Influences: PRIMARY INFLUENCES: Blink-182/Boxcar Racer, Sigur Ros, Bloc Party, Smashing Pumpkins SECONDARY INFLUENCES: Circa Survive, Explosions in the Sky, Jimmy Eat World, Thursday, Some 90's stuff (3eb, Superchunk), and U2

Sounds Like: Candy for your ears
Type of Label: None

My Blog

MTV: A Cultural Nightmare

Commercials are flooding the channel. You catch a glimpse every few hours of some reference to a song, and you sometimes can hear a song in the distance, but never the whole thing. MTV, what once soun...
Posted by Silent Agency (NOW ON iTUNES) on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 08:51:00 PST

Evan's top 15 bands (of his generation)

This is such a tough category to condense into only 15 bands, considering that there are so many bands out there. I am basing this on a few things. The band must be well-rounded, they must have evolve...
Posted by Silent Agency (NOW ON iTUNES) on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 06:30:00 PST

THE LYRICS!

Now that the album is being processed onto iTunes as we speak, I don't have to worry about some desperate musician stealing all of our lyrics. So, without further adue, I present to you, the full stor...
Posted by Silent Agency (NOW ON iTUNES) on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:07:00 PST

THE ALBUM/EP!!

This week, we will be mixing and mastering the Album/EP, and we will process it onto iTunes immediately after, but the thing is, it takes at least 2 weeks for it to get onto iTunes, so that's why it w...
Posted by Silent Agency (NOW ON iTUNES) on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 08:57:00 PST

Catchiest Albums of the last 10 years

Ever had a song, even a CD, in your head so badly that you could honestly go insane or even resort to violence? Well, these 12 albums of the last 10 years are sure to do just that. (It's funny how the...
Posted by Silent Agency (NOW ON iTUNES) on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 07:45:00 PST

Evan's view/very heavy and telling quotes

First of all, this is only my view on Christianity. I am not looking to convert anybody or force anybody to believe anything, I am solely sharing my opinion, in the hopes that you will comment AFTER r...
Posted by Silent Agency (NOW ON iTUNES) on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 03:02:00 PST

We want your opinion on religion!

REMEMBER: THESE STATEMENTS DO NOT NECESARILLY REFLECT OUR BAND'S COLLECTIVE VIEW ON GOD/RELIGION. THESE ARE MOSTLY IDEAS I HAVE RELAYED FROM RICHARD DAWKINS' BOOK, THE GOD DELUSION. DELVE INTO THE WHO...
Posted by Silent Agency (NOW ON iTUNES) on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 10:34:00 PST

Progress on the EP!

As of today, May 27th, we have half of the songs fully recorded and the other half still in the process. So far it's looking like this is one of the greatest projects I have ever been a part of a...
Posted by Silent Agency (NOW ON iTUNES) on Mon, 28 May 2007 06:35:00 PST

Top 10 albums of all time (Andy)

Here's the albums I think are the best of all time. In my opinion, "the best" albums were the most original, influential, and musical ones of all time. Obviously I had to leave some o...
Posted by Silent Agency (NOW ON iTUNES) on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 07:02:00 PST

Top 10 Albums OF MY GENERATION (Evan)

This is an extremely hard desicion, and there are plenty of great albums that didn't make my top 10, but ultimately, these are the 10 that I would definitely consider: (In order from least-best to bes...
Posted by Silent Agency (NOW ON iTUNES) on Sat, 03 Feb 2007 08:46:00 PST