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Sister City

About Me

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Sister City is Adam Linder, Daniel Abzug, and Garrett Delaney. We are music for (although not limited to) people who were raised on Blink 182, went through a ridiculous punk rock phase, and ended up with an open mind and a love of bands like Say Anything, Counting Crows, and Brand New with a healthy dose of songwriters like Kevin Devine and Bright Eyes. Daniel still listens to Slick Shoes, but what can you do?
Sister City are the winners of the Clark University 2009 Battle of the Bands!
Nice things people have said about us that we have not taken out of context:
"Indie rock at its best, is a killer combination of originality, creativity, and catchy hooks. Sister City manages to mold bits of each see them cross over to more mainstream success" -- ConsequenceofSound.net
"Definitely check out this under the radar indie/punk influenced band and you won't regret it." -- I Found this Song in the Road
"3.5/5" for Burning Up -- Sputnikmusic.com
"3/5" for Foma -- Forthesound.com
1. Red Eyes
2. A Manageable Mortgage
3. Song of the Part-Time Insomniac
Our third release in 2008, The Clark EP came out on December 18, 2008. It contains three songs that differ from the rest of our recorded canon because each song features a professional string quartet. I composed the parts for each song and the amazing musicians in the QX String Quartet were kind enough to record them. My friend Tom Hamill played the electric guitar on the third track, "Song of the Part-Time Insomniac." Click the cover art or click here to download it: Download!
1. Seat 13A
2. Happy Anniversary
3. Defense
4. Hopes and Dreams
5. Kisses and Curses
This is the first release under the Sister City name. We recorded, mixed, and mastered it in a week and now it's available for free for you. It came out 8/6/2008 Click the blatantly copyright infringing album art to download it, or click right here
1. White Boy Blues
2. Disclaimer
3. Lonesome, No More!
4. The Basement Manifesto
5. Sunday Crossword Challenge
6. The Wrong Words
7. The Right Words
8. On Wearing White
9. Irony, Illiteracy, And Indifference
10. Slapstick
11. More Like "The End"
12. Burning Up
This is the first CD. I wrote it between July 2006 and February 2007. I recorded it from March 2007 to July 2007. It came out on April 29, 2008 and I still have 400 shrink wrapped copies sitting in my basement that you are quite welcome to buy.
It is available for $5.00 by clicking this link right here:
They've gone as far West as California, as far south as Tampa, and as far Mormon as Utah! Get them while they're hot! And collecting dust!
Burning Up lyrics at Songmeanings.net
For booking, contact [email protected]
Happy Anniversary at the UMBC Battle of the Bands 3/7/09
All the music is... you know... copyrighted.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/15/2006
Band Members: Adam, Daniel, Garrett

Influences: Brand New, Kevin Devine, Cursive, Elliott Smith, Bomb The Music Industry!, Bright Eyes, Okkervil River, Say Anything, Manchester Orchestra, Weatherbox, weather in general.
Sounds Like: Honesty.
Record Label: COC Records
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

5/24/09 -- On the New Album (Preproduction)

What I call preproduction you would probably call Daniel and I playing the new songs over and over again in my basement until they have weird syncopations or parts with different time signatures. In a...
Posted by on Sun, 24 May 2009 18:51:00 GMT

5/10/09 -- Feature on "I found this song in the road"

Over at http://songsfromtheroad.blogspot.com/, they've got a little feature on us and are offering Foma for free in case you don't want to download it from right here.If you want to feature us on your...
Posted by on Sun, 10 May 2009 14:23:00 GMT

4/28/2009 -- Feature on Consequence of Sound!

The good folks over at Consquence of Sound have put up a feature on our humble little band! http://consequenceofsound.net/2009/04/28/listen-sister-city/ "When I first went through the fine list of poss...
Posted by on Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:25:00 GMT

3/29/09 -- Name the Final Song of the New Album Contest!

Hey everybody!I've been having trouble thinking up a title for a new song I wrote recently, so I thought I'd open it up to 2000 or so different minds to think of something. It's going to be the last t...
Posted by on Sun, 29 Mar 2009 09:54:00 GMT

12/18/08 -- The Clark EP is now available!

After a semester's worth of work and an even longer gestation period for two of the songs, 'The Clark EP' is finally available online. Today marks the last day of my first semester of my sophomore yea...
Posted by on Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:28:00 GMT

12/14/08 -- Burning Up Review(s)

Hey everybody, I found this review of Burning Up, so I figured I would post it. Any further reviews for either Burning Up or Foma will be posted in this blogSputnik Music - 3.5/5 - http://www.sputni...
Posted by on Sun, 14 Dec 2008 11:27:00 GMT

11-11-08 (updated 1/12/09) - Song of the Week

So every Tuesday I will be posting a demo, new or old, at random from the Sister City canon. It shall ooze with pretentiousness. They will be up for the week, and then they'll be available for downl...
Posted by on Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:12:00 GMT

11/21/08 -- On Humility, New Album November, and other things

Yesterday (November 20th), I recorded a string quartet for three songs on my upcoming EP. I composed the parts for the songs "A Manageable Mortgage," "Red Eyes 1," and "Song of the Part Time Insomniac...
Posted by on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:51:00 GMT

10/15/08 -- My fame and the ensuing lulz -- or -- tl;dr

Long story short, I needed to find the cover art for Foma and I absentmindedly googled "Sister City - Foma." The results of that search, a few other searches, and a completely inexplicable video make ...
Posted by on Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:59:00 GMT

9/24/2008 -- Poultry and Prose (NEW DEMOS WITHIN)

The acoustic demos for EP2 are finished and, because two people wanted to hear them, they're available for free right here! http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?hommzlwkjnm1. Red Eyes (pt 1)2. Red Ey...
Posted by on Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:38:00 GMT