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Daemon Familiar

About Me


All Songs now on iTunes!!!



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Daemon Familiar are a garage-pop trio from Chicago concerned with the lost art of the catchy pop song. Infectious hooks, dense vocal harmonies, and crunchy guitar melodies are their stock in trade. Not since Cheap Trick has a band from Illinois set out to deliver songs so unforgettable they'll be tattooed on your cerebral cortex. Daemon Familiar is currently working on their debut album, due out Spring 2008.
Guitarist/vocalist Pablo Mena has much experience in the power-pop genre as the bass player for Unibrow. This helped hone his skills as a songwriter and his ability to bring the rock. His lyrical dexterity ranges from pining away after girls to breaking up with girls to waxing metaphorically about girls. Pablo's influences include The Police, Jeff Buckley, and Reed Richards of the Fantastic Four.
Drummer/vocalist Wendi Freeman comes to us from a number of years in the Philadelphia punk scene. She slaved as a recording engineer for Chicago Trax, where she escaped her brush with R. Kelly without getting peed on. And, no, her drum kit's not set up wrong, she's just left-handed. Wendi's power-pop ambition is to become the 4th ex-Mrs. Matthew Sweet.
Bass player Brian Ruhe continues his successful run in local cover band Colonel Angus where he's learned the important lesson that anyone will dance to "Livin' on a Prayer". Although he knows playing covers can be a crowd pleaser, it will never match the intensity of churning out the unique riffs of Daemon Familiar. Brian's stage presence is somewhat unique. He prefers sitting onstage, not because he frowns upon your existence, but because he's working with a few replacement parts. You'll have to see it to believe it.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/5/2006
Band Members: Pablo Mena (Voice, Guitar)
Wendi Freeman (Drums, Voice)
Brian Ruhe (Bass, Voice)
Influences: Cheap Trick, The Police, Unibrow, Sloan, The Pixies, Guided by Voices, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, The White Stripes, Weezer, Crowded House, Neil Finn, Split Enz, Husker Du, Bob Mould, Sugar, The Posies, Matthew Sweet, Jeff Buckley, Big Star, The dBs, XTC, Pavement, Teenage Fanclub, Nuggets compilations, Squeeze, The Cars, Fugazi, Fountains of Wayne, Elvis Costello, The New Pornographers, ELO, The Dandy Warhols, The Breeders
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Now on iTunes & CDBaby!!!

Hello to the fans of daemon familiar!!A few things to update all of you on . . . First we had a great CD Release Party earlier this month.  Thank again to all of you for coming out!!  We do appreciate...
Posted by on Sat, 31 Jan 2009 11:46:00 GMT

CD Release a BIG success!!!!

Hello Everybody!!I want to just say thanks to all of you who made it out in the shitty weather on Saturday to see us play our CD Release party.  And for those of you who weren't able to come out, we h...
Posted by on Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:27:00 GMT

CD Release Party Reminder!!!

Hi df Fans!!!!A quick reminder that this Saturday, yep THIS SATURDAY (January 10th), is our CD release party.  It is at Quenchers (2401 N. Western Ave.) and it starts at 9:30 pm!!  Come out ...
Posted by on Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:11:00 GMT

FREE CD DOWNLOAD!!!!!

We have a deal for you - FREE CD DOWNLOAD!!!!  Yep that's right, for a limited time we are offering "Dawn of the Albatross" for free download!!Go to our dedicated website:www.daemonfamiliar.com Click ...
Posted by on Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:23:00 GMT

CD Release PARTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy Holidays to Everybody!!We have a date for the Official release of Dawn of the Albatross, the debut album from daemon familiar!!JANUARY 10th, 9pm at Quenchers!!!On January 10th at Quenchers daemo...
Posted by on Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:57:00 GMT

NEW MUSIC!!!!!!

Hello everybody!!After nearly two years of experimenting, learning, and working our tails off, we have finally done it.  The music for the upcoming album (to be release at the first of the new ye...
Posted by on Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:44:00 GMT

New music VERY SOON!!!!!

Hey Everybody!!It has been a while but we are polishing up our debut CD!!!!!! We have finished mixing it and will be mastering it soon. New music will be up on our MySpace page in about 2 weeks and ...
Posted by on Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:06:00 GMT

WEBSITE UP!! and CD info . . .

Hey Everybody!!  I know I lied in my last blog.  I am a horrible person, haha.  We have been seriously working on the album.  The recordings have been completed, we are mixing now....
Posted by on Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:55:00 GMT

WOW!! I know I have been slacking . . .

Hi Everyone! After many long months of really concentrating on the recording, we are this close (if you could see where my hands are right now, haha) to finishing.  I will have new songs up in a ...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:38:00 GMT

Been a long time . . .

Hi Everybody,..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> Sorry for the extended wait between blogs.  I was in an accident where I suffered multiple fractures of my r...
Posted by on Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:38:00 GMT