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Five Four

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About Me

Once upon a time, in the year two thousand four, in a land far removed from normalcy called the District of Columbia, there was a girl named Kiki, who knew a girl named Karen, who knew a girl named Katie, who knew a girl named Jamie who knew a boy named Aaron. Bored with government, gangs, and guns, they thought it would be fun to form a gang of their own. They played with instruments and called themselves Five Four. Soon Five Four played all over the east coast at music venues, radio stations and music festivals. Playing for crowds and governments servants alike fans screamed out "It's a dynamite sound!” Five Four has a sound that is minimal, slightly twangy guitar hooks, early O.M.D.-ish style synths, punchy basslines, and the vocals that ooze dark innocence. Very danceable, yet not in that godawful Neo-New Wave/Electroclash way.
In 2005 the band released its first EP “Dream of you Dead.” containing songs that leave you with hope, despair and a smile. In late 2006, Five Four released a full length album “Space Age Love.” The new album is blissed-out pure pop and rock with ethereal vocals, dreamy guitars interplaying with keyboards on top of a tight rhythm section. Sometimes dancey, sometimes spacey, always catchy. In times where happily ever afters rarely exist, Five Four takes you to a place where fairytales do come true.

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Member Since: 1/27/2005
Band Website: fivefourmusic.com
Band Members: Jamie - guitar, vox
Kiki - bass, vox
Karen - lead guitar
Katie - keys
Dave - drums
Influences: heartbreakers & breakdancers
Sounds Like: "other worldly gentle rock" - Washingtonpost.com

"It's a dynamite sound! I dig the minimal, slightly twangy guitar hooks, early O.M.D.-ish style synths, punchy basslines, and the vocals that ooze dark innocence. Very danceable, yet not in that godawful Neo-New Wave/Electroclash way (I lived through it in the '80s and wasn't all that impressed by it then either). The best thing I hear so far though is that it is deftly original, yet wonderfully familiar in all the right ways." - fan
Type of Label: None

My Blog

2-7-2008 Five Four Hamburgers?

Well, it's officially lent and maybe we'll give up boys this time around since it didn't work out so well last year. But hamburgers should make us feel better because we just learned that DC9 has expa...
Posted by Five Four on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:50:00 PST

1-30-08 Sneak Preview to the New EP!

Five Four has been hard at work these past few weeks and after 13 hours in the studio on Saturday we are pleased to announce that we have completed much of the mixing necessary for our new EP that we ...
Posted by Five Four on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 07:01:00 PST

12-31-07 Three Stars in DCist

Three Stars: Five Four By Ian Buckwalter Dcist, Wednesday, December 26th, 2007 On Five Four's website, by way of introduction, each member of the band is given a cartoon alter-ego. It's a great rock...
Posted by Five Four on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 07:48:00 PST

New Shows, New CD, New Mini Tour....

Things have been busy in Five Four land, which in case you were wondering, is a magical place full of kittens and rainbows.  If you check myspace as obsessively as we do, you may have notic...
Posted by Five Four on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 07:12:00 PST

April 17, 2006 - very special guests and 54 cocktails :)

We have 3 upcoming shows and we are super excited!! Our next show is Saturday 21st at the Felix and we get to play for 3 hours & haha so we will be playing every song we have ever written. But even mo...
Posted by Five Four on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:02:00 PST

February 22, 2007 - everything good comes in 2s.....

Well we have 2 new shows, 2 new songs and 2 songs in progress!  Hopefully you will make it out to one of our shows because we will be there and will be playing our two new songs!!! Well, the...
Posted by Five Four on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:57:00 PST

November 28, 2006 - Philly, Philly, Philly

YAY!!! We are playing in Philadelphia! You should come &. Philly has really good SHOPPING and everyone has the best hair & seriously though everyone does have really great hair! Well it should be a fu...
Posted by Five Four on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 10:49:00 PST

November 16, 2006 - can we come over for thanksgiving?

Well it's almost Thanksgiving so trying to figure out all the things we are thankful for & hmmmm &.. 3/5ths of the band is unemployed& unemployment is nice J&. Try it!!! However that means we are poor...
Posted by Five Four on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 05:57:00 PST

November 1, 2006 - Alien Love Song

YAY !!! We finally posted "Alien Love Song" so please check it out and let us know what you think (just in case you have any suggestions with the mixing)!  Yeah five four is partial to aliens & O...
Posted by Five Four on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 11:59:00 PST

October 24, 2006 - Mixing Aliens

Okay so we are so close in finishing mixing our new song "alien love song" hopefully it will make you dance... YAY!!! This year Halloween is all about aliens :))))))!  Oh but if you see a female ...
Posted by Five Four on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 01:36:00 PST