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Afternoon Naps

About Me

hellooooooooooooo...we are Afternoon Naps from Cleveland, Ohio...most of our songs get right to the point. Verse-Chorus-Verse-Chorus...End! Who needs all that repetition in their lives anyway? ...anyhow, we are a modern pop group that has their songs written and arranged by Tom and then more thoughtfully arranged and re-arranged by Leia...We get by with a little help from our friends......I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)...you can purchase our record via paypal by clicking the links below............. UNITED STATES ORDERS CLICK BELOWINTERNATIONAL ORDERS CLICK BELOWI edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)IT IS ALSO AVAILABLE ONLINE AT INSOUND.COM, IF WANNA SHOP FOR OTHER INDIE GOODIES!!if you live in Cleveland, you can purchase "Sunbeamed" and "Snowday" @ Music Saves record shop! if you live in Japan our records can be purchased at http://www.apple-crumble.com/

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Member Since: 6/11/2006
Band Website: ha!
Band Members: TOM D-sings, plays guitar, write songs, LEIA ALLIGATOR-sings, plays organ, synthesizers, bells, kazoo, melodica, arranges songs (ms. elo), MIKE ALLAN-bass AUGUSTUS GUS-organ, piano, triangle, sleigh bells, bubble machine and beach balls CRAIG RAMSEY-drums, guitars, etc etc
Influences: the smiths, the left banke, teenage symphonies, comet gain, c86, beach boys, teenage fanclub, the turtles, ladybug transistor, buddy holly, the yellow balloon, felt, the wedding present, acid house kings, orange juice, motown, stax, phil spector's wall of sound, the V.U., shop assistants, razorcuts, curt boettcher, francoise hardy, black tambourine, seinfeld references, winter, summer, spring, and autumn
Sounds Like: Felt plus Phil Spector plus Shop Assistants=afternoon naps soup...maybe
Record Label: Happy Happy Birthday To Me
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

NYC, new single, swedes, etc etc

ok  NYC Popfest is next week.... we are now playing @ 5:45 Sunday at the Cake Shop....starts around 2-3pm...we're smack dab in the middle of some pretty awesome bands....most notably ex-Softie Rose Me...
Posted by on Sat, 09 May 2009 14:19:00 GMT

Updates Galore.....

hi guys   lots of stuff to update you on.. first things first... We're very happy (pun intended) to announce that we're going to be signing on to Happy Happy Birthday to Me records...an amazing p...
Posted by on Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:35:00 GMT

athens popfest review

yay! they like us!http://www.athensexchange.com/articles/863Afternoon Naps, PopFest 2008, Little Kings, 8/13/08by Katie Miller 08/15/2008 Popfest is nothing if not a showcase of catchy, fun loving ban...
Posted by on Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:06:00 GMT

Naps now available at Insound!

hey beach bums!we're proud to announce that our albums (a cd and an ep cd, at least) are available at the uber-awesome-all-knowing-Indie-record online store www.Insound.com. If youve wanted to purchas...
Posted by on Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:41:00 GMT

Naps make Rolling Stone

apparently our song "Clean Bill of Health" was reviewed in this month's Rolling Stone IN Europe/Germany/somewhere...how does one say "thats radical" in german?it looks like its in a "Rolling Stone's F...
Posted by on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:31:00 GMT

vote for us if you love us! cleveland free times

Well Ladies and Gentlemen, your favorite cleveland indie-poppers have been nominated for Cleveland's Best Indie/Underground 2008 category. Vote for us here:http://www.freetimes.com/html/music_vote.htm...
Posted by on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:49:00 GMT

2008-ish

2007 was a fun year...met and played with some really great people from all over...but it's all just a memory now i suppose....so here's a list of some of my favourite cd's, lps' er whatever....from 2...
Posted by on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 22:58:00 GMT

cleveland rock blog video- watch it!

this is hilarious:http://blog.cleveland.com/rockin/2007/12/see_whats _up_this_week.html-----------Rockin' Video UpdatePosted by Rachel Douglas & Noele Bye December 13, 2007 15:53PMCategories: videoSee ...
Posted by on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 12:08:00 GMT

Aufgeweckter

Hello there!Does anyone know how to translate German? ;)-Leia----------------------------------------------------- ------------Dienstag, Oktober 30, 2007.. Begin .post -->Afternoon Naps - Aufgeweckter ...
Posted by on Fri, 28 Dec 2007 13:28:00 GMT

allmusic crush bands of 2007

Well THIS is pretty exciting! How did they find out about us?! http://blog.allmusic.com/2007/12/4/allmusic-guide-to-crush-b ands-of-2007/ Allmusic Guide to Crush Bands of 2007 December 4th, 2007 | 4:05...
Posted by on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 10:10:00 GMT