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Paper Cities (is on hiatus)

About Me

Paper Cities is an Instrumental trio from Brooklyn, NY that assembled in late 2005. Although the band is a relatively new project, the members of the group have been long time friends. Bassist Adam Bernstein was in a band known as HongKongathon from 2001-2003. He is also a founding member of this Brooklyn based ensemble. While Adam was working on this and various other projects, guitarist Matt Hopard and drummer James Cucinotta worked with vocalist/guitarist Andrew Salter in a group known as Dramatic Structures. The band existed from 2004-late 2005, where the boys parted on good terms. At this point, these close friends finally could work together on a band with a new, more instrumentally driven sound that drew from influences as diverse as metal, jazz, pop and post-rock. The band would describe they're writing approach as more song driven than most other instrumental bands. Most songs are written as if there was a vocalist, with a voice all their own.The group has finally self-released their self titled debut album available for only $5 at shows and on Itunes and Emusic for just a dollar more. Collectively and individually the members of Paper Cities have played numerous venues including North Six, the Orange Bear, L'amour, Freddy's Pub in Brooklyn, CBGB's, the Knitting Factory, and Seton Hall. Since completion of the album, Paper Cities has kept busy writing and playing out. There are currently 3 new songs in rotation that do not appear on the recording and more where that came from.Most recently the band was asked to play the Emergenza festival, an extensive battle-of-the-bands competition lasting nine months. Proudly, Paper Cities were able to advance to the second round which took place at The Bitter End. Sadly this saw the end of the festival for Paper Cities but it also made their resolve to succeed that much stronger as they have since been working diligently on the follow-up to their self-titled debut. A release they hope to complete by the end of the year.Until then they will of course be playing out as much as possible and by the end of the year hope to capture one of these such performances on video so as to make their YouTube debut as well. Paper Cities would also like to put forward their interest in playing at house shows and parties. If you can throw it, we want to play it. Contact us by email, myspace, or at a show. You wont be sorry.
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Music:

Member Since: 01/07/2006
Band Members: Adam-MassMatt-SpaceJames-Time
Influences: Explosions In The Sky, Radiohead, Dredg, Tool, ISIS, Sonic Youth, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Portishead, Minutemen, Mastodon, Boards Of Canada, My Bloody Valentine, Rush, Black Sabbath, Neurosis, Minus The Bear, Candiria, Mogwai, Botch, Meshuggah
Sounds Like: Sometimes quiet, sometimes loud always grooving!
Record Label: none

My Blog

Till We Meet Again..

Hey Everybody.. Due to unforeseen circumstances in our personal lives that we need to overcome, Paper Cities is going on a bit of a hiatus. we hope to return stronger and better then ever but right no...
Posted by on Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:03:00 GMT

Recent Promo

Well rock the fuck on.  Minus the Bear and Explosions in the Sky came by and we accosted their fans and got numerous restraining orders.  I, matt, have a severely shunken ballsack from being...
Posted by on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:37:00 GMT

Fontana’s There’s a smiles on my face and it’s 4:07 AM

Okay so it’s early in the morning and I just realized (matt here) we didn’t mention anything regarding what happened at the Fontanas gig.  Well if you were there you know it fell thro...
Posted by on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 01:07:00 GMT

Friday March 21 GIG!!!

So yes we’ve been working and practicing and new material is slowly but surely brewing. Here’s the next thing, we’ve also been workin to get some house parties going. The few people ...
Posted by on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:23:00 GMT

Don Hills fell through and landed on an ice pick

Okay, so we thought you should know that since we're douchey rock star types we're not playing Don Hills... Just kidding.  Unfortunately though we're only kidding about the rock star bit we'...
Posted by on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:59:00 GMT

Mean Fiddler gig and Don Hills gig

Aight, so I don't know why but for some reason the gig listing never removed Mean Fiddler even though we removed it from our list of upcomin gigs.  If you were at it and didn't see us... We'...
Posted by on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 17:41:00 GMT

Were gonna be steaming live. *Streaming, sorry...but we are hot.

Okay, all those who like us, tune in... all those who don't, go to hell... and then tune in there.  Cuz Emergenza is comin up for ROUND 2 at the Bitter End.  It's gonna be a great show, 30 m...
Posted by on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:07:00 GMT

Music In Digital!

Paper Cities has officially gone digital. The our album is finally availble on E-Music, and iTunes! Only $6.95 on itunes, so if you can't make it to a show and want an album it's only a buck 95 more t...
Posted by on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:54:00 GMT

4 Gigs this month with EMERGENZA

Okay, so in addition to kick ass new songs Seismograph and Adjacent to Lightning we got 4 gigs this month.  And we're pushing just that much harder to kick your asses at every show.  Th...
Posted by on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:28:00 GMT

New Heavier Songs

Wassup, thanks to everyone whos been coming to our myspace till now first off.  Secondly, we got three new songs in rotation now at gigs, we're channeling death metal, groove metal...and some dis...
Posted by on Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:35:00 GMT