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The Sweet Clementines

About Me

New Paltz, New York-based four piece electric rock ensemble now offering tuneful, literate and quirky poprocks, by turns Beatlesque, rootsy, cabaret and raggedy raw. Inquire within.**********
"These Clementines are the musical equivalent of the small sweet globes for which they are named. Their songs are juicy and bright: lyrically driven, folky, with sonorous pop moments against a rollicking background." --Doug Muller, Ulster Publishing Almanac
"Smart fun for smart people. The Sweet Clementines may pull you into unexpected pop terrain but there's a solid Beatlesque foundation underneath. Now if only all those Williamsburg hipsters would pull their heads out of there beards and boogie..." -- Ghosty, Sirius Disorder: Channel 70
"Highly entertaining and musically smart" -- Bob Margolis, The New Paltz Times
"...Wordy...more cryptic than deep...harmless rock ’n’ roll...not a hint of Satan’s thorny tail or bleeding bat heads...Standard fare...a straight-ahead interpretation of tones and their placements in a straight-ahead musical vision...[their] songs would make a high school English student smile knowingly and a hillbilly want to kick someone’s ass." --Jason Broome, Chronogram Magazine, Aug. 25, '08
"Just my kind of music." -- Nora Raleigh Baskin, author of "What Every Girl (except me) Knows" and other novels.
"I listened to it for 13 straight hours. I was stuck on a ladder." -- Amanda, waitress at infamous NP watering hole.
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Member Since: 7/5/2006
Band Members: John Burdick -- guitar, songs, keyboards and vocals
Chris Tanis--guitar, songs, ukulele and vocals
Matty Senzatimore--drums
Jason Sarubbi--bass, vocals and recordilating
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Special guests and former members:
Marianne Tasick: live vocals and violin
Johnnie Wang: drums on "Straight Life"
Chelsea Lacatena: Vocals, co-founder emeritus
Influences: The Beatles, The Kinks, Elvis Costello, Stephen Malkmus, Tom Waits, XTC, Steve Morse, Lowell George, Astor Piazzolla, Randy Newman, Guided By Voices, Velvet Underground, Hot Garbage, The Byrds, Jesca Hoop, Mike Francesa.
Sounds Like: It is not for us to say.
Type of Label: Unsigned

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Recording Again

We've started recording again out at Jason's studio, with the immediate purpose of demoing a few tunes for consideration in an HBO pilot...for real yep. Let's hope they rockWhile we're there, we're go...
Posted by on Thu, 30 Oct 2008 06:27:00 GMT