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About Me

The Wild Kindness began as a guitar-bass-drums trio, touring the country in the summer of '06. During the past winter they took a break, and with a new batch of songs, regrouped as a six-piece acoustic pop group.
"The Wild Kindness takes its name from a Silver Jews song. And accordingly, singer and guitarist Joe Finkel's delivery owes something to Jews frontman David Berman, who acted as the countrified, plainspoken 'poet of the everyday' inspired by Pavement songwriter Steve Malkmus' hyper-referential slacker laureate.
Wild Kindness songs like 'Sodapop' parse into our most banal daily interactions, revealing subconscious thought processes that are pretty damn absurd. Here's a sample lyric from the hipster-anthropology of 'We All Look the Same': 'Well I used to consider myself a stylish guy/ back in the suburbs everybody wore baggy clothes/ and I wore tight clothes/ that was enough/ to set me apart.'
Musically, the band came across with much more immediacy live than on record, at times even suggesting the punk-blues swagger of The Gun Club. "
-- Brandon Bussolini , The California Aggie, August 28, 2006
"I'm sitting in Mama Buzz cafe and a band is playing and they sound like a cross between The Velvet Underground and Tommy Roe - turns out the band's name is The Wild Kindness."
-- Chris Stroffolino , former Silver Jews keyboardist, The Big Takeover.com, September 10, 2006

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Member Since: 20/07/2006
Band Website: www.joefinkel.com/wildkindness
Band Members: joe finkel - guitar, vocals
griffin walker - banjo, mandolin, vocals
laura baran - piano, snare drum, vocals
teresa kenny - maracas, tamborine, vocals
stan zenkoff- bass drum, hand claps, harmonica, vocals
kenny mcgrath - violin

Influences: John Sinclair, David Berman, Robin Hood, Replacements, Rolling Stones, Faces, Troggs, Spacemen 3, Springsteen, T. Rex, Soft Boys, Cheap Trick, Tom Petty, Crooked Fingers, Henry David Thoreau, Speed Levitch, DFW, The Blow, Against Me!, Ramones, Bob Dylan, Stooges, drugs, happiness, Jeff Baran, Henry Miller, Rachel Finkel, Syd Barrett, Woody Guthrie, the State, Moe Tucker, Indian Style...
Sounds Like: Fun
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

the wild kindness returns

hey everyone, i know its been a while.over the winter, we've aded new people to the group and a bunch more songs. haven't really recorded as a band yet, but stay tuned, hopefully we'll ha...
Posted by on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:18:00 GMT

Joe is Healing

Our welcome home to New York party began sweetly. California friends, great weather... huge hugs from me to Joe and Griffin. We got these gold stickers with letters. Joe came...
Posted by on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 08:30:00 GMT

like they said (griffin)

yeah like joe said, horrible street rappers and donuts filled with drugs, until the FDA shut-em down. Lisa's napping cause its 3 in the morning and in two hours she has to drive in to work, soap up an...
Posted by on Wed, 23 Aug 2006 03:08:00 GMT

Portland

Oh Portland has been funny. We roll into town at 6pm and promptly find a bar to play a show in. Unfortunately the show we were supposed to play got called off. But we don't take no for an answer. Port...
Posted by on Wed, 23 Aug 2006 02:15:00 GMT

Seattle

Joe and I are sitting in a coffee shop in Seattle. The weather is great and the coffee is strong. Our show at the Mars Bar was a lot of fun.. honey.moon.tree blew us away. Thank god we played first or...
Posted by on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:37:00 GMT

South Dakota

South Dakota is beautiful. The people here are wonderful. We played our first show last night at the Howling Wolf in Lead, SD. Now its noon and we need to hit the road so I will not have time to expla...
Posted by on Sat, 19 Aug 2006 10:46:00 GMT