Artist description melodic urban drawl rock/pop strained through cole porter's handkerchief.

Music Style rock-pop

Similar Artists tom waits, beck, elvis costello, beatles, tom petty, the police, big star, nick drake, the replacements, thelonius monk

Artist History django grew up in gainesville, fla. and has lived all over, including mainland china, before settling for a long and formative stint in nyc. he tours both solo and with his electric trio (the regulars) throughout the u.s. and europe. django & the regulars' most recent release, 'laying low and inbetween' rose high up in the college radio charts and built a lot of buzz. django's previous effort, 1998's 'folding stars,' also gained him a great deal of critical acclaim and airplay. django now resides in chapel hill, nc and in addition to constant touring, also enjoys knitting.

Group Members Django and the Regulars are: D.H. (guitar,vocals), Byron Isaacs (bass, vocals), & Neil Nunziato(drums)

Instruments vox, guitar, bass, drums, bedsprings, plumbing

Albums Folding Stars, Laying Low and Inbetween

Press Reviews CMJ New Music Report A&R PICK:This Brooklyn artist's debut album is marked by consistently high quality songwriting...an artist with a bright future ahead of him. Haskins is (a) chameleon-like driving force, delivering tunes that vary from tear-in-beer ballads to Beatle-esque love songs to rollicking country tunes in rapid succession, each of them true to their genre and solid examples of Haskins's clever songcraft. His voice is as crucial as his songs, too; he's got a malleable set of pipes that can joyfully warm the room as much as they can yank your heartstrings. Recommended to anyone looking for fresh songwriting talent. BILLBOARD: There are days when tracing the activities of folks who make rock'n'roll can be downright exasperating. Our complaint is age-old, but it reamains as relevant as ever. How do some of the flat-out worst bands in the business get major-label deals, while true talent often has to struggle to stay alive? Yeah, yeah...we know that there's no solid answer to such a subjective question. But it's hard not to ponder such things on an afternoon during which we've trudged through a dozen big-money releases that don't deserve a dime of marketing money -- only to discover Laying Low and Inbetween by Django & the Regulars, a project that demands the attention of anyone who wonders why rock music is so darn tedious these days. Laying Low and Inbetween is the second full-length collection by the New York-rooted jangle-pop trio led by Django Haskins, a singer/tunesmith whose affinity for the classic recordings of Elvis Costello and Tom Petty are undeniable. However, there's nothing derivative on this set, which was produced by the singer with Don Fleming (Sonic Youth, Teenage Fanclub), Andrew Hollander (David Johansen, Mr. Henry) and Mike Daly (Whiskeytown). Rather, Haskins uses his influences as inspiration for songs that are as fresh and infectious as they are comfortably familiar. The subject matter of his songs rarely strays from the subject of love in its various forms, and that's just fine. Such tunes as "Disappointment Book" (which is starting to get airplay from college radio stations on the East Coast) and "Sooner" reveal Haskins' flair for weaving intimate yet relatable lyrics. Haskins, who's also a formidable guitarist, has been leading bands and cutting solo material for 10 years now; In addition to this new set, his work can currently be heard on the Varese Sarabande soundtrack to the film Steal This Movie. If you want to hear a great band making even better music, hunt this one down.

Additional Info T-shirts, posters, free stickers

Location Brooklyn, NY - USA

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