Artist description (new page)rock with a lot of yelling and running around.drums guitars bass

Music Style indie rock

Musical Influences Hoover, Fugazi, Shellac, Drive like jehu

Albums "mantenna" "civic recognition"

Press Reviews Appleton Wisconnsin sounds like an all-American town. I bet everything is clean, people have common sense, handshakes seal deals and lawyers are only there to draw up wills. You just know it can't be far from Garrison Keillor's Lake Woobegon. However every Mayberry has its Otis T. and Appleton's dirty secret of tension and discontent is The Transpire Ton.The Transpire Ton write music that fuses the complex and mathematic sounds of Chicago (truly the Midwest's bastard point) with the thick emotional indie rock the rest of the heartland is known for. The band began with an instrumental that flowed in an comfortable way with swells in both tempo and volume that were reassuring more than jarring. However as the set continued, the genres continued to commix with hardcore in a way that although common seven years ago when the emo scene was born (shut up – there was no emo scene around Embrace), has since moved far from vogue.To further align themselves with the hardcore scene there were three solid vocals (with one supplying the obligatory wrenched screams of agony) and jumps that no self-loathing indie non-rocker would ever attempt. Of course the apropos finger tapping from the second guitarist was something neither camp has ever dealt in though would certainly impress the progressive-come-math crowd (oh wait that's just me – there's no "crowd").The band were comfortable on stage and joked frequently. I suppose there was no need to be nervous when at one point their audience had thinned to only the members of Sunday Flood and myself. As much as I would like to feel smug and superior about this, it's the band that suffers – especially a high energy band that looked to feed off an audience that just wasn't there.

Location appleton, wi - USA

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