Artist description Ultimate Fakebook is a power pop/rock trio that writes catchy melodies with a rockin' guitar driven sound. Power pop, rock, emo, indie pop, whatever you want to call it, they rock.

Music Style Rock

Musical Influences The Get Up Kids, Promise Ring, Cheap Trick, The Replacements, Guided By Voices

Similar Artists Cheap Trick, Replacements, Foo Fighters, Get Up Kids, Guided By Voices, Elvis Costello,

Artist History This Will Be Laughing Week is the second album from Kansas pop favorites Ultimate Fakebook. Following their well-received 1997 debut (Electric Kissing Parties), the new album finds the band sharpening their tuneful, melodic attack. Pulling in four Klammies (Kansas City Lawrence Area Music Awards) last year for Best Alternative Rock Band, Band of the Year, Album of the Year, and Song of the Year, and winning the Discmakers Independent Music World Series competition for best band in the Midwest, has set the stage for Ultimate Fakebook in 1999. The band has also been selected as one of the top six best unsigned bands in the Musician Magazine Best Unsigned Band Competition.Ultimate Fakebook knows the power of a pop song. Paul Westerberg had his finger on it when he wrote "Alex Chilton," Insisting "I'm in love - With that song.!" A pop song should give you a sugar rush and make you feel like you have a crush. With insanely catchy hooks, a terrific sense of melody, and a refreshingly honest sense of urgency, Ultimate Fakebook writes and performs pop songs to set your heart ablaze. Like their musical forebears in Cheap Trick, the Replacements, and Guided By Voices, Ultimate Fakebook doesn’t hold back when it comes to the rock. Just as they have you bopping your head and singing along, they hit you with a wondrously noisy confection of guitars, bass, and real drums. Rarely since the heyday of the Buzzcocks has such energetic bashing been so tunefully deployed.This Will Be Laughing Week finds Ultimate Fakebook perfecting the sound defined on their award-winning debut. Most insistently demanding attention are the straight-ahead pop numbers. Songs like "Tell Me What You Want," "She Don't Even Know My Name," and "Soaked In Cinnamon" are instant favorites that visit the timeless pop-music topics of girls and love. "Brokyn Needle" revisits the metal-years as a young band dreams about stardom from the confines of a teenager’s bedroom. Ultimate Fakebook also expands their sonic palette on their new album. The little flourishes in "Perfect Hair" and "Real Drums" show touches of the GBV influence, while the title song brings a sense of the Mats' Hootenanny into the mix. "A Million Hearts," a prom theme for the slightly disturbed, adds strings and piano to the Ultimate Fakebook sound. Several songs on This Will Be Laughing Week take a look back at the high school years. But it’s not about jocks, cheerleaders, and homecoming week. It's about wanting a girl to like you like that, getting a band together, and feeling the rush of a "sugar kiss." These ruminations on teenage themes remain valid in adulthood - the situations may change, but the underlying emotions are constant and universal. For Ultimate Fakebook, it’s not about gimmicks and posturing - it's about the songs. It’s about delivering hook-filled pop of the highest order. If you've ever been in love with a pop song - if a song has ever made you giddy with delight - here's your chance to feel that way again: This Will Be Laughing Week.

Group Members Bill McShane - vocals & guitarNick Colby - bass guitarEric Melin - drums

Instruments guitar, drums, bass,

Albums Electric Kissing Parties, This Will Be Laughing Week

Press Reviews "The Kansas trio loyally follows traditional pop structures with a dash of rock tuneage, wich makes the songs all the more addictive. even after you have shelved This WIll Be Laughing Week, you'll catch yourself humming its perfect melodies, skipping down the street noticing the beauty of the day." - CMJ May 1999"...combining the melodic sensibilities of Joe Jackson and Elvis Costello, with amped-up tendencies of eary Replacements and Cheap Trick." - FMQB June 4, 1999"There are moments of crankin' guitar crunch, acoustic diddling, clever and poignant turns of pharase, and an overall vibe of timeless, great music. Get this and recall a time when music was great because it spoke to you, not the voices on the radio and in the magazines, and all the cool kids in school. this is great whether your friends agree with you or not." - Lollipop Magazine June 1999"...Ultimate Fakebook has assembled the perfect tribute to high school love, lust, and confusion: "This Will Be Lauging Week," the band's new, sophomore set." - Des Moines Register April 15, 1999"Ultimate Fakebook has been writing and refining its brand of love-themed power-pop in the Lawrence, Kansas, area since 1994. Even though Electric Kissing Parties is Ultimate Fakebook's first release, the band is an acknowledged heavyweight on the Kansas scene... Great pop songs and awards are enough to get A&R folks worked up, and there is no doubt that the group's second full-length, which the group is recording right now, will be something to fight over. Until then, folks will have to savor the award-winning Electric Kissing Parties." - CMJ, November 2, 1998 "...a sharp, focused powerhouse that will take you by surprise...we urge you to listen to this record. We see limitless potential in this band, and we’re sure you’ll concur." - FMQB, November 21, 1997

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Location Manhattan, Kansas - USA

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