Artist description From Chicago, Cats and Jammers combine garage pop hooks, bouncy upbeat rhythms, sing-along melodies, engaging lyrics and plenty of snotty attitude. They will take your kid sister on a bubblegum joy ride and remind you of a time when rock and roll was FUN!

Music Style Indie garage pop

Musical Influences the Beatles, the Who, Sloan, Guided By Voices, the Kinks

Similar Artists Guided By Voices, Television, the Kinks, the Romantics

Artist History Please see our official website. We're too busy rockin' to dwell on our sordid past.

Group Members Scott Anthony, guitar and lead vocals Brad Hunter, bass and backing vocals Addison, drums and backing vocals

Albums Hurray For Everything

Press Reviews "Hurray for Cats & Jammers. This is a well-earned nod to one righteous pop band. Unlike the proliferation of Beach Boys wannabe wankers, Cats & Jammers continues the great pop tradition by partaking of it and then moving on to express their own musical voice. They utilize pop in similar, fruitful fashion to groups like the Loud Family, Zumpano, the Wellwater Conspiracy and Olivia Tremor Control. Great groups all with creativity to burn and talent to hand out at Christmas. As easy as they make it sound, the pop of Cats & Jammers takes a sublte talent to pull off so effectively. Actually it is not a matter of merely pulling it off; rather, it is a matter of getting it right and knowing that they got it right because they knew that they would get it right before they did it. Call it a confidence indicative of good and long musical experience. This is good stuff." --Jared Julius, Jitter Magazine............. "If Hurray For Everything is any indication of what's lurking in Chicago's music scene, Beluga Records could be sitting on something pretty special. Cats frontman Scott Anthony has one of those snotty/nerdy voices and a guitar style that's pure garage-rock skittishness, making him a viable heir to Atlanta's Subsonics (if in sound only) and D.C.'s long-retired indie flagship band Unrest. There's a smart Buzzcocks feel too, with Anthony channeling Pete Shelley's ability to make sexual embarassment seem bitterly funny (on "Not Gay" he wakes up hungover in a guy's bed). --Joe Warminsky III, Morning Call (Daily DC-area paper)........... "Other than having a name that'll give your parents (or grandparents) a giggle, Cats & Jammers ably encapsulate 35 years of pop rock history in a single fun-n-frothy volume. There's unrequited love ("My Love") rendered with vivid lyrical irony, good love turned bad ("Good As Dead"), social criticism ("People are Stupid"), awkward moments ("Not Gay") and many more nuggets of human interaction, all provided in a jangly pop style that only a Grinch couldn't love. As its title suggests, Hurray For Everything is not a CD that's going to send you scrambling for a prozac fix after every spin -- you'll be hard-pressed to listen to its darkest moments without some degree of grinnage." --George Zahora, Splendid E-Zine............... "Brandishing a surplus of energy, Cats & Jammers make music for those who live to pogo their brains out, as their economical ditties boil over with skittish rhythms and scads of unshakable hooks." --Beverly Paterson, Twist and Shake................ "Highly recommended for pop enthusiasts, the C&J record "Hurray for Everything" is a mood lifter." --Providence Phoenix................. "I ringingly endorse this disc-13 blasts of high energy electric pop that have me spinning it again and again. Highly recommended." --Pallid Pilgrim......................... "Scott Anthony's hyper-guitar sound is surprisingly clean, but it's also crisp, almost as amphetamine-rushed/busy as the Wedding Present, only his sunny melodies are for kick-ass pop kids to hum. Really, really sharp stuff: All 13 songs kick!" --Jack Rabid, The Big Takeover.................... "Extra-short and snappy tunes in the spare, edgy style of early New Wave; think Joe Jackson's 'Look Sharp' for an easy reference. The vocalist Scott sings in a nasal yelp, akin to Television's Tom Verlaine, that's perfectly suited to the material." --Jim Santo's Demo Universe...................... "Cats & Jammers straddles that fine, almost invisible line separating indie-rock and indie-pop. Each genre has its own fan base...fortunately for C&J, its music capably captures both audiences. The group's latest album "Hurray for Everything" features the fun arrangements, fast strumming and harmless melodies of the latter category, but there's enough manic XTC-style energy to tip the scales a bit closer to the rock end of things." --the Onion........................ "Ultra quirky pop abounds on Hurray For Everything. The band is led by singer/guitarist Scott Anthony's nasal delivery and plenty of jumpy rhythms....cheery and bubbly, they've got sort of a Mitch Easter/Let's Active energy about them. --Spank Fanzine................. "Despite the pissed-off attitude, Cats & Jammers exude a sense of fun that's contagious." --Illinois Entertainer

Location Chicago, IL - USA

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