Artist description Sliding hooking noise pop indie rock from Arlington VA and Washington DC.

Music Style Indie lo-fi shoegaze noise pop rock

Musical Influences Pavement, Spacemen 3, Sonic Youth, Unrest, Galaxie 500, Pixies, Yo La Tengo, Velvet Underground

Similar Artists Pavement, Spacemen 3, Sonic Youth, Unrest, Galaxie 500, Pixies, Yo La Tengo, Velvet Underground

Artist History Metropolitan is: John Masters (guitar, vox), Saadat Awan (drums), and Shyam Telikicherla (bass). Metropolitan began as a collaboration between guitarists John and Aidan Coughlan in late 1998, and they recorded their first record "Side Effects" in 1999. After undergoing several lineup changes since the group's incarnation, Metropolitan is now a solid trio. John, Shyam and Saadat played their first gig together in January of 2001, and since then have released a split single with group Calibos and shared the stage with numerous bands, including the Dismemberment Plan and Bis. Metropolitan will release their second full length, "Down For You Is Up," in early 2002. The album was recorded at Inner Ear Studios in Arlington VA and produced by Chad Clark (Dismemberment Plan, Fugazi, Beauty Pill).

Group Members John Masters, Shyam Telikicherla, Saadat Awan

Instruments Guitar, Bass, Drums

Albums Side Effects, Down For You Is Up

Press Reviews "Metropolitan brings to mind the way American bands like the Velvet Underground and Sonic Youth were influenced by garage rock, then subsequently influenced, in an off-kilter way, underground New Zealand bands of the '80s. Side Effects is the sound of a sensibility that was shot around the world only to come boomeranging back. This Arlington, Va., duo doesn't deny the VU, Spacemen 3 and Dead C influences, and that's not a bad route for sound to travel. But like a survivor virus, it should become more deadly with each mutation. Sweet, sad vocals and basic pop sensibilities come through eloquently, but not without the requisite bumps and scrapes -- Metropolitan has a good handle on the trashy, sheet-metal sound that reminds me more of NZ than NYC. If you can stop reading the footnotes and pay attention to the text, Side Effects is mostly satisfying. The Pebbles rock of "All Too Much" and the melancholy tone of "Punches" stand up amidst a swell of Jesus And Mary Chain-isms. Here you have a band with great taste that's probably a record away from getting it just right and figuring out what it is. In the meantime, what Metropolitan wants to be isn't bad, either." --Cyndi Elliott, Magnet, January 2000

Location Arlington, VA - USA

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