Artist description Long distance unstable irony; cyberspace 4-track jam

Music Style Bluesy-rock groove with quasi-post-apocalyptic rumblings from the Rust Belt

Musical Influences Dylan, Talking Heads, Grateful Dead, Chuck Berry, T-Bone Burnett, CCR, Harold Bloom

Artist History Originally known as Ivory Tower, the Elmers are erstwhile college buddies who turn sublimated Oedipal impulses into songs of unexplained hatred and love.

Group Members Johnny "The Claw" Bianco: bass, guitar, backing vocals; "Badmouth" Jim Brown: vocals, harp, keyboards; Dan "The Nickname" Pinti: Guitars

Instruments Guitars, bass, harps, keyboard, sarcasm

Albums Critical Theory (as Ivory Tower); Thinly Veiled Cry for Help Live Album (as Ivory Tower); Proxy; Shut Your Piehole

Press Reviews Rodney Hill: "In polite society, never talk about sex, religion, or politics. Do Elmers songs adhere to this prim convention? I think not. Rather, this trinity of themes works to create cohesion between the songs on the three CDs. It's the Elmers glue, if you will .... What does Elmers sex look like? Longing, unrequited love, encounters that don't satisfy or last .... religious allusions are juxtaposed to great effect with late 20th century Americana .... One might argue that the Elmers occasionally blush a hint of liberal academic Marxist rouge .... The drums may be fake, but nothing else is." Read the rest of the review at http://members.home.net/jamesbrown1/review.htm.

Location Columbus, OH - USA

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