Artist description Throbbing, breathing, living pop, for people with high standards and senses of humor. Think latter day XTC meets Del Amitri, at Paul Weller's house.

Music Style soulful poppy rock

Musical Influences xtc, rolling stones, the clash, elvis costello, stax/motown, the jam, paul weller, del amitri, british invasion

Similar Artists del amitri, paul weller, xtc, elvis costello.

Artist History The Yell Leaders are Milwaukee's premier pop/soul combo. Since their first singles garnered rave reviews from Billboard and the BBC's John Peel, among others, The Yell Leaders have toured regularly throughout the upper Midwest, where they have shared the stage with the likes of Semisonic, K's Choice, Del Amitri, Evan Dando, The Gufs, Citizen King, The Verve Pipe, The Why Store, Cheap Trick, and others. They released Cornelia Street, in May 1999. The 12 original songs track the group's maturation since 1996's Up for Steam EP. "Windchill," the opening track on Up For Steam, a six-song CD EP mixed by Brew City wünderkind Mike Hoffmann (Willy Porter, The Verve Pipe, Victor DeLorenzo), was tapped by Columbia/Tri-Star Television for use in an episode of Party of Five, which airs on the Fox Television network, and the closer, "Fattened to Kill," appears in the film, Beach House, featuring MTV on-air personalities and Melrose Place cast members. A cover of Bruce Springsteen's I Wish I Were Blind was featured on one of the singles culled from One Step Up/Two Steps Back, the EMI/Right Stuff tribute to The Boss. The Yell Leaders were named the best unsigned band in their region by VH-1 as part of its Rock Across America 1998 Tour.

Group Members Joe Vent, Bobby Tanzilo, Mary Brown

Instruments Guitars, Basses, Drums, Voices

Albums Noxajoy (2002), Cornelia Street (1999), Up For Steam EP (1996)

Location Milwaukee, WI - USA

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