Artist description noisy melodic pop

Music Style noise pop

Musical Influences the pixies, swervedriver, link wray

Similar Artists Swervedriver, Radiohead, Sixteen Deluxe, Belly, Sonic Youth, Stereolab, My Bloody Valentine, the Rentals, Mercury Rev, Shallow, the Who, the Pixies, Frank Black, Yo La Tengo

Artist History A noise-pop band from Austin, TX, the current incarnation of Astroblast originally began as a joint venture between two bands sharing practice space outside of Waco, TX in 1995. After exhausting their student loans and discovering that most of their time was spent in Austin anyway, the band made the move down I-35 in 1998. Blending a collective lifetime of talent, this four-piece creates melodies by extracting a unique flavor of pop from seemingly random noise and combine that distilled sound with innovative songwriting born out of each bandmember's unique and varied musical tastes. Influences include such artists as: The Pixies, Link Wray, Swervedriver, Yo La Tengo and the sweet melodies of the ice cream truck. Astroblast has been touring in support of their debut album, THE SCIENTIST, and recently performed at NXNE 2000 in Toronto, Canada. They are returning to the studio to record their next album this summer and are currently looking for label representation, distribution and management.

Group Members jenn-vocals and keyboards, bob-guitar, chris-bass, jacob-drums

Instruments vocals, guitar 1, drums, bass, analog synths

Albums the scientist

Press Reviews "I'm in love. Seduced by the warmth of jenn kellough. Landing with a letters to cleo with aspirations of my bloody valentine, astroblast can sooth your pop jones with dreamy, snappy progressions and wandering guitars… Subtle shades of the feel good progressions of early eighties pop are felt (with obvious go-go's meets blondie flashbacks) but wrapped in the alterna-bliss of effect laced guitars and an occasional toy keyboard. The vocals are the key sweetness and, when the melody breaks well, a warm fuzzy of pop goodness spills forth. Swoon and sleep, blush on the attraction."-- (from NO COVER magazine FEB 2000)

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Location austin, tx - USA

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