Artist description We've acquired a bit of a habit of taking the whole range of indie music and combining it. We have very mellow, very acoustic and grassroots moments that reflect our interest in the Brit Mod scene. Then we have our punkish, Pixies meet Sleater-Kinney days. So really...we're our interpretation of the ethos behind our favorite scenes (we're riot grrls at heart, though).

Music Style OurOwnBrandofIndie

Musical Influences Pre-Kid A Era Radiohead, Groceries, Sonic Youth, Talking Heads, Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Strokes, White Stripes, Velvet Underground, Sebadoh, Dinosaur Jr., Fountains of Wayne, Sleater-Kinney, The Pixies, The Vines, Low, The Siddeleys, Jesus&Mary Chain, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Posies, Pete Yorn, Meat Puppets, Dog's Eye View, Peter Stuart, R.E.M., Travis, Coldplay, Starsailor, The Beatles, Hayden, Mayfield Four, The Damnwells, Pavement, Supergrass, El Gato, Bob Dylan, The Clash, Pre- Ego Trip U2, David Gray, (International) Noise Conspiracy, Toadies, All of Au Go Go Records, Anything produced by Steve Albini, Divine Comedy, Ben Folds, Ben Folds 5, Lemonheads, Uncle Tolepo, Wilco, Bauhaus, Joy Division, Switchblade Symphony, Black Tape for a Blue Girl, Brill, gawd I could go on forever...

Similar Artists We've actually managed to sound like no one in particular...

Artist History We started back in March of 2002 as Yoko Ono Kills, a very definite Pavement sounding Indie Pop band. Long-term members of that outft were Jonathan Schmalz on rhythm and acoustic guitars plus lead vocals, Connor on lead guitar, drums, and vocals, Morgan Davis on lead and sometimes bass guitars, Kyle Garrison exclusively on bass and Cameron Long exclusively on drums. By May, we'd become Same As It Ever Was and Jon and myself (Morgan Davis) formed the side project Donald, Please Come Home with him&I doing eveything with friends such as Clayton Scott and Ryan Valdez taking over bass here and there. Soon, Same As It Ever Was was destroyed and the side project became the main thing. An 8-track EP called It's Still Dark was finished during early June, with a nice ensemble of mainly acoustic, bass-lead tracks that Jon and I did late at night. Drums, with the exception of one track, were conveniently left off the album. By late June, an unfortunate mishap led to Connor being brought in and we'd moved on to working on a second release of more heavy tracks, of which The Ocean was the first. Now Jon&I have decided to return to the Fountains of Wayne ideal of keeping the group a duo with friends brought in for performance only.

Group Members Permanent Members- Jonathan Schmalz- Lead Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Keyboards, Drums Morgan Davis- Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Keyboards Lyrics and music are all done by Jon&I, with the exception of some really awful, highly redundant things penned by Connor. Guests- Ryan Valdez- Bass, Keyboards Kyle Garrison- Drums Connor- Guitar, Drums, Vocals

Instruments Our guitars are: a 24-fret Hamer Stellar with Seymour Duncan solid pick-ups, a Hamer Slammer (22-fret) with Seymour Duncan humbuckers, 2 Ibanez Strat rip-offs, an Epiphone acoustic electric, a '73 Ovation acoustic, and an Ibanez Soundgear Bass and an Essex Jazz replica; Drums are by CB (5-piece) with Paiste cymbals; keyboard by Yamaha; a Fender Stage Lead 2 Amp, a Kustom half stack with Silvertone tube head and a Crate digital amp; PA by Crate, with 6 inputs and 2 10-inch speakers; and a very nice Bluesdriver pedal by Boss and a distortion/overdrive by Boss, too. Microphones by Shure and AKG.

Albums It's Still Dark, which is self-released and can be purchased through us if you ask nicely.

Press Reviews None at this moment. Awful, eh?

Additional Info Catcher in the Rye is the most gawdawful thing ever written.

Location Kemah, Texas - USA

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