Artist description The Slats are a 3 piece nu-punc band from Iowa, Minnesota, and all points in between. The band mixes indie-pop with strange noise and punk squall to create short songs that seeth with geeky abandon and roc skronk.

Music Style Indie Rock

Musical Influences Sonic Youth, Guided by Voices, Bikini Kill

Similar Artists wire, mooney suzuki, yeah yeah yeahs, gbv

Artist History Toured Midwest Spring 2002 Toured Northwest June 2002 Toured East Coast/Northeast November 2002 Touring Northeast March 2003 Touring Northwest June 2003 Released "Car"- 1997 Released "American Rock Vol. 1"- 1999 Released "Great Plains of San Francisco"-March 2002

Group Members Brian Cox--Guitars, Vox Mark Langgin--Drums Jon Hansen--Guitars, Vox

Instruments 4 string guitar, drums, sometimes bass

Albums The Great Plains of San Francisco, Car, American Rock Vol. 1

Press Reviews I like big falsettos and I cannot lie, though you other brothers might deny. After the gratuitous dick-around, not-really-a-song-just-some-noisy-crap-we-liked intro track on the Slats’ new album, The Great Plains of San Francisco, the Cedar Rapids, Iowa trio comes up huge with “The Weapon That I Used,” a raw and grubby bit of falsetto-ridden bubblegum that had me at hello. Not pure bubblegum—more like gum with pieces of lunch chewed up in it—but just insanely catchy and fruity-smelling. Weezer just wish they could still write songs like this! --Andy Smetanka in The Missoula Independent While the songs on this album seem to strive collectively for insanity in a minimalist style, they all have an underlying quirkiness that goes down smoothly. --Lance Birch of Lost at Sea www.uris.com/LAS

Location Waterloo, IA - USA

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