Artist description

Music Style indie rock

Musical Influences zombies, beatles, radiohead, the cure, sdr, elliot smith, death cab for cutie

Artist History The Preons formed in Jan 2003

Group Members josh cowart - vocals, guitar/ paul grahm - bass/ janie cowart - drums/ emma valentiner- vocals, keyboard/ richard john evert gerber - DJ, sounds, samples/ dan lowinger - Trumpet/ christopher robinson - vibraphone

Instruments voice, guitar, bass, drums, keys, ukelele, melodica, trumpet, samples, vibraphone

Albums the preons demo, full length in pre production

Press Reviews The Preons might win the award for most-unexpected-opening-band-on-a-Sunday, in both the visual and musical subcategories. They whirled and thrilled like a circus, featuring not only your typical guitar-bass-drum-vocals, but also varied between keyboards, turntables, toy instruments, and a trumpet. Their music swept through the room with its intricacies, reverberating both charming and unique. Plus, they had a xylophone. Wasn't I just saying how indie-rock has been screaming for a xylophone? It was hot. Seriously, it was. Each song sounded like a poppy love-song mix tape. I found myself thinking that if they had a CD, I wanted it. {imaginary aside: they did, and I got it. I love it. Thanks, guys!} Josh (the singer — sorry, we didn't get his last name, but I did find out he's from the sadly defunct local band Hourglass Lake) had dreamy silken vocals like tofu (I love tofu). I loved the male Aisler Set-ish 1950's boy-next-door sound, clean and airy, like a Sunday bike-ride with a wickerbasket. They also featured lilting female accompanying vocals, and witty samples of 1950s scary sound bites between songs. His sister (again we have no name — bad imaginary girls!) drummed, dressed like a pirate, and effortlessly hauled her own gear offstage — making her my new personal hero. The sound clips also gave me the impression of a mixed tape, like something my clever first boyfriend Todd Nolan would have made me my senior year in high school because he was so cool and cared so much and had such fantastic attention to detail. The Preons sound as sweet and distracting as teenage love. This demo they gave us is really good... threeimaginarygirls.com

Location Seattle, Washington - USA

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