Artist description Melodious music with a hip-hop beat. Astronauts agree this is music to float to.

Music Style hip-hop space rock

Musical Influences Maids of Gravity, Radiohead, Beastie Boys

Similar Artists Beastie Boys , Radiohead , 2 Skinnee J's , DJ , Shooytz Groove

Artist History Started a couple of years back and located in Pittsburgh Pa. Simon has been on Hometown Records for the past year and a half. Released debut CD - Writing on the Cosmic Wheel - in July of 98.

Group Members Abe Nehrer - bass, keyboards, all around jokester and odd-thought creator, drives a 79 ford van Paul Luc - vocals, guitar, wears khaki's and dress shirts and dances funny, 86 audi 5000 for transportation Sal Pennacchio - drums, vocals, spliffs, italian party boy with a knack for beats, has a 98 VW beatle Matt Tomayko - guitar, keyboard, vocals, music addict who wears loafers and can't drive (legally) DJ Box - turntables, sampler, New York native, his blood is 1% vinyl, drives a white blazer with a NY license plate

Instruments 2 guitars, 1 bass, 1 drumset, extra percussion, turntables, and other odd items from the basement of a physicist

Albums Writing on the Cosmic Wheel -- 1998 Hometown Records

Press Reviews Simon - Writing on the Cosmic Wheel (Hometown Records, 1998 CD) Alright, what we've got here is a group of teenage kids from the east suburbs of Pittsburgh, PA thinking that maybe it'd be cool to form a band and be a bit more popular around high school, ok? So no chance then that Simon's music could be interesting to someone like myself who's twice their age, right? Especially when the music is heavily grounded in (gasp) hip-hopdem! Well, somewhere along the line, these precocious youngsters must've been poisoned by exposure to some cool space rock, because "Cosmic Wheel" is truly cosmic. It's about as new and different as space rock (?) can get...and more than that, it's actually quite professional...and best of all, it's actually very enjoyable music..................In a single listen, I'd become a big fan of both Matt Tomayko's spacey guitar work (sounding like a Roye Albrighton protégé) and Paul Luc's intoxicating voice..........Making good music is easy no matter what 'formula' you use as long as you write good songs, and Simon composes music that belies their few years........The result is that these kids have made 'space-hop' a reality and so if you're daring to try something really new......get yourself a copy. -KH Keith Henderson is Staff Writer & Advisor for AURAL INNOVATIONS -the global source for spacerock exploration. Their web address is www.infinet,com/~jkranitz/space/space.html

Location Brackenridge, PA - USA

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