Artist description High energy rock band. Mixes intelligent songwriting with thoughtful lyrics and rude guitars.

Music Style power pop rock

Musical Influences The Beatles, Treble Charger, Elvis Costello, The Verve Pipe, Lit, Butch Walker, Train

Similar Artists Simple Plan, Matchbox 20, Matthew Sweet, New Found Glory, American Hi Fi, Train, Flickerstick, Lit, Blink 182, Third Eye Blind, Marvelous 3, Eve6, Butch Walker, Jimmy Eat World, The Ataris

Group Members Kenny Beaumont: Vocals, BassTravis Wetherington: Guitars, VoxKen Charton: GuitarsEric Younggren Drums

Albums Beautiful Backwards World (2000), Sugarcoat (2002)

Press Reviews Play this too loud and you're bound to end up in a time vortex somewhere between the 60's and the 90's. Shades of both the Beatles and They Might Be Giants crop up inexplicably in the supremely well crafted and performed "Pedestal" which finds Ken Beaumont singing about a possibly unworthy girl for whom he foolishly falls. Drummer Eric Younggren works with Beaumont in a persuasive rhythm attack as in the airy acoustic groove of "Chelsea Cafe", which boasts slightly surreal lyrics about a girl, a television screen and robbers. If the Beatles comparison seems out of place, the band's revisionist view of a circus in "Greatest Show" contains the lyric "the show is such a sight/one for Mr Kite/he is sitting in the balcony". Ken Charton provides an important backbone through his guitar playing, switching between amiable 60's chord progressions and hard-hitting 90's power-crunch. His sparkling, beautiful changes in "Bother You" underscore the poignant reunion between childhood friends who could've been more. As Beaumont sings "Oh! Completely seperate lives we lead/nothing like the one under the tree," there's a powerful sense of regret that's tempered by the mod rocking interludes toward the end of the track. Four starters, four stars, four songs and way too short. Can I have a refill of Cider please

Location Orlando, Florida - USA

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