Artist description A great place to visit and live in, Capital City is grounding the typical pop flavor into a down home alternate reality. New wave, country and roots elements are all present neighborhoods in this diverse urban environ. Unlike most cities today, Capital City is all about vocal hooks and harmonies. Miranda and Geech are often trading lines and singing together in ways that make even children sit up straight and listen. Also, the landscape of the City is varied - you can find up-tempo, go-get-em buildings that reach out and grab you or you can move into a quiet, introspective family house on the outskirts of town. The word is out - the living is easy in the City.

Music Style Melodic, rootsy pop music

Musical Influences Elvis Costello, The Band, X, Papas Fritas, Elliott Smith, Freakwater, Beatles, American Music Club

Artist History Started in early 99 by Miranda and Geech as a way to keep themselves in touch with the people.

Group Members Miranda, Geech, Eric and JC. Depending on what day you visit, Winston, Jeff or Jane might be there as well.

Instruments electric guitar, acoustic guitar, electric bass, electric piano, drums, percussion, singing

Albums Start Your Own Country

Press Reviews "This young band applies a rootsy, slightly folk-tinged approach to the classic pop theorem. With mixed-gender vocals adding plenty of variety, it's quite an enjoyable ride as you bounce through Start Your Own Country -- innocence and simplicity flow freely and a genuinely friendly aura emanates from each track. Balancing bop with beauty, Capital City have quickly found a distinct sound and are quite capable at dumping it onto a recorded medium. If you like DoubleAgent or Kindercore stuff, you should be happy to make room for Capital City's pop crusade." - Splendid E-Zine.............. "Start Your Own Country is chock full of bright poppy melodies, clever lyrical hooks and irresistible harmonies... Geechand Miranda trade vocal lines with all of the aptitude of a pro ping-pong match, especially in the song "To and Fro".Capital City writes songs that you have to be dead or terminally jaded not to enjoy on some level. I find myself easily addicted. This band has "more hooks than a tacklebox" and an uncanny knack for the right melody and vibe. The harmonies on "Coming Home" rival anything on Rubber Soul and the introspective "You Went Astray", with its sparse arrangement and haunted electric piano and vocal show a band comfortable enough with their strong writing abilities to let their songs stand as a testament to themselves without the bells and whistles of slick production skills and flamboyant musical noodling. I hope Capital City continues with this unjaded approach. Their sound is fresh andhopeful. I can't wait to hear more." - The Noise

Location Boston, MA - USA

Copyright notice. All material on MP3.com is protected by copyright law and by international treaties. You may download this material and make reasonable number of copies of this material only for your own personal use. You may not otherwise reproduce, distribute, publicly perform, publicly display, or create derivative works of this material, unless authorized by the appropriate copyright owner(s).