Artist description Three lads unite in celebration of original Pop Rock & Roll music. Infectious and delicious. Join the cause. Bury the static. Save the Radio.

Music Style Pop Rock & Roll

Musical Influences U2, Radiohead, Superdrag, Pixies, the Beatles

Similar Artists Superdrag, Pixies, U2

Artist History jason and scott met in second grade while steve played on a distant playground. steve met both jason and scott in high school. scott made fun of steve upon first meeting him. jason drank enough to be convinced into learning to play drums. currently, all three make fun of each other and drink enough.

Group Members scott=vocals & bass, jason=drums, steve=guitar & vocals

Instruments Guitar, Bass, Drums, Vocals

Albums Save the Radio

Press Reviews Spill ItCityBeat's Music News By Mike Breen One of the first local releases of the new year has a pretty damn good chance of being one of the best when this year ends (and, as you smarter people know, we actually usher in a newmillennium). Promenade, who've been honing their skills over the past seven years, will release the fantastic Save the Radio this Friday at Sudsy Malone's.The trio have built their talent and audience considerably since first meeting in high school.While their 1995 full-length debut, Francis Coming Home, certainly showed a lot of promise,the sheer creativity and effectiveness of Radio is downright stunning. The band's music is best described as Pop Rock, but that description almost doesn't do their latest material justice. While many guitar-based Pop groups these days have clear, easily determinable influences and stick pretty close to the verse-chorus-verse structure (which, when done craftily, is still excellent), Promenade manages to write impossibly catchy songs within more uniquely shaped arrangements. The band seems to approach songwriting and performing from a dual standpoint: Do things accessibly, but don't ever pander. For starters, Promenade should be commended for keeping the album down to the classic 10 tracks (for the life of me I can't understand why, with the advent of the CD, bands can't seem to help but put 30 songs on a record, just 'cause they fit). The (comparative) brevity of the album enables listeners to think of Save the Radio as an actual album effort, not just a bunch of songs thrown together. Also, production-wise, the band (along with co-producer Jeff Monroe of Group Effort Studio) have made a crisp-sounding record, but they also do a lot of experimenting with outside sounds between the grooves of their basic guitar/bass/drums approach. But as they are at their core a great Pop band, it's the group's ability to write great hooks that gives the album its timeless feel. Practically every track will ring in your head for months after only a couple of listens. Album opener "Pocket Girl" is a mini four-and-a-half-minute epic that glides on a near monotone base (ý la "Tomorrow Never Knows"), taking off in different directions every half-minute or so. The arrangement is Pop music as Radiohead envisions it: Structural creativity over obvious repetition. The rest of the album is slightly more conventional in its Pop structure, but rarely is itpredictable. Singer/bassist Scott Cunningham slips into a flawless falsetto throughout the record, always taking the songs to new heights, while guitarist/singer Steve Sauer and drummer Jason Debruer all have huge hands in making these songs unforgettable. Otherhighlights include "Nervous Wreck," with its soaring chorus hook ("You've got everybodyhigh/You've got everybody made") and the addictive mid-tempo "Little Pearl." There are two unlisted tracks at the end of album that seem kind of superfluous: One is a short clip of what sounds like a lightsaber battle, while the other is a minimal demo, which, while endearingly raw, is the only down-point on an otherwise flawless effort. For more information on Promenade, check the band's recently completed Web site (www.promenadepop.com) or write Promenade, Box 54633, Cincinnati, OH 45254.

Location Cincinnati, OH - USA

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