Word: bandness
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...cream of the crop this year came from a band veiled in secrecy, a band that shuns playing already-released material in their frenetic live shows, a band whose members include an Avery Tare and a Panda Bear. The group is the Animal Collective, whose early 2004 release Sung Tongs redefined how a pop song could sound. With no coherent structures or discernible lyrics, the band still managed to put together an album that is constantly catchy and never boring, with instrumentation that proves an experimental album doesn’t have to be difficult to take...
Meet Joe Stroll, a self-professed marlin wrestler, panda trainer, mime, closet Starbucks employee and the newest drummer for the Harvard-bred art-rock band, the States...
Coming far from their first “unmentionable gig” at the Annual Miss Harvard Pageant to win Buzzplay.com’s Best Unsigned Band contest this past June, the States returned to Cambridge on Sunday, Nov. 21, to play to a small but enthusiastic crowd at the Middle East Upstairs. A stomach flu and equally heavy amounts of caffeine and alcohol obviously did not affect the quality of their performance, as they gave in to the audiences’ frenzied demand for “one more song...
...Previn Warren ’04 on bass guitar and Ian Mackenzie ’04 on drums. Leaving behind their Crimson-stained roots, the trio have since expanded beyond the campus circuit to the bright lights of New York. Stroll recently replaced Mackenzie on drums, who left the band to pursue a career as a teacher...
Laughing, Snyder recounts how Stroll came to join the band. “We started a search for the most talented drummer in the Tri-state area, and Joe was our only response...