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Warren, along with Mike J. Palmer ’03 (guitarist and Eliot House alum), Andy C. Eggers ’99 (drummer/mandolinist and Mather alum) and Altay Guvench ’03 (bassist and Pforzheimer House alum) has constructed a group of strikingly diverse tracks, which share an underpinning sensibility and a roots-rock/Americana vibe that never sounds derivative despite occasional homage to early Wilco, Son Volt or Uncle Tupelo...
...Sound Studios in the basement of Pfoho. The four all met though QSS, and talk about it with a certain degree of nostalgia. Warren, a Wellesley student at the time, was recording and needed the musicians to fill out her sessions and play a couple of gigs with her. Guvench still has a formal association to Quad Sound as the current director of their semesterly comp...
...might wonder how the Unknowns were able to publicize their album enough to strike a record deal despite their confessed aversion towards self-promotion. The answer lies in a local singer-songwriter named Rose Polenzani, whom Guvench knew through a friend of the band...
...label judges. “I just hope this isn’t my only 15 minutes of fame,” says José L. Sandoval ’02, a member of North House, a Harvard-based band with Al Bennett ’00, Altay M. Guvench ’03 and Wellesley senior Becky Warren. This Saturday, they will open for Primus in San Francisco, as part of a national battle of the bands run by the Internet Underground Music Association. North House made the final four, and this play-off, plus an online vote, will...
...Guvench mentioned his thrill at being wined and dined and cruising around California in a limo, then possibly taking the red-eye flight back to Boston so that he can open for Big Bad Voodoo Daddy with two other bands he is a part of (FinkFankFunk and one that is yet unnamed), the next day. Sandoval is excited about maybe one day being seen as a total musician, not just a physics concentrator who plays music on the side. “Everyone plays music on the side,” he says. It doesn’t hurt that...