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...States, formed in October 2002, consist of three Harvard students: Chris Snyder ’04 on guitar and vocals, 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...
...addition of Stroll has given the States an edgier, bombastic, even slightly abrasive sound. “It was a breath of fresh air,” says Warren, and glancing at the casually smoking Stroll, adds, “carcinogenetic...
...States emerge from the humble origins of Leverett House’s basement. Warren and Mackenzie had been playing in the Black Yankees, a hip-hop band, when Warren got a hold of one of Snyder’s self-made recordings and sent him an invitation to jam. Emerging from several sessions that just consisted of playing around with Radiohead covers, the group, by then dubbed the States, began playing in the local circuit at Springfest and Loker Commons before moving on to play at the Sky Bar, the Middle East, T.T. the Bear’s, Kirkland Caf?...
While the name of the band may have had political and psychological intentions, Warren ruefully explained that after time, the name stuck and is no longer intended to be political or a reference to the country. Although Snyder professes strong political opinions, such beliefs are not found explicitly in their lyrics, and he denies any similarities to the partially Harvard-bred Rage Against the Machine...
Joking about the trials of starving artistry and making negative money on gigs (if you account for gas), the members of the band have more typical, though perhaps less exciting day jobs. Snyder works for D.E. Shaw and Company in Midtown in New York City and Warren works at the Public Defenders Legal Aid Society in Brooklyn. While Snyder said that Stroll works at a Starbucks, the drummer denied the fact, offering one of his seemingly typical outrageous and obviously false responses that he trains pandas to shoot eucalyptus plants which emit gamma radiation...