Meet the Middle Eight. This NYC-based indie/pop/rock band released their first CD, Unwind in 2006 after a long time musical affiliation between founding members of The Middle Eight, lead singer Jason Olshan and drummer Tallin Lamonaca. The two, with other friends, wrote and recorded their first full-length album entitled “Unwind” in 2006, drawing on influences from the Beatles, to Wilco, to Weezer, to Zepplin, to anything in between. In late 2006, Jason and Tallin sought to find permanent members and push hard to make the band a success. They found these permanent members in Matt Williamson, a New York implant originally from Birmingham, AL., and Steve Plekan from upstate New York. These 4 began work on what would become their 2008 EP entitled, “Love; Pass it On”.
Along the way, they were joined by Dave McTiernan, a Cape Cod resident in school at NYU. Dave brings some great keyboard skill as well as tremendously curly hair to the band.
The band is currently gigging and promoting the songs from the new EP as well as writing new material. Two of the songs from the EP will be featured in “The Rebound”, a film set to release in April 2009 starring Catherine Zeta-Jones and Justin Bartha.
With a sound awash in influences ranging from Beck, Wilco and Radiohead to the Beatles, the Middle Eight’s music is destined to find a home on many iPod playlists.
El Diablo Robotico
el diablo robotico are a country, noise, soul, post-rock band from brooklyn, ny and they swear that makes sense.
Young, intelligent, and powerful, Brooklyn based Condom Pocket combines the intensity of ’90s grunge with haunting electro/synth hooks that make their music unmistakably modern. Yet to cut a studio track, the band survives on acoustic demos recorded by singer/songwriter Mike Dooley in his Crown Heights apartment. “We’re happy to be DIY for as long as necessary,” says the band. “A good song will always be a good song, production is secondary.” The catchy, emotionally-driven lyrics built atop a powerful rhythm section finds Condom Pocket making as much sense on the stages of New York City’s best dive-bars as on your headphones in your bedroom. The band prefers your bedroom.
Capital
Brought together by their mutual appreciation for and scholarly knowledge of the Nordic sound, the three young and arguably talented gadabouts who comprise Capital, pronounced similar to the last name of the original lead singer from the 1960’s band the Small Faces, mean to bring the funk and the soul back into the ivory tower. The Columbia-attending threesome share a unique passion for the music of the reverends J Dilla, Michael McDonald, Bilal, and Brad Mehldau, as well as the fabulous learn-to-type programs taught by Mavis Beacon. Described as “borderline offensive” and “decidedly lacking in contrapuntal motivic development” by friend Rosario Dawson, this proverbial barrel of three monkeys lives by the time tested aphorism, first spoken by Sir Ernest Shackleton himself, “Bitch I can turn a crack rock into a mountain.”