Spring 2007 Performers

The Jennifers Album Release Party
with The Pale Stars
Friday, Feb. 23

John Irvine writes psychedelic-pop songs with catchy pop melodies and witty, slightly surrealistic lyrics. His band, the Jennifers, executes those compositions with a surf-punk directness that scrubs them clean of nostalgia and cleverness. The quartet's new album, “Colors from the Future," feature Irvine's catchiest, wittiest songs and the band's sharpest playing yet. It's a measure of Irvine's writing that Robyn Hitchcock's “Queen of Eyes” sits comfortably amid the original tunes. Singer-guitarist Irvine also plays with the Garage Sale, the Bowlerman and the Hopkins Symphony Orchestra. Guitarist Joe Stone is a former member of the band Beef Umbrella Aviation Theory. Bassist Joe Tropea formerly played with Gill, Jag, Dirty Sanchez and many others. Skizz Cyzyk also plays drums in The Bowlermen and Garage Sale, ukulele in The Awkward Sounds of Scott & Skizz (aka A.S.S.S.), and has previously been a member of Blister Freak Circus, Gill, Jag, Berserk, Dirty Sanchez, Burried Droog and the Slug Log 3. Cyzyk is also the founder of the underground film festival, Microcinefest, and the director of music videos for such bands as the Young Fresh Fellows, One Ring Zero, The Beltways and Meatjack.

www.thejennifers.com

Discography

Colors from the Future (Beef Platter, 2007)
Book of Bad Advice (Beef Platter, 2002)
Nine Days Wonder (You Say When, 1994)

With his first two bands-Greenberry Woods and Splitsville-Brandt
Huseman spearheaded Baltimore's power-pop renaissance, a movement of
ear-candy melodies and muscular rhythms so tightly wrapped together that
you couldn't pull one from the other. Greenberry Woods is long gone, and
Splitsville is a part-time band now that Brandt's twin brother and
musical partner Matt is living in Colorado. So Brandt has founded the
Palestars, a power-pop quartet with Paul Anderson, Nat Bradley and Jeff
Trueman. The band's debut album, "The Pale Stars," boasts 11 hooky songs
layered in harmonies and driven by an insistent twitch. The music
explores the same territory mined by Squeeze, Matthew Sweet, Crowded
House and Splitsville.

www.palestars.com

Discography:
The Pale Stars (Splitsville, 2006)