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Agent Ribbons

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Album: Chateau Crone
Released: Oct 12, 2010
Label: Antenna Farm Records

General Info

  • Genre: Concrete / Lyrical / Minimalist

    Location Austin, Texas, Un

    Profile Views: 638396

    Last Login: 1/12/2012

    Member Since 5/9/2006

    Record Label broken carousel/7" Project/Acuarela/Antenna Farm

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

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  • Influences

  • Sounds Like

    We look like violins but we sound like cellos.

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  1. Agent Ribbons

    Hey y'all...booking a tour for my new band @tele_novella and needing a couple extra shows in the northwest. Any random fun spots up there?

  2. Agent Ribbons

    Also, if you're interested, @tele_novella is my (Natalie) new band and we're touring the west coast in a few months to show the world...

  3. Agent Ribbons

    Hey y'all...just announced on FB that Agent Ribbons is officially breaking up. Go over there to read the whole speech...thanks you al!!!!

  4. Agent Ribbons

    BOOKING A TOUR. It's for my NEW band @tele_novella and its on the west coast! Where are we playing?!

  5. Agent Ribbons

    SXSW tonight! Valhalla on Red River 8 pm! Come see my new band @tele_novella!

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  • Brian Hildenbrand

    still hoping to catch you up in Portland!

    2 years ago
  • the revenge of vermilli…

    love u and your music...
    still waiting to watch u live in Greece./

    2 years ago
  • Edjane

    Thanks for Add...Girls...I'm Brasilian fan....

    2 years ago
  • Green Sea Floyds

    Please come to Cleveland! Play the Beachland Ballroom...you can crash at our place...we have food... ----Eddie O./gsf.

    2 years ago
  • Cindy

    Thanks for Adding Me love your tracks on here.

    2 years ago
  • aiyakun

    i'm moving to texas in 2012. that means i can come to your show anytime i want! oh i'm so excited!! i have my friends in lubbock because i've lived there for a year in 1989. i was only 10 then... well, well, who knows how life turns out to be. my boyfriend loves agent ribbons as well. i think i want to have my facebook, and become your friends now! so i can leave lots of comments. ok take care, and have fun! Aiyakun

    ps happy birthday to you, Natalie?

    2 years ago
  • Teresa

    awesome at O Meu Mercedes!

    2 years ago
  • The Mystery Artist

    Hi there, thanks for the add!!!

    Will be there tonight to watch you.
    Have a listen to our music!

    All the best

    The Mystery Artist

    Join us on Facebook:

    http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Mystery-Artist/129091340471892?v=wall

    2 years ago
  • Shawn Andrew

    hope you give a great concert in Bragança!

    Greetings from Portugal

    2 years ago
  • aiyakun

    ohhhh thanks for your comment.

    agent ribbons, you are my idol forever!
    i've watched your videos again and again, and every time i'm so in love!  i've got to see you!  i want all of your albums, but don't now how to get.  i think your new album is able in japan.

    setting tour isn't easy...i understand.  i don't have friends in tokyo who can arrange tour etc.  best way is that i go to the states!  let me know your address, and i will send you cds.  but i'm sure you know all of my favorite songs!  ha! 

    unfortunately i'm not on facebook.  you two moved to austin? now you three together?








    2 years ago
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Contact

Booking:

agentribbons@gmail.com

Label:

paul@antennafarmrecords.com..

Publicity:

proxymedia@frontiernet.net

Licensing:

chris@ghost-town.com

Bio

Natalie Ribbons: Guitar + Vocals + Accordion.. Lauren Ribbons: Drums + Percussion + Harmonies Naomi Ribbons: Violin + Various odds and ends


The story of Agent Ribbons has not one--but many--beginnings, and fashioning some semblance of chronology from their cut-and-paste four-year history is an art project in and of itself. Originally hailing from the shanty-Victorian streets of downtown Sacramento, they now reside in Austin, TX when they aren't traveling the world and jamming econo.


Usually, you'll experience them as a three piece, but they are also known to keep it simple with the original two-piece guitar, drums and vocals line up. In either case, they almost always catch crowds off-guard with their live rawness, bringing both an honest minimalism and unapologetic theatricality to their live shows.


Agent Ribbons isn't just a band--it's a tree house club of post-feminist dreamers trying to find their place in the scheme of things, like a hand-sewn and lovingly-crafted garment in a modern, disposable world. Listening to everything from Eartha Kitt to The Velvet Underground and taking notes from bands like The Shaggs, The Boswell Sisters and The Zombies, they miraculously reconcile seemingly-unrelated genres, sounding something like Girls in the Garage doing the Three Penny Opera. Waxing sentimental over the eerie beauty of all things lost to time, the emphasis is undoubtedly in the lyrics, which favor clever turns of phrase and occasional humor, but never at the expense of the melodic integrity of their catchy, memorable songs.


Since 2007, the band has toured the U.S. more times than they can remember. Some of those tours were with big national acts like Camera Obscura, Cake, Detroit Cobras and Girl in a Coma, and the rest were done vigilante-style in a Chevy Astro.


Despite having been banned in the UK in 2008, they have an ever-increasing presence in Europe and in 2009 released a popular vinyl seven inch with Acuarela Discos in Europe and Japan entitled 'Your Love is the Smallest Doll.'


Agent Ribbons will finally be releasing their forthcoming sophomore album Chateau Crone this fall on Oakland-based Antenna Farm Records. The album was recorded with Manny Nieto in Los Angeles (The Breeders, HEALTH) and with Scott McChane at the Hangar in Sacramento, CA (Tape-Op Magazine) in both digital and analog formats over the course of a year..



With delicate violin arrangements, noisy dissonant tangents, Spector-esque vocal harmonies and clever melodic phrasing, the album cannot commit to a genre but always manages to sound like the same brand of baroque pop.

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