A Million Years
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A Million Years are a Brooklyn-based four piece who are making music for your grey matter. Stimulated by the intellectualism and sonic experimentation of bands like Radiohead, Spoon and Wilco, they strive to create a world of smart, brooding characters wandering around in our digitized soundscape.
Their debut full-length album, Mischief Maker, is being released in June 2010 and was produced by Shannon Ferguson of the band Longwave. On the record, A Million Years wear their love of guitar-driven indie-rock on their sleeve. Mischief Maker also touches on sonic elements found in electronic music, using drum machines alongside real drums and synthesizers alongside the guitars and bass to create a sound that is dense but also feels organic.
Formed in early 2007, A Million Years began as a sort of revolving door with an ever changing list of band members hashing out the songs born in Keith Madden’s (vocals/guitar) bedroom. Andrew Samaha (bass/vocals), Andrew Vanette (drums/vocals) and Nick Werber (guitar/vocals) later joined to create a collective of passionate, music-obsessed workaholics. During his stint as a touring guitarist in both Pin Me Down (with Russell Lissack of Bloc Party) and Longwave, Keith was introduced to Ferguson who also produced the band’s first EP Incandescent in 2009.
A Million Years has toured extensively throughout the east coast and in venues all around New York City including Bowery Ballroom, Highline Ballroom, The Studio @ Webster Hall, and The Mercury Lounge, as well as received national airplay on radio stations such as NYC’s WRXP, WEQX, and WKZQ. A Million Years have shared the stage with 30 Seconds to Mars, Phoenix, The Drums, Longwave, One Eskimo and have just completed their first UK tour with Jesse Malin. In a recent poll conducted by the national editors of the Deli Magazine, A Million Years was voted the #4 emerging Indie Rock Band in New York.
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"A brazen indie-pop sound with a mixture of sharp punk tones, this band takes their flair for theatrical soundscapes and condenses them into controlled bursts of creativity."
-Performer Magazine
http://www.performermag.com/
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"Seven nights a week, there are tens, maybe hundreds, of bands playing across New York City. Making noticeable waves can be difficult. A Million Years have done it on the back of sharp, spit-polished songs like “Holy Ghost Town” that scratch a variety comparable itches—the forlorn, idealistic street rocker; the excited, guitar-wielding everyman."
-RCRDLBL
http://rcrdlbl.com/
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"In an age when bands and musicians feel compelled to throw in everything but the kitchen sink and stack discs with filler and hissing noise, Mischief Maker is short, sweet and to the point. Never once does it linger, never once does it labor, and never once does it disappoint. It is in many ways, one of 2010’s biggest surprises and a most welcome addition from a band criminally under-the-radar. Brooklyn, you’ve done it again."
-Absolute Punk
http://www.absolutepunk.net
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"We like listening to A Million Years in the morning, because the Brooklyn band gets us out of bed. Their focused, spiraling melodies fall somewhere between driving music and sci-fi theme song, except with a rocking bass."
-NYLON Magazine
http://www.nylonmag.com/
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"Sometimes music just clicks, like Tom Petty or Bloc Party or Blur. It's music that's timeless because it immediately strikes a chord, getting stuck in your head for days at a time. These bands have an ability to write tunes that move millions, and you can't really explain it, but they have staying power because they connect with each and every person that listens.
Young Brooklyn quartet A Million Years is cut from the same cloth, as evidenced by their debut Incandescent EP. It's an early statement from a band that has a lot of life in it, and that's nowhere more than evident than on "By Yourself." The song adroitly veers down a path that is both familiar and new, quickly turning into a perfect summer pop nugget. It's one of the year's best songs."
-Stranded in Stereo
http://strandedinstereo.blogspot.com/
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"A Million Years rocked the Bowery Ballroom stage Saturday night with an energetic, driving set reminiscent of gritty NYC rockers like The Strokes and the power and force of bands like Queens of the Stone Age."
-Death + Taxes
http://dt-mag.com/
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"Sonic and cerebral rock band equipped with guitar driven assaults."
-CMJ
http://www.cmj.com/
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