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A Boston-based 3-piece band, Anushka Pop was formed in one of the area's least auspicious rehearsal spaces. The colder days of 2000 saw John Soares laboring in Boston's open mic circuit, while Chris Welch played drums for the hardcore act Cops on Crutches. The group soon added bass player Johnny Arguedas, who brought harmony vocals and his own prodigious cache of original songs.
The band came together out of a mutual admiration for the power pop acts of the 70's, bands like the Raspberries, the Jam and the Paul Collins Beat. Since their first club date, Anushka Pop has continued to take to the stage with pop melodicism, sharp hooks and the pursuit of the perfect 3-minute single.
That pursuit led them to record more than once at Allston's Galaxy Park. Their first effort produced "The Judy Song", featured on Your New Favorite CD (Primary Voltage, 2003). The second sessions resulted in I Wanna Tell You Something, a 3-song EP released on Sassy Boy Records. In October of 2005 Anushka Pop released their latest EP, Akathena, recorded at the Moontower by Mike Quinn. Receiving high praise from the local press, this EP continues in the vein of Anushka Pop's 2003 eponymous debut e.p. The band's tightly-crafted arrangements and rapturous performances are well represented here, this time in a suite of seven songs about love, war, remembrance, rebirth, and self-consciousness... and girls.
Anushka Pop regularly plays the Boston clubs, and has shared the stage not only with notable local bands, but also touring acts including Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Radio 4, Dressy Bessy, Washington Social Club and the Deathray Davies.
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