co-founders: Jon Fried & Deena Shoshkes
with Yuergen Renner, John Williams, Kurt Wrobel, Dave "Love God" Ross, EdNo, Steve Villano and Tom Dugan, Nels Johnson, Charles Brian Hargrove, David Graham, Maria Siegenthaler, Erik W., Joshua Fried, Al Houghton. Road manager and inspiration: Dan Griffin.
Influences
The Talking Heads, B-52's, Lou Reed, James Brown, Jamie from the Posers, RockDownBaby, Over The Moon, Billie Holliday, Sam Cooke, The Beatles, Roger Moutenot, David Young, Jesse Fried, Tom "Laughing Boy" Lucas, Lach
Two songs from our most recent cd "All Things To You" are included here.
With "Musicians I Know" the Cucumbers have written one of the great day-job songs." writes Ben Sisario, The New York Times
Listen to the gorgeous "Bend Me Like a Willow," Ira Robbins, Trouser Press.
"My Boyfriend" .. our very first song!
And... by request, "Everything Goes."
Just added in honor of Santacon season: "Ho Ho Ho and a Bottle of Rum." Featuring Kurt Wrobel as Santa.
We started playing our songs as a guitar duo on the streets of Europe, moved to Hoboken, NJ and fell into a great moment of indie pop underground music happening there...for the full tale:
http://www.thecucumbers.net
I recently visited, and performed for the troops in Iraq! If you click on the picture of me and the troops, below, you can download an EXCLUSIVE track for FREE from my album ‘Live From Iraq.’ Support the troops!
I was cruising through Yahoo Music, and I came across a Video of "My Boyfriend".. I didn't know you all had made one (I just thought you had the "HBO Brain Games" Thing going)
Happy Halloween! from Japan!! I'm not Ghost.^^; just stop to say our information. next our "Bigfish live show" is scheduled on 7th December at Kichijoji MANDA-LA2, Tokyo. Three Japanese Female peaceful singers; Hana Saito, NAORYU and Rika Shinohara play there. They sound like folky heart-warm and acoustic. thanks for checking our live information. Hope everything is good in your life! Have a happy Halloween time. ARIGATO
YES! I LOVE your music! Where can I find the video for your song "Everything Goes?" I once had it on my Gateway 2000 System CD, but have since lost track of it :(
Hey Jon and Deena and your fellow Cucumbers, Hope you can make it back to Hoboken. The Individuals are celebrating the re-release of "Fields/Aquamarine" at Maxwell's Tuesday July 22nd. One show only. C’mon out! -The Individuals
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