"Dynamics most power pop bands envy...This is a band that must be experienced live."- SeNBaltimore, June 2008
"Gary B & the Notions...will satisfy your craving for rock, with the class and honest vitality missing from most." - bmore Tunes Live Music Blog, June 2008
"Very much sounding like Elvis Costello and even at times the Beach Boys, the songs are short and sweet and the Notions are tight as a sailor's knot." - Aural States, March 2008
"The best songs in their set were the upbeat ones -- like their new single "Three Horse Carousel." If "The Exercise Song," with its interlocking guitars, is any indication, the band is headed in the right direction." - Midnight Sun, March 2008
"I publish a weekly nine artist list of artists I have come across and want to share because of their effect on me... in my blog called the No.9, No.9. Become a fan: 'Three Horse Carousel' and 'Lori.'" - The Pop League, March 2008
"Gary B and the Notions play power-pop and do it very well. Hooks, melodies, harmonies -- there will be no shortage of any of those elements when the Baltimore quartet hits the stage." - The Washington Post, January 2008
"Sounds like what would happen if Graham Parker morphed with beat poets Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac " - Sound the Sirens, August 2007
"There is a timeless quality to these songs." - Bluesbunny UK, July 2007
"Moments that hint at greatness" - Pastepunk.com, June 2007
"If you think that those power popping new wavers Cheap Trick deserve to be rehabilitated in the great pop/rock firmament then Gary B and the Notions could just be the band you're looking for." - The Devil Has The Best Tuna, June 2007
"I could see this group being great down the road." - Punknews.org, June 2007
"One of the best new indie releases to come across my desk...Their sound is dynamic and the songs, real." - Ryan's Smashing Life, May 2007
"Unique pop/rock songwriting that’s so good it’s difficult to take in at first." - Independent Clauses, May 2007
"Do not tune in unless you want to want to have a good time!" - 5 Acts, May 2007
"A band with plenty of attitude and a snide sense of humor...never taking itself quite seriously, but never letting go of the pop hooks." - Mish Mash, April 2007
“When I first popped in Gary B & The Notions' EP, Get Those Crazy Notions!, I was pretty sure I was listening to Elvis Costello back before he was doing cameos in Will Ferrell movies.” - Any Given Tuesday, March 2007
Gary B & the Notions, from Baltimore, Maryland, are your band. Gary B, in a band... or solo as Your Imaginary Friend has played with these fine artists: Sufjan Stevens, Franklin Bruno, The Mountain Goats, Liars, Georgie James, Rainer Maria, Statehood, Pleasure Forever, The Hold Steady, Palomar, Ethel Meserve, Head of Femur, Danielson, Atom and His Package, National Skyline, Marnie Stern, Everthus the Deadbeats, Travis Morrison Hellfighters, DEATHSET, Of Montreal, Wires on Fire, CEX, Bishop Allen, Elf Power, Q and not U, Sarge, the Natural History, Judd and Maggie, Tristeza, the Jazz June, the Lapse, K. (from Ida), Onelinedrawing, The Oranges Band, Engine Down, the Honorary Title, the 1900's, Lovelife (Celebration), Company, The Dismemberment Plan, Regulator Watts, Milemarker, the National, the Capitol Years, Peelander-Z, Franklin, Entrance, the Great Unraveling, El Guapo, GoGoGo Airheart, J-Roddy Walston and the Business, the Apes, Lightning Bolt, Pretty & Nice, Hal Al Shedad, Screaming Females, Charm City Suicides, Canyon, Now It's Overhead, Antelope, Lying In States, Avey Tare and Deakin (from Animal Collective), And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead..., Black Dice, the Aquarium, and many... many other great bands.
Hey guys! thanks for the add. Unfortunately, we too have a gig on July 10th, at Fort Reno in DC, but who knows.. maybe we can run over to IOTA afterwards. Anyways, good luck with the show, and we hope to catch a show in the future!
Dear friends, my elder bro Dima has made a page dedicated to our lo-fi studio “Happy Records” based in Kyiv, Ukraine, created for non-profit purposes. The focus of the studio work is producing indie artists we subjectively find interesting.
So please, find some time and listen to our friends’ music recorded by us at:
