Frank Smecker - Guitars, vocals
Adam Fuller - Guitars
Mike Prall - Guitars, percussion
Tom Kelly - Synth, vocals
Charlie Gerry - Bass guitar
John Gorman - Drums, percussion, electronics
Susan Stewart - Keys, Vocals
Influences
Lovers, Rescues, Black Spring and Long Winters, Instruments, Melody and Oscillations, Dinosaur Jr and Air Hockey
"The Hero Cycle...craft a brilliant musical landscape and will take your breath away with the skill with which this young band plays."
-Music Emissions
"Catch these guys before they get big."
-The Boston Globe
"The Lakes and Ponds EP...an ambitious little release that should be able to stand proudly, shoulder to shoulder, with the current indie darlings."
-Boring Machines
"Every song from [the Lakes and Ponds EP] is worth two albums from half the bands I've listened to today..."
-Snowglobe Universe
"That magical combination of sound and song."
-Skope Magazine
"Crisp cymbal work to lofty guitars...pop oriented but sonically intrepid... a supersized swirl of sound..."
-Casey Rea, Seven Days VT
"They... get me... hard..."
-ReviewYourFace
"...energetic...enthusiastic...completely epic in proportion...Masterpiece...the next big thing... I hope these guys will be around for a long, long time."
-Quadb Review
We've been submitted for review at KEXP.org and WOXY.com! Request Hero Cycle music HERE! and HERE!
"Lakes and Ponds" is waiting in the library of an independent radio station near you! Click Here to request your favorite song!
If you'd like to see The Hero Cycle play at your college, go to your school activities board and mention our name and contact information for press kits!
The Hero Cycle started in the Green Mountains of Vermont in 2005, combining the varied talents of drummer John Gorman, synthist Tom Kelly, and guitarists Mike Prall and Frank Smecker (ex-Drowningman and ex-Escapist). Soon after, the band quickly grew, including fellow Burlington residents Charlie Gerry (ex-Virga) on bass, second synthist Susan Stewart and third guitarist Adam Fuller (The Year's Best). Former contributing musicians include Hannah Wall (Magogs) ..boards and bassist Shawn Flanagan (Fire the Cannons and ex-Starlight Conspiracy). Thus, The Hero Cycle's unique sound has been shaped by the eclectic mix of energy brought forth by each individual member.
The band's sound remains solid, despite the unique influences of the many members, and hopes to continue a successful trend of interesting and powerful performances as well as recordings. Bringing years of musical experience to the table, the project acts as a creative haven for everyone involved. The music demands attention. For members tired of touring with uninspiring bands, The Hero Cycle's collective approach provides an attractive freedom. For solo artists, the band's tight arrangements represent the orchestration of symphonic sounds. All in all, good music and a strong live performance are the final result.
MEHO PLAZA NOPSE REMIX EP available on cassette from ick ick records...available digitally from better looking records... vinyl is in the works too from sp1records...........
Kurosawa's debut album, 'Your Star Has Fallen Over' is now available from CD Baby as a digital download!
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Kurosawa is a musical collaboration between Paul Cartwright, Adam Spellicy and Karen Vogt. The result is a graceful collision of soaring, ethereal vocals and lushly atmospheric, infectiously melodic acoustic and electronic sounds.
Hi! Just getting the word out that all the songs from my Darla Records debut album "Exclamation Love" are now available digitally on iTunes, Rhapsody, Amazon, and more.
You can also order the CD from darla. com, Amazon, Best Buy, etc...
thank you so much for helping and supporting me with my first book LEAVING THE COMFORT ZONE. The book has been out in Europe for a month now and will be released in the rest of the world in mid October.
I hope that you'll purchase a copy and enjoy it; an artist is nothing without a response, so I look forward to hearing from you. You can order the book on Amazon. com. And of course, if at all possible, please buy it at a nearby shop. Support your local bookstore!
I have some wonderful news. I’ve just had a baby: LEAVING THE COMFORT ZONE, my first book of collected photographs, is published this week in Europe, followed by a release in the States a month later.
After fifteen years of constant traveling, searching and straying, I’ve found myself backstage with rock stars, lost in the middle of the desert and everywhere in between; everywhere but where the road ends. So, LEAVING THE COMFORT ZONE is about taking a moment to look back on this wonderful, weird and winding path I’ve been on.
I hope that you'll purchase a copy and enjoy it; an artist is nothing without a response, so I look forward to hearing from you. You can order the book on Amazon or on Artbook. com. And of course, if at all possible, please buy it at a nearby shop. Support your local bookstore!
I am Ben Mitchell, the Liberty Union candidate for Lieutenant Governor in the state of Vermont. If I am elected Lieutenant Governor and the Governor leaves the state for even ten minutes, I will pardon all nonviolent drug offenders serving time in Vermont or Kentucky prisons. We lock up a larger percentage of our population than any other country and 80% of our inmates are held on charges stemming from this ridiculous war on drugs. It is stupid to pay $45.000 a year to lock up drug users when we won’t spend more than $7,000 a year to educate our young people. Besides I thought this was a free country.
Liberty Union is a party committed to ending all the wars – The war on Terror, the war on drugs, the war on poor people. War is good for the people who make weapons but everyone else suffers. Liberty Union does not have any money, so you will never hear of me any other way. If you want to be part of this movement, be my friend. Tell your friends to be my friend. The papers will not invite me to the debates and they will say I am a fool. You should decide for yourself.
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