NOW: AARON SMITH-guitar, DONNA BAIRD-trumpet, keyboard, PHILIP PASCUZZO-drumm, JASON HUGHES-bass
PAST AND SOMETIMES NOW: MIKE KEEGAN-gtr, JUSTIN BAKER-bass, PANZAH ZANDAHZ-theremin, JONATHAN PELLERIN-drums, RICH BALDES-bass
Influences
cultural marginalia, the ghost of jeremy brett, coffee, werner herzog, james burke, quantum physics, art bell, bad 70's horror comics, bigfoot (the Patterson film in particular), freedom rock, ...and justice for all, neglected graveyards, found yearbooks from the late 1960s, vij, dearraindrop, the plastic octopus in my bathroom, teen wolf, expired medication etc..
Sounds Like
MORE SONGS AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD AT WWW.SCIENTIFICMAPS.COM.
'GET OFF THE MOON' SONG TITLES: tiffany is a ghost, ancient LCD display, cursing receptors, study the style, halloween 1985, laboratory scene, headstone amplifier, are you still underlining?, charley and marie (from ghosts to houseplants), my friend styles, the mystery lights, a letter to dr. watson, a pattern needing believing, spread the acrimony, the lives we never lived (abridged)-----
"it's all about your "game" and who's got the tops. it's about chillin' with style. it's about showin up in the woods and sayin' "you all gotta check out my styles as i rock it". then you say "we gotta start rockin' it harder".---
rob, averill park. age 25 (quote found in albany institute of history and art in a book asking visitors the question "what does colonialism mean to you?")
forget it man and get with the countdown! shake this square world and blast off for kicksville!
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Scientific Maps is a four piece band from Albany, N.Y. The band began in 2003 and has released two full length albums titled Get Off the Moon and Hold On Whoever You Are, the recently released E.P. Galvanic Wizardy, and is nearing completion of a third album named Food for Witches.
In 2006 and 2009, Metroland voted Scientific Maps "BEST POP BAND" in the Capital Region and in 2008 Aaron Smith was named "BEST MALE SONGWRITER".
With songs reflecting influences as varied as the supernatural and crypto-zoological to British invasion to Sherlock Holmes to Elephant 6 and then back to the supernatural, they are gaining more friends and fans at each performance and are ready to play for more.
Scientific Maps has played with many bands such as of Montreal, the Hold Steady, and Akron/Family. They are gaining more friends and fans at each performance and are ready to play for more.
ALL ABOVE SONGS WRITTEN BY AARON SMITH .
thank you for listening!!!
Scientific Maps are a four (and occasionally two piece) indie rock pop band from Albany, N.Y. Taking cues from way before and almost not yet, the Maps meld harmonies together with sometimes somber lyrics against a mostly rapid rhythm. They're like, nowsville. They're excited to meet you.
***From Best of the Capital Region Metroland 2009
Best Pop Band
Scientific Maps
They took this one in 2006, and Aaron Smith emerged from the scrum last year as Best Male Songwriter, but with Hold On Whoever You Are, Smith’s record for this year’s RPM Challenge, the Maps still craft the smartest, catchiest crypto-zoological tunes in the land. With song titles like “Wherein We Are Introduced to the Author as He is Tortured and Transported via Ship from Portugal to an English Prison,” it’s tough to be the competition.
***From BEST OF the capital region Metroland 2008
----Best Songwriter (Male)
Aaron Smith
Chief cartographer for hometown heroes the Scientific Maps, Smith packs volumes into his three- to four-minute garage-pop gems—midnight cemetery raids, love requited and otherwise, and a touch of the mysterious behind the mundane. His bittersweet, sometimes inscrutable lyrics are underscored by arcing trumpets, buzzing guitar solos, and a rare gift for the devastating chord change. Smith's tweaking of conventions belies a near mastery of the form—meaning total galactic domination by Smith and the Maps is at this point inevitable. Just remember who told you so when it finally happens.
****From BEST OF the capital region Metroland issue 7/20/06
---Best Pop Band
Scientific Maps
Aaron Smith writes some of the quirkiest, catchiest geek-pop tunes weve heard since . . . well, since Smiths old band (the Stars of Rock). And his recently revamped Scientific Maps have a full-time theremin player, which is pretty freakin sweet.
----MOVE OVER by John Brodeur/Metroland
Margot and the Nuclear So and So's, Dirty on Purpose, Scientific Maps
Valentine's, Feb. 18
One-time Stars of Rock guy Aaron Smith and his Scientific Maps opened--and damn near stole the show. Consider them the best new old band in the area: While the Maps have been a growing concern for several years, this was the inaugural performance for the new lineup, and the lengthy off season has proven productive.
-----UPSTATE FASHION and ART/Autumn 2006
Like a good cup of coffee that can be savored in a few minutes, the Scientific Maps songs percolate the senses with their sci-fi charged pop idiosyncrasies.
hey! We have a day off from our Hot topic tour and im bored, thus, this comment haha but on the real we have a ton of NY and NYC dates coming up that i figured id tell you about the old fashioned way (as far as myspace goes) via comment haha. Here are a few NY and NYC dates we have coming up: Monday, 10/12 - Saratoga Springs//Wilton Mall - FREE Hot Topic Acoustic Performance (6pm) Tuesday, 10/13 - Albany, NY//Crossgates Mall - FREE Hot Topic Acoustic Performance (6pm Thursday, 10/8 - Masapequa, NY//Sunrise Mall - FREE Hot Topic Acoustic Performance SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24TH, 2009//CRASH MANSION - $10 (advanced tickets only, message us asap for tickets) 12pm, CMJ Showcase w/ farewell and more! Ok So this got long, and if your thinking this is spam think again, cause well, we can barley afford gas, let alone a myspace program, when my fingers work just as good haha anyway let us know if your going to come to any of these shows free or not :-D Stay gangsta Dylan Survival
Had to tell you .... Two days ago, I dusted off my copy of ‘Get off the Moon.’ Brilliant stuff. I shared it with two co-workers. The religious one (the neo-con) felt weird about the whole thing (I mean, why was I sharing this with him?). The other one (the Mao-worshipping Communist) loved it, said he was your newest fan. I’m at work late, blaring it as far as my Mac will let it. Love you ...
Merci de nous avoir rejoint !! Voici un nouvel ABUS DANGEREUX : #110 pour bien débuter l'été !
ABUS DANGEREUX #110 JUIN 2009
En Couverture : POWERSOLO Au sommaire: 44 pages avec interviews, colonnes, news, chroniques, etc...: POWERSOLO, SCARY MANSION, ELYSIAN FIELDS, MANFIELD TYA, THE ELEKTROCUTION, AUSSITOT MORT, FIRECRACKERS, MARDI GRAS BB, THE HOLY CURSE, LES JOLIS, CAFENEON, P...
Ainsi que le sampler inédit 12 titres avec : Powersolo, Aussitôt Mort, Les Jolies, Firecrackers, Scary Mansion, Mansfield TYA, Elysian Fields, Black City Babies, Aeroflot, Polar Strong, Holy Curse, Supersuckers, The Bishops, Mardi Gras BB, Cafeneon, Tromatized Youth, The Elektrocution, Ich Bin, Huck.
"it's all about your "game" and who's got the tops. it's about chillin' with style. it's about showin up in the woods and sayin' "you all gotta check out my styles as i rock it". then you say "we gotta start rockin' it harder".---
rob, averill park. age 25 (quote found in albany institute of history and art in a book asking visitors the question "what does colonialism mean to you?")
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