Adam Sanborne- vocals, guitar Michael Suby- guitar, vocals Joel Richard- guitar, keys Geoff Robbins- drums, vocals Rich Buckland- bass
Influences
Radiohead, Beck, NIN, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Bob Dylan, Queens of the Stone Age, White Stripes, Pink Floyd, SRV, Cream, David Bowie, U2, Aphex Twin, Nirvana, Chemical Brothers, Dust Brothers, Alice in Chains, Neil Young, The Doors, Kings of Leon, Rage Against the Machine, Jon Brion, Elliott Smith, Clint Mansell, Johnny Cash, Sufjan Stevens, Bjork, Sigor Ros, and soooooo many more...
Sounds Like
"Holy fuck!! I got a friend request from a band that is actually good!! I feel so special!!"
"I heard David Bowie on one of the tracks! It had to be him... "
"actually sounds decent"
"You guys don’t suck! Thank you for not being lame."
"Like sex for the ears... in a non-Family Guy related way."
"you’re one of the first bands I haven’t added for sympathy"
"you guys set a new standard"
"You fools sound nothing like the bands you listed. Really, you guys aren’t that good. And your pictures are pretty gay."
"Hey, congratulations on not sucking balls. Your music rocks!!!!"
(and our favorite) "I think your band sucks. Give up now. Save your money/time."
STAGE FOUR has Batman to thank for their band name. Like the caped crusader, STAGE FOUR songwriter and frontman Adam Sanborne named the band after his biggest fear: Stage Four cancer, his once feared death sentence. In late 2006, Adam received grim news from his doctor, a recent skin biopsy had uncovered melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer. This news rendered Adam utterly unable to function, and riddled with fear. A deep depression consumed him and fueled at least one weekend on suicide alert. Convinced of an untimely death, he set out to "leave something behind" which manifested in the form of his band STAGE FOUR and their debut album, "Love Finds Peter Plogojowitz."
"Love Finds Peter Plogojowitz" is a record filled with lyrics that range from profound soul searching to contemplating the true nature of life and discovering what really matters. Underscoring these unusually frank and honest words is a musical landscape that can turn at any instance, from rip your head off rock to a modern Nine Inch Nails electronica fused with the lush ethereal and sonic madness of Pink Floyd.
Being a cancer survivor, life now looks quite different to Adam and "Super-Size-U" is the perfect example. This song describes the brutal cycle of self-destruction in pop-culture and today's self-loathing body standards stating, "Teenage girls as thin as teenage magazines/Watch your waist, the pressure, it’s just too much/Inflated lips and ultra-breasts/that’s called a disease." However, for Adam the most potent part
of his ordeal was the fallout when he realized that the L.A. rat race was no longer important to him. "Had Enough" describes the conflicts he experienced: "What defines me, I’m realizing, breaks me apart/The sign I’m holding reads ‘will work for pride’”. Inherently fragile tracks like "I Will Never Die" and "Electro-nothing" talk about the reality of death and the inability to accept it. Picking up the pieces in the form of this album has been therapeutic for Adam. Now he and his band STAGE FOUR are committed to making great music, and through these songs they are constantly reminded of what they have and won't always have.
While Adam survived the cancer, he has yet to survive himself, but STAGE FOUR and their debut album, "Love Finds Peter Plogojowitz" is one step closer toward understanding himself and mortality.
STAGE FOUR is currently playing in Los Angeles and is planning a US tour for late fall 2008 and early 2009.
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