Elliott Smith
Neutral Milk Hotel
Bob Dylan
The Mountain Goats
Of Montreal
Bon Iver
Phosphorescent
The AB Theory
Loney Dear
Vashti Bunyan
Iron&Wine
Margot and the Nuclear So&So's
The Decemberists
Bright Eyes
Johnny Cash
Andrew Bird
Jamey Polvado
In 2008 while going in and out of various musical projects, Aaron Sternick began to write songs. These songs, played for no one but his bedroom walls and possibly his girlfriend’s cat, eventually formed the basis for what would be his first full length LP. From the opening notes of “Intervals” through the last crash of “Small War”, You Are a Greek Tragedy announces its arrival with energy and vigor.
Influenced more by his own experiences in the cold impersonal big city of Dallas than by any one musician, it is an album for anyone who has ever been surrounded by people constantly, yet still managed to feel isolated from the world around them. While it incorporates elements of folk, pop, and even electronica, the album refuses to be held back by the conventions and confines of any particular genre. Nor does it insist upon aimless experimentalism merely for the sake of being unprecedented. It is not about categorical exclusion. Throughout its 11 tracks, You are a Greek Tragedy defies genres while simultaneously legitimating them. The result is like a familiar story that you’ve never heard.
In his latest chapter, Aaron recruited long time friend and musical collaborator Marc Hoegg (bass), and new friends Jon Disla (drums) and Aurora Wiley (guitar/keys/bells/etc.) to take You are a Greek Tragedy the album, and turn it into the dynamic, living and breathing entity that is St. Philistine the band.
"Real talk: it's simple music by a person creating art for the right reasons. You'd be be silly to let this skip on by."
-Blake Solomon, AbsolutePunk.net
"...the Texas-Folk influence shines through as both the harmonica and the rhodes settle into each song like an old friend returning home."
-Jaime Falcon, Day Bow Bow
hey man, thanks for voting. keep doing it! i've been getting new people hearing my stuff already, and i need any vote i can get to even have a chance. keep spreading the word. i only have a week of seven-votes-per-person to work with here! thanks again a thousand times kyle/boog
hey y'all--it's kyle simmons. well, i'm boog again. i feel like i never stopped being boog--almost** played fergie's in philly with you haha
please, please, do me a huge favor and follow this link to vote for me to get to play at austin city limits. all you have to do is register (only takes a minute) and vote once a day until Friday August 28th. I need to be in the top 100 vote-wise to move to the next round. Right now i'm tied with a bunch of other bands at #96, but i want to keep moving up (thanks to everyone who's voted! keep voting every day this week! get everyone and their brother--and your brother...and your parents and grandparents, your neighbor, anyone--to register and vote every day too!), so i need some help. tell anyone you know to vote too! if you have a facebook, please tell people about this on there, since i don't have one and i think it's too late to matter right now. if you haven't heard my music, i have some new tunes on my page and one on the link below thank y'all so much
and please repost this for your own friends! thanks boog (kyle)
We just wanted to tell that we have new songs up on our profile of our upcoming EP, -After Death There Is Nothing- We hope you enjoy them. They are called "Diana", "Fire" and "Kids And Celebrities". We'll let you know the date of our EP release party very soon.
hey kids thanks 4 jammin in the alley w/ us and for being so understanding. hope u enjoy my cd and hey i didnt end up getting "uz guys'z cd" did i? hope to see ya again sometime. p.s. the drummer on ur page looks different in real life ;) -phoebe blue
click here to download the new record!!
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