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Sweater Weather
Experimental / Folk / Rock

"finished?"

CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA
United States

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Last Login:  7/15/2008
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   Sweater Weather: General Info
Member Since1/17/2005
Band Websitesweater-weather.com
Band MembersCasey - Guitar, Vocals
Curt - Guitar, Vocals
Lindsay - Cello, Vocals
Tim - Trumpet, Glockenspiel, Percussion, Vocals
Adam - Hand Percussion, Vocals
Bobby - Drums & Noise Percussion, Vocals
Katie - Accordion, Vocals
Jon - Bass Guitar, Vocals
Sounds Likesee: http://www.myspace.com/chuttesvillespeak
Type of LabelNone





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Jun 28 2008 10:30P
CHUTTESVILLE SPEAK at Jack Sprat (not SW) Chapel Hill, North Carolina

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   About Sweater Weather
"Chapel Hill octet Sweater Weather is nothing if not part of the fabric of orchestral, crest-minded indie rock that's been prevalent nationally and locally since the start of the decade. On its accomplished debut LP, Now, Everyone Can Sing, Sweater Weather climbs for the spiritual apogees of Michigan influences Anathallo, shudders through the emotional tremors that define Okkervil River, and emblazons pop with the textures that Grizzly Bear uses so subtly. Closer to home, the vulnerability of frontman Casey Trela owes flattered debts to Daniel Hart (who plays violin on one track here) and his Physics of Meaning, part of the Bu Hanan clutch that's largely responsible for the sound of swells in the Triangle.

Those referents are a broad swath through a rangy subgenre, though, and Sweater Weather carefully juxtaposes acoustic textures and electronic concrète manipulations from 24 contributors. At its best, Sweater Weather's eight members and several dozen instruments are joists and studs, building up and out instead of in or around. When they're least sure-handed, Sweater Weather crowds its middles, as with the overly didactic, Desaparecidos clang of "The Roots That Clutch." But nine-minute centerpiece "This Is an Owl as He Flies out of Himself" finds the band righting itself at the song's midpoint, the second half overcoming the jumbled first as a tense dirge of strings and horns becomes tinder beneath Trela's lonesome voice and guitar.

At nearly 56 minutes, Now, Everyone Can Sing lacks the sort of trenchant editing that could have trimmed the ornate frames to add focus to the bright picture in the middle. But broil-and-boil emotion, the thing Sweater Weather does so well over these 10 tracks, rarely cedes to restraint and reason, and—here, in the glow of a self-produced LP brimming with ideas and enthusiasms, if not focus or newness—such considerations are mostly an afterthought. A strong start."

-Independent Weekly




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STUPORHERO





Jul 18 2008 1:48 PM

Free downloads of our new album are available now at www. stuporheromusic. com.
Thanks for listening!
xo,
Jen, Will, Chuckles
Photobucket
Jesse Andrew Ian LeBoutillier





Jun 29 2008 8:07 PM

Free Money, Free Peace

That is really it. Now think about it.
Now stop thinking. Not a thought. This is the truth, free money, free peace.
How!? you may ask.
All we do see!, is we get together and make a money collective. What! hahah are you afraid of losing what you think is yours?
Did you think you had money, and that it was yours?
Free money and make volunteer workfair. If a job is too unfun for us we automate. We are doing it now but instead of taking work burden off the public, our society makes it so they need to try harder.
We just make our own town, that's what we do. With a large bank account we can hire BIG help, to make us dream technology. Declare independence. Go to a remote location with all our friends.
The people who are in control of the way the world works are pig headed and using a universal "secret" to be rich in money and power. Once we see the same "secret" we may flip the world upside down.

You can buy your way out so you don't have to buy. First we make our own town...

Calling all Pony Homies!

the jester of peace
http://youtube. com/watch?v=KuUccl5rTX8
I had a dream vision of flying over the world, coming in through the clouds and seeing this land mass. It is where we will build our own town.
Mobley





Jun 29 2008 11:49 AM


_Mobley
Western Civ





May 29 2008 4:48 AM

Hello Folks! We are playing with some really GREAT musicians from Athens, GA Saturday night!!

Come show them some support if you can!!!

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Trekky Records





May 22 2008 7:26 AM

Todd Ray





May 15 2008 8:00 AM

Just stopped by to say hello and have a great rest of the week! May everything go your way today!
Your friend,
Todd Ray
Dustin - Media Services





May 13 2008 10:11 AM



Samantha Crain and the Midnight Shivers





May 9 2008 7:48 PM

halito! we're playing at the local 506 on june 12th...hope you can come out!

loveski-
samantha
Howell Osborne





Apr 22 2008 5:30 AM


Thanks for being my newest MySpace friend.
I love your sound!
Howell
brian





Apr 19 2008 9:31 PM

you guys were awesome tonight
keep me updated with new shows
-brian
Easy Company





Mar 27 2008 4:28 PM

hello friends, hope to see you this friday

Easy Company

Friday March 28
Duke Coffeehouse
Doors 8:30
Show 9:30

cheers
nathan oliver





Mar 19 2008 7:32 PM

hey lindsay!

are you playing the troika pin projekt on may 16?? we is.
are we finally playing a show together???
I have friends in weird places.





Mar 13 2008 7:39 AM

Come back to Hickory!

We miss you, and we are surrounded by crappy local screemo bands. We need good music!
Caroline Belk





Mar 8 2008 5:25 PM

i really love the untitled track!
exit interview





Mar 7 2008 11:12 AM

i went to cd alley to buy your album. and they were sold out.
The Artichokes [Have New Songs Up]





Mar 7 2008 9:52 AM

glad you like it! you guys are ridiculously good. you should try to make your way to myrtle beach.
The Artichokes [Have New Songs Up]





Feb 27 2008 10:00 AM

We have a song called sweater weather.

The rough version is up on our myspace, if you guys want to listen to it. We'll probably rework a lot of it though, before we're finished.
Kristin





Feb 26 2008 1:12 PM

i love your band!
Radio Greensboro





Feb 15 2008 9:21 AM

i'm really missing some sweater weather. when will you be playing another show? and, come back to greensboro. WUAG moved back in october, and radio greensboro is finally back!
Dylan Gilbert (IS ON TOUR!)





Feb 10 2008 1:19 PM


The New Album from Dylan Gilbert available Feb 12th 2008
at Lunchbox Records (Charlotte NC), Manifest Discs & Tapes (Charlotte NC) and CDbaby.com!
(followed by Itunes and various other Independent Record Stores nationwide)
RACHEL





Jan 26 2008 3:39 PM

I have been listening to your cd since the BCHQ show last friday,

and I love it with a mad passion.

You guys are excellent.
temples of grey





Jan 20 2008 7:49 PM

Photos posted at www.templesofgrey.fotki.com from the Nightlight show early January, with Wil Donegan, and the debut of Margot and The Ghost of Tarrytown.

Here's one. (Can click it to enter the site mid way through.)



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-Hope you enjoy them!
midtown dickens





Jan 19 2008 3:41 PM

thanks again, guys! you're awesome.
Something Great





Jan 16 2008 3:15 PM

Saw you at the nightlight kinda recently, cool place to see music. Although I must say, they get some "interesting" stuff coming through...
midtown dickens





Jan 14 2008 8:39 AM


No One Piece: Books of words, wood-stain, photos & floss by Catherine Edgerton / Decoupage cigar boxes by Michelle Preslik

Jan 18-Feb 15
Opening Reception:
Friday, Jan 18th 7-11pm
Donations accepted

All proceeds go to Safe Passage, whose mission is to empower the poorest, at-risk children of families working in the community of the Guatemala City garbage dump, by creating opportunities and fostering dignity through the power of education. This date marks the one-year anniversary of the untimely death of Hanley Denning, the visionary founder of Safe Passage.

Evening includes hors d'oeuvres; a presentation by Cassie Hoffman about Safe Passage; and music by Phil Cook, Django Haskins, Resist Not and Sweater Weather.

Bull City Headquarters
723 N Mangum St
Durham NC
http://bullcityhq.org / http://www.safepassage.org
DIVERSIONS





Jan 10 2008 8:06 AM

Diversions' Best of the Tar Heel State
Dean [Knife]





Dec 27 2007 2:30 PM

Long overdue, but you guys rocked at the Christmas show!
temples of grey





Dec 24 2007 10:11 PM

Your new Christmas song you played at Cat's Cradle last week was impressive, and I'm thrilled that you've posted it here!

That was a loaded night of headliners, and Sweater Weather's set had to be the best surprise of all!

Merry Christmas to each one of you!
Drop Dead Georges





Dec 21 2007 7:50 AM

Congrats on the indy week shout out
Dios Mio Caga Tio!





Dec 15 2007 3:01 PM

...and I just bought 3 of the new album...the perfect gift this Christmas season...
Dios Mio Caga Tio!





Dec 2 2007 9:05 PM

I am friends with Sweater Weather, and I love them.
nathan oliver





Dec 2 2007 8:55 PM

BIGFOOT SAY:

WHEN WE PLAY SHOWS TOGETHER?
Stephen





Dec 1 2007 4:15 PM

You guys make my ears dance.
★Paige-kei Madness!





Dec 1 2007 3:17 PM

yess!!
cant wait, for the next time, and i wouldnt of missed last nigth for the world :D
★Paige-kei Madness!





Dec 1 2007 2:58 PM

loved the show!!
but alas, there was no pizza like the last time...
ahaha
hope you come back ♥
Laura





Nov 27 2007 6:07 PM

Your band is awesome. For serious.
Drop Dead Georges





Nov 18 2007 6:36 PM

Can't wait to see you guys play somewhere this winter.
midtown dickens