John Burdick -- guitar, songs, keyboards and vocals
Chris Tanis--guitar, songs, ukulele and vocals
Matty Senzatimore--drums
Jason Sarubbi--bass, vocals and recordilating
Marianne Tasick: vocals and violin
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Special guests and former members:
Chelsea Lacatena: Vocals, co-founder emeritus
Mark Beaumont: Bass on the WVKR live performance
Johnnie Wang: Drums on "Straight Life"
Influences
The Beatles, The Kinks, Elvis Costello, Stephen Malkmus, The Band, Tom Waits, XTC, Steve Morse, Lowell George, Astor Piazzolla, Randy Newman, Guided By Voices, Velvet Underground, Belle and Sebastian, Hot Garbage, The Byrds, Jesca Hoop, Mike Francesa, Kurt Weil.
New Paltz, New York-based four piece electric rock ensemble now offering tuneful, literate and quirky poprocks, by turns Beatlesque, rootsy, cabaret and raggedy raw. Inquire within.
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"Smart fun for smart people. The Sweet Clementines may pull you into unexpected pop terrain but there's a solid Beatlesque foundation underneath. Now if only all those Williamsburg hipsters would pull their heads
out of there beards and boogie..." -- Ghosty, Sirius Disorder: Channel 70
"These Clementines are the musical equivalent of the small sweet globes for which they are named. Their songs are juicy and bright: lyrically driven, folky, with sonorous pop moments against a rollicking background." --Doug Muller, Ulster Publishing Almanac
"Highly entertaining and musically smart" -- Bob Margolis, The New Paltz Times
"...Wordy...more cryptic than deep...harmless rock ’n’ roll...not a hint of Satan’s thorny tail or bleeding bat heads...Standard fare...a straight-ahead interpretation of tones and their placements in a straight-ahead musical vision...[their] songs would make a high school English student smile knowingly and a hillbilly want to kick someone’s ass." --Jason Broome, Chronogram Magazine, Aug. 25, '08
"Just my kind of music." -- Nora Raleigh Baskin, author of "What Every Girl (except me) Knows" and other novels.
"I listened to it for 13 straight hours. I was stuck on a ladder." -- Amanda, waitress at infamous NP watering hole.
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Hey guys, George here from Pittsburgh. Right now it is just me and Zane and we're waiting for all the other hot garbage guys to come on by. so far everything is real cool, however something needs to be done about the music down here. For such a big place there seems to be a lot of the same old AcDc cover bands and experimental alternative bands with names like Monoliths and Dimensions, so it's pretty much the same crap no matter where you go i guess.
Hey Sweet Clementines! You guys should start wearing suits - y'know, sort of 19th-century style, a bit of old Mark Twain or Herman Melville action, string ties, pocket handkerchiefs, and what-all...
Hey guys, I'd love to set you up at a coffee shop I'm booking in Beacon. It could be either acoustic or electric, and would be taking place at ZuZu's coffee shop in Beacon. If you are open to the idea, please e-mail me your availability in June and we'll get started! Beacon misses you!
