Sarah Cohen, Ben Cohen, Sam Woldenberg, Founders w/ Gene Crawford and Nathan Cogan and recognizing members Daniel Strange Greunke, Ben the Langlois Kid, Mike Rodgers, Math Mathew, and Benny Barefoot
Influences
Shared the stage with bands such as / the Twinemen / Saturday Looks Good To Me / Those Transatlantics / the Drawers / The Homeville Circle / the Dials / The Thunderbirds are Now / Stylex / Javelins / Oh My God! / Zoos of Berlin/ Frontier Ruckus/ Great Fiction and many more
Sweet sweet tunes with beautiful double vocals are well showcased on The Only Sound, which is a gorgeous song perfect for a wintry day.
Understated indie-jazz style is perfect and old-style beautiful in 'So Much For Romance'. It's impossible not to love this track and as it travels to it's big build up end, senses are filled with Paris in Springtime and black and white movies, making it a sure treat for the ears. -- The Jude
Remember that time the Cardigan's broke into the Velvet Underground's heroin stash and fell asleep winding up a music box and tinkering on a toy piano? The Antivillains do. In an age where girl-boy pop duos are the hippest of the hip, The Antivillains have a leg up on 'em all with the eerily similar, hauntingly gorgeous melodies of the brother-sister duo of Ben and Sarah Cohen. The two — along with drummer Sam Woldenberg — craft almost surreal, spacey, touching tunes that sparkle with charming pop hooks while drawing on a whole history of classic American music. Both vocalists have studied under Toledo's resident vocal jazz legend Jon Hendricks, and the careful precision of fine art jazz radiates throughout The Antivillains songs, providing a simultaneous feeling of fragile, yet well stacked musical composition.- ryan bunch music writer
"They offer something rarely seen in the clubs of Northwest Ohio. Something which I believe is technically referred to as, 'talent.' I immediately found their sound lovely and autumnal and smelling distinctly of something that is sweet."--John the Dog
If the Anti Hero is the Deconstruction of the Hero, then the Anti Villain is the villain's send up. At its most basic, the Anti Villain is a villain with heroic goals, personality traits, and even virtues. While even a Card Carrying Villain needs at least some good qualities in order to be effective, believable and (ironically enough) threatening as an antagonist, the Anti Villain has far more than strictly necessary. They reach a kind of critical mass that makes them "gooder" than normal villains but not quite Heroes, blurring the line between hero and villain the same way an Anti Hero does.
The Anti Villain thus typifies the tendency to humanize a villain as opposed to the Anti Hero's tendency to darken the hero. Side by side it can become hard to tell them apart
