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The Glad Version
Rock / Indie / 2-step

Roaring Twenties



MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA
United States

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Member Since4/23/2005
Band Websitehttp://www.thegladversion.com
Band MembersTor Johnson, Chris Salter, Adam Svec, Travis Welk
InfluencesKarate, Matt Pond PA, John Vanderslice, John Hermanson, Death Cab for Cutie, Pedro the Lion, Built to Spill, Crooked Fingers, Hey Mercedes, Ben Folds, Rufus Wainwright, Tom Waits, Bright Eyes, Cursive, Iron and Wine, Clem Snide, Elliott Smith, Bjork, Radiohead, Elvis Costello, Michael Jackson, Archers of Loaf, The Decemberists, Dinosaur Jr, SuperDrag. Minnesota artists you should hear: Aviette, These Modern Socks, Cloud Cult, Haley Bonar, Low, Kid Dakota, Friends Like These, Fitzgerald, Duplomacy, The Plastic Constellations, Halloween Alaska, POS, Jayber Crow, Seymore Saves the World, Storyhill, Bob Mould, Reticence, Cowboy Curtis... if we left someone out, let us know.
Sounds Likea domestic flight
Record LabelDraw Fire Records
Type of LabelIndie


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Jul 24 2009 9:00P
Turf Club St. Paul, Minnesota

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Press:

Sometimes bands surprise you. Two albums into their career on the local scene I thought I had the Glad Version all figured out. I had the quartet pegged as a group of talented and well meaning young guys whose music played it a little too safe and teetered a little too close for comfort to mawkishly emo terrain for me to ever really get behind. Then I heard their forthcoming third album, Make Islands, and that perception was blown to pieces. It’s a truly great record, a focused and polished pop platter that expands the Glad Version sound way beyond anything they’ve done in the past, the kind of album that screams to be discovered far beyond the state of Minnesota. -Reveille Magazine

Whether or not writing a song called "89.3" is a great ploy for radio play, those Death Cab/Bright Eyes-loving guys in the Glad Version did just that for their third CD, "Make Islands." The lyrics have little to do with the station in question (I think it's about being in a band), but it's one of many cuts that should get played on any station with an active music blog and a cool British DJ. Those include the frantically poppy "Ambulance," the gorgeous and icy anthem "Cougars" and the big-chorus builder "Under the Pines." -Minneapolis Star Tribune

The opening moments of Make Islands find the Glad Version's lead singer Adam Svec in a shootout in the Old West. While a guitar wails in the background, both the protagonist and the female antagonist get shot, and the blood begins to flow. The rest of the album isn't nearly as blood-soaked, but it's packed with as much claustrophobia and uneasy despair. The Glad Version have evolved since their last offering, 2006's Lights Out North Star. That slippery, almost indescribable shift from "pretty good" to "pretty great" is evident just seconds into the new disc's opener, and the record only gets better from there. -City Pages

[15} With a boyish, downbeat/uptempo indie-rock sound somewhere between Death Cab for Cutie and Bright Eyes, this well-polished quartet would've sounded great on "The O.C." It still sounds pretty good on the station one of its songs is named after, "89.3." -Minneapolis Star Tribune Twin Cities Critic's Tally

The sound: Slick mid-tempo indie-pop sure to appeal to fans of Death Cab for Cutie. Why this could be the year: The band’s gently rocking tunes are hip enough to appeal to the college rock crowd but smooth enough to play on Cities 97. -Metro Magazine

It is always nice to see the progression of a young band and especially when they really start to hit their stride. Minneapolis’ Glad Version is definitely one of those bands. Make Islands is the bands third album since 2004 and the refinement of their sound is very noticeable. Each track has a much more methodical approach to it with every harmony, beat, guitar lick and hush vocal planned down to the second, which for some bands would come off like stale bread but for The Glad Version it enables their true self to shine through track after track. -The Fire Note

Glad Version kicked butt Friday night, leading one audience member to lean into me and ask why they aren’t better known. Their latest release Make Islands is unquestionably their best to date, and since they keep on getting better with each release I wouldn’t count them out for world domination just yet. -HowWasTheShow.com



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Jun 24 2009 7:45 PM

Hey how's it going?
Just wanted to stop by and let you know from June 21 through the 28th we are having free downloads for our EP! Check out our latest blog for info on it. Don't be a stranger come by and say hi!!

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Jun 24 2009 3:35 AM

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Jun 19 2009 7:21 PM

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Jun 17 2009 6:06 PM







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Jun 15 2009 2:34 AM

Well, if you're not busy Saturday June 20th, stop by The Fine Line and check out our show for "Far From Falling" 's ablum release! 18+ and Starts at 8. And we'll be starting our midwest tour next month and We hope you can make it to the shows in the area! Check the page for tour dates, the venues are still being confirmed but just continue checking back! And we've undergone some member changes and have officially changed our name to "Machine 22". There's a new myspace being made, which will consist of the same tunes, but we will be re-recording those tunes very soon! Keep in touch! Peace.
-Devin of Machine 22
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Jun 14 2009 3:35 AM

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Apr 27 2009 10:23 PM

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Apr 23 2009 11:32 AM

Hello from Finland! It's a name-dropping FRENZY!!! I just released my new cd featuring Alejandro Escovedo, Mark Lanegan, Steve Berlin (los lobos), Chris and Carla from the Walkabouts, Peter Case, Scott McCaughey (YFF, REM)and Jim Roth (built to spill). CD has liner notes by Biographer Charles R. Cross (BackStreets-Springsteen...Heavier than Heaven-Cobain...Roomful of Mirrors-Hendrix...etc. Also I have finally put "Passing Thru" on my site as well for you to hear...this is the one with Eddie Vedder, Victoria Williams, and Carla Torgerson trading verses with me...it has not been availablé for a long time, and I also have it on i-tunes, etunes, amazon and rhapsody. Okay...I hope you are doing well!

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Apr 21 2009 9:17 PM

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Mar 18 2009 10:47 PM

ITS TIME!


Project Project 2 (look, listen, dance, repeat) is back for another round of multimedia madness.
Join us at the Kitty Cat Klub at 9pm on Friday March 27th to witness an event described as:

"an immersive, multi-sensory aesthetic experience" TC Daily Planet

"A patchwork of buzzing circuitry and discarded sonic limbs, this new being thrives in the spaces between this and that. It is organic. It is artificial. And in numbers, it thrives.
" City Pages

For this installment we're not dicking around, we've got CD release by Ghost in the Water, a premiere screening of Nobot/Beeple multimedia collaboration, and dueling DJ sets from DJ Bach and DJ Gigamesh.
Also performances from Nobot and Estate, art and design by Soar Studios, film screenings from Jon Thompson and donebestdone.


Hope to see you all there! And in case you missed out last time, here is what you missed.



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Mar 4 2009 8:25 AM

Heading to San Diego in and hour otherwise I wanted to come see the show at the Kitty Kat. Have fun.
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Mar 1 2009 12:58 AM



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Feb 27 2009 10:04 PM



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Feb 15 2009 12:08 AM

Sparksfest is coming! For one week each year, the Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts gathers creators and performers of new media arts from around the world to the Twin Cities of Minneapolis/St. Paul to showcase their work to the public.




Nobot will be performing at one of the "Nightlife" concerts along with Caly MacMorrow, Rossum Electric Company, and Hay/Honda/Berardi (from Los Angeles) on Wednesday February 18th at 10:30pm at the Bedlam Theater. Its going to be a mindblowing earjerkoff-fest.





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Feb 11 2009 6:57 PM

THANKS FOR THE ADD
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Feb 10 2009 5:45 PM

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Feb 6 2009 1:04 AM

WHATS IN THE FUCKING BOX!

Nobot performs before the soon to be cult hit "Seven" at the Uptown Theatre on Saturday February 7th.
Your favorite band and movie all in one super charged rock n' depress evening! Its also one of our favorite movies of all time so they are bound to be some surprises!



Doors: 11:45pm.


Nobot: Midnight.


Movie: 12:30am.




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