Josh Malerman- The Voice of The High Strung, guitar/(malerman@gmail.com) Derek Berk- Drums, Falsetto/(the_high_strung@hotmail.com) Chad Stocker- Lead Bass Guitar/(chad_strung@yahoo.com)
Influences
The Capitol Years, The Teeth, Dr. Dog, Berko and The Kablamos, National Eye, Tulsa, Friends of Dean Martinez, Guns N' Roses, nethers, Ed Donahue, Scott Windland, CCR, Kinks, David Bowie, The Everyothers, Beethoven, Who, Beatles, Beach Boys, Booker T. and The M.G.s, Phil Spector, Ramones, Eno, The Possibilities/Nutria, Dylan, Aphex Twin, Borroughs, Weezer, Pixies, Capitol Years, Proust, The Band, Big Brother, Anthrax, Grateful Dead, Aaron Franz, HOt Pipes, Bad Wizard, Mitch Hedberg, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Viva L'American Deathray Musique, Compulsive Gamblers, Mike Bloomfield and Butterfield Blues Band, ORnette Collman, Mary Lou Lord, WEEN, Scott Winland, Blind Faith, Snowglobe, John (mothafuckin') Coltrane, Buddy Holly, *Elliot Smith*, The Shins, Bad Religion, Allman Bros., The Meters, White Stripes, JIm Diamond, Journey, NIrvana, Crimpshrine, Radiohead, Cream, Emergency Music, Lesbians On Ecstasy, Pink Floyd, HAnk Williams Sr., King Crimson, NIck Drake, Pavement, OPIV, Mudhoney, Toots and The Maytals, Shesus, Television, Curtis Mayfield, War, Three Dog Night, Booker T. and The MGs, Sex PIstols, Screeching Weasel, Dave Chapelle, Jam, Clash, James Brown, Desmond Dekkar, Cringer, The Sights, Peter Rowan (and Old And In The Way), Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, MC5, Nuggets I & II, Allen Ginsberg, Descendents, Richard Pryor, Sly and his Family, Mishka Shubaly, Flaming Lips, Built To Spill, GBV, Buddy Rich, The Paybacks, Max Roach, Screeching Weasel, Metallica, Johnny Cash, Flatt and Scruggs, Belle And Sebastian, Rachmoninov, 80's hair rock, The Specials, The Association, Black Sabbath, De Nova Dahl, The Rants, The Riots, Strokes, Tom Robbins, Carlsonics, Led Zepplin, Harvey Brooks, The Muggs, Ill Lit, MOTOWN, lou barlow, Friend's Like These, Malachi Constant, Bill Monroe, Cool Jerks, Kablamos, the break up, dame fate, the close, Tom Collins, Westside Daredevils, Ed Wood, Woody Allen, Tim Burton, Stanley Kubrick, gore and horror of all kinds and time periods, Stephen King, Coen Bros., Wes Anderson, Linkletter...
Stay tuned for fourth record, (title is still going through our heavy scrutiny!) will be out on Park the Van Records, sometime in September, along with a tour that last forever.
In June we start our fourth annual National Public Library tour, so be on the lookout for that as well.
We recently got in cahoots with some companies, here's what:
—Strings Provided by GHS
—Microphones for our live performance provided byHeil Sound
—National Rock and Roll Library Tour 2008 sound system sponsored by Bose
READ THIS:
"The next real literary 'rebels' in this country might well emerge as some weird bunch of anti-rebels, born oglers who dare somehow to back away from ironic watching, who have the childish gall actually to endorse and instantiate single-entendre principles. Who treat of plain old untrendy human troubles and emotions in U.S. life with reverence and conviction. Who eschew self-consciousness and hip fatigue. These anti-rebels would be outdated, of course, before they even started. Dead on the page. Too sincere. Clearly repressed. Backward, quaint, naive, anachronistic. Maybe that'll be the point. Maybe that's why they'll be the next real rebels. Real rebels, as far as I can see, risk disapproval. The old postmodern insurgents risked the gasp and squeal:shock disgust, outrage, censorship, accusations of socialism, anarchism, nihilism. Today's risks are different. The new rebels might be artists willing to riskthe yawn, rolled eyes, the cool smile, the nudged ribs, the parody of gifted ironists, the 'Oh how banal.' To risk accusations of sentimentality, melodrama. Of overcredulity. Of softness. Of willingness to be suckered by a world of lurkers and starers who fear gaze and ridicule above imprisonment without law. " DFW
Well hello Rock Stars! Los Alamos is SO BORING without y'all. I wish you weren't on the road so I could mail you care packages with graphic novels inside.
Meanwhile, I wish you good vibes and big crowds on the rest of the trip. As well as ... very ... MOIST, um, cake.
Great show at the Viper guys! Really sounded great...lot's of energy! Also want to put out a thanks to the guy who had an extra flyer and saved me $4 @ the door. You rock.
yall coming down to j-action-ville NC, thats whats good...i have to get my tent ready and camp out in front of the library a few weeks early, so i wont have to worry about the fan line you guys got coming.
