Sam White- Bass Guitar/Vocals Rob Thomas- Guitar/Vocals Brendan Lazar- Drums/Percussion
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Influences
The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Led Zeppelin, Velvet Underground, The Stooges, The Faces, Chuck Berry, Elvis, Bob Dylan, Little Richard, The Yardbirds, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison, Television, The Strokes, The White Stripes, The Raconteurs, The Hard Lessons, Franz Ferdinand, The Police, Blondie, Elvis Costello, Talking Heads, The Cars, Wilco, Rush, Funk Music, Brendan Benson, Jack White, The Ponys, dancing, early punk, Love, the other kind of Love, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, Leadbelly, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Willie McTell, Cole Porter, Musicals, The Black Keys, CCR, The Clash, The Police, The Flamin’ Groovies, Gene Vincent, RAP, The Don, Winston Y Horhay, the city of Chicago.
Chicago:
Hog Butcher for the World,
Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,
Player with Railroads and the Nation’s Freight Handler;
Stormy, husky, brawling,
City of THE IVORYS
Like the Japanese out of the West, The Stooges from Detroit, or NWA
straight outta Compton, The Ivorys– born and bread Chicago– have burst
forth onto music’s now barren landscape. Fresh as your laundry and dirty as Chamillionaire’s preferred style of transportation, The Ivorys put a new
spin on what all real Americans; and all of humanity for that
matter; love: rock ‘n’ roll. And this is what makes them so irresistible.
The Ivorys proclaimed their existence in the spring of 2003 as freshmen in high school. Brendan Peleo- Lazar (Drums) has known Sam White (Vox/Bass) all of his life and one day the light bulb sparked, they figured they should form a band because they all played instruments! During their freshmen year, Brendan met Rob Thomas (Vox/Guitar) at St. Ignatius College Prep. The three convened in Brendan’s basement (where they still practice to this day) in sunny Lincoln Park, where magic happened. Soon enough, the gigs appeared, the songs were in top form, The Ivorys were well on their way.
Instantly recognizable, yet at once unfamiliar, these three teenagers (teenagers, can you believe it?) have managed to orchestrate a sound in constant dialogue with the past present, and future. Under strict rule from music producer Ira Antelis, The Ivorys have developed a sound of their own. No easy task. But they wouldn’t want it any other way way. It took four years of intense basement practice and open-mic initiations to turn Brendan, Rob and Sam into The Ivorys, and there’s no turning back now. Now the band is playing shows at predominate venues such as The House of Blues, Double Door, The Beat Kitchen, Subterranean, The Note, The Empty Bottle, The Rave (Milwaukee), Hothouse, Lager House (Detroit), and The Beachland Ballroom in Ohio among others. There is no doubt that these three lads from Chicago are gaining notoriety and a steady fan base throughout the Chicago land area. Please review our newly created music video that we did in 2007 with our director Chris Thompson to get an idea of how we are live for our song, “Can’t Stop” in the included dvd inside the CD cover when you purchase our CD a our concerts. We have also had our song “Can’t Stop” played several times on WXRT in Chicago as well as having our entire CD played on FOX news in the morning. The Ivorys look good on paper too! The band has also been featured in the Chicago Redeye newspaper as an up and coming young band from Chicago. You can now purchase their self titled EP on Itunes US, UK, Canada, Rhapsody, Amazon MP3, and CD Baby down below! So if you’re looking for wild beats, blaring guitars, catchy lyrics, and songs void of pretension, come see The Ivorys before they bring the revolution elsewhere. You’ve been warned.
TheIvorysBand@hotmail.com
1-773-327-7697
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Wow. Just checked out your music, damn good! Looking forward to welcoming you to Detroit on the 31st! Not sure if you have any experience with the Champions of Breakfast, but their live shows are something to behold.
FREE BEER, Free candy, Free stuffed animals! Would love to see you there!
The Smiley Face Show Saturday, June 21, 9:30pm Westside Eclectic Theatre 1323 3rd Street Promenade (entrance in alley behind food court) Santa Monica, CA 90401
Featuring:
Rob Delaney (Snuggle Time) Mary Mack (Vancouver Comedy Festival) Robert Selander (Tartar Control)
Musical performance by:
Hands (Geoffrey Halliday & Ryan Sweeney)
New videos by:
The Meatgrinder Show by Chris Erb Tom Becker Julie Cohen
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Hey, Illinois Raposo Street Team! The time has come to get RAPOSO to Illinois!
This past spring, mega-hit producer Johnny Wright launched the new "Bandemonium" touring brand with pop boy bands... but this fall, Bandemonium will be ROCKING across the country and RAPOSO deserves to be on the tour!
How can you help? Just copy-and-paste the following message into a MySpace message to WEG and click "send"! That's all you've got to do to see RAPOSO live!
1. COPY-AND-PASTE this message:
Hey WEG! I really enjoyed learning about Bandemonium 2008 and the way it promoted new acts like NLT, Menudo, V-Factory, and especially Mark & James. I heard that for the next tour, you're looking for rock acts and I think that you should definitely include Greg Raposo's band, RAPOSO, on the tour! Their MySpace page is http://www. myspace. com/raposobandny and they definitely ROCK! They've got fans all over the country who I know would love to see them and they would be such a fun, talented, great addition to the Bandemonium tour this fall!
2. Click this link to send the message to Johnny Wright/WEG!
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