David Baldwin: guitars, keyboards, trumpet and backing vocals
Matthew Carlson: guitars and vocals
Joel Kuiper: drums
Jacob McCarthy: bass guitar and backing vocals
Pantone Alumni -------------------- Mary Baldwin: violin and backing vocals Paul Delamater: pedal steel, guitar, and backing vocals Tim Lefevre drums, percussion, and bass guitar Erin O'Bryant keyboards
Jeremy Rapp: pedal steel, guitar, banjo and mandolin
Influences
Wilco The Byrds Iron and Wine R.E.M. The Beatles The Kinks The Velvet Underground Will Oldham Beulah Simon and Garfunkel Donovan Nick Drake The Shins Ben Folds, Paul McCartney Neil Young M. Ward Neutral Milk Hotel Red House Painters American Analog Set The Decemberists Sufjan Stevens Belle and Sebastian Fruit Bats there are many, many more who for now shall be omitted
Sounds Like
F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote some songs after a four day bender with the Kinks.
If longing and autumn and regret and redemption had a voice to sing with it would sound like the Pantones. A genuinely midwestern band with humble songs and stories told with the help of a rock band that contains trumpet, piano, glockenspiel, pedal steel and one of the finest rhythm sections around. Americana.indie.pop for the new breed and the old seed.
THE PANTONES: Sleepless Nights, Silent Mornings
The Pantones are the self-professed leaders of a movement they've coined americana.indie.pop.
MATTHEW CARLSON AND THE PANTONES: Memory Is All
The nation's leading arbitors of Americana.indie.pop
"The songs are consistently good and in a fairer world THE PANTONES would get their day in the national press and their tunes into people's car stereos." - Whisperin' & Hollerin UK
" a great hidden gem of a record that deserves to be heard by more people." - Richard Hughes, CD Times
"Think Sloan swapping exuberant Beatles for late-period Byrds, music that seems joyous in summer and longing in the winter." - Josh Stiechmann, The Current
"But most of all, it's the reinvented, polished-without- being-slick Pantones band sound that makes "Sleepless" the breakout CD for Carlson, and - for all the right reasons - is likely to deliver his songs to a much broader audience. - Chris Rietz, Lansing State Journal
"This is music that may just bring comfort during those sleepless nights and add empathetic sound to otherwise silent mornings." - Indie-Music.com
"Fans of the likes of Old 97s and The Vigilantes of Love will find plenty here to enjoy" - Americana UK
"It's all about sonic color, and the Pantones' sound is an eerily perfect match with Carlson's plaintive vocals: thick, understated, lending real emotional weight that the usual voice-and-strummed-guitar formula couldn't deliver." - LSJ
"Do yourself a favor and check out this band you've likely never heard of." - Glorious Noise
"The Pantones have crafted an album flooded with warmth . . . and achieves a sound not unlike that of indie faves such as Wilco and Red House Painters." - The State News
". . . nearly flawless, pretty without being boring." - Pop Matters
"A staggering debut." - All Music Guide
"If you are into anything from Ben Folds Five to The Palace Brothers, you may want to include this in your heavy rotation. " - Geek America
"Presents a nice stripped down Neil Young "Comes A Time" feel." - Amplifier Magazine
"A pleasing disc, best played under open skies." - Splendid Magazine
"Neo-pseudo country that makes me want a pony." - Hybrid Magazine
Just stopping by to say hello and give you some news. The award winning album 'Coolgilly and the Freakshow' from Centascope is available worldwide from CD Baby and directly from the merchandise page of the official website. You can also get the album from Apple iTunes, MSN Music, Rhapsody, Napster, Amazon.co.uk and many more.
Just stopping by to let everybody know we have some brand new songs posted on our page from our upcoming album "Telling Lies and Cutting Ties".
We would love it if you could stop by our page check out all the new stuff and let us know what you think.
You can also now find us on Facebook!! So if you use that alot you can either search for us on there, or use the link on our Myspace and become a fan of us on there as well.
Thank you as always for your support of Onasis. We can't wait to hear what you think.
What's Up The Pantones just had to get back to your spot again to spread blessing's & love Grown Folks Style !!!!...Remember Tenderness & kindness are not signs of weakness & despair,but manifestations of strength & resolutions.
Hey guys, does the show begin at 10pm on Saturday? I know that's what it says on the myspace, but I'm just double checking cause I don't want to miss it and that seems pretty late.
Tune in and turn on. Episode 18 features the long awaited return of Ben Folke Thomas, from his hidden island lair to continue his evil plans to take over the world, an interview with, performance by, exclusive album track play, and give away, by noir-folkists 'Juniper Leaf', and many more goodly musical gifts to be bestowed upon you dear listener by the noble Lantern Players.
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