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The Pickpockets
Indie / Powerpop

		"I shoot myself with rock 'n roll" CHICAGO, Illinois United States Profile Views: 2773 Last Login: 10/15/2008
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Member Since	11/15/2005
Band Website	thepickpockets.net
Band Members	Brian Baseggio; Allen Duarte; Kiri Klawitter; Shelly Uehara
Influences	OUR 39 FAVORITE BANDS FROM 1970-1999 (don't ask, the rules are complicated): Rolling Stones; Fleetwood Mac; Led Zeppelin; Funkadelic; Al Green; the Smiths; the Cure; Prince; JAMC; Talking Heads; Smashing Pumpkins; Radiohead; Oasis; Jane's Addiction; PWEI; the Ramones; the Clash; CCR; the Jam; the Undertones; Billy Bragg; New Order; the Wedding Present; Teenage Fanclub; Luna; Velvet Crush; the Chainsaw Kittens; the Jayhawks; Bowie; NY Dolls; Velvet Underground; T-Rex; Depeche Mode; Siouxsie and the Banshees; Joy Division; Blur; James; the Wonder Stuff; Jeff Buckley. OTHER BANDS WE LOVE THAT DIDN'T MAKE THE CUT DUE TO OUR STUPID RULES: the Replacements; Wilco; Catherine Wheel; House of Love; Cracker; Echo and the Bunnymen; the Pixies; GBV, Mendoza Line; the Ass Ponys; Husker Du; R.E.M.; Galaxie 500; Buffalo Tom; Dinosaur Jr.; Archers of Loaf; Auteurs; Magnetic Fields; Camper Van Beethoven; Screeching Weasel; the Flaming Lips; Ned's Atomic Dustbin; Cub
Record Label	Thieves Like Us
Type of Label	Indie

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About The Pickpockets

The Pickpockets are heralded for creating concise pop songs with innately agreeable melodies and lyrics that are informed by boundless cynicism and humorously passive-aggressive attitude. The inflammatory consensus is that the Pickpockets sound like Natalie Merchant fronting the Replacements, if: a) Natalie Merchant was even remotely not nausea-inducing; b) Westerberg had somehow grown up listening to the Smiths and the Jesus and Mary Chain instead of the Faces and Thin Lizzy; and c) Evan Dando was in the band, too, but not always stoned.

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ElQ Entertainment Group.	Oct 6 2008 4:09 AM Always live in the moments that make you smile. Thanks for being our friend. Hope you can make it out to an event in your area soon. Untill then, !CHEERS! ElQ Entertainment
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The Sometimes Family	Jul 12 2008 4:30 PM thanks for the add! nice to meet you.
THE MOJDEH PROJECT	Jun 24 2008 6:32 PM Hey! Thanks for the kind words! I look forward to having you guys perform our event this sunday!!! Don't forget to update you're tour here on myspace and invite everyone you know :) Let me know if you need anything in the run-up to the event! :)
stephanie	Jun 12 2008 6:26 AM have a great show - wish i could be there, but it's a long drive from LA
Morbid Serenity(RAPID CITY SD!!! OCT 18th!! 6pm)	Apr 11 2008 3:29 AM Hey Thanks for the add!!! What do you think of our music?
Art Alley & Downtown Rapid City, SD	Dec 30 2007 9:02 AM Thanks for becoming a friend. Art involvement and participation is what Art Alley represents. It is part of the participation art and music scene that is expanding in downtown Rapid City. Art Alley friends are diverse but have something in common. We see a value in art participation and art with less restraint, even art with varying qualities. And there is a little bit of rebel in our blood. There is some power in this diversity and our common bond. You are part of that power. Art Alley has been threatened in the past and may very well be again. What those threats might be we can't know. It is controversial and as you can imagine some may wish to change or eliminate it. If that happens we hope your voice will be heard. You can help now by asking your friends and their friends to be a friend of Art Alley. You are part of the Art! The very best to you, Editor Art Alley Myspace Page Email: ArtAlley@Rushmore.com
Colin	Nov 28 2007 7:39 PM
dhr46	Nov 17 2007 8:57 AM and...nice job, guys... :)
dhr46	Nov 17 2007 8:56 AM pics from friday's gig at reggie's: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dhr46/sets/72157603212641086/
The Official Myspace Of The Romeros	Jul 20 2007 9:52 AM Holy shit! You're in Consortium?
Dylan	Jun 9 2007 6:42 PM Well here are some more magnets for Kiri http://www.boingboing.net/2007/06/09/tetris_fridge_magnet.html
No Clear Way	May 28 2007 2:34 AM CLICK HERE TO CHECK OUT THE NEW SONG
Barefaced Designs	May 24 2007 8:28 PM
Khupera Tum	May 22 2007 9:37 PM ...just wanted to let you know that we're featured in Buzz Magazine in connection with their Gender Blender. If you think we're best represented, Please Vote for Khupera Tum at Buzz...
Lauren Frost & The Blue Lou Band (Now on iTunes!!)	Apr 15 2007 5:44 PM Hi The Pickpockets Have a Blue Lou Sunday!!!
A Red Ink Confession (Parted Ways)	Apr 14 2007 10:09 PM Thanks for checking us out!!! Means alot to us boys down here in the dirty south! take care!!! A Red Ink Confession
consortium	Apr 5 2007 3:34 AM "I shoot myself with rock and roll" is a Guided by Voices lyric. Tread lightly there, my friends, or Bob will be pissed. I'm pissed because it was going to be our quote at some point. But now it can't be. I want my Bob back.
Lara	Feb 1 2007 7:03 PM The sweater song (Lies in Stereo) goes through my head all the time! Oh how I do love it.
coupleskate	Jan 12 2007 9:54 PM hey thanks! you guys were great too. let's do it again sometime.
stephanie	Jan 12 2007 3:41 PM woo hoo!!! great job you guys...thanks for the gooood time :)
stephanie	Jan 11 2007 4:57 AM see you at the gig! my first time to hear my (much younger) cuñado allen play!!!might have to take a lot of photos. also, dying to know what the "rules" were for bands that influence you all...betting it had to be 75%...or, heaven forbid, 100% of members? do tell...
Decibelle Music and Culture Festival	Jan 5 2007 1:33 AM Happy New Years with much love from the Estrojam gang!
Jori	Dec 14 2006 3:46 PM WOOT! I am an offical Pickpockets groupie! Rock on! HI Kiri- Jori
consortium	Dec 7 2006 5:42 AM Our new cd is now available at www.cdbaby.com/consortium2 - thanks, consortium (aka - Kiri's sideproject)
Khupera Tum	Oct 2 2006 6:35 PM
elizabeth	Jul 25 2006 4:33 AM you guys look so thrilled....
Jess-Cat	Jul 2 2006 8:51 PM We miss you, Kiri.
Dave	Jun 23 2006 5:02 AM Well Hells bells...!!! thanks for the add freaks=) good sounding stuff.
stephanie	Nov 17 2005 7:47 AM future pickpocket :-)
manatella	Nov 17 2005 4:08 AM Pickpockets Rule!

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