Ryan Horns (lead vocals-guitar), Caleb Bandy (bass), Antonio Garza (drums, vocals) and Teresa Kent (keyboards, vocals)
Influences
John, Paul, George and Ringo, The Kinks, Harry Nilsson, Guided by Voices, Heartless Bastards, Johnny Cash, The Creation, The Lemonheads, Elliott Smith, The Zombies, Wilco, Quasi, Rufus Wainwright, Joan as Police Woman, Roy Orbison, Pete Seeger, The Shins, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, The Beach Boys, The Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, The Walkmen, David Bowie, T. Rex, Richie Havens, Woody Guthrie, Muddy Waters, Dion, Flaming Lips, The Byrds, The Minders, Cat Stevens....
"Rock and roll remains one of the last honorable callings, and a working band is a miracle of everyday life." - Thomas Pynchon
Sounds Like
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There's a saying in Ohio: If you don't like the weather just wait a couple minutes and it'll change. Ohio's PAPER AIRPLANE has set its path on creating melodic, vocal-based indie pop that never really goes where you think it will.
In the world of Paper Airplane, gentle indie pop often turns into something more experimental and rough - sometimes within the same song. The point is the craft of song-writing, in lieu of vacuous trends.
The band is set to release its sophomore LP "White Elephants," recorded with Cincinnati engineer Brian Niesz (Heartless Bastards).
The group's 2007 debut CD, "Middlemarch" (All Hail Records) was released to critical praise and radio play across the country. Columbus Alive called it among the top releases from the city in the past 30 years.
"Middlemarch is an exquisite record filled with brilliant musings on the minutia of daily life," Columbus Alive reporter John Ross wrote.
Featured on college radio stations across the United States and Canada, Paper Airplane is a featured band on the influential Nic Harcourt's "Morning Becomes Eclectic" and other KCRW shows. Their music is often featured on clothing company Hollisterco.com.
Paper Airplane has supported such national recording artists as Mates of State, Heartless Bastards, The Walkmen, Rogue Wave, Matt Pond PA, The National, Robbers on High Street, The Redwalls, Richard Swift, Howlin' Maggie, the legendary Dick Dale, The Minders and more.
"They are quirky and hard to pin down," critic Kari Wethington wrote. "Too sweet to be punk rock, too earnest to be indie rock, too loud to be folk."
The group has mobilized a dedicated regional following based on a tight, decidedly more aggressive and spirited sound than those shows of the past. With drummer Antonio Garza, bassist Caleb Bandy (Templeton, Jon Chinn) and keyboardist Teresa Kent-Horns, Ryan Horns and his band have found a way to avoid trends and focus entirely on the craft of song-writing, while always staying true to themselves.
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WHAT THE CRITICS ARE SAYING ABOUT PAPER AIRPLANE
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• "I'm a professional music critic, which means I get paid to listen to music but also that listening to music -- one of my favorite hobbies -- has become work. Doing what I do means you have to come up with interesting things to say about music you hate, awful sounding releases other people claim are important and really challenging things that otherwise I'd turn off and toss aside. I wouldn't trade my gig for anything, but I miss being able to listen to music just to listen. That's why Paper Airplane's debut record is my favorite of the year: It takes absolutely no effort to like. Singer Ryan Horns, who writes all the songs, is a discipline of The Beatles (he'd probably say John, I'd argue Paul), and his songs have a bit of that intangible magic of Revolver and Abbey Road -- the alchemy fans are still trying to wrap their minds around and nail down. Songs like "Keeping Things Whole" and "Fire Escape" are immediately inviting and comfortable, as if they're from an old favorite album you'd put away and forgotten. The rest unfolds in similar fashion: Horns waxing poetically about the minutia of daily life, and his crack band following along with keys, drums, guitars and the occasional flourishes most are eager to overuse. From start to finish, this is a stellar set of songs that you'll be humming in the shower for years" - John Ross (Columbus Alive) Critic's Pick: Paper Airplane (Columbus)... With an incredibly sound grasp on classic Pop mastery, Paper Airplane is making some of the best Power Pop/Indie Pop in Ohio right now. While obviously schooled in the Beatles' school of resplendent melodies and song structures, their sound is anything but obvious. Hooks cascade throughout the incredibly crafty, wildly colorful songs that pervade Middlemarch, their ace 2007 release. Dig It: ELO, Beulah, Flaming Lips. - Mike Breen of Cincinnati's City Beat
• "Hola a todas, os recomiendo este disco, es muy bonito e intimista, con muy buenas melodías y arreglos, os puedo decir que me gusta mucho. Os pongo el enlace en cdbaby donde lo podréis escuchar. A quien le guste, lo tengo en el pájaro." (Power Pop Action!)
• "If you're looking for a gimmick, you won't find it here. This band doesn't dress in matching bolero ties, they don't wear Jared Leto levels of eyeliner, and they don't inundate utility poles with flashy posters before shows. Singer/songwriter Ryan Horns and his latest indie-pop quartet, Paper Airplane, aren't interested in what's trendy. They're far too busy creating eclectic, substantive music that speaks for itself" - Brooke Williams (Columbus Alive)
• "Paper Airplane succeed in taking music and creating audial poetry. That being said, it’s also damn fun... The CD’s title Middlemarch is shared with George Eliot’s 1871 book of the same name, a story that is considered one of history’s greatest novels. If Eliot’s closing passage were translated to the music of Paper Airplane, it would fit: “For the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.” Personally, I hope this CD stays neither hidden nor unvisited." - Dave Schaefer (Life on the C Bus)
• "The group...is writing and performing some of the best indie pop in Columbus. And that’s a good thing, considering the amount of bad indie pop that’s oozing from butt-hurt wannabe poets from the ‘burbs. Paper Airplane pounded the pavement in support of its first release, Middlemarch (2007), a collection of get-stuck-in-your-head pop gems that garnered well-deserved critical acclaim. Now the band is busy at work on its newest effort, White Elephants, on Columbus’s All Hail Records." Jon Theiss (The Other Paper)
• "They are thankfully one of those bands that doesn’t fit easily into one category. Instead, think of them as a fun and earnest rock band with a whole mess of heart. Prepare to fall in love with one of your new favorite bands." Scott Kirkpatrick (Backseat Sandbar)
We are currently working on releasing 3 (women, men, local bands) 2010 Springfield Entertainment Group calendars. If you think you have what it takes to make 1 of the months for our calendars or have a band that could use the extra exposure by being displayed in a calendar, then contact us for consideration. Men and women (6 out of the 12) chosen for a month, will also have to be available periodically for paid bookings throughout the year (don't fret, it is only part-time for various weekends, possibly 2-3 days a month). We will book the SEG guys & gals at events and bars throughout the region.
We are also looking for an experienced individual to coordinate and supervise the events we book for the SEG guys and gals.
Guys & Gals!! Anyone is eligible (no experience required). Shots are up to the photographer and will most likely fit the month it is being shot for. Please send in a photo (doesn't have to be professional photos, any will do but prefer professional) and a brief bio of yourself and what you would like us to know.
The band calendar is to help promote local established bands. Each month will display a different band and their info. To be considered, please send a band photo, and bio by snail mail or email to:
Springfield Entertainment Group PO BOX 2367 spfld, oh 45501 (937)323-4160 ceharris0109@aol.com
We have a panel of 5 members (myself, local radio station rep, news-sun rep, photographer, local bar owner) that will choose which bands will be featured in the calendar.
***Still accepting bids from photographers
If you're a bar owner, entertainment venue, band, comedian, entertainer, or anyone that has upcoming events in 2010 and would like to have them printed in our calendars or place an ad in the calendars, please get in touch asap. Deadline to go the printer is just about here.
the time has come, please help me get the word out
Tickets are on sale now for Matt Munhall Trio and Friends JULY 18th @ newly restored Lincoln Theatre in Columbus, Ohio. When
you come to the Lincoln Theatre, you’ll see Munhall at a Steinway grand
leading his trio, and an accomplished ensemble of musicians, including
a string quartet and horn section. They will be performing the entirety
of Three as well as selections from his two previous releases.
Dissed by comfest? The most delusional power hungry committee in Columbus. I am sure there are about 25 acts that just flat out suck as usual. Maybe it is a good thing that you are not on the bill it shows that you are not willing to give Gabor and Rosenbloom sexual favors in a comfest porta potty.
Weren't you Columbus's upcoming band of the year in 2007?
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