The Sterns are the Boston-based crown princes of pop. The three-piece outfit’s sweet, soaring vocal leads and harmonies are deftly laced with tart-tongued lyrics -- one of their singles, “Buffer Zone,” for example, zings anti-abortion zealots – in an admixture that evokes cunning Brit-band influences, from Elvis Costello back to The Kinks. The bloody biblical “All Music Guide” referred to “Sinners Stick Together,” the group’s second disc, as “a pop masterpiece whose music is as enticing as its themes are thought-provoking.” And The Sterns netted two Boston Music Award nominations in 2007, including one for Outstanding Pop Act of the Year.
The modern melody makers have proven their live chops as well, sharing bills with the likes of Meat Puppets and The English Beat, Apples in Stereo and Nightmare of You. Sterns venues have varied from the peace-and-love promenades at South by Southwest to a side stage at one of baseball’s holiest houses, Fenway Park, for a ballyhooed benefit concert.
The current lineup finds the lads transformed from a quintet to a trio, having switched from three frontmen to two (original members Alex Stern and Emeen Zarookian), shed the keyboards, and added a new drummer (Zak Kahn). The stripped-down version has brought raw color and verve to The Sterns’ polished paisley pop.
Even as they continue firing off their explosive pop sounds hither and yon, The Sterns are putting the finishing touches on their third studio album, which has been aided by industry-exec extraordinaire (Peter Gabriel, Pixies, Moody Blues, Phish) Peter Lubin.
"Jangly pop guitar riffs and catchy throwback English-rock vocals fill their sophomore album, Sinners Stick Together but that doesn't mean the Sterns shy away from substance. "All Saints" exudes an anti-war sentiment and the still-whistling-it-hours-after-first-listen "Supreme Girl" is an imagined tongue-in-cheek rendezvous between Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers and George W. Bush." – SPIN
"Sinners Stick Together, the quintet's second album, is awash in bright and breezy pop music, and drenched in infectious, hook laden choruses, effervescent melodies, chirpy harmonies, and bouncy rhythms...A pop masterpiece whose music is as enticing as its themes are thought-provoking." – All Music Guide
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