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The Swear
Rock / Alternative

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Atlanta, Georgia
United States

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Member Since6/10/2004
Band Websitetheswear.com
Band MembersElizabeth Elkins, Kevin Williams, Jeremy Zamora, Steve Moretti

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Between us we have: Guns N' Roses, The Ramones, The Smiths, Sonic Youth, Tori Amos, Nirvana, Led Zeppelin, Billy Joel, Ours, Jane's Addiction, PJ Harvey, Green Day, Faith No More, Shudder To Think, Alkaline Trio, Tomahawk, The The, Burning Airlines, Buckcherry, Black Sabbath, Jawbox, Alice in Chains, Smashing Pumpkins, Kiss, TSOL, Depeche Mode, Metallica, The Used, Jeff Buckley, Fugazi, Garbage, Nine Inch Nails, Morrissey, Ned's Atomic Dustbin, Muse, Iron Maiden, The Pixies, Willie Nelson, Soundgarden, Jimmy Eat World, New York Dolls, Hole, The Mission UK, Def Leppard, Rush, Concrete Blonde, Social Distortion, Rage Against the Machine, AFI...

And of course we might also be influenced by early 20th century poetry, good novels, the stars, alcohol, crushes, love, hate, sex, jealousy and the occasional drug.
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Hotel Rooms and Heart Attacks (2008) The Swear's first full-length album is an 13-track affair produced by Matt Goldman, Ted Niceley and Jeff Tomei. Mixed by Eli Janney and mastered by Howie Weinberg, the record features cover art by Dennis Campay.

Every Trick's A Good One (2006) The Swear's debut recording is a six-song EP produced and mixed by Russ-T Cobb at Butch Walker's Ruby Red Productions in Atlanta. It was mastered by Howie Weinberg and also has cover art by Dennis Campay.

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The Swear's music is available on iTunes worldwide (click album covers):
The Swear’s Hotel Rooms and Heart Attacks on iTunes The Swear’s Every Trick’s A Good One on iTunes The Swear’s early demos on iTunes

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   Upcoming Shows ( view all )
Nov 11 2009 8:00P
Two Wheel Driver Charity Show w/Michael Tolcher, Elizabeth Elkins & more at Smith’s Olde Bar - 21+ Atlanta, Georgia
Dec 3 2009 8:00P
Smith’s Olde Bar Atlanta Room (Elizabeth solo) - 21+ Atlanta, Georgia
Dec 9 2009 8:00P
Smith’s Olde Bar - 21+ Atlanta, Georgia
Jan 1 2010 11:00P
1st Annual West Atlanta New Year Music Fest at Fat Cats - 18+ Austell, Georgia
Jan 9 2010 9:00P
Prevue Music Hall - 21+ Charlotte, North Carolina
Jan 23 2010 10:00P
Googie’s Lounge at the Living Room (Elizabeth solo) w/John McNicholas - 21+ New York, New York
Mar 18 2010 8:00P
RedGorilla Music Festival - Details TBA Austin, Texas
Mar 19 2010 8:00P
RedGorilla Music Festival - Details TBA Austin, Texas
Mar 20 2010 8:00P
RedGorilla Music Festival - Details TBA Austin, Texas

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   About The Swear




"Sometimes you just dig a good pop song where the guitarists are punching and jabbing through the melody and groove in a way that truly lifts things up. In this regard, Elizabeth Elkins and Jeremy Zamora are rock warriors with total command of meaty riffs, feedback swells, dynamics, and churning, crunching chords." -Guitar Player

"One of the greatest rock records released by an Atlanta band. An album of death and passion, full of ringing violence and gorgeous melodies. The Swear write dark power-pop songs that read like great literature. Edgy rawness balanced by pop perfection from a band that should be considered rock's new great hope."-Resonator Magazine

"The songs are verbose, contemporary epics that could easily double as provocative, stand-alone poetry." -Georgia Music Magazine

"Elizabeth Elkins leads The Swear with a thundering certainty." -Paste Magazine

"The Swear is terrific. Memorable guitar riffs and a thundering rhythm section careen behind Elizabeth Elkins' forceful vocals. The songs paint vivid portraits of envy, jealousy and the things we do for love and lust."-The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"A top music pick of the day. The songs stand on a concise but attitude-driven riff-rock foundation, singer Elizabeth Elkins offering a sliver of Distillers snarl doused in a bucket of '80s-prog vibrato."-The Nashville Tennessean

"It's dark, it's real and it hits home. Elizabeth Elkins is a top songwriter on the verge of big things."-Kip Schaumloffel/Lollapalooza, Chicago

"Elizabeth Elkins is a good singer - tough, assertive, expressive. 'Vampire' is a sort of speeded-up-girl-doing-Geddy-Lee-prog-punk, hence reminding me of old Boston art-core pinkos the Proletariat albeit more melodically. 'Shuttered Off Christine' is forboding but banging. The Swear's music is not especially joyful, to my ears. Odd thing is, I kind of like it anyway." -Chuck Eddy, Rhapsody.com

"Although, at first glance, they appear to be in a niche akin to The Sex Pistols, they are, in fact, a sensible bunch of instrumentalists with as much flare for song as any Nashville staffer. Everything about them screams loud but they are not noisy and could pull off an MTV Unplugged as gracefully as Nirvana." -Lior Shamir, The UK Singer/Songwriter Awards

The Swear's debut EP, Every Trick's A Good One, was chosen as one of the year's best by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Creative Loafing, Georgia Music Magazine and the UK Street Voice. The Swear has been featured on The Sunday Paper's "It" List and in Creative Loafing's Best of Atlanta. The band's first full-length, Hotel Rooms and Heart Attacks, was released in fall 2008.

The band is a Grand Prize winner in the rock category of the John Lennon Songwriting Contest, a finalist in the International Songwriting Competition, received an honorable mention in the UK Singer/Songwriter Awards, won first prize in the Converse Get Out of the Garage Music Contest, has been chosen for the Billboard/Discmakers Independent Music World Series twice, was chosen by MySpace as a finalist for the Taste of Chaos contest, was chosen by Rolling Stone as one of five finalists in the Ray-Ban Never Hide Your Music competition, had a song on an Aware Store compilation, had a song selected by Ford Motor Company for their Edge of Celebrity Tour, was an Arizona Jeans' Radio Free Arizona artist, was a Top 50 qualifier in the American Music Awards presents the Coca-Cola New Music Award, was in Guitar Center's Producer Project Top Ten, won Ernie Ball's Battle of the Bands 7, has been a spotlight artist at Garageband and Sonicbids, and is one of the few unsigned bands to have charted in the top 20 on commercial speciality show charts at both FMQB and Clear Channel.



You may have heard The Swear on these TV shows:
Smallville (The CW), Rescue Me (FX), Beyond the Break (The N), Roswell (The WB), Reunion (FOX), Life As We Know It (ABC), Wanted (TNT), Outward Bound (The Discovery Channel), Tool Academy (VH1), Valemont, Cribs, Parental Control, Bromance, Disaster Date and My Super Sweet Sixteen (MTV), Atlanta Tonight (UPN), CNN, YouTube's Lonelygirl15 and Comcast On Demand.

In these films:
Surreal (2007 New York International Independent Film & Video Festival), The Delivery Boy Chronicles, Cross Country and By Chance.

And live on these stages (partial list):
Vans Warped Tour, SXSW, CMJ New Music Marathon, RedGorilla Music Festival (Austin), Pianos (NYC), Rockwood Music Hall (NYC), Arlene's Grocery (NYC), Snitch (NYC), Bar Matchless (Brooklyn), Mobfest (Chicago), BMI's "8 off 8th" at Mercy Lounge (Nashville), Exit/In (Nashville), Gaylord Arena (Nashville), Bluebird Cafe (Nashville), Georgia Theater (Athens), 40 Watt (Athens), Jack Rabbits (Jacksonville), Fred's Speakeasy (Asheville), The Nick (Birmingham), New Brookland Tavern (Columbia), Five Points Pub (Columbia), A1A Music Hall (Lexington), Blue Cats (Knoxville), The Handlebar (Greenville), Music Midtown (Atlanta), The Grammy Block Party (Atlanta), Atlantis Music Conference (Atlanta), Center Stage (Atlanta), The Masquerade (Atlanta), The Roxy (Atlanta), The Loft (Atlanta) with bands such as Paramore, Foo Fighters, The Living End, Bowling for Soup, Courtney Love, Concrete Blonde and The Subways.


The Swear is proud to be endorsed by:

Gibson Musical Instruments (Jeremy) Gretsch Guitars (Elizabeth) Marshall Amplification Ampeg
George L's Cables GHS Strings Pedaltrain InTune Guitar Picks
Bare Knuckle Pickups Pearl Drums Vic Firth Paiste Cymbals Aquarian Audix Microphones Future Sonics



Costly Sunglasses talks to The Swear about the new record, includes interview and live clips from The Nick in Birmingham, Alabama

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Trish

Trish



Nov 1 2009 11:35 PM

just wanted to drop by and say thank you for adding me. :)
Dryblood

Dryblood



Oct 19 2009 1:35 AM

Like wise :)

Lovewatching you perform and plan on being at as many performances as possible.

Enjoy your weekend E!
Dryblood

Dryblood



Oct 10 2009 7:59 PM

See you tomorrow night :)
I Did Not Die

I Did Not Die



Oct 8 2009 1:17 PM

Hello, just wanted to say i like your music. If you have a chance give us a listen. It can't hurt anything to find out who your new favorite band is! Peace!

-IDND
Light

Light



Sep 21 2009 2:27 PM

so when can I be on your top friends?
Chef Bob

Chef Bob Vaningan



Sep 20 2009 4:09 AM

Birmingham fans of the Swear!
THE VECCTONES

THE VECCTONES



Sep 20 2009 4:08 AM

rock on
.*Art Junkie*.

.*Art Junkie*.



Sep 15 2009 1:50 PM

missing you guys. I still love you.
Sayuri

Sayuri



Sep 3 2009 7:58 PM

hi how are you? Nice music!!!
Ho Song

Ho Song



Sep 2 2009 2:52 AM

Hey- looking forward to seeing you guys at FatCats on Friday!  Love-n-Peace... Ho
虜 - Toriko

虜 - Toriko



Sep 1 2009 7:52 PM

awesome :) How's the music been ? i am now following you on twitter now :) name on there is torikosan
Megan McCauley

Megan McCauley



Sep 1 2009 7:09 PM

Have a great week : )

Meg
Clay Mathis

Clay Mathis



Sep 1 2009 1:45 PM

Keep Up The Great Work !!!
虜 - Toriko

虜 - Toriko



Aug 25 2009 8:28 PM

hey elizabeth how's it been ? writing new songs making new music ? :) i miss you guys , we gotta catch up! im SOOO close to finishing school and being back onto promotional work , hope you guys will let me help you guys out when i start back up :). Hope everything is well
Trish

Trish



Aug 23 2009 3:43 PM

just wanted to drop by and say hello! :)
How are you?
Band Fever

Ms.Rock -n- Roll



Aug 20 2009 4:17 PM

Wanted to show some Love and say
Thank you for the great music
R-n-R
BoStylz Ent (Setting Up New Fests as we Speak)

BoStylz Entertainment



Aug 17 2009 2:18 PM





Chef Bob

Chef Bob Vaningan



Aug 11 2009 1:08 PM

always Swear fans
Chef Bob & family
Marek

Marek



Aug 10 2009 7:31 PM

You are the BEST :)
Cheers
-Marek
Trish

Trish



Aug 10 2009 7:30 PM

just wanted to drop by and say hello! :)
Hope you have a great week!
.*Art Junkie*.

.*Art Junkie*.



Jul 29 2009 6:50 PM

miss ya guys. So when are you getting band tee's u know i'm dying to get one.
Chef Bob

Chef Bob Vaningan



Jul 29 2009 1:53 PM

loving the Swear from BIRMINGHAM ALABAMA
Chef Bob & Family
DAVID ZESS

DAVID ZESS



Jul 11 2009 11:39 PM

hey guys.....stopping by for a listen.....take care....david zess
Acoustic Cuts

Acoustic Cuts



Jul 2 2009 4:47 PM

Hi,
Thanks for the friendship.You rock!
Cheers
AC
Four Foot Closet Monster

Four Foot Closet Monster



Jul 2 2009 4:37 AM

thanks!!
www.myspace.com/jakescheermusic

and I just had my first audition last night. they loved me, so I'll be performing (my acoustic stuff) for an hour on august 21. you've been a great inspiration!
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