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Our new album "Return Return" will be out soon



Brooklyn, New York
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Member Since12/26/2006
Band Websitewww.benmiller.info/thirdborder.html
Band MembersBen Miller; guitar and vocal
Gerard Smith; bass and vocal
Jarrod Ruby; drums
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Record LabelRadial
Type of LabelIndie


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   About Thirdborder

brand new release "RETURN RETURN" will be available soon. Stay tuned.

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Thirdborder: Return to the future.

Damaged and massive, lysergic and tender, a juggernaut of brain and brawn, NYC-based trio Thirdborder embraces the contradictions of modern life to produce music of uncommon power and grace.

At this pyramid's pinnacle, one Ben Miller: 55, guitarist, singer, saxophonist, a thread between rock's anarchic past and its reflective present. With brothers Laurence and Roger (the latter now leading Mission of Burma) he pioneered psych-rock in the fecund late '60s Ann Arbor scene, and later teamed up with late Stooge Ron Asheton and Michael Davis of the MC5 in the seminal art punk outfit Destroy All Monsters. Subsequent decades of probing the potentials of avant-rock culminated in Ben's forming Thirdborder in 2003.

Comprising the base is the formidable rhythm section of Gerard Smith on bass guitar and drummer Jarrod Ruby.

Smith, 45, burst onto New York's post-punk scene in 1984 with the incendiary Phantom Tollbooth, a psychedelic jazzcore triumvirate whose dizzying sound inspires to this day. (In 2003, Guided by Voices frontman Robert Pollard created new lyrics and melodies for Phantom Tollbooth's 1988 album Power Toy, releasing the resulting work as Beard of Lightning.)

Another memorable trio, Brooklyn's dance-punk phenomenon Proton Proton, was the fevered incubator for Ruby, 30, whose explosive precision behind the kit is both anchor and engine of Thirdborder.

More than the sum of their impressive parts, the mercurial Thirdborder is by turns melancholy and feral, luring with pastoral psych-pop melodies and then shattering hearts with a breathless post-punk rhythmic assault.

The world has begun to take notice: Thirdborder's second LP, Sun of Water, Sea of Light, was a candidate for Grammy nomination in the 2006 'Alternative Album of the year' category. But that's only a beginning.

The band's new album, Return Return, was recorded in 2008 at The Kennel Studio in East Williamsburg Brooklyn by NYC underground rock legend Wharton Tiers (Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr, Helmet). Featuring 10 original songs and a powerhouse cover of Laurie Anderson's art-rock epic "O Superman," Return Return has all the earmarks of a breakthrough: a synthesis of ideas, spanning three generations of progressive rock music, that will astonish and inspire.

Jim Santo

Also:

"Sun of water, Sea of light" (Radial Records; 2006) Produced by Roger Miller (Mission of Burma) and Laurence Miller (Destroy All Monsters) is available at Amazon.com , CDBaby and Ben Miller's website.

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beau bourgeois





Jun 8 2009 2:15 PM

when the new cd comes out, you should consider a world tour, and oxford ms should be on that date. and when you get here you'll have a band to play with, a place to stay, and some friends to raise their fists and beers to your music.

just a thought:)
TODOUNO





May 8 2009 8:43 PM

TODOUNO is an absolutely independent movement from Argentina on mental health and special children working in rock projects scince 2000.
You are a friend on our mothersite. Now listen (and add) TODOUNO BAND!, the heaviest special children free rock band on earth at http://www.myspace.com/todounoband and, from the biggest psychiatric hospital in South America, the naive punk of PAJARITO BAND! at http://www.myspace.com/pajaritoband.
Mister Laurence & his Play Money Band





Apr 13 2009 3:52 PM

Hello BORDER DE THREE! Please-Please-Please check out our new "mind melting" children's music video, STAR FISH!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErpXtwdiT_Q
TRADEMARK





Apr 11 2009 1:48 PM

Thanks for the add.

Great music. You guys are awesome! Looking forward to your next show!!

TRADEMARK
Ben & The Passengers





Mar 23 2009 5:35 PM

It's all sounding great! I'm dying to hear all of them!
uǝq





Mar 14 2009 8:48 AM

hopefully sooner than that!
MY BIOGRAPHY





Feb 10 2009 4:52 PM

Someone just gave our music video to your tune, SAME BOAT, a 5 star rating.
Makes sense to me!
Ben & The Passengers





Jan 15 2009 5:09 PM

It was amazing to watch you guys play.
An experience everyone should go through!
Erin-Elvis





Sep 20 2008 5:42 PM

Anxious to hear the new record, Pops!
Veneration Spread





Aug 26 2008 9:51 PM

Hey man! Your music is great, we love it, Peace and Lots of love from the V-Spread
requiescat





Jun 28 2008 2:30 AM

thanx for the add... greeting from peru hxc... soon new cd hxc metal ..cheers.
Matt Weston





Jun 17 2008 1:27 AM

Holy crap, great stuff!
Roger Miller





Jun 4 2008 11:36 PM

Thanks. I've wanted to do that song since S.H.Purple Band, but i think we couldn't fully figure it out! Ah, maturity - what a virtue.....
HOT BOX





Jun 3 2008 6:00 PM

Thanks guys! I really dug your set too.


We'd love to come down and play with you in the city in the fall.
TERRITORIES





Jun 3 2008 6:14 AM

great show at the middle east. we hope to see you soon.
Trades





May 23 2008 5:31 PM

thanks...can we request 'rushing' for june 1?
Fatalists





May 7 2008 1:15 PM

Shameless plug alert!
Rollor/The Fatalists/United Fruit @ Bloc
Megan Leach





Apr 17 2008 5:43 AM

Hello, I am looking forward to recording w/ you guys.
Fatalists





Apr 14 2008 10:39 PM

Yo Chaps, splendid sounds here Really like fiction stranger and rushing.
Thanks for the add!
Against Metronome





Mar 19 2008 12:51 AM

metro gnome yes... with a background of "german-expressionist-slight-of-hand" slightly off hand.
Bitten and Howl





Jan 22 2008 4:08 PM

THE WOLFMEN - Official MySpace
Marco Pirroni and Chris Constantinou



View THE WOLFMEN Islington Documentary directed by Stephen Pook HERE
Roger Miller





Jan 21 2008 4:31 PM

You guys not only kikt ass as 3rd Border Sat. eve, but Ben's post-Sun Ra sax playing w/Burma on the MC5's LOOKIN' AT YOU brought the 1967 vibe back in full force!
MY BIOGRAPHY





Jan 19 2008 8:12 PM

Hey good luck boys on tonight's gig -- blow them away! :)
Bitten and Howl





Dec 23 2007 11:47 AM



Band images from
THE WOLFMEN Debut gig documentary
directed by Stephen Pook.
The video is up on my page!
Enjoy!

Bitten Kitten
X.
Bitten and Howl





Nov 6 2007 5:12 PM

Cool digs guys. Thanks for the inbite
Bitten
X.
for
THE WOLFMEN - Official MySpace

Marco Pirroni and Chris Constantinou

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