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This Is My Suitcase is the music performed by five friends, scattered throughout their early twenties.

After one show, the owner of the venue approached This Is My Suitcase's members and, unprovoked, offered this statement of support: "I appreciate what you do. I see a lot of bullshit here, but you guys aren't bullshit. I can tell you're actually for real." This instance wraps up the band better than any biography or fact sheet could.

The actual influences behind This Is My Suitcase's overdeveloped and unbalanced pop music aren't terribly obvious through their songs; however, one week in particular, This Is My Suitcase was compared to all of the following: Queen, The Unicorns, Elliott Smith, Wilco, Ben Folds, Jellyfish, The Flaming Lips... needless to say, it was good week. This unlikely band of rabble-rousers offers their audiences uniquely high-energy performances for offensively low prices, leaving no customer unsatisfied and no frown unturned.

This Is My Suitcase has unleashed an inordinate amount of self-recorded music for free through the majesty and convenience of the internet. If you have been following our band long enough to scoop up this music over the last few years, congratulations.
This list includes the following free online releases:

The C ep (2006)
1. Me & You
The best love song i will ever write.
2. Manes Visits the Manor
A song about a royal postmortem love.
3. The Skin is the Healthy Part
Love between a boy and his apple, through life and, inevitably, death
4. Apples and Townies
An all-too-true story about young love in New York City.

The C.R.E. ep (2007)
1. Stayin' In
Postmortem love, what else?
2. Not Bones
This reason my heart turned toward composing.
3. Bones
Still loving while burning alive.
4. Cat Sounds
A kitten killed himself 9 times upon the death of his best friend.

A nameless ep i recorded for the love of recording (2007)
1. Jesusfreak
One step further into a love for outrageous orchestration
2. The Stray
We made our own no-budget video for this song. rules!
3. God Only Knows (Beach Boys cover, obviously)
The Greatest song ever written, my take.

And then there's our covers...
Directly resulting from a sheer love of recording myself, This Is My Suitcase has self-recorded and released an insurmountable heap of cover songs (or, rather: reimaginations and rewrites), including and yet not limited to the following: The Old 97s, We Are Scientists, Fiona Apple, Ben Folds, Motion City Soundtrack, Dr Dog, The Matches, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Nellie Mckay, a heartbreaking ukulele rendition of Michael Jackson's classic "Ben" (recorded on the day he died), and too many more to ever list.

Tour Theme Songs
As if that weren't enough unpaid work on our plates, we have recorded and web-released a tour theme song for every tour we've ventured on, including themes for:
1. The SPIRING HAS SPRUNG SO SING UNTIL SPRING'S SPANG TOUR (May 2009)
2.It Must Be July: A Summer Concert Series in A Major (July 2009)
3. Coming soon: OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER 2009!


And, without further adieu, OUR FULL LENGTH ALBUMS:

Missent to Thailand(2006)
The first This Is My Suitcase full-length/physical release.
Only 1000 copies were pressed, and the remaining copies are available at shows for $5, although not many are left. It has thirteen songs and enhanced content, including ancient live videos and handwritten lyrics.

The Keys To Cat Heaven (2009)
The band's latest full length album, The Keys To Cat Heaven, is their best collection to date. They're certain of it. As with everything else in the Suitcase discography, it was self-recorded/produced/mixed. This album took a year to record, and two years to create altogether. Worth it!

If you are fed up with paying full price for albums that lack french horn featurettes and string quartets; if your record collection feels void of cat and ghost content, lyrically-speaking; if your album art collection feels incomplete without a cat ghost, literally-speaking; if you immediately need your body to build an immunity to a virulent swarm of dancing falsettos and flutes; if you have been digging for records that will highlight that you are both playful and witty; if you want an album that you can stream at an appropriate volume from your apartment window to prove to passer-bys that you are intelligent and ironic; if you have been looking for a solid album to rattle the tiles from your roof while you bang your head; if you wish that Sesame Street sing-alongs sounded more like old Flaming Lips albums; if you wish that new Flaming Lips albums sounded more like vintage Sesame street records, we have the album for you:
The Keys To Cat Heaven.

We got shirts and shit! They were designed by yours truly (Joseph Anthony Camerlengo) and selling like moderately popular hotcakes. Printed on American Apparel t-shirts, no less!! If you dig any of these threads enough to help us crawl out of a huge hole of debt, please buy one at a show OR drop us a message on myspace or email and we will arrange an exchange!

The "Guttyworks" design, featuring a smoking couple of lungs, a gluttonous stomach, a drunken liver, and some pretty cool intestine!


The "Ghosts of 2009" design! THIS DESIGN A LIMITED EDITION, ONLY 150 PRINTED! Plus, cat ghost! Gotta' love it!

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If you want to get a hold of us for questions, concerns, booking suggestions, or even just to say hi,

our email address is thisismysuitcase@gmail.com

Plus we check our own myspace...a lot.

If you actually have something to ask or say, don't be shy. We are really very nice!