joe finkel - guitar, vocals
griffin walker - banjo, mandolin, vocals
laura baran - piano, snare drum, vocals
teresa kenny - maracas, tamborine, vocals
stan zenkoff- bass drum, hand claps, harmonica, vocals
kenny mcgrath - violin
Influences
John Sinclair, David Berman, Robin Hood, Replacements, Rolling Stones, Faces, Troggs, Spacemen 3, Springsteen, T. Rex, Soft Boys, Cheap Trick, Tom Petty, Crooked Fingers, Henry David Thoreau, Speed Levitch, DFW, The Blow, Against Me!, Ramones, Bob Dylan, Stooges, drugs, happiness, Jeff Baran, Henry Miller, Rachel Finkel, Syd Barrett, Woody Guthrie, the State, Moe Tucker, Indian Style...
The Wild Kindness began as a guitar-bass-drums trio, touring the country in the summer of '06. During the past winter they took a break, and with a new batch of songs, regrouped as a six-piece acoustic pop group.
"The Wild Kindness takes its name from a Silver Jews song. And accordingly, singer and guitarist Joe Finkel's delivery owes something to Jews frontman David Berman, who acted as the countrified, plainspoken 'poet of the everyday' inspired by Pavement songwriter Steve Malkmus' hyper-referential slacker laureate.
Wild Kindness songs like 'Sodapop' parse into our most banal daily interactions, revealing subconscious thought processes that are pretty damn absurd. Here's a sample lyric from the hipster-anthropology of 'We All Look the Same': 'Well I used to consider myself a stylish guy/ back in the suburbs everybody wore baggy clothes/ and I wore tight clothes/ that was enough/ to set me apart.'
Musically, the band came across with much more immediacy live than on record, at times even suggesting the punk-blues swagger of The Gun Club.
" -- Brandon Bussolini, The California Aggie, August 28, 2006
"I'm sitting in Mama Buzz cafe and a band is playing and they sound like a cross between The Velvet Underground and Tommy Roe - turns out the band's name is The Wild Kindness." --Chris Stroffolino, former Silver Jews keyboardist, The Big Takeover.com, September 10, 2006
How Cool to be friends on MySpace. I enjoyed looking at your profile because it seems like you are doing your best to help others succeed. Cheers to you!
wow...i somehow missed the boat on having any knowledge of the Playboy Millionaires... you guys all look completely different and you're all hot lol! reunion!!!
Thanks Joe. But you have fans in far-flung territories. You should have a webcast show where people can comment on your songs and stage presence with emoticons and lols.
I wish i was going to be at the NYC show! i noticed that teresa is in charge of "varios percusions", does that include a cowbell? sure hope so. i hope you have a wonderful show and i am smiling right now just thinking about you. go get 'em tigers.
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