MP3s
- 1.Green and Yellow Basket
- 2.Ugly Tooth
- 3.Smallest Sound
PHOTOS
Friends and Family
friendsandfamilyband.com| BAND MEMBERS | Ben Violet, Alex McCauley, Valerie Moser, Holly Dahlstrom, Noah Dahlstrom, Nate Rogers, Ben Lewis, Alex Lee, Kevin Engle |
| GENRE | Glam, Pop and Rock |
| RECORD LABEL | Unsigned |
| INFLUENCES | David Bowie, The Cure, The Polyphonic Spree, Danielson, Arcade Fire, Patti Smith, Phil Spector, Nirvana |
| YEARS TOGETHER | 4 |
BIOGRAPHY
May Day 2009: Friends and Family perform for the first time. In the spirit of the holiday, we wore wildflowers and threw more on our crowd. We have since made absurd and interactive aesthetics our calling card. But we couldn't do so without a little help from our friends. David Bowie, Patti Smith, Oingo Boingo, Daniel Johnston, Serge Gainsbourg, Leonard Cohen, The Polyphonic Spree, Hole, and The Shangri-Las are always before, behind, and beside us. We’re equally inspired by Motown Records, the majestic pine weasel, Spiderman, rabbits, and honey. Our show aesthetic is our scrapbook, and we’re your grandma.
Like all good scrapbooks, ours has stamps from all over. Remember when David Lieb Hart of the Tim and Eric Awesome Show proposed to every female band member on the same night? Or how about the time that cover band that’s famed for “doing Tom Petty better than Tom Petty” played for two hours? And who could forget that time we joined the Bremerton mafia? We’ve hit it off with the soon-to-be cool and the eccentric, the funny and the sour. Whether playing with an anarchist or a pop star, we're all in this together: we aim for mutual encouragement and respect.
Praises:
"Johnny Rotten meets The Band." - Malcolm Guite, Cambridge Scholar
"It's honest, sad, and epic but without being big or bombastic..." - Charles Mudede
"As if the weird members from eight different bands ended up in the same band." - Clinton Ring, bassist for The Living
"Friends and Family are from another Seattle, a Seattle where people read books, make jokes, and sometimes sweat from doing things other than bicycling." - Bart Cameron, in Ball of Wax Audio Quarterly
"This is a Seattle band that we're excited about." - Writers for Three Imaginary Girls, while guest curating on KEXP's Audioasis w/Hannah Levin
"Quirky indie pop from an eight-piece band that aims for a New Pornographers or Broken Social Scene sort of thing, only goofier and with more elaborate costumes." - SW Reverb
Like all good scrapbooks, ours has stamps from all over. Remember when David Lieb Hart of the Tim and Eric Awesome Show proposed to every female band member on the same night? Or how about the time that cover band that’s famed for “doing Tom Petty better than Tom Petty” played for two hours? And who could forget that time we joined the Bremerton mafia? We’ve hit it off with the soon-to-be cool and the eccentric, the funny and the sour. Whether playing with an anarchist or a pop star, we're all in this together: we aim for mutual encouragement and respect.
Praises:
"Johnny Rotten meets The Band." - Malcolm Guite, Cambridge Scholar
"It's honest, sad, and epic but without being big or bombastic..." - Charles Mudede
"As if the weird members from eight different bands ended up in the same band." - Clinton Ring, bassist for The Living
"Friends and Family are from another Seattle, a Seattle where people read books, make jokes, and sometimes sweat from doing things other than bicycling." - Bart Cameron, in Ball of Wax Audio Quarterly
"This is a Seattle band that we're excited about." - Writers for Three Imaginary Girls, while guest curating on KEXP's Audioasis w/Hannah Levin
"Quirky indie pop from an eight-piece band that aims for a New Pornographers or Broken Social Scene sort of thing, only goofier and with more elaborate costumes." - SW Reverb
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