JERSEY CRUNCH-POP

Our flagship band, STUYVESANT is the reincarnation of two New Jersey rock bands that were born in the early 90s. Footstone and Friends, Romans, Countrymen shared many a stage and a lust for the “have a good time, all the time” ethos.

Comprised of singer/guitarists Sean Adams and Ralph Malanga, guitarist Eric Greenberg, bassist Jeffrey Crowe and drummer Scotty Imp, the band are lovely, mild-mannered gents who bash away at their instruments like deranged dads. Over 13 years, the band has produced a bunch of records and 9 kids, along the way called “A zillion times over more smart and more sincere than the latest batch of ersatz flakes hogging the limelight” by The Big Takeover, with Spin magazine adding “even with the suburban mollification of the Vans Warped Tour, down-to-earth, old-school pop-punk is still spry and kicking.”

Discography

V/A “Make The Load Lighter: Indie Rock for Haiti” compilation

V/A – “From ’93 Til Infinity – A Dromedary Records Compilation

“Aardvark” single

“Jihad Me At Hello” EP – name your price digital download

“Hellbent for Heather” single

“Bison” single

“Fret Sounds” CD

“Shmyvesant” LP

“Crow” single

The Whimbrels are a power art-rock band with lineages to some of the most influential and raw music New York City has produced – loud art with a back beat. The sound is dense, rhythmic, hard and sweet, with hooks and riffs that pop out at unexpected moments. Their three-guitar lineup features Arad Evans (Glenn Branca Ensemble), Norman Westberg (Swans) and Luke Schwartz (Glenn Branca, Wharton Tiers), along with bassist/vocalist Matt Hunter (Savak, Dusty Fates) and drummer Steve DiBenedetto.

A Whimbrels show involves racks of guitars tuned in different and unconventional ways, with the players constantly switching between them. There are counterpoint choirs, dueling e-bows phasing against each other; chunking, poly and cross-rhythmic interludes, soaring arias of distortion from Westberg and Evans’ melodic and inventive guitars.

The New York Times once said Arad Evans was “on an index of creative or experimental electric guitar-based music in America – young lords of the wild in the post-rock tradition.” That description fits The Whimbrels perfectly. You may need earplugs.