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BUSMAN’S HOLIDAY
Rock / Other / Folk Rock

Busman’s Holiday is a two person band blending the melodic charm of lo-fi acoustics with the ecstatic showmanship of classic rock ‘n’ roll. The singer/songwriter duo is accompanied by a string section who fill out their complexly euphonic ballads of love, loss, lust and outer space. Born and raised in Bloomington, Indiana, the pair and their intrepid band of string playing companions have toured the U.S. and Canada extensively the past three years, recently appearing on Day Trotter and If You Make It’s Pink Couch Sessions. Though adept in a D.I.Y. aesthetic of acoustic busking with only a guitar and a suitcase drum set, the brothers are equally at home when sharing the stage with their three talented string players, who add a rich, layered musical texture to their unique songs of wanderlust and first love. Evoking a classic tent-show rock sound joined with the affable atmosphere of the assured vaudevillian, Busman’s Holiday both charms and impresses with their own unique blend of humor and assured musical talent. -Nile Arena, author featured in the book, Horror 101

A STUDY IN HER
Indie / Rock / Electronica

A Study In Her started in 1998 as just improvising with a delay pedal, a cheap keyboard, and a four-track. Rather than being organized around live performance, it was something just for the recording medium. It eventually started to include writing with other people and better technology. Since then there have been four full-length albums (on Honest In Secret, Sex Cells/Electronic Eel), a split CD with CBGaV, and spots on Mall’s remix album (tbtmo), Soft Complex’s EP, and City-State’s 2nd album.
In 2001 ASiH started doing live shows. The live band has been a shifting cast, but has included Tamara Black (jenhitt), Lucas Carscadden (Dead Mechanical), Andrew Black (The Explosion), Alex Hedstrom (The Axis Set), Justin Moyer (Supersystem/El Guapo, Edie Sedgwick), Jon Moser (AV Club, CBGaV), Phil Apostol (Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Start), Mike Mikowicz (the mirror orchid), Julie Cousin, and Magda Nakassis. Recordings have included Tamara Black, Alex Hedstrom, Lucas Carscadden, Justin Moyer, Andrew Black, Fluke Leming, Pavan Segal, Kyung-Nah Koh, Julie Cousin, Judith Kaplan, Mike Mikowicz, Shakthisree Gopalan, Kedarnath Sairam, and Elsie Muniz. The latest ASiH album, “Another Year in Philadelphia” came out in July 31, 2007 on Sex Cells Records and Electronic Eel Records. ASiH took hiatus from 2007-2009 when Costas was in Tamil Nadu, India, though ASiH kept writing (in India and over the internet). The material for the next album, tentatively titled ‘In, Out, and About’ is being put together currently. In 2008 ASiH recorded a remix of Kanye West’s ‘Homecoming’ and Portishead’s ‘Small’ (for Noise Floor Crew’s remix album ‘Three’), as well as the original track ‘Buy Art’ [featuring Justin Moyer] for an Electronic Eel compilation.

TONGUE SCULPTORS

Tongue Sculptors, from 2008, are an unbounded band, designed by Alan Ens to play demented pop music of any sort that is felt necessary at the time of creation. Think Mr. Bungle, Talking Heads, King Crimson, Syd Barret, Oingo Boingo….