imeem.com & Talking House Records Present
elephone CD Release Party
with
Scissors For Lefty
vs.
Locksley

elephone

The Matches' Shawn Harris and Jon Devoto (acoustic)

Murder of Lilies

SCISSORS FOR LEFTY:
"...scruffy, dancey pop that's gleefully euphoric. Bryan Garza sings like an indie-rock James Brown, yelping, cooing, and slurring his lines in a boyishly seductive fashion..." - Rated: A, San Francisco Magazine

"Eager rock magpies come bearing bright, catchy gifts... huge hooks and playful pleasures win the day... So cheerily unpretentious, it's almost irresistible." - SPIN

"...plenty of undeniable, butt-shaking riffs...your feet will be shuffling to the irresistable, anthemic guitar hooks." - Paste

ELEPHONE:
elephone's music has been bubbling in the trenches of rock parables, playing prominent spots at Austin's SXSW, San Francisco's Noise Pop Festival and the Live 105 studios, and sharing the stage with the likes of Rogue Wave, The Dandy Warhols, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Stills, The Kills, and The Posies. Sonically, their collective, multi-vocal pop lands somewhere between The Talking Heads and The Arcade Fire.

elephone's forthcoming release, Canister, provides the listener with more hooks than ever before. While singer Ryan Lambert controlled vocal duties on previous records, the new album features the addition of singer and keyboardist Sierra Frost. The result is a playful mixture of dark, haunting male vocals and sweet, spunky female vocals ­ Lambert is the coffee and Frost is the sugar and cream.

Lambert got his start in film and television, and cinema continues to influence the band's approach. Elephone guitarist Terry Ashkinos describes their music as being like a Wes Anderson movie ­ full of simple, slow motion junctures in time. "That's what we try to do in music... Have these moments, these little crescendos of feeling," he says.

Not surprisingly, the album title of Canister refers to a film canister.

"There are lots of life as film and film as life references on the record,"

Ashkinos explains.

San Francisco based label Talking House Records signed elephone in 2007 and placed producer Mark Wiebel behind the controls. Canister was recorded on analog equipment. "The band wanted the album to reflect something honest and real², says bassist Dan Settle, ³The ethic is that you hear an album that the band actually played Š a recording is meant to capture a moment in time". Canister does just that.

elephone has seen the world from the inside of old touring vans, had at least one crazy ex-bass player who mooched money from them then mysteriously disappeared, and they've seen the flicker of too many beers in their audience's eyes. They've reached #14 on the CMJ charts and received regular play on stations like BAGeL Radio and SomaFM. Most recently, they were chosen as the voter¹s choice to play the San Francisco Black and White Ball, opening for Blues Traveler and Seal. As one writer for The Deli Magazine declared, "If this band doesn't continue to increase in popularity, I may lose my faith in the system."