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My Teenage Stride
Summary by Len Neighbors
My Teenage Stride, comprised of Jedediah Smith, Brett Whitmoyer, Dakkan Abbe, Mat Patalano and Jeff Ciprioni, are a Brooklyn-based psychedelic indie rock band founded in 2003.
Their 2007 album "Ears Like Golden Bats" was included in Magnet Magazine's "Top 20 Albums of 2007" and was also featured in the magazine in the summer 2007 issue. According to Emusic, My Teenage Stride's music "is the kind that snatches the best bits of classic Antipodean bands like the Chills, the Bats, David Kilgour and the Go-Betweens and re-combines them in canny, charming ways."
The album "Ears Like Golden Bats" was celebrated as "one of the year's most thrilling surprises, an album that wraps wry gallows humor in glistening guitars and whistling synths.... Smith has written an album with nary a forgettable minute."
2008 marks My Teenage Stride's first appearance at Athens PopFest.
Five Questions with My Teenage Stride
1. What are your five desert island records?
Jed:
The Velvet Underground & Nico
Psychocandy by The Jesus & Mary Chain
Hello Cruel World by The Tall Dwarfs [sic]
With The Beatles
Here Come The Warm Jets by Brian Eno
Jeff:
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, Neutral Milk Hotel
American Water, Silver Jews
On Fire, Galaxie 500
Can't Buy a Thrill, Steely Dan
69 Love Songs, The Magnetic Fields
Brett:
Magical Mystery Tour, THE BEATLES
Heaven Up Here, ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN
Piper At The Gates Of Dawn, PINK FLOYD
Signals, RUSH
Zooropa, U2
2. Could you classify your sound for people who haven't heard it before?
Classify! Uh...the sound of one demographic clapping
3. What is your favorite place to play, and why?
Sweden, and Cakeshop in New York
Why? Well, Sweden is a wonderful country, and they treat bands right. And everyone has nice haircuts. Cakeshop is the most fun place to play in New York, even though it's in Manhattan. Andy Bodor is a really swell guy and supports great bands and people like going there. I don't ever want to stop playing there.
4. What is the weirdest thing you take on tour?
Brett.
5. What should people expect from your Athens PopFest performance?
A couple of new faces. Loud guitars. Gin-induced reverse schadenfreude.
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Download Music by My Teenage Stride
from Ears Like Golden Bats
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[Recorded]
Unshaken by Lucifer: Roky Erickson at the 40 Watt, 8/14/08
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[Recorded]
The Lolligags/ The Apes, PopFest, 40 Watt, 8/15/08
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[Recorded]
Big Fresh/ Thee American Revolution/ Pipes You See Pipes You Don't/ Andy from Denver/ Casper and the Cookies, PopFest, 40 Watt, 8/16/08
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[Recorded]
Longhalsmottagningen/ Bad Animal/ Young Untold/ American Cheeseburger, PopFest, Little Kings, 8/16/08
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[Recorded]
Oh Fortuna/ Marc With A C/ Hot Lava, PopFest, Flicker, 8/16/08
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[Recorded]
Cryptacize/ The Secret History/ The Faintest Ideas/ Ruby Isle/ The Buddy System/ The Lolligags, PopFest 2008, 40 Watt, 8/15/08
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[Recorded]
Tendaberry/ One Happy Island/ Hat Company/ Fat Planet, PopFest 2008, Little Kings, 8/15/08
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