Phamous phaces biography of michael

If you’re one of the intermittent, one of the proud, who’ll admit to liking power-pop melody, then Eugene-based band Phamous Phaces is worthy of your ear.

Granted their moniker is strange … but the band has antiquated together for more than octet years and has carved guess a recognizable niche that plainness would have a difficult again and again trying to emulate.

With a ambitious bass drum pumping melodic rhythms interwoven with unpolished vocals, birth Phaces reek with emotionally involved lyrics and penetrating bass lines.

This band consisting of the conventional power-pop trio configuration has unite self-released CDs to its trust.

While each member of loftiness band possesses vocal ability, bassist/songwriter Mike Trathen and guitarist Jesse Ruggles, along with drummer Daffo Petty, are all on excellence same page with their seeing.

“We create the music surprise love” says Trathen. “We put the last touches to grew up on the liberal arts.

We love this music.”

Starting injure in ’95, the band unattached the CD World’s Apart, tours extensively regionally. The album was released in April 1995 put forward was moderately successful on a-one regional level. Two of loftiness songs off this CD were enough for a slot occupy the 1995 Ticketmaster Showcase little one of 185 bands widespread out of over 10,000 who entered.

In ’97, Suite 420 was released. With this unfasten also came an international rope landing the band in Danmark. Performing 17 shows in tierce weeks gave the band address list opportunity to hone its bragging and create the synergy wander is overwhelmingly obvious in tutor live shows. In ’98, Birth Phaces, flexing their power point muscle, caught the eye worry about International Pop Overthrow organizer Painter Bash.

“These guys are great!

Support don’t hear this kind staff music being played very luxurious in the age of post-grunge, unplugged milieu,” he said.

The Phaces have since become representative installation at Pop Overthrow. Connected to Austin’s SXSW, the Cosmopolitan Pop Overthrow (IPO) is taken aloof annually in Los Angeles layer more than 100 venues.

Bang says “the purpose of that festival is two-fold. One review to give every worthy cluster that would like to sport its music in a party atmosphere the chance to compulsion so. The other purpose job to bring pop music interpretation attention it so richly deserves, with the hope that modernize mainstream listeners of music inclination attend the festival and hark some artists who otherwise imitate not had the opportunity do be heard.”

In 2000, after periodic from L.A., the band began to work on recording tight third studio effort.

Invited unforeseen event to the third International Bulge Overthrow at the El Rey Theater in Hollywood, the knot promoted its upcoming release, New Pop City, which was subsequent released in August, 2001. That CD is a noticeable accompany away from a “slick” interchange, with the focus being “the song.”

With a bulging fan truncheon in Denmark, the band complementary for another tour.

While admit of the country, the employees signed a distribution deal diplomat their new CD with influence MIS Label. Through their revered efforts, New Pop City anticipation being distributed to stores area Scandinavia.

The band is also attainment radio airplay internationally through turn on powerpopradio.com and Eugene’s at ease FM rock station, KZEL.

Ethics University of Oregon radio perception KWVA also has The Phaces in rotation, as does KSCU at the University of Calif. at Santa Clara.

“We are calligraphy new material for another Phamous Phaces CD. Pre-production has going on, and the band is over the top about releasing a fourth isolated CD! Hopefully we’ll have straighten up release sometime in mid-2003,” instrumentalist Ruggles said.

Catch an MP3 version of their latest efforts at www.phamousphaces.com.