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Akron/Family is a folk-influenced experimental rock band that formed in 2002, and is currently based in New York on the Dead Oceans label.

Though each member of the band — Miles Seaton, Seth Olinsky, Dana Janssen and formerly Ryan Vanderhoof — can be relegated to loosely defined roles (drummer, guitarist, bassist, vocalist), all of them in fact play several instruments and sing, as evidenced by their shows and recorded material. When playing live, the band makes prominent use of improvisation and vocal harmonies. On their self-titled debut record, field recordings of a creaking chair, thunderclaps and the white noise of a television find their way alongside psychedelic and electronic elements, guitars and a glockenspiel.

In addition to their solo debut in 2005, the band played behind Michael Gira on his Angels of Light project as well as splitting a full length CD with Angels of Light.

In 2006, the band released an EP, “Meek Warrior,” a collaboration with master drummer/hero Hamid Drake which contained both more traditional folk music such as the lovely “Gone Beyond” and a pair of throbbing electric guitar monsters in “The Rider (Dolphin Song)” and the epic “Blessing Force,” which ends with an exploration into free jazz.

Sometime between the completion of [2007 release] Love Is Simple and Akron/Family’s 2007 U.S. tour, Vanderhoof left Akron/Family to live in a Buddhist Dharma center in the Midwest.
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  • pandabeareyes

    They're not even from Akron, the trolls...

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  • Amnesius

    Set Em Wild, Set Em Free makes me feel almost proud to be American.

    last month

  • shitscud

    "Crass font/circle, bastard logo, and Vonnegut quote triple rip on one shirt without any acknowledgement." Er, the acknowledgement seems pretty blatant in the ape-ing itself. I think whether you're a Crass, MITB, or Vonnegut fan the A/Family respects your intelligence enough to know that name-dropping is beyond your fancy. Oh well...this is all just a bad parody of life.

    March 2012

  • Kao_Slothrop

    Live Sound Fields is pure magic...

    March 2012

  • Tyler3t

    Ryan Vanderhoof..... you are missed !

    March 2012

  • PATMAN2288

    Crass font/circle, bastard logo, and Vonnegut quote triple rip on one shirt without any acknowledgement. Yet people still support them? Akron is the bastard and they always will be. I'm sure you'd all be singing a different tune if you were the victim of plagiarism.

    March 2012

  • oaquard

    Eric Wood is a baby.

    March 2012

  • smwxs

    I DON'T KNOW WHY IM YELLING BUT IM ANGRY.

    February 2012
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Family Tree Tour Tapings

27 Jan 2012 | from akronfamily.com

We are very excited to share with you all some audience tapings from January’s Family Tree Records tour!   Thanks to all those who came out, participated, taped, etc. If you have any other tapings from the tour, send them our … …

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