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Bowling Green, OH, USA (1997 – present)

There are two bands called Aloha

1) band currently signed to Polyvinyl Record Company. The four members of Aloha are scattered across the eastern half of the country, but spend most of their time making music together. Some Echoes is the second Aloha album since T.J. Lipple joined the band, and was recorded, mixed and mastered at Silver Sonya, the studio he runs with Chad Clark (Beauty Pill) in Arlington, Va.

Tony Cavallario and T.J. began playing together during a lull in Aloha’s schedule in late 2002, when they both lived in Pittsburgh. T.J. joined the band in May of 2003, when Cale Parks, Tony and Matthew Gengler joined him at his grandpa’s empty house in Altoona, PA. There they began writing 2004’s Here Comes Everyone though at the time they didn’t know it. With T.J. came a more focused approach to making music and a host of new tools including marimba, homemade mellotrons, organs and tape manipulations. T.J.’s skilled drumming also allowed Cale to move to the piano on occasion.

Aloha began with Tony and Matthew in the summer of 1997 in Bowling Green, OH, USA along with Eric Koltnow and Anthony Buehrer. Their first release, a self-titled and self-released 7” in an addition of 330 was delayed and issued sporadically when the artist hired to due the intaglio accompanying the record couldn’t produce them to speed.
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  • Dsoe

    If Aloha sounds like Arctic Monkeys, king crimson sounds like the stooges.

    20 Nov 2012 Reply

  • dowedowe

    I NEED MORE MUSIC FROM ALOHA!!!!!!

    29 Sep 2012 Reply

  • plastikmika

    whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat did they really sound like arctic monkeys?

    30 Aug 2012 Reply

  • CMBFlor20

    I dislike the notion of comparing Aloha to Arctic Monkeys. Aloha are considerably better.

    29 Aug 2012 Reply

  • shitscud

    Definitely better than Arctic Monkeys, very thoughtful songwriting. This band has a way of sneaking into my randomized playlists, and they somehow don't disrupt the flow (see my page to see what I mean, you dolt).

    7 Aug 2012 Reply

  • wecouldreason

    Call me crazy, but there is something extremely spiritual about this band. [3]

    13 Jul 2012 Reply

  • beachteach190

    they sound like Arctic Monkeys

    29 Jun 2012 Reply

  • KeatonXZX

    ah the xylophone

    4 Jun 2012 Reply

  • mmousy

    алоха :D мир, любовь, что там..

    4 Jun 2012 Reply

  • slo_crostic

    great band!! great idea the vibraphone on a rock band. delicious:)

    9 Jan 2012 Reply

  • SexWithMinors

    great band

    12 Dec 2011 Reply

  • MeowMix24

    Ruins is such a good song

    16 Nov 2011 Reply

  • shitscud

    Didn't think I'd ever be into something like this but I must admit 'That's Your Fire' is a refreshing listen. "Thinking man's indie rock" I claim. The vocalist's style remind me of a good friend.

    11 Nov 2011 Reply

  • AchillesFlandre

    Call me crazy, but there is something extremely spiritual about this band. The music is calling. Some songs like There, There, White Wind, Equinox, most of their slower song, sound almost like a Native American pow wow, and that is really, really beautiful.

    3 Nov 2011 Reply

  • dowedowe

    more so then any band i know, it boggles my mind that Aloha has managed to stay under the radar, especially with a whopping 7 albums that glisten with abstract beauty. one of the most compatible groups i have ever heard, they never cease to amaze me with the amount of love i sense in their music.

    22 Apr 2011 Reply

  • farmgirlblues

    Okay, boys, it's time for a new album. And a tour to support it.

    29 Mar 2011 Reply

  • kaw1216

    "Moonless March" is one of my favorite tracks of all time. give me a summer night, a long stretch of highway, and i'll put this on repeat for hours. i cant wait to hear what they have in store for us next!

    28 Mar 2011 Reply

  • Goo1234

    When are they going on tour again?!?!?!?! I want to see this band so bad! I missed them at the brooklyn knitting factory back in april :(

    11 Oct 2010 Reply

  • exileonpluto

    Reminds me of the American Analog Set! I love this.

    10 Oct 2010 Reply

  • carl2020

    "Thats your fire" is the best album I have heard, yet it is only #5 in regards to number of listens.

    27 Aug 2010 Reply
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