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The High Strung

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Josh Malerman, the voice of the High Strung, likes to say it’s because the band has been best friends since they were eleven that they were able to live in a bus together for 300 shows a year, five years running. But he also says it’s the songs… and the way Derek Berk (drums) and Chad Stocker (bass) play them… that gets them to love the experience as much now as when they were, well, eleven.

The High Strung are a curious band. Extremely hard workers (Malerman once hung up on a potential manager who said a band wasn’t good just because they work hard), they are often mistaken as something much more simple than they are. The High Strung are not a traditional rock and roll band. The High Strung don’t have a bluesy bone in their body (though they sometimes long for one). And because of a vigorous tour schedule that wasn’t planned but continued to feed off itself nonetheless, the High Strung do not belong to any one scene or “movement”. They can’t sit still! It is hard to say exactly who the band sounds like (the words “quirky” and “autonomous” are ascribed them often) and it’s maybe more telling to explain them in unusual musical terms.

Maybe the High Strung have the SPIRIT of The Flaming Lips. Guided By Voices. Bands who produce seemingly impossible numbers (1200 shows, 400 songs) and who’s audience exists more from word of mouth than by being in the right place and the right time.

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zhundley wrote:
June 2009

Hey Guys!!!! If you like The High Strung, check out the band HYMNS!. They hail from Brooklyn and just finished their new EP!!!! www.myspace.com/hymnsband

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MsKite wrote:
April 2009

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jepascoe wrote:
October 2008

<3 <3 <3 <3 <3

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tuna_boat_tony wrote:
January 2008

awesome bass playing

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scar_face2057 wrote:
July 2007

I just saw these guys last night, they were great live. It sucked because I had bought a cd right before watching the show, but the bassist traded me a copy of his cd for my mettalica album. That was great.

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JyotiMishra wrote:
July 2007

This is just a great pop band!

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youth_in_asia wrote:
February 2007

these boys were adorable when they put on a show in a cafe I worked at. they sold me within the first song, and i bought the album after their set and the lovely boys signed it =]

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nnEEKolas wrote:
November 2006

God damn this band is awesome. Moxie Bravo has been on regular listening for over a year. Can't wait for the new album.

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