Bishop Allen

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Bishop Allen
Background information
Origin	Brooklyn, New York, USA
Genre(s)	Indie rock
Years active	2001-present
Label(s)	Champagne School
Website	Official website
Members
Jack Delamitraux Justin Rice Christian Rudder
Former members
Bonnie Karin Margaret Miller Christian Owens

Bishop Allen is an American indie rock band based in Brooklyn, New York, composed of drummer Jack Delamitraux, bassist Christian Owens, guitarist Justin Rice, and guitarist Christian Rudder. Vocal duties are shared among the band's members.

Bishop Allen was formed by Rudder and Rice doing all the instrumentation in spring 2003 and they released their first album, Charm School, shortly thereafter, with Margaret Miller and Bonnie Karin providing background vocals and credited as members of the band. Later, Bonnie and Margaret left the band, and eventually full-time bassist Christian Owens and full-time drummer Jack Delamitraux became the permanent third and fourth band members. In the summer of 2006, Bishop Allen announced that Christian Owens would be leaving to start her own band, Music Magic.

Their song "Things Are What You Make Of Them" can be heard in the movie Saved!.

Justin Rice also plays Alan Peoples, the lead singer of "The Bumblebees", in the movie "Mutual Appreciation" (Directed by Andrew Bujalski, also known for "Funny Ha Ha"), in which he happens to play the song "Quarter To Three" from the Charm School LP.

1 Discography
- 1.1 Albums
- 1.2 EPs
2 External links
3 References

[edit] Discography

[edit] Albums

2003 - Charm School^[1]
2006 or 2007 (expected release, potentially cancelled) - Clementines

[edit] EPs

2006 - January - Free song - "Corazon"
2006 - February - Free song - "Vain"
2006 - March - Free song - "The Monitor"
2006 - April - Free song - "Flight 180"
2006 - May - Free song - "Butterfly Nets"
2006 - June - Free song - "The Same Fire"
2006 - July - Free song - "Click Click Click Click"
2006 - August - Free songs - "The Same Fire," "That Summer," and "The Flood"
2006 - September - Free song - "Like Castanets"
2006 - October - Free song - "Clementines"

The monthly EP project is scheduled to continue throughout 2006, with each monthly EP being available for pre-order on or around the last day of the month. The first seven monthly EPs (through July) each contain four studio cuts. The August "EP" is a fourteen-track live album that contains a complete show recorded in Cambridge, Mass., plus a bonus live cut recorded in New York City. Due to the long wait for the actual shipment of the EP's, the band now offer a digital download option, programmed by Christian Rudder himself.