Bishop Allen
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| Bishop Allen | ||
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| Background information | ||
| Origin | Brooklyn, New York, USA | |
| Genre(s) | Indie rock | |
| Years active | 2001-present | |
| Label(s) | Champagne School Dead Oceans |
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| Website | Official website | |
| Members | ||
| Jack Delamitraux Justin Rice Christian Rudder |
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| Former members | ||
| Bonnie Karin Margaret Miller Christian Owens |
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Bishop Allen is an American indie rock band based in Brooklyn, New York, composed of guitarist Justin Rice, guitarist Christian Rudder and drummer Jack Delamitraux. Vocal duties are shared among the band's members.
Bishop Allen, formed by Rudder and Rice who met while attending Harvard University, grew out of the pair's more humorous punk venture The Pissed Officers. During the spring of 2003 the pair recorded all the instrumentation for their debut album Charm School. Shortly thereafter, with Margaret Miller and Bonnie Karin providing background vocals and credited as members of the band, the album was recorded and released on Champagne School Records. Later, Bonnie and Margaret left the band, and eventually full-time bassist Christian Owens and full-time drummer Jack Delamitraux became permanent band members. In the summer of 2006, Bishop Allen announced that Christian Owens would be leaving to start her own band, Music Magic.
In February, 2007, Dead Oceans, a new sister label to Secretly Canadian and Jagjaguwar, announced that it had signed Bishop Allen. In March the band announced that they had completed recording a new album, which will be released on July 24, 2007. It has been reported that Allan Vest and Ryan Lindsey of the Starlight Mints took part in the recording sessions.[1]
Their song "Things Are What You Make Of Them" can be heard in the movie Saved! and their song "Middle Management" can be heard on the soundtrack of the MLB 2K7 video game.
Justin Rice also plays Alan Peoples, the lead singer of "The Bumblebees", in the movie Mutual Appreciation (directed by Andrew Bujalski), in which he plays "Quarter To Three" from the Charm School LP. Christian Rudder also starred in an Andrew Bujalski film, 2002's Funny Ha Ha, and the 2007 indie film Let Them Chirp Awhile, written and directed by Jonathan Blitstein.
Contents |
[edit] Discography
[edit] Albums
- 2003 - Charm School[1]
- 2007 (expected July 2007) - 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"
- 2006 - November - Free song - "Tea For Two"
- 2006 - December - Free Song - "Calendar"
The monthly EP project came to a close on Dec 31st, with the release of November & December. Each monthly EP was made available for pre-order on or around the last day of the month. Eleven of the monthly EPs 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.
