Grand Archives

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Grand Archives
Grand Archives at the 2007 Bumbershoot festival
Background information
Origin	Seattle, Washington, USA
Genre(s)	Indie rock
Years active	2006–present
Label(s)	Sub Pop
Associated acts	Carissa's Wierd Band of Horses
Website	grandarchives.com
Members
Mat Brooke Jeff Montano Curtis Hall Ron Lewis Thomas Wright

Grand Archives is an American indie rock band, formed in Seattle. The band, originally called Archives,^[1] is composed of several noted musicians from that city,^[2] led by Mat Brooke, former guitarist and vocalist for Carissa's Wierd and former guitarist for Band of Horses.

The band emerged, under their previous moniker, to little fanfare in March 2007 with two tracks posted to their MySpace page. Following an initial show with Brooke's fellow former Carissa's Wierd bandmate Sera Cahoone however, the band had their track "Sleepdriving" added to Pitchfork Media's Forkcast playlist,^[3] which provided the band with substantial Internet exposure. Following their switch to the current name, Pitchfork published a more in-depth feature on the band,^[4] discussing all four demo'd tracks from their MySpace page.

Soon after, the band were hand-picked to support Modest Mouse on seven west-coast tour dates, and it was also announced that Sub Pop had signed the band^[5] for a full-length album.

1 Line-up
2 Discography
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Line-up

The band began as a four piece, but is presently five: Mat Brooke, Jeff Montano, Curtis Hall, Ron Lewis, and Thomas Wright. Montano formerly played in The New Mexicans, Lewis in Mines, Joggers and Ghost Stories, Hall (aka DJ Curtis) in The Jeunes, and Brooke in Carissa's Wierd and Band of Horses.