The Lashes

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The Lashes
The Lashes at Bumbershoot 2007
Background information
Origin	Seattle, Washington, USA
Genre(s)	Power pop
Years active	2000 - Present
Label(s)	Lookout Red Ink Columbia
Associated acts	Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground The House of Breaking Glass Palmer, AK Strong Killings
Website	Official site
Members
Ben Clark Nate Mooter Eric Howk Scotty Rickard Jacob Hoffman Mike Loggins

The Lashes are a Seattle-based power pop band.

The band formed in Seattle in 2000. Named by Ben Clark's ex-girlfriend.^{[citation needed]} The band had gone through 10 previous drummers before finding Mike Loggins.^{[citation needed]}

In 2004, the Lashes made their recording debut with the Stupid Stupid EP produced by John Goodmanson and released on Berkeley, California-based Lookout! Records. Sold-out shows with The Libertines and Ted Leo and the Pharmacists followed that same year. Before the year's end, the Lashes joined producer John Goodmanson for the recording of their debut album. Get It was issued on Columbia Records on February 21, 2006. The band toured extensively in 2006 with acts such as Damone, The Living End, Rooney, and Morningwood.

On May 5, 2007, guitarist Eric Howk fell into a 12-foot deep hole at a construction site near a friend's house and broke several vertebrae and severed his spine.^[1]^[2] The accident left him paralyzed from the waist down, but he demanded the band not cancel their upcoming appearance at Bumbershoot 2007.^[3]

The band most recently self-released the first half of their second lp, titled Thank You Side A on January 1, 2008. It was released exclusively at Sonic Boom Records and was once again produced by John Goodmanson.